Rabkin Fellowship
The Shapiro Institute for Education and Research
is pleased to announce the
2010-2011 Rabkin Fellows in Medical Education
Peter Clardy, MD
Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Lauren Fisher, DO
Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Katherine Johnston, MD, MA, MSc
General Internal Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
T. David O'Halloran, MB, BCh, BAO
Cardiology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Diane Stafford, MD
Endocrinology
Children's Hospital Boston
Corrie Yablon, MD
Radiology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
The Rabkin Fellowship in Medical Education was established in 1998 to provide faculty with an opportunity to develop the expertise and skills needed to launch or advance academic careers in medical education and/or academic administration. The Rabkin Fellowship is open to all faculty with a primary appointment at Harvard Medical School and who currently teach at a Harvard-affiliated institution. The goals of the fellowship are to:
- Help faculty develop and further enhance their skills as medical educators,
- Provide faculty with an opportunity to conduct scholarly research or an educational project in an area of interest and importance in medical education,
- Support the fellows as educational leaders and change agents within the academic medical center, and;
- Create a community of clinician-educators who continuously strive to improve and enrich the field of medical education.
Rabkin Fellows are required to undertake an analytic study, research, or an educational project focusing on an important issue in medical education. Fellows select a mentor to help guide their work in developing this project. The fellows provide additional support and peer review for each others' projects over the course of the year. Rabkin Fellows present the results of their projects in a written report as well as orally at a concluding symposium.
Fifty-nine fellows have graduated the Rabkin Fellowship Program to date including mid-career and junior faculty, representing thirteen departments and divisions from seven Harvard-affiliated hospitals. The Mount Auburn Fellowship in Medical Education was established in 1999 and follows the same curricular structure as the Rabkin Fellowship. In 2004 a modified version of the Fellowship was initiated for fellows of the Academy at Harvard Medical School.
The Fellows have welcomed the opportunity to grapple with medical education topics not typically considered in their usual roles within the academic medical center. Our aim is to have current and former Fellows feel part of a "learning and teaching community" which is committed to the goals of better teaching. The Fellowship provides an experiential learning laboratory in which the Fellows can implement the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed for organizational change and leadership with peer and faculty feedback and support. Many graduates of the program have subsequently led significant curricular and programmatic changes at their respective affiliated institutions. Moreover, a number of graduates have assumed educational leadership positions at the local, regional and national levels.
C. Christopher Smith, MD and Lori Newman, MEd
Co-Directors, Rabkin Fellowship in Medical Education
