After an extensive selection process, Dr. Christopher Williams has been selected to serve as Associate Dean for Physician-Scientist Education and Training at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and Director of the Medical Scientist Training Program. The MSTP has a long history of outstanding and inspirational leadership, and Dr. Williams will no doubt continue this tradition.

Southern Group on Educational Affairs - April 13-16, 2016, Austin, TX:  "Rebooting Medical Education" Plenary Session: Change Management and Motivation in Curriculum Innovations:

Joey Barnett, Ph.D., Assistant Dean of Physician-Researcher Training and Director of the Office of Medical Student Research (the Inquiry Program), chaired and presented in an April 6th Symposium at the Experimental Biology  meeting in San Diego “ORPHEUS*-Developing Best Practices for Graduate Education in Europe” *(Organisation for PhD Education in Biomedicine and Health Sciences in the European System). On April 11th, he was an invited speaker at the “NIGMS Symposium on Catalyzing the Modernization of Graduate Education” which was live cast from the NIH in Bethesda Maryland.

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph Gigante, a Founding Member of the Academy of Excellence in Teaching, who was the recipient of the 2016 COMSEP (Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics) Research and Scholarship Award!

The Vanderbilt University School of Medicine team proposed Muse, a national exchange for medical education resources: one part information repository, one part social network and one part learning management system. Please see video here>>Please read full article in the VUMC Reporter AMA Medical Education Innovation Challenge

Cathy Pettepher, Kim Lomis, and Neil Osheroff attended the combined Ottawa Conference/ANZAHPE Meeting in Perth, Western Australia (3/20-3/23/2016) where they presented a workshop entitled “From Theory to Practice: Developing an Assessment Strategy for Pre-Clerkship Medical Students that Incorporates Competency Domains.”

Joey Barnett, PhD, Assistant Dean of Physician-Researcher Training and Director of the Office of Medical Student Research (the Inquiry Program), recently participated in the annual congress of ORPHEUS (Organisation for PhD Education in Biomedicine and Health Sciences in the European System) entitled: “Lost in Translation?

Please read full article in VUMC Reporter>>>> Curtis Baysinger, M.D., professor of Anesthesiology, was also elected to serve as director in District 2.