Paul O'Rourke Jr., MD

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Dr. Paul O'Rourke is an Associate Professor of Medicine and serves as Assistant Dean for Medical Student Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.  Dr. O'Rourke co-directs the Johns Hopkins Medical Education Pathway, a longitudinal medical education training program for Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Bayview internal medicine residents.  He directs the Outpatient Medicine Curriculum of the Johns Hopkins Bayview Internal Medicine Residency.  He spends the majority of his time teaching and advising medical students and internal medicine residents.  He is involved in medical education research with a particular focus on primary care education and advocacy, humanism in medicine, high value care, and health disparities.  He is active on the national level through the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) and the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM).  He currently serves as a national councilor for APDIM. Dr. O'Rourke provides longitudinal primary care to patients in Baltimore and also serves as a teaching attending on the inpatient general medical service at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He completed his undergraduate and medical school education at the University of Florida followed by residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Health System.  He then completed a fellowship in General Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins University with a focus on medical education.  He received a Master of Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.