Those international institutes have worked with a set of fundamental and powerful organizing principles that transcend much of the recent debate about the proper direction of medical education. Our focus has been on learning that has a sustained and substantial influence on the thinking and practices of medical students. In those international institutes, we have found ways to share the results of our research with participants and to allow them the opportunity to apply those results to their own teaching, to exchange ideas about those applications with colleagues from around the country, to receive feedback from the institute staff, and to develop ways to share insights with colleagues back home. The institute offers a series of highly interactive workshops and an opportunity for important conversations about medical education. Each year, we invite to the institute the most outstanding medical educators in the United States and around the world, creating a vigorous and productive exchange of ideas and perspectives.
Enrollment is limited.
We have included on the program both people who have been responsible for the study and some of the best teachers they have studied. She is an extraordinarily gifted educator who has received numerous awards for her teaching. When Vanderbilt established its prestigious Chairs of Teaching Excellence in 1994, she was the first recipient of that honor. Her course in Neuroanatomy was listed by Vanderbilt students as the principle reason the school, in a recent national survey, ranked first in the United States in student satisfaction with their medical education. She has been recognized nationally for her contributions to medical education, and has lectured and done consulting on medical education at numerous schools.