Five HMS faculty members have been awarded the Harvard Medical School Academy Fellowship in Medical Education for the 2012-13 academic year. This endowed, competitive program is designed to develop and enhance the analytical and teaching skills of medical education researchers and educators.
Each fellow proposed a project to be completed during the fellowship year, and proposals were judged by their potential to enrich the education of Harvard medical students through curriculum innovation, outcomes assessment, faculty development or enrichment opportunities. At the end of the fellowship year, fellows will present their work at HMS Medical Education Day.
“We were thrilled with the large number and high quality of faculty who applied, the projects they proposed, and the mentors committed to helping them succeed,” said Edward Hundert, director of the Academy Fellowship.
Fellows will meet twice monthly for seminar discussions related to curriculum development, educational research and program assessment, the application of adult learning theories, and skills for lecturing and small group teaching. Fellowship graduates have led significant curricular and programmatic changes and have served as education leaders in the HMS community and around the world.
“Each of the fellows’ projects has the potential to make a real impact on the continuous improvement of teaching and learning at HMS and our affiliated hospitals,” said Hundert, the director of the HMS Academy Center for Teaching and Learning and a senior lecturer in medical ethics in the HMS Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. “I’m excited to welcome next year’s fellows as colleagues and look forward to working with them both individually and collectively.”
Academy Fellowships are made possible through generous contributions to the Morgan-Zinsser, Curtis Prout, and Susan and James Jackson Academy Fellowship Funds.
2012-2013 Academy Fellows in Medical Education
Curtis Prout Fellows of the Academy
Kristen Schaefer, M.D.
Instructor in Medicine, Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Project: Integrating Competencies for the Care of Patients with Serious Illness into Existing Required Medical Student Curricula
Mentor: Susan Block, HMS Professor of Psychiatry, Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Pamela Vohra-Khullar, M.D.
Instructor in Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Project: Developing a Medical Student Curriculum on Chronic Disease Management
Mentor: Sara Fazio, HMS Associate Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Patrick Lee, M.D.
Instructor in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Project: Longitudinal mixed methods evaluation of the MGH Global Primary Care Curriculum
Mentor: Valerie Stone, HMS Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Morgan-Zinsser Fellows of the Academy
Katharyn Meredith Atkins, M.D.
Instructor in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Project: The development of a peer observation of teaching instrument for use in improving teaching of medical students in clinical clerkships
Mentor: Susan Frankl, HMS Assistant Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Tracey Cho, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Project: A neuropathology case series web-based curriculum to enhance clinical localization and neurological differential diagnosis skills among preclinical and clinical medical students
Mentor: Matthew Frosch, Lawrence J. Henderson Associate Professor of Pathology and Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts General Hospital
