Catch up on awards and appointments, initiatives and opportunities, and other education-related announcements below.
Duncan, Sadhu named Loeb Teaching Fellows (Links to an external site)
Focuses will be on pediatric curriculum, EKG training
Eva’s Excerpt June 2019
While there are a number of issues, events and priorities that I could and should talk about this month, I am going to stay focused on one—the recent Missouri legislation that will curtail women’s access to comprehensive reproductive health care. Abortion and a woman’s right to choose are divisive and often deeply held beliefs that […]
Update on the Curriculum Renewal Process
As described in the prior edition of EdUpdate, the Curriculum Architecture Consensus Team has been working intensely over the last 6 months to develop the large-scale framework for the new Gateway Curriculum. This was accomplished by taking the ideas and concepts built by the original architecture teams and incorporating the massive and helpful feedback obtained […]
Washington University commits $100 million to MD scholarships, education (Links to an external site)
Investment provides free or reduced tuition to majority of incoming students
New Director of Assessment: Dr. Amanda Emke
Dr. Amanda Emke from the Department of Pediatrics will join the Office of Medical Student Education as the Director of Assessment beginning Monday, July 1, 2019. Dr. Emke came to us from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine for her pediatrics residency in 2002 and she additionally completed a fellowship in pediatric critical care. […]
Instructional Design Studio and Videographer
Matt Rice has joined the Office of Education as our first-ever, full-time Videographer. He has a B.A. in Film and Television Production from Loyola Marymount University and he has worked as a freelance videographer since 2013. Examples of Matt’s work are linked here. In 2013, Matt was also a post-production intern for Ken Burns’ documentary, […]
Hold the Date: CIPE Workshop
The Center for Interprofessional Education will hold a workshop on Tuesday, May 14, from 4-6 pm titled “Applying Trauma Informed Principles When Working Within Health Care Teams.” This will be a practical workshop to build tools that can be applied within your practice. This is a follow-up to the December 2018 Trauma Informed Care workshop […]
Wong to Receive 2019 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Award
Alex Wong, PhD, DPhil, BSOT, will receive the 2019 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) Deborah L. Wilkerson Early Career Award supported by CARF International. This award is for individuals whose careers reflect an energetic promotion of the spirit of interdisciplinary rehabilitation. Wong will receive the award at the 96th Annual ACRM Conference in Chicago […]
Edelson, White, Yau receive Goldstein awards (Links to an external site)
Honor recognizes outstanding teaching, commitment to medical education
University diversity team works to align ‘our values and our reality’ (Links to an external site)
Leaders to speak at Day of Discovery, Dialogue & Action