Katherine Gavinski MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Institution: Medical College of Wisconsin
Department: Medicine
Division: Medicine General Internal
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Research Areas of Interest
Education, MedicalClinical ReasoningPublications (17)
A Descriptive Review of Education Theories and Frameworks in Health Professions Education Research. (Minshew LM, Kaljo K, Bonifacino E, Tubbs A, Kavanaugh R, Gavinski K, Braun M, Syam D, DeBisschop M, Farkas A) Med Sci Educ 2025 Dec;35(6):3207-3216 PMID: 41798332 PMCID: PMC12961076 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105018480009 03/09/2026 Rashes and reflection: a novel curriculum using clinical reasoning to teach ambulatory dermatology to internal medicine residents. (Richardson A, Gavinski K, Falcone L, Rothenberger S, Jeong K, Nikiforova T) Diagnosis (Berl) 2026 Feb 01;13(1):55-61 PMID: 40966477 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105017132420 09/18/2025 Internal Medicine Resident Evaluations of Attending Physicians. (Auckley ED, Geiger J, Farkas A, Scholcoff C, Gavinski K, Jackson JL) Eval Health Prof 2025 Dec;48(4):458-462 PMID: 40900122 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105014892821 09/03/2025 1 CitationMedical Student Evaluations of Medical Faculty: Characteristics of Highly and Lower-Rated Teachers. (Jackson JL, Gavinski K, Thompson MG, Storch D, Murphy MG, Nickoloff S, Kuriyama A) J Gen Intern Med 2025 Apr;40(5):996-1002 PMID: 39777713 PMCID: PMC11968595 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85217244326 01/09/2025 1 CitationUsing language to evaluate curricular impact: a novel approach in assessing clinical reasoning curricula. (Gavinski K, DiNardo D, Rothenberger SD, Bonifacino E) Diagnosis (Berl) 2025 Aug 01;12(3):470-473 PMID: 39754715 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85216017268 01/04/2025 Demystifying Gestalt. (Patel JJ, Jasti J, Gavinski K) Ann Emerg Med 2024 Dec;84(6):696-697 PMID: 39578007 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85208462092 11/23/2024 1 CitationStatistical Thinking Part 3: Interpreting Diagnostic Tests with Probabilistic Thinking. (Calder RA, Gavinski K, Patel JJ) WMJ 2024 Nov;123(5):407-411 PMID: 39509630 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85209168556 11/13/2024 1 CitationIn Reply to Hopkins et al. (Memari M, Gavinski K, Norman MK) Acad Med 2024 May 01;99(5):475-476 PMID: 38335123 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85191614731 02/09/2024 1 CitationBeware False Growth Mindset: Building Growth Mindset in Medical Education Is Essential but Complicated. (Memari M, Gavinski K, Norman MK) Acad Med 2024 Mar 01;99(3):261-265 PMID: 37643577 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85184272089 08/30/2023 26 CitationsCervical Cancer Screening. (Gavinski K, DiNardo D) Med Clin North Am 2023 Mar;107(2):259-269 PMID: 36759096 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85146704212 02/10/2023 47 CitationsRelationship Between Confidence, Gender, and Career Choice in Internal Medicine. (Gavinski K, Cleveland E, Didwania AK, Feinglass JM, Sulistio MS) J Gen Intern Med 2021 Mar;36(3):662-667 PMID: 32989713 PMCID: PMC7947144 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85091680151 09/30/2020 15 CitationsEmpirical comparison of three assessment instruments of clinical reasoning capability in 230 medical students. (Covin Y, Longo P, Wick N, Gavinski K, Wagner J) BMC Med Educ 2020 Aug 12;20(1):264 PMID: 32787953 PMCID: PMC7425135 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85089618237 08/14/2020 7 CitationsUsing the NAM diagnostic process framework to teach clinical reasoning in computerized case presentations to 251 medical students. (Covin Y, Longo P, Wick N, Gavinski K, Barker B, Wagner J) Diagnosis (Berl) 2021 May 26;8(2):161-166 PMID: 32628629 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85113959603 07/07/2020 Learning How to Build Illness Scripts. (Gavinski K, Covin YN, Longo PJ) Acad Med 2019 Feb;94(2):293 PMID: 30334838 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85060819090 10/20/2018 10 CitationsRetrotransposons Are the Major Contributors to the Expansion of the Drosophila ananassae Muller F Element. (Leung W, Shaffer CD, Chen EJ, Quisenberry TJ, Ko K, Braverman JM, Giarla TC, Mortimer NT, Reed LK, Smith ST, Robic S, McCartha SR, Perry DR, Prescod LM, Sheppard ZA, Saville KJ, McClish A, Morlock EA, Sochor VR, Stanton B, Veysey-White IC, Revie D, Jimenez LA, Palomino JJ, Patao MD, Patao SM, Himelblau ET, Campbell JD, Hertz AL, McEvilly MF, Wagner AR, Youngblom J, Bedi B, Bettincourt J, Duso E, Her M, Hilton W, House S, Karimi M, Kumimoto K, Lee R, Lopez D, Odisho G, Prasad R, Robbins HL, Sandhu T, Selfridge T, Tsukashima K, Yosif H, Kokan NP, Britt L, Zoellner A, Spana EP, Chlebina BT, Chong I, Friedman H, Mammo DA, Ng CL, Nikam VS, Schwartz NU, Xu TQ, Burg MG, Batten SM, Corbeill LM, Enoch E, Ensign JJ, Franks ME, Haiker B, Ingles JA, Kirkland LD, Lorenz-Guertin JM, Matthews J, Mittig CM, Monsma N, Olson KJ, Perez-Aragon G, Ramic A, Ramirez JR, Scheiber C, Schneider PA, Schultz DE, Simon M, Spencer E, Wernette AC, Wykle ME, Zavala-Arellano E, McDonald MJ, Ostby K, Wendland P, DiAngelo JR, Ceasrine AM, Cox AH, Docherty JEB, Gingras RM, Grieb SM, Pavia MJ, Personius CL, Polak GL, Beach DL, Cerritos HL, Horansky EA, Sharif KA, Moran R, Parrish S, Bickford K, Bland J, Broussard J, Campbell K, Deibel KE, Forka R, Lemke MC, Nelson MB, O'Keeffe C, Ramey SM, Schmidt L, Villegas P, Jones CJ, Christ SL, Mamari S, Rinaldi AS, Stity G, Hark AT, Scheuerman M, Silver Key SC, McRae BD, Haberman AS, Asinof S, Carrington H, Drumm K, Embry T, McGuire R, Miller-Foreman D, Rosen S, Safa N, Schultz D, Segal M, Shevin Y, Svoronos P, Vuong T, Skuse G, Paetkau DW, Bridgman RK, Brown CM, Carroll AR, Gifford FM, Gillespie JB, Herman SE, Holtcamp KL, Host MA, Hussey G, Kramer DM, Lawrence JQ, Martin MM, Niemiec EN, O'Reilly AP, Pahl OA, Quintana G, Rettie EAS, Richardson TL, Rodriguez AE, Rodriguez MO, Schiraldi L, Smith JJ, Sugrue KF, Suriano LJ, Takach KE, Vasquez AM, Velez X, Villafuerte EJ, Vives LT, Zellmer VR, Hauke J, Hauser CR, Barker K, Cannon L, Parsamian P, Parsons S, Wichman Z, Bazinet CW, Johnson DE, Bangura A, Black JA, Chevee V, Einsteen SA, Hilton SK, Kollmer M, Nadendla R, Stamm J, Fafara-Thompson AE, Gygi AM, Ogawa EE, Van Camp M, Kocsisova Z, Leatherman JL, Modahl CM, Rubin MR, Apiz-Saab SS, Arias-Mejias SM, Carrion-Ortiz CF, Claudio-Vazquez PN, Espada-Green DM, Feliciano-Camacho M, Gonzalez-Bonilla KM, Taboas-Arroyo M, Vargas-Franco D, MontaƱez-Gonzalez R, Perez-Otero J, Rivera-Burgos M, Rivera-Rosario FJ, Eisler HL, Alexander J, Begley SK, Gabbard D, Allen RJ, Aung WY, Barshop WD, Boozalis A, Chu VP, Davis JS, Duggal RN, Franklin R, Gavinski K, Gebreyesus H, Gong HZ, Greenstein RA, Guo AD, Hanson C, Homa KE, Hsu SC, Huang Y, Huo L, Jacobs S, Jia S, Jung KL, Wai-Chee Kong S, Kroll MR, Lee BM, Lee PF, Levine KM, Li AS, Liu C, Liu MM, Lousararian AP, Lowery PB, Mallya AP, Marcus JE, Ng PC, Nguyen HP, Patel R, Precht H, Rastogi S, Sarezky JM, Schefkind A, Schultz MB, Shen D, Skorupa T, Spies NC, Stancu G, Vivian Tsang HM, Turski AL, Venkat R, Waldman LE, Wang K, Wang T, Wei JW, Wu DY, Xiong DD, Yu J, Zhou K, McNeil GP, Fernandez RW, Menzies PG, Gu T, Buhler J, Mardis ER, Elgin SCR) G3 (Bethesda) 2017 Aug 07;7(8):2439-2460 PMID: 28667019 PMCID: PMC5555453 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85027275688 07/02/2017 21 CitationsValidation of the delirium observation screening scale in a hospitalized older population. (Gavinski K, Carnahan R, Weckmann M) J Hosp Med 2016 Jul;11(7):494-7 PMID: 26970312 PMCID: PMC4931982 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84990200844 03/13/2016 56 CitationsDrosophila muller f elements maintain a distinct set of genomic properties over 40 million years of evolution. (Leung W, Shaffer CD, Reed LK, Smith ST, Barshop W, Dirkes W, Dothager M, Lee P, Wong J, Xiong D, Yuan H, Bedard JE, Machone JF, Patterson SD, Price AL, Turner BA, Robic S, Luippold EK, McCartha SR, Walji TA, Walker CA, Saville K, Abrams MK, Armstrong AR, Armstrong W, Bailey RJ, Barberi CR, Beck LR, Blaker AL, Blunden CE, Brand JP, Brock EJ, Brooks DW, Brown M, Butzler SC, Clark EM, Clark NB, Collins AA, Cotteleer RJ, Cullimore PR, Dawson SG, Docking CT, Dorsett SL, Dougherty GA, Downey KA, Drake AP, Earl EK, Floyd TG, Forsyth JD, Foust JD, Franchi SL, Geary JF, Hanson CK, Harding TS, Harris CB, Heckman JM, Holderness HL, Howey NA, Jacobs DA, Jewell ES, Kaisler M, Karaska EA, Kehoe JL, Koaches HC, Koehler J, Koenig D, Kujawski AJ, Kus JE, Lammers JA, Leads RR, Leatherman EC, Lippert RN, Messenger GS, Morrow AT, Newcomb V, Plasman HJ, Potocny SJ, Powers MK, Reem RM, Rennhack JP, Reynolds KR, Reynolds LA, Rhee DK, Rivard AB, Ronk AJ, Rooney MB, Rubin LS, Salbert LR, Saluja RK, Schauder T, Schneiter AR, Schulz RW, Smith KE, Spencer S, Swanson BR, Tache MA, Tewilliager AA, Tilot AK, VanEck E, Villerot MM, Vylonis MB, Watson DT, Wurzler JA, Wysocki LM, Yalamanchili M, Zaborowicz MA, Emerson JA, Ortiz C, Deuschle FJ, DiLorenzo LA, Goeller KL, Macchi CR, Muller SE, Pasierb BD, Sable JE, Tucci JM, Tynon M, Dunbar DA, Beken LH, Conturso AC, Danner BL, DeMichele GA, Gonzales JA, Hammond MS, Kelley CV, Kelly EA, Kulich D, Mageeney CM, McCabe NL, Newman AM, Spaeder LA, Tumminello RA, Revie D, Benson JM, Cristostomo MC, DaSilva PA, Harker KS, Jarrell JN, Jimenez LA, Katz BM, Kennedy WR, Kolibas KS, LeBlanc MT, Nguyen TT, Nicolas DS, Patao MD, Patao SM, Rupley BJ, Sessions BJ, Weaver JA, Goodman AL, Alvendia EL, Baldassari SM, Brown AS, Chase IO, Chen M, Chiang S, Cromwell AB, Custer AF, DiTommaso TM, El-Adaimi J, Goscinski NC, Grove RA, Gutierrez N, Harnoto RS, Hedeen H, Hong EL, Hopkins BL, Huerta VF, Khoshabian C, LaForge KM, Lee CT, Lewis BM, Lydon AM, Maniaci BJ, Mitchell RD, Morlock EV, Morris WM, Naik P, Olson NC, Osterloh JM, Perez MA, Presley JD, Randazzo MJ, Regan MK, Rossi FG, Smith MA, Soliterman EA, Sparks CJ, Tran DL, Wan T, Welker AA, Wong JN, Sreenivasan A, Youngblom J, Adams A, Alldredge J, Bryant A, Carranza D, Cifelli A, Coulson K, Debow C, Delacruz N, Emerson C, Farrar C, Foret D, Garibay E, Gooch J, Heslop M, Kaur S, Khan A, Kim V, Lamb T, Lindbeck P, Lucas G, Macias E, Martiniuc D, Mayorga L, Medina J, Membreno N, Messiah S, Neufeld L, Nguyen SF, Nichols Z, Odisho G, Peterson D, Rodela L, Rodriguez P, Rodriguez V, Ruiz J, Sherrill W, Silva V, Sparks J, Statton G, Townsend A, Valdez I, Waters M, Westphal K, Winkler S, Zumkehr J, DeJong RJ, Hoogewerf AJ, Ackerman CM, Armistead IO, Baatenburg L, Borr MJ, Brouwer LK, Burkhart BJ, Bushhouse KT, Cesko L, Choi TY, Cohen H, Damsteegt AM, Darusz JM, Dauphin CM, Davis YP, Diekema EJ, Drewry M, Eisen ME, Faber HM, Faber KJ, Feenstra E, Felzer-Kim IT, Hammond BL, Hendriksma J, Herrold MR, Hilbrands JA, Howell EJ, Jelgerhuis SA, Jelsema TR, Johnson BK, Jones KK, Kim A, Kooienga RD, Menyes EE, Nollet EA, Plescher BE, Rios L, Rose JL, Schepers AJ, Scott G, Smith JR, Sterling AM, Tenney JC, Uitvlugt C, VanDyken RE, VanderVennen M, Vue S, Kokan NP, Agbley K, Boham SK, Broomfield D, Chapman K, Dobbe A, Dobbe I, Harrington W, Ibrahem M, Kennedy A, Koplinsky CA, Kubricky C, Ladzekpo D, Pattison C, Ramirez RE Jr, Wande L, Woehlke S, Wawersik M, Kiernan E, Thompson JS, Banker R, Bartling JR, Bhatiya CI, Boudoures AL, Christiansen L, Fosselman DS, French KM, Gill IS, Havill JT, Johnson JL, Keny LJ, Kerber JM, Klett BM, Kufel CN, May FJ, Mecoli JP, Merry CR, Meyer LR, Miller EG, Mullen GJ, Palozola KC, Pfeil JJ, Thomas JG, Verbofsky EM, Spana EP, Agarwalla A, Chapman J, Chlebina B, Chong I, Falk IN, Fitzgibbons JD, Friedman H, Ighile O, Kim AJ, Knouse KA, Kung F, Mammo D, Ng CL, Nikam VS, Norton D, Pham P, Polk JW, Prasad S, Rankin H, Ratliff CD, Scala V, Schwartz NU, Shuen JA, Xu A, Xu TQ, Z) G3 (Bethesda) 2015 Mar 04;5(5):719-40 PMID: 25740935 PMCID: PMC4426361 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84929877972 03/06/2015 79 Citations Last update: 05/06/2026