Benjamin

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT BENJAMIN

Benjamin Mba, MBBS, MRCP (UK), CHCQM, FACP, a Professor of Medicine (general medicine), is the Vice Chair for Collaborative Excellence (CE) at Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Internal Medicine. He is also the Graduate Medical Education Director for Collaborative Excellence and an Associate DIO for Yale New Haven Hospital and Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Mba joined Yale in July 2023.Since joining Yale, Dr. Mba has introduced new educational, recruiting, and training opportunities and resources. He also led the first department-wide climate survey for inclusion in the Department of Medicine. Additionally, Dr. Mba oversees the Office for Collaborative Excellence in Medicine (OCEIM) and develops strategies for the Department of Medicine to recruit, retain, support, mentor, and sponsor faculty to promote engagement and inclusive excellence.Dr. Mba leads several YSM and YNHH GME outreach and recruitment efforts aimed at attracting highly qualified trainees to promote excellence through diverse perspectives, philosophies, backgrounds, and experiences.Before joining Yale, Mba was the associate chair of medicine for faculty development at the Department of Medicine at Cook County Health and a professor of medicine at Rush Medical College in Chicago. He worked at Cook County Health for 24 years.Dr. Mba’s career has been characterized by a broad focus, including clinical education, promoting inclusive excellence in graduate medical education, residency program leadership, faculty development, quality improvement, and patient safety.Dr. Mba received multiple honors from Cook County Health (CCH) and Rush Medical College for his roles as a clinician-educator and mentor. He is a four-time recipient of the Sir William Osler Award for teaching internal medicine from the Department of Medicine at CCH, a four-time winner of the CCH Division of Hospital Medicine’s Cooker Award for inpatient medicine teaching, and a four-time recipient of the CCH Department of Medicine Excellence in Medical Student Education Award, and the Clinical Skills and Scholarship Award twice during his tenure as a medical resident.Dr. Mba was recognized as an exemplary teaching attending physician in a national research study conducted by the University of Michigan. This study identified and examined 12 exemplary teaching physicians nationwide. The findings were published in a book titled \"Teaching Inpatient Medicine\" by Oxford University Press and featured in several peer-reviewed journals, including the American Journal of Medicine and the Journal of Hospital Medicine.