{"id":1492,"date":"2015-05-21T12:10:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T16:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/?page_id=1492"},"modified":"2026-02-05T14:53:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:53:26","slug":"teachingscholarly-activities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/offices-services\/md-program-offices\/registrars-office\/current-medical-students\/fourth-year-student-information\/fourth-year-elective-catalog\/teachingscholarly-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching\/Scholarly Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong id=\"601\">601\/MEDMD495 Quality Improvement Elective I\u00a0\u00a0 (non-clinical elective)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Instructors:<\/em> <strong>Lisa Caruso<\/strong><strong>, M.D.<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Administrative Contact: <\/em>Abigail Zielinski &#8211; Program Manager \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em>email: <\/em><a href=\"mailto:aziel@bu.edu\">aziel@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Telephone: <\/em>617 358-7477<\/p>\n<p><em>Number of Students:<\/em> one-three per assigned faculty member<\/p>\n<p><em>Period to be offered:<\/em> One month<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description of elective:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the current context of health care today and into the foreseeable future, health care professionals have two overarching responsibilities:<\/p>\n<p>o Delivering high quality care and constantly undertaking efforts to improve the care they deliver<br \/>\nMedical students who are completing their undergraduate medical training must be equipped with the knowledge and skills that form the foundation for improving care within this context. Students on this elective will work with a faculty advisor with quality improvement expertise to:<\/p>\n<p>o Identify a quality problem in a specific clinical area<br \/>\no Assess and systematically analyze the problem using quality improvement tools and<br \/>\no Complete a quality improvement project proposal.<\/p>\n<p>To initiate the knowledge and skills development needed for future quality improvement efforts that will be required in graduate medical education and professionally after training. At the completion of the elective the expectation is that the student will have completed a QI project proposal that can be used to initiate and complete a quality improvement project defined in the Quality Improvement II Elective<\/p>\n<p><strong>** Students need to have project and preceptor before submitting an add.\u00a0 This information should be sent to the coordinator before adding the course.\u00a0 All adds and drops must be approved\/signed by the coordinator**<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"602\">602\/MEDMD497 Quality Improvement Elective II\u00a0\u00a0 (non-clinical elective)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Instructors:<\/em> <strong>Lisa Caruso<\/strong><strong><\/strong><strong>, M.D.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Administrative Contact: <\/em>Abigail Zielinski &#8211; Program Manager \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em>email:<\/em> <a href=\"mailto:aziel@bu.edu\">aziel@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Telephone: <\/em>617 358-7477<\/p>\n<p><em>Number of Students:<\/em> one-three per assigned faculty member<\/p>\n<p><em>Period to be offered:<\/em> One month<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description of elective:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Students on this elective will work with a faculty advisor with quality improvement expertise to:<br \/>\n\u2022 Assess and systematically address a problem previously identified in QI Elective I using quality improvement tools and<br \/>\n\u2022 Actively participate and\/or lead the design and implementation of a quality improvement project to address that quality problem<br \/>\n\u2022 Complete a quality improvement project abstract and summary<\/p>\n<p>To provide the knowledge and skills needed for medical students to develop future quality improvement efforts that will be required for residency. At the completion of the elective the expectation is that the student will have completed a quality improvement project involving two tests of change (PDSA). QI projects will be used to create an abstract and project summary that can be submitted for presentation at a local\/national meeting, funding for further support of QI project, and\/or certification from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Open School\u2019s QI Practicum Certificate.<br \/>\nPre-requisite for Quality Improvement Elective II is successful completion of the requirements for Quality Improvement Elective I including the assigned IHI Open School modules (QI 101-105).<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"603.1\">603.1\/MEDMD510 Patient Advocacy and Community-Based Resources in Clinical Medicine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Course Director:<\/em> <strong>Megan Sandel, MD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Department of Pediatrics, 801 Albany Street, Second Floor<\/p>\n<p><em>Telephone:<\/em> (617) 414-3680<\/p>\n<p><em>Contact: <\/em>Nayab Ahmad<\/p>\n<p><em>Email:<\/em> <a href=\"mailto:Nayab.Ahmad@bmc.org\">Nayab.Ahmad@bmc.org<\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Location:<\/em><strong> \u00a0<\/strong>Boston Medical Center<\/p>\n<p><em>Number of Students: <\/em>1-2 students per block<\/p>\n<p><em>Period to be offered: <\/em>Blocks 9-20<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description of Elective:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During their time at Boston Medical Center, CAMED students are allowed the unique opportunity to serve a patient population that is reportedly 70% underserved and includes patients who may be low-income, immigrants, non-English speaking, or some combination of all three. The health of these patients is often intimately tied to social, economic, or other non-biomedical circumstances, requiring their medical teams to craft a treatment plan that accommodates these social needs. While health care providers are well trained to address medical issues, this elective is designed to provide more intensive training around social determinants of health and the various ways physicians can advocate for social change to improve the lives of their patients.<\/p>\n<p>This elective will focus on helping medical students explore the social determinants of health and how physicians can assess and manage these social determinants of health as part of an inter-professional team. The main faculty mentor will be Dr. Megan Sandel, MD, MPH, who will meet with each student and help to coordinate the clinical setting in which the student will spend the four week block.\u00a0 Students will spend 50-75% of their time in this clinical setting or community based organization devoted to underserved patients (examples include Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program; GROW clinic, or Project RESPECT Clinic).\u00a0 Students, in collaboration with Dr. Sandel, will choose a BMC faculty mentor at their clinical site who is invested in patient advocacy and a subject expert in the student\u2019s area of interest.\u00a0 The other 25-50% of time will be spent doing an advocacy focused research or intervention project. Details of the elective must be worked out in a meeting with Dr. Sandel at least 1 month prior to the start of the elective block.<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"604\">604\/MEDMD591 Illness Narratives\u00a0 (non-clinical elective)\u00a0 (course will not be offered 2022\/2023 academic year)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Instructors:<\/em> <strong>Sarah Wingerter<\/strong><strong>, M.D.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 email: sarah.wingerter@bmc.org<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Number of Students:<\/em>\u00a0 2 sections, maximum 16 students per sections<\/p>\n<p><em>Period to be offered:<\/em> This is a longitudinal course offered once per academic year.\u00a0 Please contact the course instructor for class dates.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Students are expected to attend at least four of the six scheduled sessions. Students will be assigned to 1 section and must attend sessions within their own section only.<\/li>\n<li>Students must submit a paper add\/drop form, as well as a signed letter of commitment, stating they will attend the requisite number of sessions to receive credit. This document will be available from the course instructor, and it must be signed and returned to receive approval for enrollment in the course.<\/li>\n<li>Students will not be officially enrolled in the course until they have received approval from the course instructor, even if this course appears on their schedule from the Registrar\u2019s office. Failure to get approval for enrollment in the course will result in not receiving credit for the course.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Please note that this is a (2) credit course<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Description of elective:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The elective is an opportunity for fourth-year students to read published illness narratives and to investigate their own experiences through writing. \u00a0Students will gain proficiency in examining, discussing, and responding to topics related to illness, death, and dying as experienced by patients, families, and medical practitioners.<\/p>\n<p>The elective offers a space in which to engage in self-reflection and discussion with peers. Discussion will center on selected readings (longer works read prior to class and shorter pieces read during class), as well as in-class writing exercises shared within the group.\u00a0 Writing prompts will serve as entry points for exploring experiences ranging from patients\u2019 encounters with illness to grief and loss, topics that frequently arise in medical practice but tend to receive little attention in standard medical-school curricula.<\/p>\n<p>In the third and fourth years of medical school, students begin to amass a variety of clinical experiences that warrant but often fail to receive deeper examination and contemplation.\u00a0 A primary objective of the elective\u2014and one of its unique features&#8211;is to provide a venue for fourth-year students to begin to excavate and articulate some of these experiences. This elective employs the illness narrative to (1) encourage a greater capacity for receiving and interpreting stories of illness, death, and dying, and (2) facilitate conversation among students about their own clinical experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike other courses, this elective is longitudinal, meeting regularly over a period of months and thereby offering students time to integrate their clinical experiences as they occur.\u00a0 The course takes place at CAMED in a monthly seminar format.\u00a0 \u00a0Classes are facilitated by the course instructor.\u00a0 There may be occasional guest faculty facilitators.\u00a0 There will be no direct patient encounters during this elective. The course includes 12 hours of in-class teaching (six sessions, two hours each). \u00a0In addition, students will be responsible for completing approximately 30 hours of preparation including outside readings and a final project, which may be a compilation of writing or other creative project that demonstrates competence in understanding the illness narrative.<\/p>\n<p>Some assigned readings will be available via the BU Library Course Reserves. The majority of writing exercises will take place during class, but students are encouraged to maintain their writing practice between sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Grading: Pass\/Fail<\/p>\n<p><strong>205.3\/MEDMD592 Medical Education Curriculum Projects\u00a0 (non-clinical elective)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Instructor:\u00a0<\/em><strong>Molly Cohen-Osher<\/strong><strong>, M.D.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Contact:<\/em> Abigail Zielinski &#8211; Program Manager \u00a0<em>email: <\/em><a href=\"mailto:aziel@bu.edu\">aziel@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Telephone: <\/em>617-358-7477<\/p>\n<p><em>Number of Students:<\/em> 2 students per month<br \/>\n<em>Period to be Offered:<\/em> contact Abigail Zielinski for available blocks<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description of Elective:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Medical Education Curriculum Projects elective provides for a MS4 student the opportunity to use a systematic instructional design process to discover, design, develop, and deploy in four weeks an instructional project on a content area of their choice. The focus of the elective is to learn and apply nontraditional curricular formats (e.g., integration of basic sciences and clinical content using technology, online modules, innovative study tools, and simulations.)\u00a0 Each student meets with a Faculty member as the content expert and the Elective Director a month in advance of the elective to approve the topic, and then weekly to review the deliverables and decide how the project will be implemented.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GOAL:<\/strong> The purpose of this elective is to guide the MS4 student through the development of an instructional project for the current CAMED curriculum, presentation at a conference, posting to an educational portfolio, or for their future roles as physicians, educators, and researchers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LEARNING OBJECTIVES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By the end of the elective, the CAMED 4<sup>th<\/sup> year student will be able to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prepare a content outline based on a review of literature of the project content using 3-4 subtopics (upon approval of topic and method by Faculty as a content expert and Elective Director)<\/li>\n<li>Write a goal and learning objectives for an instructional project<\/li>\n<li>Select the instructional and evaluation strategies for the project<\/li>\n<li>Implement the project\u2019s design into a developmental draft of the project for assessment by the mentors and a beta class<\/li>\n<li>Report on the beta-test findings, revise if necessary and implement the final project<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>CURRICULUM&#8211; <\/strong>The curriculum includes this sequential weekly process:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Week 1: Selection of topic and instructional method and competitive analysis<\/li>\n<li>Week 2: Writing a content outline, goal and learning objectives for project<\/li>\n<li>Week 3: Developing a draft of project<\/li>\n<li>Week 4: Beta-testing with a sample population, revision, and final project<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This elective requires four sequential weeks to complete the project and cannot include absences due to travelling for matching interviews, weddings, or other family events.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EVALUATION \u2013<\/strong> The assessment of the student\u2019s performance of the learning objectives will be done by both the Faculty member and the Elective Director on a weekly basis of deliverables. The weekly milestone grades are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Week 1: 10% Discover the topic, targeted audience, and instructional needs<\/li>\n<li>Week 2: 10% Design the Project<\/li>\n<li>Week 3: 30% Develop the Project<\/li>\n<li>Week 4: 50% Deploy the Project<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both the Faculty member and Elective Director will provide weekly formative feedback and the summative evaluation will be posted as Honors, High Pass, Pass, or Fail. If the student fails to meet the weekly deliverables, then both the Faculty member and Elective Director will provide a remediation plan. Any incomplete deliverables due to unexcused absences will receive a failing grade.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong><span class=\"s1\" id=\"313.0\">313.0\/MEDMD565 Teaching Clinical Skills 1\u00a0 (non-clinical elective)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Instructor: <\/em><strong>Elizabeth Ferrenz, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Email: <\/em><a href=\"mailto:eferrenz@bu.edu\">eferrenz@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Contact:<\/em> Signature Noel\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Email: <\/em><a href=\"mailto:snoel@bu.edu\"><em>snoel@bu.edu<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Telephone: <\/em>617 358-9083<\/p>\n<p><em>Number of Students:<\/em> By arrangement <strong>(Contact Signature Noel to schedule elective.\u00a0\u00a0 Add\/Drop form is required)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prerequisites: <\/strong>Students must have completed all 3rd year requirements. Students cannot take this elective while in required coaching.<\/p>\n<p><em>Period to be offered:<\/em>\u00a0 this rotation runs mid-August through the end of November and requires longitudinal teaching sessions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please Note: Students will be granted only 2 weeks fourth year elective credit for this rotation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Description of Elective:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>M4s will learn how to observe, teach, and provide constructive feedback to M1 medical students learning interviewing skills in the Doctoring 1 Course. The M4 student instructor will be assigned to a group of 2-3 first year students. The M4 instructor will be responsible for teaching these students how to conduct a basic patient interview, how to compose a basic patient write-up, and how to verbally present a clinical case in a concise manner. Some basic physical examination skills will be incorporated during the sessions.\u00a0 The M4 student instructor will complete written formative feedback for their M1 students after every observed session to assist the M1 student in their growth and development.<\/p>\n<p>If a M4 student is unavailable on a given week, they can make up the session covering another group of M1s on a different day of the week on that or another week or by participating in physical exam skills teaching sessions.\u00a0 During physical exam skills teaching sessions the M4 student will partner with Academy of Medical Education (AME) faculty to support M1 or M2 student skill-building.<\/p>\n<p>M4 student instructors will be expected to attend an orientation and skill building session at the start of the elective and a feedback skill building session at the mid-way point of the elective. For any physical exam skills sessions, an instructor guide will be provided for preparation.<\/p>\n<p>All students must complete all required longitudinal teaching sessions to receive credit for the elective. The purpose of this elective is to provide the 4th year student with clinical teaching skills and to enhance their own interviewing and physical exam skills.<\/p>\n<p>This is a Pass\/Fail course.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>605\/MEDMD566 Teaching Clinical Skills 2\u00a0 (non-clinical elective) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Instructors:<\/em> <strong>Christine Phillips, MD and Joseph Rencic, MD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Contact:<\/em> Signature Noel\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Email: <\/em><a href=\"mailto:snoel@bu.edu\"><em>snoel@bu.edu<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Telephone: <\/em>617 358-9083<\/p>\n<p><em>Number of Students:<\/em> 40-60<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prerequisites: <\/strong>Students must have completed all 3rd year requirements. Students cannot take this elective while in required coaching.<\/p>\n<p><em>Period to be offered:<\/em> this rotation runs December through February and requires longitudinal teaching sessions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description of elective:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Teaching Clinical Skills 2 elective provides fourth-year students with an opportunity to teach in the clerkship prep portion of Doctoring 2 course and physical exam skills sessions in Doctoring 1 and 2.\u00a0 Each M4 will mentor 2-4 M2s 5 times during their clerkship prep learning. On clerkship prep days, the M4 will go to their assigned clerkship (e.g., MP 4 east) and find and consent patients for their students to interview prior to 1 pm. At 1 pm, they will meet with their M2s and introduce them to the patients that they will interview. M4s will directly observe and coach M2s while they interview and perform physical exams and prepare case presentations. They will provide both verbal and written feedback based on their observations. Students will sign up for either Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday afternoons from 1-3:30 pm for the 5 clerkship prep sessions.<\/p>\n<p>If a student is away (e.g. for an interview), they can make up the session covering another group of M2s on a different day of the week on that or another week. During physical exam skills teaching sessions the M4 student will partner with Academy of Medical Education (AME) faculty to support M1 or M2 student skill-building.<\/p>\n<p>If a M4 student is unavailable on a given week (e.g., for an interview), they can make up the session covering another group of M2s on a different day of the week on that or another week or by participating in physical exam skills teaching sessions in the Doctoring course.\u00a0 During physical exam skills teaching sessions the M4 student will partner with Academy of Medical Education (AME) faculty to support M1 or M2 student skill-building.<\/p>\n<p>There will be an orientation session at the beginning of the elective and a teaching development session mid-elective. 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