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Margaret L. Plews-Ogan

Margaret L. Plews-Ogan

Professor, Medicine

Primary Location
P.O. Box 800901
Primary Phone Number
Fax Number
434.924.9810

Bio & Overview

Dr. Plews-Ogan is chief of the Division of General Medicine, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine in UVA's Department of Medicine. She also serves as director of the Center for Appreciative Practice at UVA.  Her areas of interest and research include the effect of positive emotion on the health of individuals and communities, medical education, quality improvement, and patient safety. Dr. Plews-Ogan teaches in the Quality & Safety Leadership in Academic Medicine (QSLAM) course and the Medicine Residency curriculum.  Dr. Plews-Ogan is co-author of three books, including Choosing Wisdom: Strategies and Inspiration for Growing through Life-Changing Difficulties.

Academic Information

Department
Medicine

Primary Education

  • MD, Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 1991

Research Interests

Health Care for Underserved Populations, Patient Safety, and Alternative Medicine

Selected Publications

2022

Flickinger, T. E., Kon, R. H., Jacobsen, B., Schorling, J., May, N., Harrison, M., & Plews-Ogan, M. (2022). "Flourish in the Clerkship Year": a Curriculum to Promote Wellbeing in Medical Students. MEDICAL SCIENCE EDUCATOR, 32(2), 315-320. doi:10.1007/s40670-022-01522-z

2020

Plews-Ogan, M. L., Bell, T. D., Townsend, G., Canterbury, R. J., & Wilkes, D. S. (2020). Acting Wisely: Eliminating Negative Bias in Medical Education-Part 2: How Can We Do Better?. ACADEMIC MEDICINE, 95(12), S16-S22. doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000003700

Plews-Ogan, M. L., Bell, T. D., Townsend, G., Canterbury, R. J., & Wilkes, D. S. (2020). Acting Wisely: Eliminating Negative Bias in Medical Education-Part 1: The Fundamentals. ACADEMIC MEDICINE, 95(12), S11-S15. doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000003699

Parsons, A. S., Kon, R. H., Plews-Ogan, M., & Gusic, M. E. (2021). You can have both: Coaching to promote clinical competency and professional identity formation. PERSPECTIVES ON MEDICAL EDUCATION, 10(1), 57-63. doi:10.1007/s40037-020-00612-1

Flickinger, T. E., Kon, R. H., Jacobsen, R., Owens, J., Schorling, J., & Plews-Ogan, M. (2020). Single-Item Burnout Measure Correlates Well with Emotional Exhaustion Domain of Burnout but Not Depersonalization Among Medical Students. JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE, 35(11), 3383-3385. doi:10.1007/s11606-020-05808-z

Seki, S. M., DeGeorge, K. C., Plews-Ogan, M. L., & Parsons, A. S. (2020). Physical exam: where's the evidence? A medical student's experience. FAMILY MEDICINE AND COMMUNITY HEALTH, 8(1). doi:10.1136/fmch-2019-000284

2019

Quatrara, B., Brashers, V., Baernholdt, M., Novicoff, W., Schlag, K., Haizlip, J., . . . Kennedy, C. (2019). Enhancing interprofessional education through patient safety and quality improvement team-training: A pre-post evaluation. NURSE EDUCATION TODAY, 79, 105-110. doi:10.1016/j.nedt.2019.05.011

Gilligan, M. C., Osterberg, L. G., Rider, E. A., Derse, A. R., Weil, A. B., Litzelman, D. K., . . . Branch, W. T. J. (2019). Views of institutional leaders on maintaining humanism in today's practice. PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING, 102(10), 1911-1916. doi:10.1016/j.pec.2019.04.025

Brady, M., Ardelt, M., Plews-Ogan, M., & Pope, S. (2019). Adversity, Conflict, Wisdom. JOURNAL OF VALUE INQUIRY, 53(3), 463-465. doi:10.1007/s10790-019-09704-6

2018

Plews-Ogan, M., Ardelt, M., & Owens, J. (2019). Growth through Adversity: Exploring Associations between Internal Strengths, Posttraumatic Growth, and Wisdom. JOURNAL OF VALUE INQUIRY, 53(3), 371-391. doi:10.1007/s10790-018-9659-4

Rider, E. A., Gilligan, M. C., Osterberg, L. G., Litzelman, D. K., Plews-Ogan, M., Weil, A. B., . . . Branch, W. T. J. (2018). Healthcare at the Crossroads: The Need to Shape an Organizational Culture of Humanistic Teaching and Practice. JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE, 33(7), 1092-1099. doi:10.1007/s11606-018-4470-2

2017

Branch, W. T. J., Frankel, R. M., Hafler, J. P., Weil, A. B., Gilligan, M. C., Litzelman, D. K., . . . Derse, A. R. (2017). A Multi-Institutional Longitudinal Faculty Development Program in Humanism Supports the Professional Development of Faculty Teachers. ACADEMIC MEDICINE, 92(12), 1680-1686. doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000001940

Branch, W. T. J., Weil, A. B., Gilligan, M. C., Litzelman, D. K., Hafler, J. P., Plews-Ogan, M., . . . Frankel, R. M. (2017). How physicians draw satisfaction and overcome barriers in their practices: "It sustains me". PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING, 100(12), 2320-2330. doi:10.1016/j.pec.2017.06.004

2016

Owens, J. E., Schorling, J., Plews-Ogan, M., Goodman, M., Moorman, R., Zaklin, R., & Dent, J. (2016). A randomized controlled trial evaluating Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) for the treatment of palpitations: A pilot study. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY, 223, 25-27. doi:10.1016/j.ijcard.2016.08.183

Plews-Ogan, M., May, N., Owens, J., Ardelt, M., Shapiro, J., & Bell, S. K. (2016). Wisdom in Medicine: What Helps Physicians After a Medical Error?. ACADEMIC MEDICINE, 91(2), 233-241. doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000000886

Owens, J. E., Menard, M., Plews-Ogan, M., Calhoun, L. G., & Ardelt, M. (2016). Stories of Growth and Wisdom: A Mixed-Methods Study of People Living Well With Pain.. Global advances in health and medicine, 5(1), 16-28. doi:10.7453/gahmj.2015.065

2015

Linzer, M., Bitton, A., Tu, S. -P., Plews-Ogan, M., Horowitz, K. R., & Schwartz, M. D. (2015). The End of the 15-20 Minute Primary Care Visit. JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE, 30(11), 1584-1586. doi:10.1007/s11606-015-3341-3

2014

Jackson, A., Baron, R. B., Jaeger, J., Liebow, M., Plews-Ogan, M., & Schwartz, M. D. (2014). Addressing the Nation's Physician Workforce Needs: The Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Recommendations on Graduate Medical Education Reform. JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE, 29(11), 1546-1551. doi:10.1007/s11606-014-2847-4

2013

Plews-Ogan, M., Owens, J. E., & May, N. B. (2013). Wisdom through adversity: Learning and growing in the wake of an error. PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING, 91(2), 236-242. doi:10.1016/j.pec.2012.12.006

2012

Haizlip, J., May, N., Schorling, J., Williams, A., & Plews-Ogan, M. (2012). Perspective: The Negativity Bias, Medical Education, and the Culture of Academic Medicine: Why Culture Change Is Hard. ACADEMIC MEDICINE, 87(9), 1205-1209. doi:10.1097/ACM.0b013e3182628f03

May, N., & Plews-Ogan, M. (2012). The role of talking (and keeping silent) in physician coping with medical error: A qualitative study. PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING, 88(3), 449-454. doi:10.1016/j.pec.2012.06.024

Harmon, R. B., Fontaine, D., Plews-Ogan, M., & Williams, A. (2012). ACHIEVING TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE: USING APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY FOR STRATEGIC PLANNING IN A SCHOOL OF NURSING. JOURNAL OF PROFESSIONAL NURSING, 28(2), 119-124. doi:10.1016/j.profnurs.2011.11.007

Becker, D., May, N., & Plews-Ogan, M. (2012). FORGIVE ME medical error and the poetics of forgiveness. PERSPECTIVES IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, 55(3), 339-349. doi:10.1353/pbm.2012.0027

2011

Helms, A. S., Perez, T. E., Baltz, J., Donowitz, G., Hoke, G., Bass, E. J., & Plews-Ogan, M. L. (2012). Use of an Appreciative Inquiry Approach to Improve Resident Sign-Out in an Era of Multiple Shift Changes. JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE, 27(3), 287-291. doi:10.1007/s11606-011-1885-4