Medical Education

The division of Medical Education was established in 1963 to support and encourage the improvement of medical education by providing faculty development; consulting on the design, implementation and revision of educational programs; and conducting research into effective means of delivering medical education.

The division has an active standardized patient program that provides patients for teaching and evaluation at USC. The program conducts clinical performance exams for all USC students matriculating into the fourth year of medical school as well as Objective Structured Clinical Exams for students in ICM and the clerkships. The program participates as a member of the Southern California Consortium on Standardized patients which was created by a grant from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation.

We also maintain a unit with expertise in psychometrics, research design and statistical analysis. The unit is active in institutional research (i.e., admission history, and graduation rates) and other educational research projects.

The division offers a two-year Masters Degree program for faculty in health professions. The program combines 3-day workshops with distance education, faculty mentoring, and home-site projects. These educational programs focus on developing skills in teaching and learning, evaluation, information management, professional development, and academic leadership. The division also offers two nine-month fellowship programs: Teaching/Learning or Educational Leadership.

Among the division's accomplishments for 2001:

• Collaborated on the implementation of the new case-based curriculum for medical students;
• Launched a mentoring program for first year medical students;
• Launched an electronic course on Adult Learning Theory;
• Expanded the Educational Leadership Fellowship program to include 23 fellows and master’s candidates;
• Granted master's of science in education with a specialization in medical education to 12 faculty members from the Keck School and other schools around country;
• Continued the monthly USC National Faculty Development Workshop Series on Teaching and Learning with approximately 40 attendees at each workshop.

National Key Committees

Beverly Wood, MD

• American Academy of Pediatrics
• Committee on CME
• National Conference and Exposition Planning Committee
• National Conference and Exposition Executive Committee
• PediaLink Board
• Surgical Action Group
• Council on Sections
• Section on Radiology: Chair
• American Association of Woman Radiologists
• Web Committee
• American Board of Radiology
• Pediatric Oral Examination Committee
• Pediatric Certificate of Added Qualifications Examination Advisory Committee
• Recertification examination committee
• American Roentgen Ray Society
• Publications Committee
• Association of Program Directors in Radiology
• Program Committee
• Education committee
• John Caffey Society
• Board of Directors
• Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)
• Education Exhibits Committee
• Policy and Practice Subcommittee
• Society for Pediatric Radiology
• Education and Training Committee

Offices Held

Win May, MD, PhD

• Advisory Committee Member,
• Towards Unity for Health
• World Health Organization

Beverly Wood, MD

• Chair: Section on Radiology
• American Academy of Pediatrics
• Editorships and Associate Editorships

Beverly Wood, MD

• American Journal of Roentgenology
  Associate Editor
• Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
  Section Editor and Radiological Case of the Month
• PediaLink Editor (Curriculum)
• American College of Radiology Learning file (Pediatrics)
  Editor
• AAP Grand Rounds
  Contributing Editor:
• Academic Radiology
  Deputy Editor

Publications

Number of articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals 4
Number of abstracts published: 1

Institutional Collaborations

Drs. Hitchcock and Nyquist are collaborating with health professionals on a national study of Professional Networks: The Influence Colleagues have on the Success of Faculty.

Dr. Hitchcock is co-authoring with distinguished faculty in the field of Medical Education on a series to appear in Advances in Health Professions Education (in press). The title of the series will be Introducing Professional Educators into Academic Medicine: Stories of Exemplars.