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2008 Medical Education Day
This year's Medical Education Day is scheduled for Friday, April 25, from noon to 5:30 pm at the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center. Afternoon activities for teaching faculty include a plenary session in Holden Auditorium from noon to 1:30 p.m.; two workshop sessions from 1:30 to 4:00 (topics include: strategic planning progress report; education scholarship and the role of peer review; writing multiple choice test questions; and faculty feedback); a poster presentation; and a reception at 4:15 p.m. in the FLTC Second Floor Living Room Hearth. Dr. Larry Shapiro, Executive Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs and Dean, will give remarks at 4:30 p.m.

The 2007 Goldstein Leadership Awardees, and 2008-2009 Loeb Teaching Fellows also will be recognized at the event.

Click here for a complete schedule regarding Medical Education Day.

Click here to register for the event; or email Celeste Witzel at witzelc@msnotes.wustl.edu; or telephone 362-7800, by April 22.

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)

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.

The date of the event is announced school-wide and all faculty, medical students, and medical school administration are invited and encouraged to attend.

2007 DSTA Awardees