APDIM Fall Opening Plenary
Friday, October 13, 8:45am-10:00am ET
Medicine As Craft: Finding Adaptive Expertise for Learners, Patients, and Ourselves
Gretchen Diemer, MD, Moderator
APDIM President
Senior Associate Dean for GME and Affiliations; Professor and Vice Chair for Education
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
Chase Webber, DO, FACP
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine & Public Health
Master Clinical Teacher, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Medical Director, 4 Round Wing, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Dr. Chase Webber is a hospitalist-educator at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He received his undergraduate degree at Tufts University and medical degree at A.T. Still University-Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine, where he was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honors Society (GHHS). He completed residency training in internal medicine at the University of Massachusetts. He serves as VUSM Master Clinical Teacher and director of the “How Doctors Think” Course in Clinical Reasoning for VUSM medical students, faculty lead for the Vanderbilt Internal Medicine Housestaff Handbook, and co-directs the Medical Humanities Certificate Program for VUMC residents and fellows. He received the Outstanding Preceptor—Inpatient Teaching Award (2020), the Hugh J. Morgan Teaching Award for Best Faculty Teacher—VA (2021), and the VUSM Immersion Teaching Award (2023). His research interests include team-based learning, microlearning, and narrative medicine.