Eric Barna, MD MPH

Faculty who teach by design, not by instinct.

I work with program directors and division leaders who can feel the teaching slipping. Excellent clinicians who were never trained to teach. Programs that run without developing anyone. I build the skills and the structures that fix it.

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Faculty Development / Consulting
Internal Medicine
The count
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800+
Learners taught, cumulative
60+
Invited talks and presentations
12+
Institutions where the work has traveled
17+
Years as a practicing attending
Bedside teaching and roundingFeedback and clinical reasoningTeaching in an AI-native environmentRounding under pressureLearning environment designLeadership communication for cliniciansBedside teaching and roundingFeedback and clinical reasoningTeaching in an AI-native environmentRounding under pressureLearning environment designLeadership communication for clinicians
The invitation

How can we work together?

Five ways in. Most people start with one workshop and decide from there.

The work
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Start here

Faculty development workshop

Half or full day

Half or full day, on site or virtual, built for the faculty you actually have rather than the ones in the literature. Most program directors can approve this one without going up the chain.

Your faculty leave with a rounding structure they can use the next morning, and language for feedback that does not land as criticism.

02

Faculty development curriculum audit

Two to four weeks

A map of where your faculty development actually stands, and a framework for building the parts that are missing.

03

Mentorship program design

Four to eight weeks

Built for your size, your specialty mix, and your resources, so it keeps running after the person who started it moves on.

Drawn from a longitudinal career mentorship program I founded, now running at multiple academic medical centers, with a 100 percent placement rate in its first graduating class.

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Leadership skills retreat

Half or full day

Communication under pressure, meetings that end in decisions, feedback that changes behavior, and presenting to a room of clinicians.

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Faculty development advisor

Monthly, three month minimum

A standing hour each month, plus review of whatever you are building between sessions.

Rates depend on format, travel, and CME designation. Ask and I will send them.

The full picture
Most programs run. Fewer of them develop anyone. That gap is almost never about talent. 
Eric Barna

If the teaching in your program runs on instinct, let's give it a design.

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