Tom Baudendistel, MD

Tom is the Internal Medicine Residency Program Director at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, California. He is a former Deputy Editor of the Journal of Hospital Medicine and co-Editor of the First Aid for the Internal Medicine Boards book.

Tom received his MD in 1995 from the University of Missouri–Columbia School of Medicine and then completed Internal Medicine Residency and Chief Residency at UCSF.  Tom joined the UCSF Hospitalist faculty and received the Floyd C. Rector Jr. Housestaff Teaching Award.  He then became the Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency at California Pacific Medical Center before moving to Kaiser Oakland where he has been Program Director since 2009.  When not playing, refereeing, or coaching soccer, you can find him running the Bay Area trails, cycling over the roads and hills of Northern California, or spending time with his spouse and two college-aged children.

Current role, Specialty/Department, Practice Location

• Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency
• Hospitalist, Kaiser Easy Bay

Academic Appointments

• Volunteer Clinical Faculty, UCSF

Education and Professional Summary

Honors and Awards

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations

Society of Hospital Medicine

• Faculty/Lecturer at 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2018 Annual conferences
• National Correspondent, 2016
• Ethics committee, Chair 2005-2007; Member 2001-2009
• Editorial Board of JHM, 2004-2012
• Deputy Editor and CME Editor, Journal of Hospital Medicine
• Executive Review Committee, 2007-2010
• Editor, Clinical vignette section of The Hospitalist 2003-2005
• Director, Critical Care Precourse at 6^th Annual National meeting, 2003
• Chair, Clinical Vignette Committee, 2002-2005
• Annual Planning Committee, 2002-2004
• Member, Communications Committee, 2006
• Member, Task Force for SHM Board to address Conflicts of Interest, 2006

Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM)

• Poster Presentation: 3-year experience with a novel curriculum for teaching QI through root cause analysis. National meeting, Phoenix, 2012—FIRST PLACE, Innovations in Education.
• Workshop Presenter: Bedside Ultrasound: moving beyond procedures. National Meeting, October 2011; Anaheim.
• Poster Presentation: Hello, applicant? This is the Program Director?  Correspondence between applicants and residency programs during the interview process: what does it all mean? National Meeting, October 2011; Anaheim.
• Poster Presentation: The IM-MPH Residency Program at Kaiser Oakland: a novel partnership with UC-Berkeley SPH, National Meeting, October 2009; Philadelphia.
• Workshop presenter: Promoting scholarly activity in residency: why, what how? National Meeting, April 2007; San Diego.
• Workshop Moderator: The Role of Hospitalists in Residency and Beyond, San Francisco, 2005.

American College of Physicians, Fellow

• 2024 Distinguished Teacher and Mentorship Award from the Northern California Chapter
• Panelist, Career Diversity in Internal Medicine, Northern California meeting, 2008
• Moderator, Stump the Program Competition, Northern California meeting, 2005, 2015-2019
• Poster Competition Judge, California chapter meeting, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014
• Clinical Cases presented at “Thieves Market” during Annual Session 2002, 2006
• Co-author of clinical vignette at Annual Session 2004
• Co-authored abstracts at Northern California ACP meeting, 2003-2014
• Presenter at “Stump the Professor” session, Northern California ACP meeting, 1999

Alameda Contra Costa County Medical Association & California Medical Association (member since 2009)

Areas of Interest

• Medical Education
• Clinical Reasoning
• Hospital Medicine