Susan Frankl, MD
Lepofsky Fellow in Medical Education
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Fellowship Project:
Development of an approach for fostering teaching of primary care in community-based practices
Dr. Susan Frankl is a general internist in practice at Beth Israel Deaconess: Chestnut Hill. Dr. Frankl received a BA in biology from State University of New York at Binghamton and her MD degree from Stanford University School of Medicine in 1983. She did her post-graduate training at the University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals, and completed a Faculty Development Program in General Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 1988. Prior to joining Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, she was Medical Director of the general medicine practice of the Evans Medical Group at Boston University Medical Center and directed ambulatory medicine training for the internal medicine residency training program where she developed their first written curriculum. During her year as the Lepofsky Fellow at the Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research in 2000, she began her work on faculty development for community-based teachers. In 2001 she joined the leadership of the Primary Care Clerkship (PCC) at Harvard Medical School and in that capacity she developed an initiative to introduce the use of portfolios in medical education. Currently, she serves as Director of Faculty Development for the PCC and in that capacity runs several teaching sessions a year for the 140 faculty of that course. In 2008, Dr. Frankl joined the Harvard Academy Center for Teaching and Learning as a Faculty Consultant. There she has continued her work to create faculty development programs to support clinical teaching in outpatient settings throughout HMS. Her work in faculty development initiatives for medical educators in the outpatient setting has presented both locally and nationally. She is now working to develop peer observation of teaching programs at HMS to enhance faculty teaching in a variety of educational settings. In addition, Dr. Frankl serves as Director of Medical Education for the Affiliated Physicians Group of BIDMC where she coordinates the teaching activities of approximately 50 physicians. As a primary care physician, Dr. Frankl continues to teach medical students in her office. Her other projects include work on innovations in teaching clinical medicine through integrated and longitudinal experiences for students.
