ACCOLADES
Medical Education Research Grants awarded
The Academy of Distinguished Medical Educators, the Graduate Medical Education Executive Committee and the University of Chicago Medical Center have selected several recipients for the 2007 Medical Education Research Grants.
These grants are part of an ongoing series of initiatives to foster research, innovation and scholarship in medical education and to promote and sustain a strong culture of teaching in the Biological Sciences Division. Principal investigators (PI) received matching funds from their home departments for a total of $25,000 for up to two years of funding. In addition to the proposals outlined below, all of the 2006 grantees also received funding for a second year. The recipients are:
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Easing the Transition to Internship Training: The Creation of a Capstone Curriculum
Investigators: Jeanne Farnan, MD (PI), Shalini Reddy, MD, H. Barrett Fromme, MD, departments of Medicine and Pediatrics
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Community-Based Preceptor Training to Improve Feedback for Medical Students in the Family Medicine, Pediatric and Medicine Clerkships
Investigators: Sarah-Anne Schumann, MD (PI), Lisa Vargish, MD, Rita Gorwara-Bhat, PhD, Michael D. Mendoza, MD, MPH, Don Scott, MD, MHS, Sandy Smith, PhD, departments of Family Medicine and Medicine
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Improving the Teaching of Professionalism in Surgery
Investigator: Peter Angelos, MD (PI), Department of Surgery
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A Model Curriculum to Improve Resident Feedback and Professionalism Using Immersive Simulation
Investigators: Elizabeth Blair, MD (PI), Jay Pinto, MD, Stephen Small, MD, PhD, departments of Surgery and Anesthesia and Critical Care
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