Anna B. Reisman, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine Phone: 203-932-5711 ext. 5400 Appointments: 203-932-5711 ext. 4972 Fax: 203-937-3403 e-mail: anna.reisman@yale.edu

Training

BA, English, Yale College 1986
MD, NYU School of Medicine, 1993
Internship and Residency, NYU School of Medicine/Bellevue Hospital Center, 1993-96
Chief Residency, NYU/Bellevue, 1996-97

Clinical and Teaching Activities

Dr. Reisman sees internal medicine patients in the VA primary care clinic and women's center. She is Co-Director of the Yale Internal Medicine Writers’ Workshop. Her teaching activities with residents and medical students include precepting in the longitudinal women's clinic and in the ambulatory block rotation. She teaches regular seminars on telephone medicine, doctor-patient communication, and writing and medicine. Teaching activities with medical students include practicing the medical interview using standardized patients, the Healer’s Art elective, and Power Day.

Selected Recent Publications

Reisman AB, Stevens D, Eds. Telephone Medicine: A Guide for the Practicing Physician. American College of Physicians – American Society of Internal Medicine, 2002

Reisman AB. A weak response. Commentary in AHRQ web M&M, December 2004. http://webmm.ahrq.gov/cases.aspx?ic=81

Reisman AB. Armchair advocacy: the role of storytelling. Academic Medicine. 2004. 79;855

Reisman AB, Brown K. Preventing communication errors in telephone medicine: a case-based approach. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2005: Oct; 20 (10): 959-63.

Reisman AB. Indiscretions. Hastings Center Report. 2005, 35:5,8-9. Sept-Oct 2005

Reisman AB. Voices of women veterans. J Gen Intern Med. 2005:21(s3); s4.

Reisman AB. Outing the hidden curriculum. Hastings Center Report. 2006; 36(4):9.

Reisman AB, Hansen H, Rastegar A. The craft of writing: a physician-writer’s workshop for resident physicians. J Gen Intern Med. October, 2006