The MEHP newsletter highlights news and achievements of Johns Hopkins Master of Education in the Health Professions students and alumni.
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MEHP Fellows, faculty, and alumni at the August 2017 MEHP Conference in Baltimore, MD.
MEHP News and Events
Recruitment For New Faculty Member
We have started a search to identify a new full-time faculty member in health professions education to join the MEHP program. If you know of someone who would be interested in teaching in our program, supporting fellows and alumni, and conducting research in health professions education, please share her/his name and contact information with Toni immediately as the search is moving rapidly.
MEHP Director, Students Present at AERA Meeting
Kudos to MEHP Director Toni Ungaretti, PhD, who chaired the Teaching and Learning Community Meeting for the American Educational Research Association (AERA)’s annual meeting in Toronto. Ungaretti organized a symposium on scholarly approaches to evaluating health professions education advanced degree programs, featuring speakers from Kings College London, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Hong Kong, and the Cleveland Clinic and Cleveland State University. She also presented on a formative evaluation of the MEHP program and lessons learned. Ungaretti also founded and leads the Health Professions Education Advanced Degree Program Research Group, which convened during the conference.
Two MEHP Fellows presented papers at the conference. Priyanka Dwivedi, MA, presented a paper on establishing a quality control for residency applicant scores. She is administrative director for medical education in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Michael Banks, MD, an assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins, presented a paper on assessing the attitudes and perceptions of postgraduate physicians on interprofessional education and collaboration.
MEHP Excellence Award Winners
Congratulations to Stephen Sozio, MD, MEHP ‘17, the 2019 recipient of the Outstanding MEHP Alumnus Award, and to Joanne Rolls, PA, MEHP Fellow, the 2019 recipient of the MEHP Fellow Excellence Award.
Sozio, an associate professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins, started in the inaugural cohort of the MEHP program, has taught in the Adult Learning Course since 2013, and serves as a leader in multiple courses for medical students, advising programs, fellows and faculty. This is in addition to his national and international work within education, including leading the Students and Residents (STARS) program for the American Society of Nephrology and teaching in six other countries.
Sozio serves in multiple educational leadership roles at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, including serving as course co-director for the epidemiology course for first-year medical students, faculty leader in the Colleges Advisory Program, co-director of the Scholarly Concentration in Clinical Research Program, and associate program director of the Nephrology Fellowship Program.
Sozio has received several teaching awards at Johns Hopkins, including the W. Barry Wood Jr. Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2018, awarded annually to the teachers voted by the students in the preclinical years to have been most inspirational and/or effective. He was nominated for the MEHP award by former student Rachel Salas, MD, MEHP ’18, an associate professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins.
Rolls, a physician assistant and assistant clinical professor with the University of Utah’s Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, created a Capstone project to investigate current curricular approaches to transgender health education in United States physician assistant programs. The research questions involve assessing program and faculty characteristics and comprehensively assessing the curriculum, hours dedicated, and barriers involved in training future physician assistants in transgender healthcare. These questions were selected from a national submission competition to be included on the Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA) annual program survey, sent to all 236 PA programs in the U.S. in 2018. For her work, Rolls earned the PAEA’s 2018 Support to Advance Research (STAR) Program award.
Rolls worked with several coinvestigators including former MEHP faculty member John Davis, MD, PhD, an associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. In addition, Rolls received an internal award of $5,000 for this project through the University of Utah’s Department of Family and Preventive Medicine.
“Jo is an excellent example of how MEHP training can provide the necessary skills to progress health professionals’ education and allow them to become national leaders in education,” said Marjorie Jenkins, MD, MEHP ‘15, her Capstone advisor, who nominated her for the award. “In addition, her work ethic and commitment to excelling throughout the MEHP program has been unwavering.”
Salas Nominated for Macy Scholars Program
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine nominated MEHP alumna Rachel Salas, MD, MEHP ‘18, an associate professor of neurology, for the 2019 Macy Faculty Scholars Program. Macy Faculty Scholars receive salary support up to $100,000 per year over two years to implement an educational change project in their institutions. Scholars also receive mentoring and career advice. Salas’ project focuses on advancing interprofessional education among Johns Hopkins faculty so leaders in medicine, nursing and pharmacy can serve as collaborative practice teachers and role models to serve either prelicensure or postlicensure students.
AlFalasi Stars in Abu Dhabi Documentary
MEHP Fellow Reem AlFalasi, MBBCh, a resident at UMMC and Abu Dhabi native, will be featured in the “Ayal Zayed-Children of Zayed” documentary for Abu Dhabi TV. The program will discuss the experience of Emirati scholarship students and researchers in America, their journey to benefit from the American experience, and how they will apply their work when they return home. AlFalasi was nominated by the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates in Washington, D.C., for her work seeking to develop the scientific side of her country.
Le-Bucklin Garners Second AMA Grant, Presents at AAMC
Khanh-Van Le-Bucklin MD, MEHP ’19, vice dean of medical education and interim chair of pediatrics at the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine, got a research boost. After initially receiving a $10,000 grant from the American Medical Association for her Capstone project, to develop a curriculum aimed at preventing medical student mistreatment by supervising faculty, the association recently awarded her an additional $45,000 grant to bring her curriculum to a consortium of schools. Le-Bucklin also was asked to present her project at the Association of American Medical Colleges’ (AAMC) Western Group on Educational Affairs meeting in March in Reno, Nev., and AAMC’s annual meeting this fall in Phoenix. Additionally, Le-Bucklin presented the work at the American Medical Association’s consortium meeting in April in Atlanta and will do so at AMA’s ChangeMedEd conference in September in Chicago.
Luan Receives ADEA Leadership Award
MEHP Fellow Kevin W. Luan, BDS, MS, a clinical assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry, was honored at the American Dental Education Association’s annual meeting with a scholarship to attend the ADEA Summer Program for Emerging Academic Leaders.
Fazzio Wins Award for Capstone Project
Pamela Fazzio, MD, MEHP ‘19, a pediatric emergency medicine fellow at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, won an Excellence in Medical Education Oral Abstract Presentation Award from the Northeastern Group on Educational Affairs (NEGEA), a regional group of the Association of American Medical Colleges, for her Capstone project, “What Do You Want to Learn or Work on Today? Resident Self-identified Learning Goals in the Pediatric Emergency Department.” Fazzio also will present her project through posters and presentations at the Association of Pediatric Program Directors, Pediatric Academic Societies and Society for Academic Emergency Medicine meetings.
Tomobi Presents at Global Health Conference
MEHP Fellow Oluwakemi Tomobi, MD, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins, presented a poster on the “Use of Rapid-cycle Deliberate Practice vs. Standard Simulation in Training Anesthesia Providers on the Universal Anesthesia Machine Ventilator in Sierra Leone” at the recent Unite for Sight Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale University.
Hats Off to Our 2019 Graduates
The MEHP program congratulates all students who received their degrees during the 2018-2019 academic year. Following is a list of graduates and their capstone projects:
Michael Amendolah | Talking About Ethical issues in Surgery – Results of a Novel Online Pilot Curriculum |
Yuemi An-Grogan | Development, Implementation and Evaluation of a Simulation-based Telemedicine Training Program |
Michael Banks | Interprofessional Education in the Burn ICU |
Bruce Brenner | Assessing Gaps in Surgical Oncology Training: Results of a Survey of General Surgery Residents |
Nicole Chiota- McCollum |
Building Resilience and Wisdom in Clinical and Translational Researchers: A Mixed Method Study of a Pilot Curricular Intervention |
Simon Conti | Crowd-sourced Assessment of Ureteroscopy with Laser Lithotripsy Videos Has a Negative Correlation with Trainee Experience |
David Czuchlewski | Application of Whole Slide Imaging to Pathology Resident “Unknowns” Slide Sessions |
Saira Dar | Saira Dar Cognitive Strategy, Knowledge Structures and Diagnostic Success: Do Different Assessment Methods Match Up? |
Janeve Desy | Improving Self-regulation of Learning Amongst Underperforming Medical Students: An Embedded Mixed Methods Study |
Luba Dumenco | Long-term Outcomes of a Longitudinal Quality Improvement/Patient Safety Pre-Clerkship Curriculum |
Pamela Fazzio | “What Do You Want to Learn or Work on Today?”: Should You Ask for Self-identified Learning Goals? |
Gerardo Guiter | Review of Medical and Health Professions Education Masters in the United States |
Rebecca Hayes | Development and Validation of the Reconciliation of Hospital Medications Survey (ROHMS) Instrument |
Justin Jeffers | Developing an Assessment Checklist for Infant Respiratory Distress Using an Integrative Approach: A Mixed Methods Study |
Ihab Kamel | Cognitive Learning Outcomes and Resident Perceptions of the Systematic Use of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) in a University Anesthesiology Residency Program: A Mixed Methods Analysis |
Rose Kim | Assessment of Faculty Development Needs and Faculty Vitality at a New Medical School |
Rory Merritt | Demographics and Career Intentions Related to Primary Care for Graduating Medical Students in Combined Baccalaureate-MD Programs 2010-2017: An Analysis of Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Graduation Questionnaire Data |
Jessica Papillon- Smith |
Understanding Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery Training in Canada: A National Survey of Recent Graduates |
Linda Regan | Learning to Learn: A Qualitative Study to Uncover Strategies Used by Master Adaptive Learners in the Planning of Learning |
Joanne Rolls | Curricular Approaches to Transgender Health in Physician Assistant Education |
Jennifer Simmons | Masters Programs in Health Professions and Medical Education in the United Kingdom and Europe, a Descriptive Survey |
Aaron Spooner | Evaluation of the Predictive Validity of a Cardiac Surgery Residency Program Which Utilizes Evidence-based Standardization Admissions Processes |
Eric Steinberg | Assessment of Emergency Medicine Residents’ Clinical Reasoning: Validation of a Script Concordance Test |
Geoffrey Talmon | The Quality of Evidence in Preclinical Medical Education: A Systematic Review of the Literature |
Zhan Tao (Peter) Wang | A Comparison of Video Reflection Versus Self-Regulated Learning to Teach Knot Tying To Medical Students: A Randomized Controlled Trial |
Karisa Walker | Excellence Defined: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Identifying Constructs Relevant to Excellence in Anesthesiology Practice |
Kaitlyn Watson | Should Primary Care Providers Discuss Social Media Use with Patients? Maybe: A Randomized, Controlled Pilot Study |