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MSH-Med Ed Degree: Alumni

The first cohort of MHS Medical Education Pathway Degree students graduated in December 2018. An alphabetical alumni list, with their graduation date, thesis title and link to their Yale profile can be found below.

Samantha Ahle, MD, MHS

Graduation Date: December 2018

Thesis Title: Understanding Resident Performance: An Exploration of Entrustment and Assessment

Lilanthi Balasuriya, MD, MMS, MHS

Graduation Date: May 2021

Thesis Title: Teaching Psychiatry Residents to Understand and Respond to Oppression Through the Development of The Human Experience Track

Aba Black, MD, MHS

Graduation Date: May 2019

Thesis Title: Hidden Costs: Understanding the Workplace Experiences of Underrepresented Minority Residents

Bryan Brown, MD, MHS

Graduation Date: May 2021

Thesis Title: Animation as an Educational Modality in the Health Professions: Towards Best Practices of Development and Implementation

Scott Casper, MD, MHS

Graduation Date: May 2020

Thesis Title: Training Emergency Department Residents in the Management of Postpartum Hemorrhage: A Comparison of Two Pedagogical Approaches

Heather Dahlquist, MD, MHS

Graduation Date: May 2021

Thesis Title: Ready for Residency? Effect of an EPA-Based Curriculum on Pediatric Sub-Intern Entrustment Scores


Jeffrey Dewey, MD, MHS

Graduation Date: May 2020

Thesis Title: Characterizing the Thriving Neurology Resident Through Appreciative Inquiry

Dana Dunne, MD, MHS

Graduation Date: May 2020

Thesis Title: Faculty Development for Undergraduate Core EPAs: Effect of Brief Video Intervention for Front Line Faculty and Reliability Analysis of WBA

Joseph Dunroe

Graduation Date May 2022

Thesis Title: Assessing Internist Competency in Point of Care Ultrasound Using the Entrustable Professional Activity Framework

Andrew Esposito

Graduation Date May 2022

Thesis Title: Preconceptions and Barriers to Realizing the Full Utility of Video-Based Coaching in Surgical Education

Mollie Freedman-Weiss, MD, MHS

Graduation Date: December 2020

Thesis Title: Surgery Residents as Educators: Curriculum Design, Implementation, and Assessment in a General Surgery Residency Program

Katie Gielissen, MD, MHS

Graduation Date: December 2018

Thesis Title: Can Communication be Simulated? The Use of Two High-Fidelity Simulation Scenarios to Assess Undergraduate Entrustable Professional Activities

Hayley Israel

Graduation Date: May 2022

Thesis Title: Development and Validation of a Tool Based on Entrustable Professional Activities for Point-of-Care Ultrasound Competence Assessments of Critical Care Fellows

Tanya Murtha, MD, MHS

Graduation Date: May 2020

Thesis Title: Resilience Curriculum Improves Pediatric Trainee Skills in Delivery of Difficult News

Kevin Pei, MD, MHS

Graduation Date: May 2019

Thesis Title: Workplace Bullying Among US Surgeons

Uma Phatak, MD, MHS

Graduation Date: May 2021

Thesis Title: Assessment of Feedback Culture Experienced by Trainees in the Department of Pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine

Julie Reardon, MD, MHS

Graduation Date: May 2021

Thesis Title: Reflect and Reorient: Design and Acceptability of a Mental and Behavioral Health Curriculum for Pediatric Subspecialty Trainees

Sara Schaeffer, MD, MHS

Graduation Date: May 2019

Thesis Title: Design and Implementation of an Online Curriculum in Movement Disorders for Neurology Housestaff

Thilan Wijesekera, MD, MHS

Graduation Date: December 2018

Thesis Title: Collaboration and Evaluation: A Study of the Diagnostic Process of Physicians

Erin White-Pallett, MD, MBS, MHS

Graduation Date: May 2021

Thesis Title: Informed Consent as an Entrustable Professional Activity: Attending Factors that Affect Entrustment and Clinical Teaching for Surgical Trainees

Yihan Yang

Graduation Date: May 2022

Thesis Title: Structure and impact of longitudinal curricula designed to prepare future clinician-educators during graduate medical education