Shwetha Iyer, MD

Dr. Shwetha Iyer is the Program Director of the Primary Care/Social Internal Medicine Program at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She received her medical degree from Temple University and completed her residency in the Primary Care/Social Internal Medicine Program Track at Montefiore. She developed and completed training as a global health faculty fellow in the Global Health and Clinical Skills Fellowship at Montefiore. Her area of interest includes medical education, specifically in curriculum development and coaching. She has adapted and taught a weight management curriculum for residents, developed and co-directed the clinical reasoning curriculum, and refined the advocacy and women’s health curriculum for the residency program. Her current curricular focus is creating the Master Adaptive Learner model and structural competency in residency education. Before her current position, she was Associate Program Director for the Primary Care/Social Internal Medicine Program.