Graduate Studies Bulletin

Northwest Center for Medical Education of the Indiana University School of Medicine

Web site:
http://shaw.medlib.iupui.edu/nwcme/nwcme.html

Telephone:
(219) 980-6550

Administrative Officers
Faculty
General Information
Regional Center Alternative Pathway
Noncredit Activities
Fourth-Year Electives
Graduate Programs
Continuing Medical Education (CME) Courses

Administrative Officers

D. Craig Brater, M.D., Dean of the School of Medicine, Director of the Indiana Statewide Medical Education System, and Director of Indiana University Medical Center

William W. Baldwin, Ph.D., Assistant Dean and Director of the Northwest Center for Medical Education, and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology

Virgil Hoftiezer, Ph.D., Associate Director of the Northwest Center for Medical Education, and Professor of Anatomy

Dawn C. Ilgenfritz, Administrative Assistant to the Director of the Northwest Center for Medical Education

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Faculty

Nicholas Abid, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Fred Adler, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

John Agee, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

K. D. Aggarwal, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Sirajk Ahmed, M.D., Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

George Alavanja, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery

J. Timothy Ames, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

W. Marshall Anderson, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Michael Anger, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Shababul Arfeen, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Andre Artis, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

David Ashbach, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Jerry Back, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

William Baldwin, Ph.D., Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and Assistant Dean and Director of the Northwest Center for Medical Education

Patrick Bankston, Ph.D., Professor of Anatomy and Pathology

Bharat Barai, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Harris Barowsky, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Doug Barthelemy, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

George Beiser, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Kenneth Black, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

Srbislav Brasovan, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Larry Brazley, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

John Brown, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

Gerri Browning, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

Robert Buynak, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Idah Cannon, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

Jacqueline Carter, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology

Mark Carter, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

Ilwoong Chang, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Charles Chuman, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Vijay Davé, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine

Charles Davidson, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Derek Dawson, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology

Michael Dawson, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Ludo DeKeyser, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Raja Devanathan, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

S. Dhana, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

John Diveris, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery

Raymond Doherty, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

Heratch Doumanian, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Radiology

Don Dumont, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Roman Dziarski, Ph.D., Professor of Microbiology and Immunology

Stephen F. Echtenkamp, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics

Charles Egnatz, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

Ahmed Fathi-Zadeh, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Dermatology

Michael Floyd, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

William Forgey, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

David Fumo, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Mary Ann Fumo, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Sandra Gadson, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Gloria Galante, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Samia Girgis, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology

Dipika Gupta, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Peter Gutierrez, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

Paul Hannah, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Sharon Harig, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Alice Harrington, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Phillip Helding, D.O., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Virgil Hoftiezer, Ph.D., Professor of Anatomy and Associate Director of the Northwest Center for Medical Education

Richardo Hood, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

Tsau-Yuen Huang, M.D., Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Daniel Hurwich, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Panayotis G. Iatridis, M.D., D.Sc., Professor Emeritus of Physiology and Medicine

Olusegun Ishmael, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

Augustine Izah, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

Brooke Jackson, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Dermatology

Aaron Johns, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

Frederick Johnson, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

John Johnson, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Tom Karnezis, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery

Brian Kennedy, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics

Talaksoon Khademi, D.O., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Y. R. Kim, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Alfred J. Kobak, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Robert Koening, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

Joseph Koscielniak, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Orthopedics

Karen Kovalow, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Donald Kucharzyk, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Orthopedics

Abdus Lakhani, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

John Langford, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Instructor of Ophthalmology

Richard Longley, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Bernardo Lucena, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Thomas Ludwig, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Judy Lyzak, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology

Henedina Macabalitaw, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

Calvin Maestro, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

Nancy Mangini, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Anatomy

Carl F. Marfurt, Ph.D., Professor of Anatomy

Robert Martino, M.D., Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Orthopedics

Earl Mason, M.D., Ph.D., Volunteer Clinical Professor of Pathology

Peter Mavrelis, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Martha Mechie, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Ernest Mirich, M.D., Ph.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

John Mirro, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Steven Mischel, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Randall Morgan, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Orthopedics

Cheryl Morgan-Ihrig, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Lyle Munn, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Murugavel Muthusamy, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Chiedu Nchekwube, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

Tach Nguyen, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

William Nowlin, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery

Philip Nowzaradan, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

Nazzel Obaid, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Trent Orfanos, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Snehal V. Parikh, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Minnesh Patel, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

William Pierce, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

V. Pillay, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery

Amand Popli, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry

V. Porapaiboon, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Glyn Porter, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology

Mridula Prasad, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology

R. Bhawani Prasad, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Marguerite P. Rebesco, Ph.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Hytham Rifai, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Stephanos Rizos, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

David Ross, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

Hakam Safadi, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Boris Sagalovsky, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Nitin Sardesai, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery

B. Schmid, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Avrahan Sharfman, Ph.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology

Mark P. Sheldon, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Medicine

Steve Simpson, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Subbish Sivam, Ph.D., Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Daniel Smith, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Jerald Smith, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

Bayne Spotwood, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

Cholemari Sridhar, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Timothy Stabler, Ph.D., Adjunct Associate Professor of Physiology

Prinn Stang, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Alexander Stemer, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine

Mona Stern, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

Elliot Stokar, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Virginia Tabib, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Virginia Thomas, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology

Loris Tisocco, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Dermatology

James C. Vanden Berge, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Anatomy

Zheng-Ming Wang, M.D., Assistant Scientist

Albert Willardo, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

Richard Wolfe, D.O., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Bruce Yalowitz, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Severyn Yaroshevsky, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Ara Yeretsian, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Felicia Young, M.L.S., Assistant Librarian

Ibrahim Zabaneh, M.D., Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

Janice Zunich, M.D., Clinical Associate Professor of Medical Genetics

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General Information

The Northwest Center for Medical Education at Gary is part of the Indiana Statewide Medical Education System and offers courses in the first, second, and fourth years of medical education. Third-year clerkships in family medicine are also available. Admission and assignment to medical classes at the Northwest Center for Medical Education are through the Indiana University School of Medicine's Admission Committee.

For additional information see the School of Medicine Bulletin or write to the Office of the Director, Northwest Center for Medical Education, Indiana University, School of Medicine, 3400 Broadway, Gary, IN 46408.

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Regional Center Alternative Pathway

About the Regional Center Alternative Pathway
First Year
Second Year
Goals and Objectives
Educational Components
The History and Physical Learning Center
Student Evaluation

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About the Regional Center Alternative Pathway

The Regional Center Alternative Pathway allows medical students by the end of the second year to be well prepared for their clinical education and to understand the socioeconomic and cultural concerns and differences of their patients.

The Regional Center Alternative Pathway integrates traditional first- and second-year content into seven steps, or curricular units, that reflect the basic science disciplines yet emphasize a clinical approach to problem solving. The seven steps of the curriculum are offered during the first and second years of medical school.

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First Year

Step 1	The Molecular Basis of Medicine
(6 weeks)	Biochemistry
Step 2	Human Structure
(11 weeks)	Gross Anatomy, Radiology, Histology, and Cell Biology
Step 3	Systemic Function
(6 weeks)	Physiology
Step 4	Neural Control and Disease
(6 weeks)	Neurosciences
Step 5	Medications and Disease
(6 weeks)	Pharmacology

During the months of June, July, and August, freshman medical students are encouraged to attend hospital externship programs and/or be exposed to the practice of primary care in an ambulatory setting.

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Second Year

Step 6	Invasion and Defense
(11 weeks)	General Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology
Step 7	Pathophysiology and Advanced Problem Solving
(24 weeks)	Unit 1: cardiology, pulmonary, nephrology, obstetrics/gynecolgy Unit 2: gastroenterology, endocrinology, pediatrics, and medical genetics Unit 3: hematology/oncology, neurology, psychiatry, rheumatology, and geriatrics

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Goals and Objectives

The general objectives of the Regional Center Alternative Pathway are (1) to continue an innovative educational program based on reorganization of the first- and second-year medical educational material; (2) to assist first- and second-year medical students in acquiring and applying knowledge through small-group, interactive, problem-based learning sessions as well as basic lectures, laboratories, and other learning assisting methods; in promoting the right attitudes that will lead to the appropriate behavior; and in developing the necessary skills for the practice of medicine; and (3) to assist the faculty of the Northwest Center in developing tutorial skills and in adapting their teaching and service responsibilities to the needs of the curriculum.

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Educational Components

A blend of the traditional and the new, the Regional Center Alternative Pathway provides preclinical medical education students with a learning environment that emphasizes the acquisition of knowledge and the development of attitudes and skills. This unique program encourages highly motivated individuals to upgrade their abilities continually by placing on the student the responsibility of learning. This is accomplished through small-group, problem-based tutorial sessions; laboratories; lectures; and doctor/patient relations that focus directly on the needs of the patient.

Problem-Based Tutorial Sessions
In problem-based tutorial sessions, small groups of five to six students discuss and analyze a weekly medical case problem with a faculty tutor and set the necessary agenda of learning issues for self-directed study. Follow-up sessions enable students to refine and synthesize the learned information and, if needed, through additional discussion and interaction, set new, advanced learning issues. Medical problems are presented in a case study format designed to reflect the weekly themes of the curricular units or steps. Basic-science laboratories and additional group discussions support the tutorials, permit medical students to participate in hands-on activities, and test center hypotheses.

Lectures
A minimum of basic lectures introduces key concepts that orient medical students to the learning objectives of the Regional Center Alternative Pathway. The lectures supplement each step's content with problem-based sessions presented by Northwest Center faculty.

Doctor/Patient Relationship
One afternoon a week, first- and second-year medical students learn the art of history-taking and physical diagnosis from experienced preceptors. Initially, first-year students are exposed to a series of clinical experiences in which they learn from patients about the impact of illness on their lives and what they expect from their physicians. Experienced faculty preceptors train students in the fundamentals of patient interviewing and the fundamentals of physical diagnosis. In advanced doctor/patient relationship training, second-year medical students learn from experienced faculty preceptors: (1) how to perform a medical interview; (2) how to integrate data diagnostic collections; (3) what the necessary skills for physical examination and the contents of general screening physical examinations are, including the elementary physical diagnosis; and (4) what normal physical findings are.

Also comprising the doctor/patient relationship are behavioral sciences, medical ethics, socioeconomic issues, emergency medicine, and biostatistics presented in a problem-solving format during afternoon sessions. In the area of emergency medicine, students learn by shadowing practicing emergency physicians. This format has proved to be a successful learning experience for Northwest Center first-year medical students. Furthermore, students are encouraged to attend the weekly seminars in basic sciences and clinical research, visiting professors lecture hour series, distinguished lectureship series, the Director's Hour series on medical ethics, continuing medical education (CME) programs for practicing physicians, and numerous other medical education activities offered by local hospitals.

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The History and Physical Learning Center

A unique feature of the Regional Center Alternative Pathway is the History-Taking and Physical Examination (H&P) Learning Center, which was developed to support medical education, evaluation, and research. The H&P Learning Center uses standardized patients to create simulations of history and physical findings of real patients. Standardized patients are individuals who are trained to present a patient's history and physical examination findings consistently. They are also trained to evaluate the clinical and interpersonal skills of individual medical students. Students participate in numerous H&P projects, which are integrated throughout the first and second year curriculum.

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Student Evaluation

Evaluation of students' academic performance in the Regional Center Alternative Pathway is measured (1) by faculty's subjective judgments of students' abilities to develop analytical skills in tutorial sessions and (2) by objective and essay-type exams that measure the acquisition of knowledge and the ability of students to synthesize information. At the end of the second year, students in this program participate with the rest of the IU School of Medicine students in the statewide introduction to the medical exam and in the National Board Medical Examiners Part I exam (NBME I). The existing grading system of the IU School of Medicine is used as stated in the student manual.

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Noncredit Activities

Basic Science Medical Research
Basic Science Seminars
Distinguished Professor Series
Mini Medical School Program
Third-Year Clerkships

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Basic Science Medical Research

Medical students are welcome to participate in the individual faculty programs currently available in the Northwest Center for Medical Education. Interested students can arrange this participation with individual faculty members. Outstanding medical students may also be selected by the Honors in Academic Medicine Committee of the Indiana University School of Medicine to do independent study at the Northwest Center for Medical Education. Additional information about this program can be obtained from the office of the director.

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Basic Science Seminars

Invited scientists and clinicians present advanced topics and results of their research. Local physicians and Indiana University Northwest faculty and students are invited to attend these weekly presentations.

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Distinguished Professor Series

Individuals with national and international reputations in their fields are invited to present the most recent developments and/or a general overview of the topic. Local physicians and Indiana University Northwest faculty, staff, and students are invited to attend these presentations. Additional information about the series can be obtained from the office of the director.

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Mini Medical School Program

Since 1995, the Northwest Center for Medical Education, Indiana University School of Medicine has conducted an outreach program to inform residents of Northwest Indiana of timely and medically relevant topics of interest to them. The sessions are free and open to the general public. The program is formatted in such a way as to give the community a flavor of medical school. Usually a medical faculty member or local medical expert provide a basic 45-minute lecture on a topic of interest. Following a break with refreshments, a local clinician addresses issues pertinent to the patient's perspective. Programs to date have been characterized as thought provoking and informative.

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Third-Year Clerkships

Family medicine, a required third-year clerkship, is available at the Northwest Center for Medical Education. This clerkship is designed to familiarize medical students with the principles and practice of the discipline in a primary care setting. The four-week clinical rotation provides students with an extensive exposure to the discipline in an ambulatory, community-based setting where a board-certified local area physician supervises students.

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Fourth-Year Electives

(Instructors and credit units to be arranged)

Physicians of northwest Indiana participate in offering fourth-year elective courses at St. Catherine, St. Margaret Mercy Healthcare Centers, Methodist (Northlake and Southlake), St. Mary Medical Center (Gary and Hobart), St. Anthony Medical Center and Porter Memorial hospitals, and Our Lady of Mercy hospitals in collaboration with the Northwest Center for Medical Education and the Indiana University School of Medicine. Those courses cover medical subspecialties including internal medicine, inhalation therapy, cardiac catheterization, clinical nephrology, obstetrics and gynecology, ophthalmology, pathology, psychiatry, radiology, surgery, and general emergency care.

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Graduate Programs

(Instructors, courses of study, and credit hours to be arranged)

Since the Northwest Center for Medical Education faculty also hold appointments in the University Graduate School, graduate programs for the M.S. or the Ph.D. degree are offered in cooperation with the basic science departments of the Indiana University School of Medicine. Most course work and all research leading to an advanced degree can be completed on this campus. Graduate students select courses from the medical school curriculum and/or advanced graduate courses offered by the respective basic science departments. Interested students are encouraged to contact the office of the director.

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Continuing Medical Education (CME) Courses

(Courses and credit hours to be arranged)

The Northwest Center for Medical Education, in collaboration with the Division of Continuing Medical Education of the Indiana University School of Medicine and with local physicians and hospitals, periodically offers special programs to serve the continuing medical education needs of the practicing physicians of the northwest Indiana region. Course descriptions can be obtained from the office of the director

Special basic science review courses can be designed and presented by the faculty of the Northwest Center for Medical Education for interested practicing physicians of this region also. For additional information, contact the office of the director.

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