Laurie Fishman, MD
Rabkin Fellow in Medical Education
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Fellowship Project:
Accelerating visual pattern recognition in medical diagnosis
Dr. Laurie N. Fishman is an attending in the Division of Gastroenterology at Children's Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She completed her undergraduate education at Yale University, and then received her MD from New York University in 1989. During her preclinical years she chaired the Curriculum Committee. She completed a pediatric residency at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, then a pediatric gastroenterology fellowship at Children's Hospital in Boston. She has been on staff there since 1995. She precepts fellows and residents in the outpatient gastroenterology clinics and on the wards. Dr. Fishman has served as tutor in the gastroenterology section of the Pathophysiology Course for many years and actively works to improve the teaching skills of new tutors. She participated in two “Experienced Tutor Retreats” for which she wrote two case studies for small group discussion. In addition, she developed a new three-day course for the GI fellowship orientation that was well received. Dr. Fishman lectures both locally and nationally on gastroenterology topics of interest to primary care physicians. She also serves on two national committees regarding education and training for the field of Pediatrics. As a Rabkin fellow, Dr. Fishman explored the process of visual pattern recognition. She explored whether the presentation of multiple images during lectures to novices accelerated the process of diagnostic pattern recognition, and will continue to explore various aspects of the presentation of images.
