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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.”

Yale School of Medicine (YSM) Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Dowin Boatright, MD, MBA, MHS, took on an additional role on July 1, 2021— YSM Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) faculty associate for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) educator development.

“How can we uphold and help the Yale System be strong and move forward into the next decade?” Yale School of Medicine (YSM) Deputy Dean for Education, Jessica Illuzzi, MD, MS, professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, asked this question during her keynote remarks at the ninth annual Medical Education Day at Yale (Med Ed Day).

Mollie Freedman-Weiss, MD, a resident in the Department of Surgery, was the First Place Podium Prize Winner at the 2020 Virtual New England Surgical Society (NESS) conference.

TLC invites you to read its newly-released report, which provides an overview of the Center from its founding in 2012 through 2019.

Viji Kurup, MD, professor of anesthesiology, receives the 2020 Distinguished Educator in Anesthesiology Award from the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) and the Society for Education in Anesthesia (SEA).