Vijaykumar K Rajput MD FACP, SFHM

Summary

• Dr. Vijay Rajput is a Professor and Chair for Department of Medical Education at Nova Southeastern University, College of Allopathic Medicine (NSU MD). He has served as the Head for Division of Medical Education in the Department of Medicine for Cooper Medical School of Rowan University New jersey from 2010 -2015. He was the founding assistant dean for clinical curriculum at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University from 2010-2013. He was a program director for Internal Medicine at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Camden, New jersey from 2004 to 2012. Dr Rajput was an associate fellow at the Center for Bioethics at University of Pennsylvania from 2009-2013. Dr Rajput was given Laurette Award by ACP , New Jersey Chapter in 2015. He was elected as a Master of American College of Physician in 2022.
  Dr. Rajput has authored or co-authored more than 180 papers, abstracts, and book chapters. He has presented more than 200 seminars, workshops, and grand rounds at regional, national, and international conferences. Dr. Rajput serve on editorial boards and reviewers on several journals.
  Over the last 25 years, Dr. Rajput has received more than fifteen “Excellence in Teaching” awards from students, residents, and national organization like ACGME and SHM. He was awarded the ACGME Parker J. Palmer “Courage to Teach Award”— the most prestigious teaching award in 2011. He was inducted in the UMDNJ’s Master Educator Guild in 2005.
  
  Dr. Rajput enjoyed teaching at bedside as “humanism through kindness and compassion ” with patient and learner. He has developed a new interest in AI and the intersection of humanism and compassionate physician. He is currently co-editing book on Professionalism in Global Health Professions Education.