Catch up on awards and appointments, initiatives and opportunities, and other education-related announcements below.
Dr. Abbas Hyderi Visit
Dr. Abbas Hyderi, MD, MPH, Founding Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education and Professor of Clinical Science at Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine will be on campus Monday, September 23 and Tuesday, September 24, 2019 to discuss Entrustable Professional Activity (EPA) in medical education. Space is limited. View flyer, then click here to RSVP.
The Academy of Educators is Pleased to Announce a New Faculty Development Program, Foundations in Teaching Skills (FITS) (Links to an external site)
The Foundations in Teaching Skills (FITS) is a certificate program for junior educators and faculty who are newly incorporating teaching excellence into their careers.
Curriculum Renewal Update (Links to an external site)
In this edition we will discuss in more detail the work of the recently initiated curricular design teams.
Office of Education Instructional Design Studio
Construction is nearly complete on the Washington University School of Medicine Instructional Design Studio, located on the lower level of Becker Library. The seven-hundred square foot space includes a sound-proof video-recording studio which supports filming using lightboard and greenscreen technologies. It also houses a recording booth for supported or independent screencast recording, along with a […]
Dr. Jennifer Duncan Named Director of Wellness for Graduate Medical Education
Dr. Duncan will begin her new role as of October 1, 2019. Dr. Duncan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and is the Program Director for the Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago School of Medicine and Pediatric residency and completed her fellowship in […]
Eva’s Excerpt August 2019
To Be of Use by Marge Piercy The people I love the best jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight. They seem to become natives of that element, the black sleek heads of seals bouncing like half-submerged balls. I love people who […]
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