First certified as a Physician Assistant in 1998, Dr. Baumcratz has broad experience in outpatient medicine, including Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine, and Occupational Health. She has precepted PA students clinically for over 25 years and in 2020, transitioned to full time academia by joining the Carlow PA Program during its initial development. As Assistant Professor here, she is responsible for the Clinical Medicine series of courses; six sequential semesters that take the student from acquisition of medical knowledge to its application in eight medical specialties.
As chair of the Student Progress Committee, she ensures individualized remediation of struggling students, providing each student the tools needed for success. In accordance with the Carlow mission, she is committed to providing a just an ethical learning environment for students, and prior scholarship has focused on faculty development in the recognition of racial essentialism in the medical literature.