Bio

Dr. Jessica Buesing is a board-certified internal medicine physician dedicated to providing empathic, honest, and compassionate patient care. Before joining Menlo Medical, she cared for veterans as a hospitalist at the Palo Alto VA. Prior to that, she completed her internal medicine residency and chief resident year at Stanford.

Her professional interests include improving health span and quality of life, chronic disease prevention and management, obesity medicine, lipid management and cardiovascular risk reduction, comprehensive cancer survivorship care, mental health support, women’s health, and addiction treatment. She is committed to personalized medicine and emphasizes shared decision-making, recognizing that effective healthcare must be tailored to each patient’s unique circumstances. Outside of work she enjoys exercise (especially Barry’s Bootcamp!), playing piano and singing, camping, travel, and spending time with her husband, two children, and cats.

Clinical Focus

  • Internal Medicine
  • Primary Care

Honors & Awards

  • Chair of Medicine Award, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (2018)
  • Glasgow-Rubin Achievement Award, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (2018)
  • Alpha Omega Alpha, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society (2017)
  • Donald M. Palatucci Award, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (2017)
  • Greg Grove Memorial Award, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (2016)
  • Excellence in Teaching, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (2015)

Professional Education

  • Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine (2021)
  • Residency: Stanford University Internal Medicine Residency (2022) CA
  • Chief Resident, Stanford University, Internal Medicine (2022)
  • Medical Education: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (2018) NY
  • B.A., Williams College, Music, Psychology (2009)

Contact

  • Clinical (Primary)  Menlo Medical Clinic 1300 Crane St Menlo Park, CA 94025 (650) 322-0966 (fax)

Additional Clinical Info

All Publications

  • Handheld Ultrasound Device Usage and Image Acquisition Ability Among Internal Medicine Trainees: A Randomized Trial. Journal of graduate medical education Buesing, J., Weng, Y., Kugler, J., Wang, L., Blaha, O., Hom, J., Ahuja, N., Kumar, A. 2021; 13 (1): 76-82

    Abstract

    BACKGROUND: There is insufficient knowledge about how personal access to handheld ultrasound devices (HUDs) improves trainee learning with point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS).OBJECTIVE: To assess whether HUDs, alongside a yearlong lecture series, improved trainee POCUS usage and ability to acquire images.METHODS: Internal medicine intern physicians (n = 47) at a single institution from 2017 to 2018 were randomized 1:1 to receive personal HUDs (n = 24) for patient care/self-directed learning vs no-HUDs (n = 23). All interns received a repeated lecture series on cardiac, thoracic, and abdominal POCUS. Main outcome measures included self-reported HUD usage rates and post-intervention assessment scores using the Rapid Assessment of Competency in Echocardiography (RACE) scale between HUD and no-HUD groups.RESULTS: HUD interns reported performing POCUS assessments on patients a mean 6.8 (SD 2.2) times per week vs 6.4 (SD 2.9) times per week in non-HUD arm (P = .66). There was no relationship between the number of self-reported examinations per week and a trainee's post-intervention RACE score (rho = 0.022, P = .95). HUD interns did not have significantly higher post-intervention RACE scores (median HUD score 17.0 vs no-HUD score 17.8; P = .72). Trainee confidence with cardiac POCUS did not correlate with RACE scores.CONCLUSIONS: Personal HUDs without direct supervision did not increase the amount of POCUS usage or improve interns' acquisition abilities. Interns who reported performing more examinations per week did not have higher RACE scores. Improved HUD access and lectures without additional feedback may not improve POCUS mastery.

    View details for DOI 10.4300/JGME-D-20-00355.1

    View details for PubMedID 33680304