Jeffrey S Berns

Biographic Data

ID9647226
NAMEJeffrey S Berns
GIVEN NAMESJeffrey S
FAMILY NAMEBerns
SIGNATUREBERNS J S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Pennsylvania Health System
ORCID0000-0002-5478-6753
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • The Expanding Role of Designated Institutional Officials in Graduate Medical Education

    Open AccessJeffrey S Berns, Joshua Goldstein et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2025

    The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) plays a pivotal role in ensuring the quality of graduate medical education (GME) training across the United States. Central to the success of this mission are designated institutional officials (DIOs), who usually serve as chief GME officers within the ACGME-accredited sponsoring institutions (SIs). Despite the critical role of DIOs, the qualifications, level of administrative suppo…

  • Unionization of Graduate Medical Education Trainees

    Open AccessJohn Patrick T Co, Laurence Katznelson et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2025

    Labor unions represent an increasing number of graduate medical education (GME) trainees in the United States. Most GME and other leaders at academic medical centers lack familiarity with resident/fellow unions, including what to expect, what decisions need to be made, and the processes involved in a unionization effort. It is important for designated institutional officials (DIOs), GME program directors, teaching faculty, and other institutional…

  • A Blueprint for Increasing Ethnic and Racial Diversity in U.S. Residency Training Programs

    Open AccessParis D Butler, Jessica C Fowler et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2022

  • Reflections on a Crisis in Graduate Medical Education

    Jeffrey S Berns, Susan Coull et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2020

    In June 2019, Hahnemann University Hospital (HUH) in Philadelphia became the largest U.S. teaching hospital to announce its closure and the closure of all of its graduate medical education (GME) programs, which displaced more than 550 residents, fellows, and other trainees. In addition to the displaced trainees, the HUH closure involved many stakeholders at both the closing hospital and hospitals willing to accept transferred residents and fellow…

  • Helping Medical Trainees Understand the Financial Health of Training Institutions

    Jeffrey S Berns, Patrick J BrennanARTICLEAcademic Medicine2020

    To the Editor: Philadelphia Academic Health System, LLC, which operated Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia, filed for bankruptcy on June 30, 2019, just after the hospital onboarded 135 interns and residents and 40 fellows for the next academic year.1 Most of these physicians made a commitment to Hahnemann through the National Residency Matching Program and believed that Hahnemann had made a reciprocal commitment to them. Instead, these…