Editor-in-Chief
Surgical Council on Resident Education (SCORE)
Amit R.T. Joshi, MD, FACS serves as Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education and Vice-Chair and Professor of Surgery at Cooper University School of Medicine in Camden, NJ. Until 2021, he was the residency Program Director and Vice-Chair for Academic Affairs for the Department of Surgery at Einstein Healthcare Network in Philadelphia. At Brown University’s 8-year Program in Liberal Medical Education, he received his BA in Music in 1997 and MD (with academic distinction) in 2001, and completed his surgical residency at New York Presbyterian/Cornell and fellowship in minimally invasive surgery at North Shore/Long Island Jewish Hospitals. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery. His clinical interests include all of general surgery with a focus on hernia repair (particularly using minimally invasive techniques).
His principal research interests are resident recruitment and curricular development within surgical training. He has authored over 100 scientific manuscripts and presentations.
He holds leadership positions in several surgical organizations:
Editor-in-Chief of the American Board of Surgery’s Surgical Council on Resident Education (SCORE)--the national curriculum for general surgery.
Board of Directors of the American Board of Surgery. He serves on its audit committee and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force.
Board of Directors of the Association of Program Directors in Surgery (APDS). He serves on the executive committee and has previously led the Education Division.
Board of Governors of the ACS, serving on the Continuing Education workgroup
Past-President of the Philadelphia chapter of the American College of Surgeons (ACS)
Editorial Board, Journal of Surgical Education
Executive Committee, Educational Quality Improvement Project (EQIP) of the APDS
He recently co-chaired the Planning Committee of the Coalition of Accountability—a multi-organizational (AAMC, NBME, ECFMG, AACOM, AOGME, NBOME, and OPDA) group working to establish a process to review and make recommendations to improve the undergraduate (UME) to graduate (GME) medical education transition across medical training.
Dr. Joshi and his wife, Nikki (a radiologist), live in Moorestown, NJ with their two children, ages 12 and 11.
Disclosure: Surgical Council on Resident Education (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Employment
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