Eighteen Yale School of Medicine (YSM) faculty have been selected for the second cohort of coaches for the school’s Longitudinal Coaching Program. The Program is one of the action items in the 2022 YSM Strategic Plan for Medical Education, designed to increase student engagement in meaningful and innovative opportunities to learn and monitor their own progress toward attaining competency.
Students in the MD Class of 2027 were the first to be assigned a longitudinal coach, who will work with them throughout their undergraduate medical education training. There are 18 coaches in the first coach cohort; the addition of the new cohort brings the total number of coaches to a steady state of 36. The two coach cohorts will alternate picking up a new group of first-year MD students every year going forward.
The newly-announced second coach cohort will be assigned to students in the MD class that matriculates this August. Each coach will be paired with five to six students, and will support their students’ professional development and review individual progress in meeting the milestones toward attaining YSM’s nine MD Program competencies.
Each coach is assigned to one of the six new YSM colleges, along with the students they coach. YSM’s six academic advisors, who also serve as head of college, are each paired with six coaches; advisors and coaches share a common set of students, and all are in the same college, enhancing the students’ support network.
Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) Dana Dunne, MD, MHS, serves as director of the Longitudinal Coaching Program, supported by Longitudinal Coach Program Manager Chelsea Wallace, MEd.
The following YSM faculty have been selected for the second coaching cohort:
Shamsuddin Akhtar, MD, professor of anesthesiology and pharmacology
Sanjay Aneja, MD, assistant professor of therapeutic radiology
Yetunde Asiedu, MD, assistant professor of medicine (general medicine)
John Chang, MD, associate professor of medicine (general medicine)
Lei Chen, MD, MHS, professor of pediatrics (emergency medicine) and of emergency medicine
Robert Cowles, MD, professor of surgery (pediatrics)
Ian Ferguson, MD, associate professor of pediatrics (general pediatrics)
Benjamin David Gallagher, MD, assistant professor of medicine
Michael P. Goldman, MD, MHS-Med Ed, associate professor of pediatrics (emergency medicine) and emergency medicine
Yan Lee, MD, assistant professor of surgery (otolaryngology)
Tessa Madden, MD, MPH, professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences
Meredithe McNamara, MD, MS, assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics
Richard Moscarelli, MD, associate clinical professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences
Charles Odonkor, MD, MA, assistant professor of orthopaedics & rehabilitation
Joyce Oen-Hsiao, MD, associate professor of medicine (cardiovascular medicine)
Pinar Oray-Schrom, MD, assistant professor of medicine (general medicine)
Sirisha Sanamandra, MD, assistant professor of neurology
Leslie Sude, MD, associate professor of pediatrics
The longitudinal coach selection committee included: Ben Cherry, MD, assistant professor of medicine (general medicine); Ferenc Czeyda-Pommersheim, MD, assistant professor of radiology and biomedical imaging; Dana Dunne, MD, MS, associate professor of medicine (infectious diseases); director, Longitudinal Coaching Program; Howard Forman, MD, MBA, professor of radiology and biomedical imaging, in the Institute for Social and Policy Studies, of economics, of management and of public health (health policy); Karen Jubanyik, MD, associate professor of emergency medicine; Susan Kashaf, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine (general medicine); Caroline Nelson, MD, assistant professor of dermatology; Jaideep Talwalkar, MD, associate professor of internal medicine (general medicine); assistant dean for education, medical education; Chelsea Wallace, MEd, Longitudinal Coach Program manager; Thilan Wijesekera, MD, MHS, assistant professor; and Barry Wu, MD, professor of medicine
Note: On September 25, 2024, Yale School of Medicine announced that going forward, advisory colleges would be called advisory houses.
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- Shamsuddin Akhtar, MD
- Sanjay Aneja, MD
- Yetunde Asiedu, MD
- John Chang, MD
- Lei Chen, MD, MHS, BS
- Robert Cowles, MD
- Dana Dunne, MD, MHS, FACP, FIDSA
- Ian Ferguson, MD
- Benjamin David Gallagher, MD, FACP, AHSCP-CHS
- Michael P. Goldman, MD, MHS-Med Ed
- Yan Lee, MD
- Tessa Madden, MD, MPH
- Meredithe McNamara, MD, MS, FAAP
- Richard Moscarelli, MD
- Charles Odonkor, MD, MA
- Joyce Oen-Hsiao, MD, FACC
- Pinar Oray-Schrom, MD, CPE, FACP, FAAP
- Sirisha Sanamandra, MD
- Leslie Sude, MD
- Chelsea Wallace, MEd