David Vermette
Assistant Professor in the Divisions of General Medicine & Geriatrics and Pediatric Hospital Medicine
David Vermette is a med-peds clinician educator and Assistant Professor in the Divisions of General Medicine & Geriatrics and Pediatric Hospital Medicine at the WashU School of Medicine. He received his B.S. in Finance at Oral Roberts University. Subsequently, He attended medical school at the University of Texas Southwestern and obtained an MBA at the University of Texas at Dallas. He completed his residency in Combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Yale, and served as Chief Resident during his PGY-4 year. Following residency, he completed advanced training in medical education research with the Yale General Internal Medicine Medical Education fellowship, obtained an MHS in medical education from the Yale School of Medicine, and completed a fellowship in Pediatric Hospital Medicine. Currently, David serves as an Associate Program Director for the WashU Internal Medicine Residency Program and as a longitudinal Gateway Coach for the undergraduate medical education curriculum.
David strives to bring a whole-person model of education to the medical field. His scholarly mission is to shift the paradigm of well-being in medical education from a disease-model of burnout toward a health-model of flourishing. His work has included publishing essays drawing parallels between pastoral care and educational leadership, developing validity evidence to support the use of the Flourish Index as a quantitative measure of well-being in residents and developing and validating an instrument to measure the community well-being of residency programs. David and his family are active members at One Family Church in University City.
David finds joy in adventuring with his family, playing bass guitar with the worship team, drinking the perfect flat white, traveling, hiking, and trying new food. His favorite podcast is The Bible Project and favorite books are A Severe Mercy (Vanauken), Lament for a Son (Wolterstorf), and The Last Battle (Lewis).