Upper Peninsula Health Education Corporation

William Short, M.D.

Credentials

William M. Short, MD, assumed the Directorship of the Marquette Family Medicine Residency Program in January 2001. He was a member of the fourth graduating class from the program. A native of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, he attended Michigan Technological University, graduating with a degree in biological sciences.

Dr. Short earned his Medical Degree at the University of Michigan in 1982, completing family practice residency training in Marquette in 1985. He joined the faculty as an Assistant Director of the program in 1987 and completed the Michigan State University Primary Care Faculty Development Program in 1988.

In 2002 he also completed the National Institute for Program Director Development sponsored by the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Board certified in Family Practice with a Certificate of Added Qualification in addiction medicine, Dr. Short has an interest in knowledge based computer education. He supervises a web page maintained by Marquette General Hospital’s Information Technology Department that essentially functions as a virtual medical library available to medical staff, residents, medical students, and others. He teaches the use of this technology to interested staff physicians in addition to the residents in the program. He has an interest in handheld computers and promotes their use within the residency program.

Dr. Short serves as Director of Medical Education for the hospital. This role has him managing the weekly Friday Noon Clinical Conference, which is telecast to hospitals around the Upper Peninsula through their telehealth conferencing network.

Committed to family practice education, Dr. Short is involved in all elements of the residency program’s administration and also precepts in the clinic and does rounds in the hospital with the residents. He shares call with the other family practice faculty. He is actively involved in promoting procedures within the program. All expected procedures for competent family practice physician development are taught in the program under Dr. Short’s oversight.

Dr. Short also promotes the education of residents in addiction medicine. Being a significant cause of morbidity and premature mortality in our culture, gaining a unique insight into this disease management is an added benefit of residents graduating from this program.

The importance of evidence based medicine education is becoming more apparent in residency programs throughout the country. Dr. Short is committed to promoting this element within the training program with the establishment of a series of core curricular lectures on this topic along with the integration of these principles as journal articles are analyzed in regularly scheduled journal clubs. The value of learning basic research skills is understood and residents are encouraged to develop this during their time training in the program.

On a personal note, Bill is married and has four children. He and his family enjoy the outdoors, especially canoeing, biking, and hiking. They enjoy spending time at the family cottage in the western portion of the Upper Peninsula and visiting Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior.

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