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Professor presents on "The Digital Doctor," patient safety

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In January 2016, Dr. Robert Watcher visited the NIH and presented at a Contemporary Clinical Medicine: Great Teachers Lecture.
Dr. Robert Watcher (center standing), a well-known leader in academic medicine, met with the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Clinical Learning Environment Review Committee and Graduate Medical Education Committee faculty and fellows to discuss patient safety education for trainees.
 

In January 2016, Dr. Robert Watcher visited the NIH and presented a Contemporary Clinical Medicine: Great Teachers Lecture on "The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age."

Watcher, a professor and Interim Chair in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, is a well-known leader in academic medicine for his contributions to patient safely and for his role in the development of the "hospitalist" concept in the U.S. Watcher met Medical Research Scholars Program students, who are engaged in a year of mentored research in the NIH, went on patient care rounds and talked with senior Clinical Center leadership.