Internal Medicine Residency Program
Our Faculty
Paul Aronowitz, MD, FACP, Program Director
Dr. Aronowitz has been the Program Director for over a decade and was previously Co-Director of the California Pacific Medical Center Hospitalist Service. He is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University. He trained in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where he was Chief Resident, and later, Chief of the VA Medical Center Emergency Room and Urgent Care Clinic.
Dr. Aronowitz is currently President-Elect of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM) and will be President of this highly regarded national organization in 2012-13. He served on APDIM Council from 2007-10. This Council is the main advisory panel for all Internal Medicine Programs and Program Directors in the United States. Dr. Aronowitz has presented numerous talks and educational workshops at national meetings for the Program Directors.
Dr. Aronowitz continues to work as a hospitalist. He has received multiple teaching awards from UCSF medical students and CPMC residents in past years and was the 2010 Northern California American College of Physicians (ACP) recipient of its Teacher and Mentor of the Year Award. He has also published work in a diversity of places, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Medical Economics, Discover, Hippocrates, Family Circle and the New York Times Magazine. His Research interests include Medical Humanities, Hospitalist Medicine and Hospitalist Education of Medical House Staff. As one of the first hospitalists on the West Coast, his thoughts about this emerging field have been published in the Washington Post, New England Journal of Medicine, San Francisco Business Times, Medical Economics and The Hospitalist.
He also has a strong interest in the use of “Images” in clinical medicine to teach students and residents. He is the editor of Hospital Images: A Clinical Atlas, a text published in January, 2012 by Wiley Blackwell Publishers.
