Stephen Huot

Professor of Medicine
Director, Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency
Co-Director, Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency
Co-Director, Minority Medical Education Program
Section of Nephrology and
Section of General Internal Medicine

Academic Activities

Dr. Huot is Director of the Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency and Co-Director of the Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency. He attends on the general medical ward teams and the nephrology consult service. Dr. Huot teaches at the medical student, resident and fellow levels. He is involved in the Introduction to Clinical Medicine Course for students and he supervises students, residents and fellows in his hypertension practice as well as on the wards when attending in Medicine and Nephrology. He oversees the design, implementation, evaluation and delivery of the overall curriculum for the Primary Care Internal Medicine and the Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Programs. Dr. Huot also Co–Directs the Yale Minority Medical Education Program, an innovative summer enrichment program for college students pursuing careers in medicine.

Dr. Huot’s main areas of academic interest are medical education and hypertension quality improvement/health service research. His scholarly interests in medical education are in the area of evaluating clinical competence, faculty development, and assessing the impact of training program and teaching service structure on patient care and education.

Dr. Huot is an active member of the Society of General Internal Medicine, the American College of Physicians and the Association of Program Directors where he serves on the Public Policy Committee.

Clinical Activities

Dr. Huot’s principal clinical interest is in the area of chronic disease management for patients with diabetes and/or the treatment of patients with refractory hypertension, renal insufficiency, and vascular disease. He directs a hypertension referral practice at Yale School of Medicine where he sees a diverse group of patients and he oversees the Diabetes Disease Management Clinic at Waterbury Hospital where he precepts PGY 2 residents during their ambulatory block rotation.

Selected Recent Presentations & Publications

Presentations:

• Kansagara, DL, Holmboe, ES, Carr, K and Huot, SJ “Establishing a Diabetes Disease Management Program in a Resident Clinic.” Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, 2005
• Fairchild, DG, Huot, SJ. “Academic Physician Administrators and Leaders Interest Group.” Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, 2006
• Huot, SJ. “Meaningful Connections with the Community; Involving Doctors in Training.” The Dillard Lecture in the Yale University School of Medicine Program for Humanities in Medicine, April 6, 2006.
• Windish, D, Golden, S, Bass, E, Eda, N., Wang, CH, Segal, J, Brancat, F, Huot, SJ. A Roadmap to Choosing and Understanding Statistical Tests in Educational and Clinical Research. Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, 2006
• Kapadia, C, Berg, D., Tetrault, J., Huot, SJ. “Support and Training of Chief Residents in Management Skills and Conflict Resolution. Association of Program Directors of Internal Medicine Meeting, 2006

Publications:

• Holmboe, ES, Fiebach, N, Galaty, L, Huot, SJ. The effectiveness of a focused educational intervention on resident evaluations from faculty: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2001, 16:427-434.
• Fortin, AH, Luzzi, K, Galaty, L, Huot, SJ. “Developing an Internet-Based Communication Tool for Residency Training Programs.” Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2002, 17:278-282.
• Bravata, DM, Huot, SJ. “An Organizational Innovation: The Yale Primary Care Residency Program’s Experience with a Firm System.” Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 2002, 14 (3): 180-186.
• Huot, SJ, Hansson JH, Dey, H, Concato, J. “Utility of Captopril Renal Scans for Detecting Renal Artery Stenosis.” Archives of Internal Medicine, 2002, 162:1981-1984.
• Holmboe, ES, Huot, SJ, Chung, J, Norcini, J, Hawkins, RE. “Construct Validity of the Mini-Clinical Evaluation Exercise.” Academic Medicine 2003, 78 (8): 826-830.
• Bravata, DMT, Huot, SJ, Abernathy, HS, Skeff, KM, Bravata, DMC. “The Development and Implementation of a Curriculum to Improve Clinicians Self-Directed Learning Skills: A Pilot Project.” BMC Medical Education 2003, 3 (7): 1-8.
• Fairchild, DG, Benjamin, E, Gifford, D, Huot, SJ. “Physician Leadership:; Enhancing The Career Development of Academic Physician Administrators and Leaders.” Academic Medicine 200479(3):214-218.
• Brienza RS. Huot S. Holmboe ES. Influence of gender on the evaluation of internal medicine residents. Journal of Women's Health. 2004, 13(1):77-83.
• Holmboe, ES, Yepes, M, Williams, F, Huot, SJ.; Feedback and the Mini Clinical Evaluation Exercise. Journal of General Internal Medicine 2004 19: 557-560.
• Wong, J, Holmboe, E, Huot, SJ. “Teaching and Learning in an 80-hour Work Week: A Novel Day-Float Rotation for Medical Residents.” Journal of General Internal Medicine 2004, 19: 519-523.
• Holmboe, ES, Hawkins, RE, Huot, SH. Direct Observation of Competence Training: A New Approach to Improving Faculty Evaluations of Residents and Students. Annals of Internal Medicine 2004, 140: 874-881.
• Meehan, TP, Tate, J, Holmboe, ES, Teeple, E, Elwell, A, Meehan, R, Petrillo, M, Huot, SJ. A Collaborative Initiative to Improve the Care of Elderly Medicare Patients with Hypertension. American Journal of Medical Quality 2004, 19 (3) 103-111.
• Horwitz, L, Krumholtz, H, Green, M., Huot, SJ. Transfers of Care between House Staff on Internal Medicine Wards. Archives of Internal Medicine 2006, 166: 1173-1177.
• Horwitz, L, Krumholtz, H, Huot, SJ, Green, M. Internal Medicine Residents’ Clinical and Didactic Experiences After Work Hour Regulation. Journal of General Internal Medicine 2006, 21: (in press)

Education:	M.D., Duke University School of Medicine
Training:	Internal Medicine Residency: Yale–New Haven Hospital, 1985–1988 Nephrology Fellowship: Yale University School of Medicine 1988–1991

Contact

Campus Address
Section of Nephrology
Department of
Internal Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
P.O. Box 208029
New Haven, CT
06520–8029

E-mail
stephen.huot@yale.edu

Office Phone
203-785-5644
Fax
203-785-7030