Carrie Tibbles, MD
Kay Senior Fellow in Medical Education
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Director, Graduate Medical Education, BIDMC
Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, BIDMC
Fellowship Project:
Develop a team training curriculum in the emergency department
Dr. Carrie Tibbles is an emergency physician at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School. She received her bachelor's degree in biology and psychology from Gordon College and her medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine. She completed her residency training in emergency medicine at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She then joined the department of emergency medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center where she assumed the role of the Associate Residency Director of the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency. She has been awarded an American College of Emergency Physicians National Faculty Award and was named the American College of Emergency Physicians Outstanding Speaker of the Year. Her academic interests involve resident education and women's health in the emergency department. She was recently awarded a grant from the Association of American Medical Colleges and Center for Disease Control to integrate public health curriculum in residency training and was recently appointed Associate Director of the Office of Graduate Medical Education at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
As a Rabkin Fellow, Dr. Tibbles was named the Kay Senior Fellow in Medical Education and concentrated on developing a team training curriculum for the emergency department staff. This curriculum is based on communication techniques and team skills used by high performance teams in aviation and the military to reduce performance errors.