About Us
Education for Health
(EfH) is the peer-reviewed, MEDLINE-indexed journal of The
Network: Towards Unity for Health,
a
global consortium of health professions schools that are committed to improve
the preparation of future health professionals particularly ensuring that they
are responsive to the needs of the communities in which they learn and
work.
Education for
Health
is dedicated to the dissemination of work consistent with the organization’s
mission and objectives in international health. It publishes original
contributions of interest to health and clinical practitioners, educators,
policy makers, administrators, and learners in the health professions.
Specifically this focus is on global models of health system integration and
health professions education that lead to improved health and health care
delivery. The
journal team includes:
CO-EDITORS-IN-CHIEF
Michael Glasser, University of Illinois, USA
Donald Pathman, University of North Carolina, USA
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Jan van Dalen, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Noel Juban, University of the Phillipines, the Phillipines
Pertti Kekki, University of Helsinki, Finland
Jane Westberg, University of Colorado, USA
Robert Woollard, University of British Columbia, Canada
MANAGING EDITOR
Marie-Louise Panis, The Network: TUFH, the Netherlands
JOURNAL SECRETARY
Angelique van den Heuvel, The Network: TUFH, the Netherlands
BOOK AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA REVIEW EDITOR
Judith Gravdal, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, USA
COPY EDITOR
Karin Tomosky Chambers, McMaster University, Canada
INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL BOARD
Palitha Abeykoon, WHO, India
Raja Bandaranayake, Arabian Gulf University, UAE
Jack Boulet, FAIMER, USA
William Burdick, FAIMER, USA
Zenobia Chan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Ken Cox, University of New South Wales, Australia
Rogayah Ja'afar, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Hilliard Jason, University of Colorado, USA
Tadahiko Kozu, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Japan
Joel Lanphear, Lakehead University, Canada
Zorayda Leopando, University of the Phillipines, the Phillipines
Theo Lippeveld, John Snow Inc., USA
Martin Lipsky, University of Illinois, USA
Carmi Z. Margolis, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Nu Viet Vu, University of Geneva, Switzerland
| JOURNAL STAFF Michael
Glasser, Co-Editor-in-Chief
Michael Glasser, Ph.D., is Associate Dean
for Rural Health Professions at the University of Illinois College of Medicine
at Rockford, and Co-Director of the National Center
for Rural Health Professions (NCRHP). Dr. Glasser is also Co-Director of the Masters of Public Health Program,
on the Rockford campus, a division
of the School of Public
Health ,University
of Illinois at Chicago. He is Principal Investigator for an NIH-funded Project EXPORT Center,
through the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities. This is a four-year grant to establish a Center for Excellence in Rural
Health to identify, reduce, and eliminate health disparities in rural and
underserved populations. In addition to
serving as Co-Editor of Education for Health, Dr. Glasser is on the editorial
board of the Journal for Rural Health.
Dr. Glasser has a masters degree from Colorado State University,
Fort Collins, Colorado,
and a doctorate in Medical Sociology from the University
of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois Areas of research interest include rural health delivery and health
professions education, patient-provider relationships, older adult health care,
networks of support for older adults, and the study of mental health and
chronic disease. For the MPH Program,
Dr. Glasser teaches Health Education/Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences
in Public Health. He also teaches
community-based health care delivery to students in the Rural Medical Education
(RMED) Program. Dr. Glasser is a member
of the Delta Omega Society , the National Public Health Honor Society. |
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Donald Pathman, Co-Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Donald Pathman, MD, MPH,
is Professor and Research Director at the Department of Family Medicine at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Director of the Program
on Health Professions and Primary Care at UNC's Cecil G. Sheps Center for
Health Services Research. For the past
10 years he has also directed UNC's National Research Service Award Primary
Care Research Fellowship, overseeing the research training of junior and mid-career
general internists, general pediatricians and family physicians. Among the awards he has
received are the Distinguished Investigator Award from the Cecil G. Sheps
Center and to have been appointed Scholar in Residence at the American
Academy of Family Physicians' Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family
Practice and Primary Care. Dr. Pathman has numerous
peer-reviewed publications (70+) and has served as principal and lead
investigator on studies in the areas of health workforce distribution, health
care access in rural areas, racial-ethnic disparities in care, training
physicians for rural and community-responsive roles, developing the research
foundation of primary care practice, and disseminating clinical practice
guidelines. He has led numerous evaluations
of public and educational programs in these areas. He has served as editorial board member for such journals as
Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, the Journal of Rural Health,
and Family Medicine.Dr.
Pathman has been a practicing family physician for over 20 years and still
sees patients at a UNC-affiliated, 20-bed hospital in rural Chatham
County, North Carolina, USA. |
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Jan van Dalen, Associate Editor
As a clinical psychologist, Jan is responsible for the
teaching and assessment of communication skills at the Skillslab, Faculty of
Medicine of Maastricht University since 1978. His work consists of conducting
skills training, faculty development, skills assessment, curriculum planning and
supervising research in medical education. Next to
participation in the Skillslab-administration, further aspects of his work are
the development and facilitation of workshops on problem based learning and
teaching and assessment of communication skills, as well as specialised courses
communication skills, both in the
Netherlands and abroad.
Jan has
(co)authored four books on communication skills for health care professionals.
His PhD, awarded in September 2001, addressed the development of communication
skills in medical students. Since 2001 he is the programme director of
Maastricht’s Master of Health
Professions Education (MHPE) programme. |
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Noel Juban, Associate Editor
Noel Juban, MD, MSc, is Director of the
Institute
of Clinical
Epidemiology at the National Institutes of Health, University of the Philippines-Manila and
concurrently the Chair of the Department of Clinical Epidemiology at College of Medicine
in the same University. Dr. Juban has a
master degree in epidemiology from the University of the Philippines Manila
where he also obtained his Doctor of Medicine degree and was a Fogarty Fellow
under the Brown University AIDS Program. As Associate
Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, he serves as
faculty preceptor for the community-based health program of the college for the
past 16 years. He advises students and
residents-in-training in family and community medicine on their research
undertakings in the community and in the clinics. He also handles the courses on basic
epidemiology and research methodology for the medical students as well as
teaches in the graduate programs. As an
epidemiologist, he also attends to research consultations of students,
residents-in-training from various hospitals, and pharmaceuticals. Some of his
works deals on research prioritization, essential national health research
agenda, the national baseline health surveys, program evaluations,
pharmaco-epidemiology and rational drug use in the community. Being trained in
psychology in his undergraduate, health social science is also high on his
agenda together with AIDS and health systems research. |
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| Pertti Kekki, Associate Editor
Pertti Kekki
started his career as primary care physician, continued as a health center
physician and director of a health center with 160 employees. He is the
foundation professor of General Practice and Primary Health Care at the
University of
Helsinki and the Department
Chairman since the early 1980’s. He studied at the
University of
>Helsinki and is a
specialist in general practice and health services administration.During the
health center period he studied at the University of Edinburgh (Diploma in
Community Medicine) and at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and
Public Health, from where he earned his Doctor of Science degree in healthcare
organization and health services research. Since early 1980’s he is a frequently
used adviser in WHO workshops, meetings and consultations on primary health
care, management, quality of health care, and human resources development. Since
1992 he is the Head of a WHO Collaborating Centre for the Development of Human
Resources for Health in Primary Health Care. He is the founder
and director of the international postgraduate programs (Diploma and Masters) in Healthcare quality improvement
and leadership development his Department is currently offering to eligible
health professionals. He has a long experience from WONCA in the 1980’s and from
the Network since late 1980’s. He is an associate editor of the Network Journal.
He has published over 250 articles and other publications, and supervised about
100 masters and 15 doctoral theses. Expertise: primary health care, evaluative
health services research including quality, medical and health professions
education. |
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Jane Westberg, Associate Editor
Jane Westberg, PhD, is Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the University
of Colorado Health Sciences Center. A major focus of her career has been working
with others towards the goal of compassionate, high-quality healthcare for all
people in the world. Currently, she tries to do this through writing, editing,
and teaching. Jane’s writing
includes articles, chapters and 7 books on learning and teaching. Also, she
frequently contributes articles on health-related issues to Winds of Change – an
American Indian-produced magazine. Jane particularly enjoys listening to and
writing about courageous people who are making a significant, positive
difference in the lives of others. Jane and her husband and colleague, Hilliard
(Hill) Jason, M.D., Ed.D, consult with and do workshops for teachers and
learners in the health professions around the world. |
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Robert Woollard, Associate Editor Robert Woollard, MD, CCFP, FCFP is Royal Canadian Legion Professor and Head of the Department of Family
Practice, Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia in Canada.
He currently chairs the Committee on the Accreditation of Canadian Medical
Schools (CACMS) and the Committee on the Accreditation of Continuing Medical
Education (CACME) and sits on the Executive of the international Liaison
Committee on Medical Education (LCME). He has chaired senior committees,
councils and task forces for the BC Medical Association, Canadian Medical
Association and the College of Family Physicians of Canada in the areas of
medical education, environmental health and ethical relations with industry. His
primary research focus is the study of complex adaptive systems as they apply to
the intersection between human and environmental health. His book, “Fatal Consumption: Rethinking Sustainable
Development” details his work in this regard. His background in the full
continuum of the life-long-learning of physicians has informed his commitment to
understanding the links between medical education and health outcomes. He is
Co-Chair of the UBC Task Force on Healthy and Sustainable Communities and has
provided leadership in a number of major initiatives grant-funded through the
Science Council of British Columbia, the Tri Council Research Fund and is
currently a co-investigator in a Major Collaborative Research Initiative (MCRI)
grant being administered through the Sustainable Development Research Institute.
He is a member of the SDRI, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research and
the Institute of
Health Promotion
Research. He is Chair of the Board of the CHF Partners
in Rural Development, an international development organization. He has
completed a five year, five university CIDA project on Localized Poverty
Reduction in Vietnam.He has assisted in
the development of a rural practice undergraduate program, the design and
development of the distributed expansion of
Medical School, and continues the
active practice of medicine. During his first
term as Department Chair he led a Faculty initiative on Integrating Study & Service which
contributed to the success of the Strategic Teaching Initiative, a
substantial, targeted increase in resources for the Faculty of Medicine to help
focus its research and educational capacity on the priority health needs of
British Columbians. He currently chairs
a Task Group of the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC)
charged with implementing the policy paper Social Accountability: A Vision for Canadian
Medical Schools. At these various
levels he is leading the development of five-way partnerships (policy
makers/health managers/communities/ professional organizations/academy) to build
responsive and responsible academic systems in support of responsive and
responsible health care systems. He is
currently working in a number of venues. These address issues relevant to social responsibility of the profession
and range from local (Departmental pilot initiatives) through regional (BC
Academic Health Science Initiative on Towards Unity for Health) through
provincial (Steering Committee for the Primary Health Care Transition Fund, BCMA
Board of Directors, BC Cancer Agency Primary Care Oncology Network, etc.) and to
national (Primary Health Care Transition Fund National Envelope initiatives with
AFMC) and international realms (World Federation of Medical Education and
Localized Poverty Reduction in Vietnam initiatives). He has worked on
the development of primary care electronic networks in the rural undergraduate
program at UBC and has been part of an interdisciplinary team looking at
community preparedness for information technology and telemedicine. He is married to
Erlene; they have three sons, a granddaughter and grandson. |
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INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL BOARD
Palitha
Abeykoon Palitha Abeykoon is a former director of the South East Asia Regional Office of the World Health
Organization. In this capacity he was in charge of Health Systems and Human
Resources Development and Health Technology. This included work as the
coordinator of the Polio Eradication Initiative iin the South East Asia Region.
Prior to his work in the WHO Regional Office, Dr Abeykoon also served as the WHO
Representative to India and as Advisor in Human Resources Development to the governments of
Nepal and Indonesia. Dr. Abeykoon holds a medical degree from Sri Lanka and post graduate
degrees, in Medical Education from the University of Southern California and Public Health
from Harvard University in Boston. He has a number of original publications in the areas of health systems development and human
resources development and immunization and he has made significant contributions
to conferences. Currently he is the Senior Policy Advisor to the WHO in Sri
Lanka and Advisor to the Ministry of Health of Sri Lanka in Health Policy.
He also currently serves as a Member of the Boards of the International Clinical
Epidemiology Network, the South East Asian Public Health Institutes Network,
South East Asia Association for Medical Education, the Global Alliance for
Vaccines and Immunization Independent Review Panel and the Sri Lanka Medical
Council |
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Jack Boulet Jack Boulet, Ph.D. is the Director of Research and Tracking for the Foundation
for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER®). He
received his doctorate in 1996 from the University of Ottawa, specializing in
educational measurement.Dr. Boulet has published extensively in the field of medical education, focusing specifically
on measurement issues pertaining to performance-based assessments, including
objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) and various mannequin-based
methodologies. More recently, he has become involved in health workforce research, conducting studies to enumerate,
and assess the impact of, physician migration. |
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William Burdick As FAIMER’s Director of Education, William Burdick, M.D., M.S.Ed., oversees the
Foundation’s efforts to create educational resources for international medical
educators. Dr. Burdick has been a Co-Director of the FAIMER Institute since its
inception in 2001. He also serves as ECFMG’s Assistant Vice President of Assessment Services, a position he has held
since 1999.Dr. Burdick is Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at Drexel University College of
Medicine, and has been recognized for teaching excellence with the Lindback
Award and the Trustees' Award. A graduate of Oberlin College, University of
Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, and Cornell University Weill School
of Medicine, Dr. Burdick completed training in Internal Medicine at Boston City Hospital and is certified
by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Emergency
Medicine. |
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Zenobia Chan Professor Zenobia Chan has a rich teaching experience from the undergraduate and
master level, and training workshop. She is the assistant professor at the
Centre of Health Education and Health Promotion, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong
Kong.She has written a wide range of academic journals and book chapters at international
level. She has published over thirty papers related to health issues, mental health, medical education, nursing, counseling, poetry, social work, qualitative
studies and women studies. She finished two Chinese course materials on effective communication and interpersonal relationship in 2004, and women’s
health in 2006. |
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Ken Cox Once upon a time I was a simple surgeon when WHO set up Regional Teacher Training Centres around
the world. My University of New South Wales was awarded the
RTTC for the Western Pacific Region; my Dean asked me to run it, and to develop
a Centre for Medical Education and Development within our medical
school. I sat at the feet of Lee Shulman and Arthur Elstein learning educational psychology. The Centres
grew to become a graduate School of Medical Education, and I became a
surgical drop-out. Graduate students at all levels came from 28 countries for
activities ranging from workshops, diplomas, Masters degrees (including the
first Master of Clinical Education in the world) and PhDs, and we ran workshops
etc. in their countries on request.I’m now
retired, and much has changed in WHO and my University, but I enjoy studying how
the clinical mind thinks, and reading the contributions and activities of
teachers and trainees. |
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Rogayah Ja'afar Rogayah Ja’afar is Professor and Head of the Department of Medical Education at the
School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia. She holds a Bachelors degree in Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) from the
University of Cario Egypt and a Master of Health Professional Education (MHPEd) from the
University of New South Wales, Australia as well as a Post
Graduate certificate as a Health Partner Fellow from the University of Illinois
Chicago, USA. Rogayah teaches professional communication skills and women's
health in both the undergraduate and post graduate programmes as well as
coordinates a new Master of Science Programme in Medical Education at her
medical school. She also coordinates and runs faculty development programmes
yearly since 1986 to prepare and refresh medical teachers to be better prepared
for their multifaceted roles as educator,student counsellor, manager and
researcher in an academic setting. Her major areas of interest are in curricular
and programme development, faculty and leadership development, problem based and
community oriented medical education In January of 2003, Dr. Ja’afar was appointed as the first Chair of the
Network-TUFH Women and Health Task Force. Her leadership has led the Taskforce
through an era of unprecedented growth and prosperity, including the development
of the Women's Health Learning Package (WHLP), a set of gender-sensitive
educational materials for use in medical and nursing schools. These training
modules cover topics that include violence against women, gender and health, and
adolescent health and are designed by local health advocates to improve health
care workers' ability to understand and address difficult issues affecting women
and girls. The WHLP is currently in use in Egypt, India, Kenya, Malaysia,
Mexico, Pakistan, Sudan and Uganda, and is being distributed free of charge to
other universities in developing countries both online and on CD-ROM. Rogayah
was awarded an honorary membership of the Network: TUFH in November 2003, in
recognition for her long and outstanding services, and currently serves on the
GHETS Board of Directors. She was unanimously elected as Chairman of the
Network:TUFH during the Annual General Meeting of the Network in Vietnam in November 2005,
having served as a member of the Network executive committee for two terms from
1996 to 1999. |
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Hilliard Jason
Hilliard Jason, MD, EdD has devoted his career since the late 1950s to finding
ways to help enhance the quality and humanize the process of teaching and
practice in the health professions. “Hill” pursued medical and educational doctorates at the University of
Buffalo plus a residency and fellowship in psychiatry at the University of
Rochester and McGill University. He was founding Director of the Office of Medical Education Research and Development at
Michigan State University and the Division
of Faculty Development at the Association of American Medical Colleges. He is
former Editor of the journal, Education for Health: Change in Learning and
Practice and is now Clinical Professor, Department of Family Medicine, at the
University of Colorado School of Medicine.With his wife, Jane
Westberg, PhD, Hill has co-authored 7 academic books and more than 40 widely
distributed educational videos. He has hosted or co-hosted more than 60
educational videos. Hill was responsible for one of the pioneering studies of
medical problem solving, which culminated in the influential book, Medical
Problem Solving: An Analysis of Clinical Reasoning (Elstein, A. S. and others.
(1978) Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press) and for the two largest, multi-institutional studies of the
instructional process in medicine ever done (the second of which culminated in
the book, Teachers and Teaching in U.S. Medical Schools (Jason, H., &
Westberg, J. (1982). Norwalk, Connecticut: Appleton-Century-Crofts). Hill has been
a consultant to health professions educational programs in 32
countries. |
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Tadahiko Kozu Tadahiko Kozu, M.D. graduated from the School of
Medicine University Tokyo in 1965. He was a Professor of Gastroenterology and
GI-Endoscopy at the Institute of Gastroenterology in Tokyo Women’s Medical University until 1995, when
he was appointed as the Professor of Medical Education for the newly-established
Department of Medical Education in Tokyo Women’s Medical University. He was the first Professor of Medical
Education in Japan. In 2003, he semi-retired and became Professor Emeritus of Tokyo Women’s
Medical University.Dr. Kozu has engaged himself in the innovation of medical education in
Japan since 1990, when Tokyo Women’s Medical University started the new
integrated curriculum, with which PBL was implemented for the first time in
Japan. He has served as a real advocator of PBL during these 18 years. Dr. Kozu has also been active internationally. He has
shared his rich experiences in medical education to 61 colleges of medical,
dental, nursing, pharmaceutical, science, in countries such as Japan, USA, UK,
Korea, Mainland China, and Taiwan. He is an Education Committee member of the
World Gastroenterology Organization (OMGE). Currently,
Dr. Kozu is an advisor of Tokyo Women’s Medical University, a councilor of
Japanese Medical Education Foundation, a member of Mutual Accreditation
Committee of the Japan University Accreditation Association, Committee for
University Accreditation of the National Institution for Academic Degrees and
University Accreditation, an honorary member of the Japan Society for Medical
Education, a trustee of the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society and a
chairman of the Committee for Board Certification of JGES, a special member of
the Japan Society of Gastroenterology and a deputy chair of the Committee for
Postgraduate Education of the JSGE, an Honorary Invited Researcher of the
International Research Center for Medical Education at the University of Tokyo,
and a trustee of the University of Occupational and Environmental Health. |
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Joel Lanphear Dr. Lanphear joined
the Northern Ontario School of Medicine full time in May 2005 after serving the
school in a role of a Curriculum Consultant for 5 months. Dr. Lanphear has extensive experience in
curriculum development and student assessment. Prior to joining the school he was Professor of Medical Education and
Provost of Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine and Health Sciences in
Tempe, Arizona. Joel is Associate Dean and Chair of the
Northern Ontario School of Medicine Undergraduate Medical Education
UME Committee. He has participated at all levels of
teaching, leadership and administration and has extensive experience in student
assessment and evaluation and the start up of three medical schools. Using his extensive knowledge of problem
based and case based learning, Dr. Lanphear has worked with several higher
education institutions leading them to many positive and successful
outcomes. He is a member of several professional organizations and serves on the editorial board of the journal to
The Network: Community Partnerships for Health through Innovative Education,
Service and Research. Dr. Lanphear also has written and published a number of medical education articles. |
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Zorayda Leopando Zorayda E. Leopando is a graduate of
Doctor of Medicine from the University of the Philippines Manila (UPM),
College Medicine; Master of Public Health from Faculty of Public Health, Mahidol University;
Family Medicine Residency Training from UPM Philippine General Hospital and
Postdoctoral Academic Family Practice Fellowship from Ohio State University.She was Past
President of the Philippine Academy of Family Physicians and former Editor in
Chief of Filipino Family Physician journal. She is Founding President of
Philippine Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (now Foundation of Family
Medicine Educator) and Past Regional Vice President for Asia Pacific of the
World Organization of Family Doctors and one of the Co-Editors of Asia Pacific
Family Medicine. She is Fellow of Philippine Academy of Family Physicians and Honorary Fellow of Royal College
of General Practitioners. |
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Theo Lippeveld Theo Lippeveld, MD, MPH is the Vice-president of the International Division at
John Snow Inc. (JSI). He is a public health physician with more than twenty
years of experience in health policy analysis, health planning, and building
integrated health systems in developing countries. His specific area of strength
and focus in the last fifteen years has been the design and implementation of
national routine health information systems (e.g. Chad, Pakistan, Morocco). Dr. Lippeveld
has a medical degree from the University of Louvain (Belgium), a master degree
in public health from Harvard University (USA), and a diploma in tropical
medicine and hygiene from the Tropical Institute of Antwerp (Belgium). Between
1989 and 1997, he was development advisor at the Harvard Institute for
International Development and visiting lecturer at the Harvard School of Public
Health (USA). |
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Martin Lipsky Martin S. Lipsky, M.D., is Regional Dean at the
University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford in Rockford,
Illinois. Dr. Lipsky was previously the founding Chair of the Department
of Family Medicine at Northwestern University Medical School and Evanston
Northwestern Healthcare. Dr. Lipsky earned his medical degree at the
Medical College of Pennsylvania and completed a family medicine residency at
the University of California at Irvine. Dr. Lipsky has published over 100 peer reviewed
articles, book chapters and several monographs on Family Medicine and
clinically related topics. His research interests include medical
education, health policy, and health disparities particularly in rural
settings. He serves on the editorial boards for Family Practice
Recertification, Education for Health, and Disease a Month.
He has also edited six books including a popular family medicine textbook and
three books about medicine for the non-professional. |
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Nu Viet Vu PhD in Educational
Psychology and Testing and Measurement, she has been since 1994 Professor and
Director of the Unit of Development and Research in Medical Education,
University of Geneva, School of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland. Before that, she
was a Professor in the Department of Medical Education at Southern Illinois
University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, USA. During her tenure
at SIU-SM, she was also the Director of the Performance-Based Post-Clerkship
Examination Using Standardized patients - Testing and Research program, the
Director of the First-year Residency Follow-Up Program, and Director and Faculty
of the “Preparation for the teaching role in residency” senior year
elective.In Switzerland she has been playing a significant role in the development, implementation, and upgrading the
six-year integrated problem-based and community-oriented curriculum at the
University of Geneva, School of Medicine. Her expertise and
areas of research, development, and responsibilities are in curriculum design
and development, faculty development, program evaluation, students' assessment,
performance-based testing with standardized patients, and clinical teaching and
reasoning. At the local level, she has recently introduced a one-month senior
elective entitled “Preparation for the teaching and evaluation role in the
clinical environment”, and assisted in the introduction and implementation of
the “Acquisition of Pedagogical Competencies” optional program for medical
students. At the national level, she has been consulting and participating in
the development of the new Swiss Certification Examination in Medicine. Since
2004, she has participated as a teaching faculty in the Medical Education Master
program of the Universidad de Castilla-la-Mancha in
Albacete (Spain) and of the University of Bern (Switzerland), as well as in
the Inter-University Diploma in Pedagogy of the University of Rouen and Xavier Bichat
(France). |
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