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Call for Regent's Award for Teaching Excellence

It's time once again to nominate faculty for the Regent's Award for Faculty Excellence. This award is intended to recognize and honor sustained levels of achievement by tenured faculty members across the spectrum of faculty endeavors (teaching, scholarship, service). It provides a one-time stipend of $1,000. Nominations are submitted by the Dean based on the recommendations of the OCRME Advisory Committee. The College may submit up to 4 nominations.a variety of teaching awards.

Nomination guidelines can be found in the "Awards for Teaching and Innovation" section of our website. All nomination materials should be submitted electronically to robyn-kubanek@uiowa.edu. Nominations are due by 12:00 PM on January 31, 2012.


The picture above is the staff from the University of Tokyo's medical education office where Clarence Kreiter was on an assignment to study and work at the International Research Center for Medical Education. His collaborative research involved understanding the variance in OSCE exam scores and the meta-analytic estimation of testing effects on learning. He also presented three invited lectures and developed and presented curriculum on assessment in medical education to physicians participating in an international exchange program from Afghanistan. While in Japan, Clare also toured the devastation left behind by the March earthquake and tsunami that had so seriously damaged the coastal areas a few months before.
2012-2014 Teaching Scholars Announced

OCRME would like to welcome the new class of Teaching Scholars beginning January 2012.



Front Row:Liuska Pesce, Pediatrics; Sandra Rosenfeld-O'Tool, Family Medicine; Antoine Azar, Internal Medicine; Heather Bingham, Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation; Decontee Jimmeh Fletcher, Neurology
Back Row: Michele Fang, Internal Medicine; Gideon KD Zamba, Biostatistics; Vicki Kijewski, Psychiatry; Colleen Kennedy Stockdale, Obstetrics and Gynecology; Bruno Policeni, Radiology; Katherine Harris, Internal Medicine; Olivia Bailey, Emergency Medicine

Teaching Skills Seminars

Spring Seminars begin in February. Click here for more information.

Masters in Medical Education

The next deadline for application to the Masters program is April 15, 2012 for the Summer Session. Click here for more information.

 

 

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