Maurice Hitchcock, Ed. D. Chairman & Professor, KAM 202 1975 Zonal Ave, Los Angeles, CA - 90033. Ph: (323) 442-2382 , Fax: (323) 442-2051 E-mail: hitch AT usc DOT edu URL: http://mededonline.hsc.usc.edu/hitch.html

Title/Position:
Chief of the Division of Medical Education

Responsibilities:
Serving as a resource of educational expertise for planning, developing, evaluating, and researching medical education programs and techniques at the school.

Education:
BA: University of Texas at Arlington, History
MSED: Baylor University , Educational and Counseling Psychology
Ed.D. Baylor University, Educational and Counseling Psychology

Academic Interests:
Medical Education Research
Educational Evaluation
Faculty Development

Biography:
Maurice A. Hitchcock, Ed.D. is currently Professor and Director of the Division of Medical Education at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California (USC). Prior to joining the faculty at USC in 1996, he was Director of Faculty Development at the John A. Burns School of Medicine of the University of Hawaii; Chief of the Division of Educational Research and Development in the Department of Family Medicine at Duke Medical Center (1989-91); and originator and Director of the Family Practice Faculty Development Center of Texas (1978-89). He received his master’s degree in counseling (1976) and his doctorate in educational psychology (1979) from Baylor University and is licensed psychologist (Texas). He has published numerous articles on faculty development, research development, and clinical teaching in medicine and is a leading international consultant on faculty development and Problem Based Learning.

Publications:

Hitchcock M A, Anderson A S.
"Dealing With Dysfunctional Tutorial Groups:
Teaching and Learning in Medicine", in press.

Hitchcock M A, Bland C J, Hekelman F P, Blumenthal M G.
"Professional Networks: The Influence of Colleagues on the Academic Success of Faculty:
Academic Medicine, 70(12):1108-1116, 1995.

Frazier L M, Berberich N J, Cromer J W, Greenberg G N, Hitchcock M A.
"Training Primary Care Faculty to Develop Occupational and Environmental Medicine Curricula: Project EPOCH-Envi"
American Journal of Industrial Medicine, in press.

Hitchcock, Maurice A.
"Improving Health Care for Native Hawaiians: An Initiative of the John A. Burns School of Medicine." Hawaii Medical Journal, 53(12):329, 1994.

Oeffinger K C, Roaten S P, Hitchcock M A, Oeffinger P K.
"The Effect of Patient Education on Pediatric Immunization Rates"
Journal of Family Practice, 35(3):288-293, 1992.

Woods S E, Hitchcock M A, Meyer A.
"Alcoholic Hepatitis"
American Family Physician, 47(5):1171-1178, 1993.

Hitchcock M A, Stritter F T, and Bland C J.
"Faculty Development in the Health Professions: Conclusions and Recommendations."
Medical Teacher, 14(4):407-421, 1993.

Mygdal W K, Monteiro M, Hitchcock M A, Featherston W, and Conard S.
"Outcomes of the First Family Practice Chief Resident Conference."
Family Medicine, 23(4):308-310, 1991.

Hitchcock M A, and Buck E L.
"Research Roles for Family Physicians."
Family Medicine, 22(3):191-195, 1990.

Presentations:

"Faculty Development in a PBL Curriculum" presentation at the annual conference of recipients of grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation program Preparing Physicians for the Future: A Program in Medical Education, March 22-24, 1995, Honolulu.

"Preceptor Skills for Teaching the Doctor-Patient Relationship" a faculty development workshop conducted for the Hawaii Academy of Family Physicians, February 22, 1995, Honolulu.

"A Partnership Approach to Recruiting Native Hawaiian Students to Careers in Medicine" presentation at the annual conference of the Association of American Medical Colleges, November 1, 1994, Boston.

"Centers of Excellence" presentation at the Annual Western Conference of the Association of American Medical Colleges, April 19, 1994, Pacific Grove, CA.

"The Faculty Development Needs of Tenure-Track Surgery Faculty in the United States," research presentation at the Annual Conference of the Association of Surgical Educators, April 6, 1990, Dallas.

"Creating a Research Environment," workshop presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of Surgical Educators, April 5, 1990, Dallas.