Judith L. Bowen, MD
Professor of Medicine
Section Chief, General Internal Medicine
Associate Residency Program Director for Primary Care
OHSU Division of General Internal Medicine
Degrees:
BA – Chemistry – Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 1978
MD – Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, 1981
Residency:
Pediatrics – University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 1981-1982
Internal Medicine – Virginia Mason Hospital, Seattle, WA, 1982-1985
Research Interest:
Medical Education including teaching and learning, faculty development, ambulatory
education, and quality of medical learning environments
Clinical Interests:
Primary Care Medicine
Biosketch:
Dr. Bowen is the University Section Chief of General Internal Medicine for
the Department of Medicine. She served as the residency program director
at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle from 1991 through 1996. While in Seattle,
Dr. Bowen furthered her education by completing two Certificate Programs
at the University of Washington (Health Care Ethics in 1991, and Teaching
Scholars in 1996).
Her clinical interests have focused on outpatient general medicine including multidisciplinary care of complex ill patients, healthcare for women, and quality improvement in delivery of health care. Her research interests include assessing the needs of residents in continuity clinic settings using qualitative methods, studying the value-added to clinical care by training activities, and studying education profiling systems for teaching contributions in health care systems.
Dr. Bowen is past council member for the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM), current chair of the Educational Committee for that organization, and serves as the APDIM representative for a HRSA funded national collaborative faculty development effort designed to address the teaching needs of ambulatory care preceptors in university and community settings.
