Elexis McBee DO, MPH, FACP

Education

The University of Findlay, Findlay, OH, 1999
Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Athens, OH, 2006
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, 2014

Biography

Dr. Elexis McBee is a native of Soldotna, AK who served in the US Navy from 2006 through 2017. She attended medical school at Ohio University before completing Internal Medicine internship and residency training at the National Naval Medical Center Bethesda, MD from 2006-2009. Following this, she was stationed at Naval Hospital Beaufort, SC as a staff internist and division officer. In 2012, she returned to Bethesda, MD to complete a fellowship in General Internal Medicine at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and also earned a Masters of Public Health degree from the Uniformed Services University. Following completion of her fellowship in 2014, she joined the Internal Medicine team at Naval Medical Center San Diego, CA as an Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program. She served in this role from 2014 -2024 and now continues as core faculty. In 2017, she joined the education team at the Uniformed Services University and is the Deputy Clerkship Director for Internal Medicine. She is a professor of Medicine and a fellow of the American College of Physicians. She has participated in several curriculum development projects and currently participates in research on leadership and clinical reasoning.

Representative Bibliography

McBee E, Ratcliffe T, Picho K, Schuwirth L, Kelly, W, Masel J, Kay A, van der Vleuten C, Artino A, Durning SJ. Consequences of contextual factors on clinical reasoning in resident physicians. Advances in Health Science Education. 2015; 20 (5): 1225-1236. DOI: 10.1007/s10459-015-9597-x.

McBee E, Ratcliffe T, Goldszmidt M, Schuwirth L, Picho K, Artino A, Masel J, Durning SJ. Clinical reasoning tasks and resident physicians: what do they reason about? Academic Medicine. 2016; 91(7): 1022-8. DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000001024.

McBee E, Ratcliffe T, Picho K, Schuwirth L, Artino A , Yepes-Rios AM, Masel J, van der Vleuten C, Durning SJ. Contextual factors and clinical reasoning: Differences in diagnostic and therapeutic reasoning in board certified versus resident physicians. BMC Medical Education. 2017; 17:211. DOI 10.1186/s12909-017-1041-x

McBee E, Ratcliffe T, Schuwirth L, O’Neill D, Meyer H, Herman Madden S, Durning SJ. Context and clinical reasoning: Understanding the medical student perspective. Perspectives on Medical Education. 2018; 7:256. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40037-018-0417-x

McBee E, Blum C, Ratcliffe T, Schuwirth L, Polston E, Artino AR, Durning SJ. Use of clinical reasoning tasks by medical students. Diagnosis. 2019; DOI: 10.1515/dx-2018-007.

Soh M, Konopasky A, Durning SJ, Ramani D, McBee E, Ratcliffe T, Merkebu J. Sequence Matters: Patterns in Task-Based Clinical Reasoning. Diagnosis. 2020 Aug 27;7(3):281-289.

McBee E, Dong T, Ramani D, Durning SJ, Konopasky A. Relationship Between Gender and Academic and Military Achievement Among USU Medical School Graduates. Military Medicine. 2023 May;188(Supplement_2):115-21

Alexandraki I, Osman N, Ratcliffe T, Simon W, McBee E, Kisielewski M, Lai CJ. The Role of Grading Committes in Internal Medicine Clerkships: Results of a National Survey. Acad Med. 2024 Jul 25. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000005820

Mangalindan K, McBee E. Tips: Leading from the Middle of an Organization. Mil Med. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usae444

Levine E, Olson A, Ratcliffe T, McBee E. Cognitive Load in Hospital Medicine: Implications for Teachers, Learners and Programs. J Hosp Med. 2024; 1-4. doi:10.1002/jhm.13552