Melissa D. DiPetrillo, MD
Clinical Associate Professor
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Medicine
General Internal Medicine

MD, Boston University School of Medicine
BA, Wellesley College



Dr. DiPetrillo's expertise is the area of medical education and curriculum development, with a focus in clinical reasoning. She has served in coaching roles for both faculty and medical students. Dr. DiPetrillo has an interest in inter professional education and faculty development.
Dr. DiPetrillo is a General Internist serving as the Medical Director of the Physician Assistant (PA) Program at Boston University. In her medical director role she acts as the Course Director for Clinical Practicum. A course that preps PA students for core clinical clerkships focusing on the development of skills in the realms of history taking, physical exam practice, and clinical reasoning. Dr. DiPetrillo's primary role is as a clinician educator and mentor, working with medical and PA students and medicine residents. In addition, she has held faculty and student coaching roles in the Department of General Internal Medicine and Boston University Chobanian School of Medicine.

Graduate Faculty (Primary Mentor of Grad Students)
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Graduate Medical Sciences


Publications listed below are automatically derived from MEDLINE/PubMed and other sources, which might result in incorrect or missing publications. Faculty can login to make corrections and additions.

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  1. Melissa DiPetrilloChristine Phillips Winnie Suen Allan WalkeyWarren Hershman . A Multi-Modal Strategy for Teaching the Pulmonary Bedside Exam to Third Year Medicine Students. 2013. View Publication
  2. DiPetrillo MD, Tibbetts T, Kleanthous H, Killeen KP, Hohmann EL. Safety and immunogenicity of phoP/phoQ-deleted Salmonella typhi expressing Helicobacter pylori urease in adult volunteers. Vaccine. 1999 Oct 14; 18(5-6):449-59. PMID: 10519934
     

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20131


2020 Boston University School of Medicine : Evans Clinician Designation Award
2019 Boston University School of Medicine : Educator of The Year in Preclinical Sciences
2011 Boston University School of Medicine : Educator of The Year in Clinical Sciences
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Medical Education
Medical Director
Remedial Teaching
Internal Medicine
Clinical Competence

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