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Dr Kroboth’s career investment was in the practice of general medicine and the education of residents in general medicine. He started as core faculty in 1980, became Co-Director and then Director of the Internal Medicine Training Program over the years 1982 to 2006. These were decades of significant changes in the Program; in curriculum, size and even sites. Dr. Kroboth’s bibliography tracks with his clinical career. There was a mix of case reports with trainees, curricular descriptions, and several co-author publications from the Center for Pharmacodynamic Research in the School of Pharmacy, of which he was Medical Director. The area of most effort was in the evaluation of residents. He secured a grant from the American Board of Internal Medicine to formally study an evaluation tool that was subsequently adopted as one alternative form of direct observation. He remained on the working group for an abbreviated tool developed by ABIM. Later work described the cost of graduate medical education and most recently the organization of training programs outside of the traditional accreditation pathway. Dr Kroboth served as Assistant Dean for Graduate Medical Education, which involved overall fellowship issues at UPMC, Departmental roles, and policy oversight for UPMC Medical Education.
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