Tara M. Petroski
Tara M. Petroski
Clinical Assistant Professor
Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
Specialty/Research Focus
Pediatric Emergency Medicine - Pediatrics
Contact Information
Patient Care
Patient Care
This faculty member is affiliated with UBMD, practicing physicians who are also professors in the Jacobs School.
View this physician on UBMDEducation and Training:
- Fellowship, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship, Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo/University of Buffalo (2014)
- Residency, Chief Resident - Pediatrics, State University of New York at Buffalo Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo (2010)
- Residency, Residency - Pediatrics, State University of New York at Buffalo Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo (2009)
- MD, Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo (2006)
- MA, Communicative Disorders and Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo (1998)
- BA, Communicative Disorders and Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo (1996)
Employment:
- Assistant Director of MS3 Pediatric Clerkship, Pediatrics, University of Buffalo School of Medicine (2024-present)
- Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine), University of Buffalo
Service Activities:
- Signed up when available to help interview resident applicants; Residency Interviews (2025)
- Interviewed Fellow applicants; Fellowship Interviews (2025)
- Interviewed 4th year medical students applying to pediatrics, wrote the interview section of Chair Letter, will occur annually every August and Sept; Interview 4th year medical students for Chair letters (2025–present)
- Meetings with Fellowship Director, Residency Director/Assistant Director, Med/Peds PD, Vice chair of Education, and Pediatric Chief to discuss education in Pediatrics, meet once monthly; Educational Committee Meetings (2025–present)
- Clerkship director for medical students rotating through pediatrics; Phase II Clerkship Director for Pediatrics (2025–present)
- Help interview students who need LOR, schedule lectures for each block for medical students, re-wrote introduction/curriculum document information for the students, re-wrote the scoring rubric for case write-ups; MS3 Clerkship assistant director (2024–2025)
- PHASE II monthly meetings, 1.5 hours each on average; participant (2024–present)
- ; Small group weekly meetings to discuss the MS3 clerkship and continue to mold it to meet educational needs of the students. 30-40 minute meetings every wednesday. (2023–present)