Aalam Singh, MBBS, MEd
Hospital Medicine
Highlights
Johns Hopkins Affiliations:
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
About Aalam Singh
Professional Titles
- Director of Education, Division of Hospital Medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
- Associate Program Director, JHBMC Hospital Medicine Fellowship
Primary Academic Title
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Johns Hopkins Physician
Background
Dr. Amteshwar Singh is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His clinical expertise is in internal medicine (Hospital Medicine).
Dr. Singh serves as the Director of Medical Education for the Division of Hospital Medicine (CIMS), Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He also serves as the director of Medicine sub-internship for JHBMC-Hospitalist service and associate program director of the Academic Hospital Medicine Fellowship at JHBMC. His teaching interests include hypothesis-driven physical examination and Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS). His research interests include competency-based assessment models for advanced practice provider hospitalists and pedagogy of diagnostic reasoning. His administrative work is focused on hospital medicine operations and the examination of early career hospitalist recruitment practices.
He earned his M.B.B.S. from Government Medical College, Amritsar (India), and completed his residency at the Johns Hopkins University - Sinai Hospital Program. He then completed a Master of Education (M.Ed.) degree from Johns Hopkins School of Education with his capstone work in psychometric analysis and Messick’s validity framework application to a novel APP assessment instrument, created by his team of education researchers. He is an elected Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP).
PubMed - Publications
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1pg9KH8EKmOcnj/bibliography/public/
Research Gate - Research Profile
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Amteshwar-Singh?ev=hdr_xprf
Selected Publications
Singh A, Klimpl D, Kisuule F, Cardin T, Tackett S, Gupta I, Blum K, Wimmer K, Wright S, Colbert-Getz J. Development of a novel hospitalist advanced practice provider assessment instrument: A pilot study. J Hosp Med. 2022 Mar;17(3):176-180. doi: 10.1002/jhm.12790. Epub 2022 Feb 14. PubMed PMID: 35504586
Singh A, Panek T, Tackett S, Paranji S, Gundareddy V, Kauffman R, Wright S, Bowling G, Torok H, Patel H, Alhadeff I, Nogi M, McIlraith T, Robertson T, Kisuule F. Elements Influencing Recruitment and Retention of Millennial Hospitalists Born in or after 1982: a Survey-Based Study. J Gen Intern Med. 2022 Jun 3;. doi: 10.1007/s11606-022-07680-5. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 35657465
Gupta I, Siddiqui ZK, Phillips MD, Singh A, Eid SM, Kisuule F, Ficke JR, Kantsiper ME. Recruitment, Readiness, and Retention of Providers at a Field Hospital during the Pandemic. Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2022 Jan 10;:1-21. doi: 10.1017/dmp.2022.2. PubMed PMID: 35000667; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9095897
Novakovic M, Rout A, Kingsley T, Kirchoff R, Singh A, Verma V, Kant R, Chaudhary R. Role of gut microbiota in cardiovascular diseases. World J Cardiol. 2020 Apr 26;12(4):110-122. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v12.i4.110. Review. PubMed PMID: 32431782; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7215967
Van Wert MJ, Gandhi S, Gupta I, Singh A, Eid SM, Haroon Burhanullah M, Michtalik H, Malik M. Healthcare Worker Mental Health After the Initial Peak of the COVID-19 Pandemic: a US Medical Center Cross-Sectional Survey. J Gen Intern Med. 2022 Apr;37(5):1169-1176. doi: 10.1007/s11606-021-07251-0. Epub 2022 Jan 6. PubMed PMID: 34993856; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8734540
Honors
- Romulo Baltazar Excellence in Teaching Award, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, 6/1/19
- Fellow of American College of Physicians (FACP), American College of Physicians, 1/1/19
- Rajeev Thakkar Memorial Scholarship for Research, 1/1/19
- Romulo Baltazar Excellence in Teaching Award, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, 6/1/18
Memberships
- Society of Bedside Medicine
- Society of Hospital Medicine
- American College of Physicians
Additional Training
- American College of CHEST Physicians and Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) / Point of Care Ultrasound
Locations
- Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
- 4940 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21224
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- phone: 410-550-0100
- fax: 410-550-0101
Expertise
Education
- Graduate School: Johns Hopkins University, Health Professions, MEd, 2021
- Residency: Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Internal Medicine, 2016
- Residency: Gian Sagar Medical College & Hospital, General Surgery, 2013
- Medical Education: Kerala University of Health Science, MBBS, 2012
Board Certifications
- Internal Medicine: American Board of Internal Medicine, 2016
Insurance
- Aetna
- CareFirst
- Cigna
- First Health
- Geisinger Health Plan
- HealthSmart/Accel
- Johns Hopkins Health Plans
- MultiPlan
- Pennsylvania's Preferred Health Networks (PPHN)
- Point Comfort Underwriters
- Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
- Veteran Affairs Community Care Network (Optum-VACCN)