Catch up on awards and appointments, initiatives and opportunities, and other education-related announcements below.
Loeb Teaching Fellowship Call for Applications Open
The Carol B. and Jerome T. Loeb Teaching Fellows program provides fellows the opportunity to implement ideas that augment the education of medical students and residents. The voluntary clinical faculty of Barnes-Jewish Hospital and the clinical and/or investigator-track faculty at Washington University School of Medicine are eligible to apply. Initiated in 2004 with a gift […]
Eva’s Excerpt February 2020
We are quickly approaching the launch of the Gateway Curriculum. As we do so, I want to bring our attention back to some of the critical supporting infrastructure that is foundational to our current and future success as one of the best medical schools in the country.
Visiting Professor, Dr. Donna Windish Coming February 27-28, 2020
Dr. Donna Windish will join us from Yale University for faculty development in education research and scholarship on Thursday, February 27 and Friday, February 28, 2020. Dr. Windish completed her BA at Cornell, MD at the University of Connecticut, and MPH at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. At Yale, Dr. Windish is […]
Curriculum Renewal Update: Community Engagement (Links to an external site)
Eva’s Excerpt January 2020
On January 20th, we recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Although advocacy for the creation of Martin Luther King Day began shortly after his assassination in 1968, it was not until 1983 when Ronald Reagan signed it into law as an official holiday. Moreover, it was not until 2000 when all 50 states recognized it […]
Curriculum Renewal Update (Links to an external site)
The Gateway Curriculum design team has entered into the building stage for Phase I content.
Dr. Nichole Zehnder Appointed Inaugural Associate Dean for Educational Strategy
With the support of Deans Ratts, Moscoso and DeFer, and based on the overwhelmingly positive response from those faculty and staff who met with her, I am pleased to announce that Nichole Zehnder, MD will join our ranks as an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Associate Dean for Educational Strategy, beginning […]
Two School of Medicine students named to Forbes’ ‘30 Under 30’ lists (Links to an external site)
Erica Barnell, Derek Platt recognized for accomplishments in health care, science
We are the academy (Links to an external site)
Teaching support, resources ramp up in advance of curriculum renewal
Transforming capabilities (Links to an external site)
New Instructional Design Studio customizes content to meet the needs of today’s students