Upcoming Events

John Encandela, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, has been named executive director of Yale School of Medicine's Teaching and Learning Center (TLC).

Medical Education Discussion Group on September 8.

Meet the new Medical Education Fellows and MHS-Med Ed class

Yale’s medical education community celebrated the 10th anniversary of Medical Education Day at Yale (Med Ed Day) on June 9, 2022.

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Medical Education Day at Yale 2022 will be held virtually on Thursday, June 9 from noon to 5:45 p.m.

14 YSM faculty complete Medical Education Fellowship.

“It is a universal feeling—realizing your students do not understand the lesson you spent hours preparing. As former middle school science teachers and current medical students, we have experienced this frustration from both sides.” This is how fourth-year Yale School of Medicine (YSM) MD student Marina Gaeta Gazzola and second-year MD student Madisen Swallow begin their perspective piece, Middle school meets MedEd: Five K-12 teaching strategies medical educators should know, recently published in the journal Medical Teacher. Thilan Wijesekera, MD, MHS, assistant professor and Teaching and Learning Center associate for clinical reasoning educator development, also contributed to the article.

Med Ed Day and Med Ed Discussion Group spring events.

As the recently updated TLC SP Program webpage explains, “Our new name is an accurate expression of the varied roles our SPs are trained to portray, as well as our commitment to serve the diverse needs of our clients and to advance research in education and training using human simulation pedagogy.”