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PROMOTIONS
Professor:
(Click on a Professor's name to view a brief bio)
Jerome Avorn, MD
David Kwiatkowski,
MD, PhD
Mohamed Sayegh, MD
NEW FACULTY APPOINTMENTS
Instructor:
Savita Bagga, PhD
Jatin Dave, MD
Wael Elshamy, PhD
Janice LaPlante, PhD
Graham McMahon,
MD, MBBCH
Gregory McMahon, PhD
Lida Nabati, MD
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Kathy Rexrode, MD
New Program Director for the HCHP/Primary Care Residency
Nicole Pelton
New LMR Physician Resource Trainer
Sid Atwood
New Director of
Research Computing
for DSMHI
Grant Opportunity
Deadline is
March 1, 2005
Click here to view the RFA & Application Instructions
2005 Ellison Medical Foundation's
New Scholars Program
Deadline is March 2, 2005
Click here for more details.
Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics
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PHOTO GALLERY
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MARK YOUR CALENDERS!
UPCOMING EVENTS:
January 25, 2005
5:00 pm, Bornstein
8th Annual BWH Research Celebration
"The Future of Research at BWH: Introducing the BWH Biomedical Research Institute"
Followed by reception to honor researchers for their years of service.
February 4, 2005
Noon, Bornstein
Medical Grand Rounds
Lawrence Summers, PhD
President, Harvard University
"Lectureship in
Global Health"
Followed by reception in honor of Dr. Summers.
February 11, 2005
Noon, Bornstein
2005 Education Celebration
Christine Cassel, MD
President/CEO, American Board of Internal Medicine
February 25, 2005
Noon, Bornstein
Medical Grand Rounds
Inaugural Fish Visiting Scholar in Medical Education
Morton Swartz, MD
Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
March 18-19, 2005
Physician-in-Chief Pro Tempore Event
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD
President/CEO,
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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Medical Grand Rounds
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Minority Career Development Award: A Chance to Launch a Lifetime
 
Ask anyone who has spent any time in Boston and they will tell you that people here come and go. Thousands arrive each year for academic training, then move on: to pursue a career, more schooling, or move closer to loved ones. Many dream of staying longer. For Fidencio Saldana, MD and Thomas Sequist, MD, recipients of the 2004 Brigham and Women’s Hospital Minority Faculty Career Development Award (MCDA), this dream has come true. At least for the next seven years.
“The Brigham and Women’s Hospital is blessed with some of the finest minority residents and fellows in the country,” says Robert Handin, MD, Executive Vice-Chair of the Department of Medicine, who oversees this program for the hospital. “The goal of this program is to foster their academic careers and allow them to remain in Boston and the Brigham.” Funded by donations from the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, academic departments and the Hatch Foundation, the award is designated to select talented under-represented minority physician-trainees early in their careers to help them to develop the skills needed to obtain a faculty position at Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Read More... |
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Clinical and Education Planning Taskforce: Changing the Face of Housestaff Coverage
On November 8, 2004, we reported on the vital move to decrease resident work hours to improve patient care decisions. But how do we maintain quality patient care while reducing resident hours? This is the issue that the Clinical and Educational Planning Taskforce (CEPT) is working to resolve. Read More...
Demystifying the Match:
Resident Recruitment in the
Department ofMedicine
 Recruitment and the Match. The two go hand in hand, with the Match being the culmination of the recruitment process. It is a 7-month long journey that involves approximately 30,000 applicants vying for nearly 24,000 positions at one of the 3700 residency training programs in the United States. It stretches from August, when applicants register with the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP), until March, when training programs find out which applicants will make up their next class of residents. What happens in between is often a hectic and stressful, yet rewarding, process.
The NRMP is a private, non-profit corporation that administers the Match through its website (www.nrmp.org). The NRMP provides a central, impartial arena within which applicants and training programs (that must also register) are matched together based upon applicants’ preferences for programs as well as programs’ preferences for applicants. Read More... |
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The Support for Excellence in Educational Development Grant: Empowering Innovative Medical Education |
Pursuing a career as an innovator or researcher in medical education is no small feat. The NIH does not offer extramural funding for innovation in medical education, making it difficult for anyone to find the support they need to jumpstart a career in this field. Recognizing the need to nurture medical education, the Department of Medicine Education Council at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital established the Support for Excellence in Education Development (SEED) Grants, for those interested in exploring innovations in medical education. These one-year grants sponsor sustainable, education-based projects and generate the necessary preliminary data to allow an investigation to compete for extramural funding. Here we take a brief look at two of this year’s SEED grants. .
 Ming Hui Chen, MD.
Dr. Chen has a long-standing commitment as a clinical educator during her twenty years at the Harvard Medical School teaching hospitals. She serves as the Associate Director of the Non-Invasive Cardiac Laboratory at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and credits having worked with so many outstanding medical educators and fellows in the Department for her continued interest in novel ways to impact medical education. With her interest in integrating technology to medical education, she wanted to develop a tool for fellow self-study that would supplement the written echocardiography curriculum for first year fellows. Dr. Cooper, who was a cardiology fellow at the time, suggested that she should take it further. His background in video-editing and digital imaging allowed him to envision “a web-based curriculum used not only by the Brigham but by fellows, cardiologists and anyone interested in cardiac-imaging abroad.” Further equipped with Dr. Come’s clinical and educational expertise, this highly collaborative team created a prototype for Echoquest. As they explore new avenues to expand Echoquest to a larger audience, they praise the guidance from the Department of Medicine Education Council.
 Graham McMahon, MD
A graduate of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dr. McMahon notes, “Physical examination proficiency is highly valued in Ireland and is recognized as a central aspect of being a physician,” he says. “While here, though physical examination is considered important, its performance is much less frequent.” Always a keen observer of medical educators, he has sought to play an active role in medical education reform since medical school. Dr. McMahon particularly credits Robert Dluhy, MD, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, for his mentorship and encouragement as he pursued his interest and postgraduate degree in medical education research. He continues to pursue his clinical research interests in diabetology and will graduate from the Scholars in Clinical Science Program in June.
The SEED grant has helped Dr. McMahon begin a bright future in medical education research. In 2004 he was appointed to the National Board of Medical Examiners and now works on educational development projects with the New England Journal of Medicine, the Harvard Macy Program in Medical Education, and the curricular reform group at the Harvard Medical School. In December 2004, he presented this SEED project in the medical education/health policy section of the American Medical Association’s annual meeting and was awarded first prize for research. Dr. Levy comments on behalf of the Department and Education Council that they are “extremely pleased and gratified to learn that this project has been recognized by Dr. McMahon’s peers for his substantial contribution to the teaching and education of medical students and interns.”
**The next SEED Request for Applications will be posted Spring 2005. Click here to view the 2003/2004 RFA.**
The complete list of 2004/2005 Support for Education Development Grants Awardees are:
Ming Hui Chen (PI), Patricia Come and Marcus Cooper:
“Echoquest: An Interactive Web-Based Teaching Tool for Non-Invasive Imaging.”
Heather Gornik (PI), Marie Gerhard-Herman, Joshua Beckman, Mark Creager and Jeanne Doyle:
“An Initiative to Increase Awareness of Peripheral Arterial Disease Among
Medical Trainees and Practicing Internists.”
Aaron Kesselheim (PI), Mark Friedberg:
“Establishing a Permanent Medico-Legal and Health Policy Education
Curriculum for Department of Medicine Residents.”
Melissa Lee (PI):
“Reaching out to Teens: Introducing Internal Medicine Residents to Their Communities
Through the Development of a Preventive Medicine and Public Health Curriculum for Adolescents.”
Graham McMahon (PI), Joel Katz and Patricia Kritek:
“An innovative program to develop physical diagnosis teaching by residents:
Can education change behavior?”
Alexandra Molnar (PI):
“Constructing a Comprehensive Community Medicine Curriculum for Division of
General Internal Medicine Primary Care Residents.”
Peter Reese (PI), Sylvia McKean:
“The Social History Curriculum for Medical Students: Putting Illness in Context.”
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