2019年1月17日

Hello,

One of the most important responsibilities of any medical school is to educate the next generation of physicians — MDs ready to provide the highest quality care for patients and families and to make an impact on the communities they serve. Ensuring that our graduates have a strong foundation and are prepared for the ever-changing landscape of medicine and healthcare is a difficult challenge for our educational program.

三年前，麦戈文医学院（McGovern Medical School）开设了一项经过广泛修订的医学教育课程，该课程将基本科学与人类生物系统编织，并从医学院初期开始整合科学和医学。

我问教育计划副院长帕特里夏·巴特勒（Patricia Butler）博士，教职员工和教育发展助理院长艾莉森·奥尔森（Allison Ownby）博士为我们的医学生准备一些创新方法提供了入门。

Interprofessional Education Program
We know that we must prepare our students to excel in a collaborative, team environment. As part of the most comprehensive academic health center in The University of Texas System and the Gulf Coast region, UTHealth is leading these efforts by bringing students from several schools and disciplines together to learn to work together as a true healthcare team.

The Center for Interprofessional Collaboration is led by Drs. Jennifer Swails and Lee Revere. The Interprofessional Standardized Patient Simulation program, which was formally initiated in 2017, has several components. It is integrated into our ambulatory clerkship — teaching team and patient-centered care by helping underserved patients find resources; is part of our critical care clerkship—helping students to learn to communicate bad news and manage conflict; and is part of the transition to clerkships— with a mass casualty simulation, where students must stabilize, triage, and discharge mass casualty victims from the field and emergency room.

模拟
Clinical skills training has come a long way since I was a medical student and we learned clinical skills by watching others and doing procedures on real patients or on each other. Simulation allows our students to observe and practice clinical tasks in our state-of-the-art surgical and clinical skills center before they interact with patients. High-tech mannequins are introduced in the first year of medical school during the cardiovascular block. Mannequins also are utilized in the third year in the neurology clerkship — depicting stroke and seizure patients — and in the internal medicine clerkship — replicating bacterial meningitis and sickle cell crisis, the latter focusing on opioid administration and overdose. Our fourth-year students learn skills using a pediatric mannequin, with exercises that treat a variety of common pediatric conditions including asthma, anaphylaxis, and diabetic ketoacidosis/altered mental status.

Innovative Pedagogy
UTHealth教员teach in the pre-clerkship curriculum are introducing different forms of pedagogy. Dr. Phillip Carpenter is flipping his classroom and creating active learning sessions — students watch a pre-session video on a biochemistry-themed topic and then come to class and answer several “poll everywhere” questions.

学生首先单独回答问题，然后与同龄人（思想对 - 共享）讨论答案。与同龄人讨论后，学生的表现大大提高。值得注意的是，像这种新格式一样，学生参加了会议，大约有90％的人参加会议 - 在一个学生上课的可能性较小的时代。一项毕竟的调查表明，大多数学生更喜欢积极学习而不是传统的讲座。

职业焦点轨道
To better prepare our students for residency, current third-year students will move into one of four Career Focus Tracks starting in May 2019. These tracks will provide structure to the students’ rotation choices, helping them prepare for the next step in their medical career. Active mentoring is a key aspect of the tracks — engaging our medical school faculty to help students navigate the residency application and interview process. Each track will have its own specialty-specific workshops and sessions. Underpinning all four tracks will be a longitudinal curriculum focused on patient safety and quality improvement.

这四个曲目是：

-Primary Care (for students interested in pediatrics, internal medicine, family medicine, psychiatry, neurology, and primary care OB/GYN)

– Acute Care (for students interested in emergency medicine, anesthesia, and critical care)

– Applied Anatomy (for students interested in surgery, the surgical subspecialties, radiology, pathology, and OB/GYN)

– Academic Career (for students who have ongoing research, allowing them to complete their research projects before graduation)

Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship
In the 2019-2020 academic year, 10 third-year students will have the opportunity to participate in a new clerkship model. Thelongitudinal integrated clerkshipis a 24-week experience primarily at LBJ outpatient clinics that will integrate internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, and pediatrics.

Faculty Development
To ensure our faculty remain current on the latest learning techniques, the Office of Educational Programs offers a variety ofeducator development activities, including a monthly series of educational development sessions, online faculty development modules, and the Health Educators Fellowship Program. Workshops can be requested to meet the needs of a particular group of faculty seeking to enhance their teaching and evaluation skills.

新课程已进入第三年。我们的学生似乎在这项新课程中蓬勃发展，这是他们的国家考试的最初结果证明的。请与我一起感谢在教育我们的学生，尤其是教育计划办公室，课程委员会和招生和学生事务办公室中发挥作用的教职员工。

Warm regards,

芭芭拉

P.S. January is全国献血者月— a reminder to all of us of the importance of a steady blood supply.