Educator Community News

On October 8th, Heather Davidson, PhD, will be representing Vanderbilt at the Interprofessional Education Design Forum: Bridging Education and Practice at The American Institute of Architects Headquarters in Washington, DC.

Dr. Joseph Gigante was invited to present at the 2014 Regional Faculty and Health Care Educators Conference at Cincinnati Children's Hospital September 4th and 5th, 2014. The title of Dr. Gigante's Feedback workshop was "Tired of the Feedback Sandwich? Change your Diet with New Ways to Provide Effective and Efficient Feedback."

Charlene Dewey, MD, MEd., FACP and William Swiggart, MS, LPC/MHSP, Co-Directors for the Vanderbilt Center for Professional Health, attended the September 15 -17, 2014 AMA CMA BMA International Conference on Physician Health, sponsored by the British Medical Association, BMA House, London, UK. The theme of the conference was Milestones and Transitions – Maintaining the Balance.

 AMA Consortium Group joins 6th Annual HPERD event for Keynote Address!

Poster Session and categories: Curriculum (Design and Implementation or Evaluation Research) 1.    Integrating the Neuroscience of Addiction into Undergraduate Medical Education - Meg Benningfield, MD; Ron Cowan, MD, PhD; Charlene Dewey, MD, MEd, FACP 2.     Developing a Clinical Neuroscience Curriculum for Psychiatry Residents - Jennifer Blackford, PhD; Terako Amison, MD; Sheryl Fleisch, MD; Stephan Heckers, MD; Ronald Cowan, MD, PhD 

Scott Rodgers, MD, Associate Dean for Medical Student Affairs has announced that he will be leaving VUSM on November 30th to become chair of the Department of Psychiatry at University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, MS. 

Anupam Kumar, a fourth year VUSM student, was selected for the Southern Group on Educational Affairs  (SGEA) 2014 Outstanding Presentation Award for Undergraduate Medical Education (UME).  His demonstration, Using a Mobile Web Application to Improve Feedback after Observed Medical Student Clinical Encounter, was peer evaluated as part of the Medical Education Scholarship Award (MESA) program during the conference and was very highly rated both for his presentation skills as well as for the content and design.

Congratulations, Dr. Wayman!

The Sixth Annual Gerald S. Gotterer Health Professions Education Research Day (HPERD)! The Gerald S. Gotterer Health Professions Education Research Day will be held Monday, September 22, from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., in 208 Light Hall.

Dr. Arthur Dalley has been selected to receive the American Association of Anatomists' "Henry Gray/Elsevier Distinguished Educator Medal."  The medal is AAA's highest education award for human anatomy education in the anatomical sciences as broadly defined-including gross anatomy, embryology, histology, and neuroanatomy-at the medical/dental, graduate, or undergraduate level of teaching.