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.
For the first time, in March 2000, we joined the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney to present a program for medical educators in Australia. In 1996, he became founding director of the Larisa Marshall Consortium for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, an international alliance of medical and other educators dedicated to employing the findings of the learning sciences to create natural critical learning environments. Trained as a historian of U.S. diplomatic history, he is a professor of history at Northwestern, where he continues to teach a highly popular course on late twentieth century U.S. relations with the rest of the world. He was founding director of the Center for Teaching in the College of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt University until 1992. Besides his research on teaching and learning, his historical research and writing concentrates on the development of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.