Gregory Gruener, MD

Residency programs are increasingly looking for applicants to demonstrate their competitiveness with a diverse range of experiences beyond strong grades and board exam scores. Experience in teaching is an excellent way to demonstrate a commitment to a career in academic medicine.

This elective is designed to support students' initial efforts at teaching and provide them with practical tools to design and deliver learning sessions in individual, small group, or large group formats; evaluate and assess themselves and their learners; and reflect on their practice and progress as leaders and teachers. By providing the opportunity to develop these capacities, we support the educational development of the future teachers and leaders of SSOM and other schools and programs across the country.

Student group leaders will:
-Apply learning sciences to brief educational interventions.
-Develop an educational leadership learning plan in SMART goal format.
-Complete a leadership self-assessment.
-Demonstrate familiarity with basic applications of learning sciences in small group settings.
-Assume the role of educator/leader of their group for the purposes of scheduling, planning and delivering instruction for a minimum of six sessions.
-Use informal and formal assessments to provide feedback to members of their group.
-Complete tracking forms on attendance at sessions.

The course will be graded on a pass/fail basis.

The following requirements will be assessed:
-Review online learning materials (10%)
-Learning plan development (20%)
-Minimum of six teaching sessions (50%)
-Written reflection and evaluation of learning plan (20%)