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Distinguished Service Teaching Awards (DSTA)
Each fall, medical students honor selected teaching faculty from the previous academic year at the annual Distinguished Service Teaching Awards Ceremony. This annual awards ceremony is the principal mechanism for students to acknowledge school-wide the many outstanding contributions that WUSM faculty members make on behalf of medical student education.

Highlights from Medical Education Day 2009
Medical Education Day 2009 was held on Friday, May 22, 2009 in the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center. This year’s retreat was planned with WUSM medical students and the focus was on generational learning preferences and differences.

The afternoon activities for course masters and teaching faculty included: a noon plenary talk given by Dr. Amanka Emke titled “Who are these people? When generations collide in medical education”; two workshop sessions comprising the following topics:

• The Gallery Walk: an innovative presentation method
• Technology in medical education
• OSCEs – the student perspective; a roundtable discussion of what's going right and what can be improved
• Secrets of WUMSWeb
• Different methods of quizzing/assessment
• Teahing on the wards

A poster session was held in conjunction with the retreat and a reception followed the day's activities.

Dr. Emke's noon plenary talk
Medical Education Day May 22, 2009 Program and Schedule
Highlights from Medical Education Day 2008

2009 Medical Education Day
The Goldstein Leardership Awardees for 2008 and the Loeb Teaching Fellows for 2008-2009 were reconized as part of Medical Education Day 2009.

Goldstein Awardees 2008
Loeb Teaching Fellows 2008-2009

Goldstein Awards Honor Extraordinary Teachers
Leslie Kahl, MD (Internal Medicine); David Murray, MD (Anesthesiology); and Linda Pike, PhD (Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics) were named as recipients of the 2008 Samuel R. Goldstein Leadership Awards in Medical Student Education. Recognizing outstanding teaching, the annual awards are among the highest honors that School of Medicine teachers can achieve. The awards were established in 2000 by a gift from Samuel R. Goldstein, a longtime friend of the medical school, to honor excellence in teaching. The Goldstein Selection Committee, made up of Washington University School of Medicine teaching faculty, and a medical student representative from each class, review all submitted nominations. The committee then selects three awardees based on excellence in and commitment to teaching and educational innovations. Recommendations are forwarded to Larry J. Shapiro, M.D., executive vice chancellor for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine, for final approval.

2008 Record Article
2007 Record Article
List of Prior Awardees

Standardized Patient Program Information

“A person who has been coached to accurately and consistently portray the history, physical findings, personality, emotions, and behaviors of an actual patient in a particular point in their illness.”

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Highlights from Medical Education Day 2008
Medical Education Day 2008 was held on Friday, April 25, 2008 at the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center. Afternoon activities for teaching faculty included a plenary session; two workshop sessions (topics included: strategic planning progress report; education scholarship and the role of peer review; and faculty feedback); a poster presentation; and a reception following the day’s activities. Dr. Larry Shapiro, Executive Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs and Dean, provided brief remarks during the reception. The following presentations were given by Dr. Glenn Conroy, Professor of Anatomy & Anthropology; and Dr. Jane Phillips-Conroy, Professor of Anatomy & Anthropology, during the April 25 plenary session and are attached for your information.

EXAMS: WHAT ARE THEY REALLY GOOD FOR, ANYWAY? Glenn C. Conroy, PhD

Keeping It Fresh: The Challenge of An Old Subject (Anatomy), Middle Aged Professors, and Young Students Jane Phillips-Conroy, PhD

2008 Medical Education Day
Recognized at Medical Education Day 2008 were the Goldstein Leadership Awardees for 2007, and the Loeb Teaching Fellows for 2008-2009.

Click here to view the “Medical Education Day April 25, 2008” schedule.
Plans for Medical Education Day 2009 will be announced in fall 2008.

Loeb Teaching Fellows Program at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital

Three faculty receive Loeb Teaching Fellowships for 2008-09
The School of Medicine's Thomas De Fer, M.D., James Fehr III, M.D., and Mary Klingensmith, M.D., have been chosen for the 2008-09 Carol B. and Jerome T. Loeb Teaching Fellowships.

Established in 2004 by a gift from the Loebs, the fellowship program aims to advance clinical education and to honor local physicians committed to clinical excellence. The program, strengthened by a gift from the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation, enables the fellows to take time from their regular duties to teach clinical medicine to students and residents. Began Jan. 1, the fellowships and will end Dec. 31, 2009.

De Fer, Fehr and Klingensmith were chosen for their longstanding record of excellence in patient care and clinical teaching. The fellows also share plans to address new or unmet clinical teaching needs for residents and medical students. Each of the fellows submitted a proposal that focuses on incorporating clinical simulation technology into the traditional curriculum. (Read more)

Goldstein Awards Honor Extraordinary Teachers
Michael Avidan, M.D.; William Clutter, M.D.; and Stanley Misler, M.D., Ph.D., were named the winners of the 2007 Samuel R. Goldstein Leadership Awards in Medical Student Education.

Recognizing outstanding teaching, the annual awards are among the highest honors that School of Medicine teachers can achieve. The awards were established in 2000 in honor of Samuel R. Goldstein, a longtime friend of the medical school.

The selection committee, made up of faculty and a student representative from each class, review all submitted nominations. The committe then selects three awardees based on excellence in and commitment to teaching and educational innovations. It forwards its recommendations to Larry J. Shapiro, M.D., executive vice chancellor for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine, for final approval. (Read more)