John Wiecha Named OME Director
August 17, 2011
Please welcome John Wiecha, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Family Medicine, as the new Director of the Office of Medical Education (OME). The OME evaluates all courses and clerkships for the MD degree, organizes faculty development activities, and directs four interdepartmental medical school courses. He replaces Peter Shaw, PhD, who announced his retirement several months ago.
Dr. Wiecha has been a BUSM faculty member since 1998. He received his MD from SUNY Stony Brook, and completed residencies in Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine at UMass Medical Center, where he conducted research and directed the Family Medicine Clerkship. Most recently, Dr. Wiecha was Director of Medical Student Education in the Department of Family Medicine, and is the Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs at BUSM.
His academic interests include medical education evaluation and research, and the use of information technology for medical education and patient education. Dr. Wiecha’s programs and publications on distance medical education are nationally recognized. The NIH, US Public Health Service, World Health Organization, American Cancer Society, Commonwealth Fund, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Physicians’ Foundation have funded his research and educational program development proposals.
Karen Antman, MD
Provost, Boston University Medical Campus
Dean, School of Medicine
Professor of Medicine
