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Physician as Teacher Track

FLEX Scholarly Concentration Course Learning Objectives

  1. Evaluate the literature to identify a focus for a scholarly project that will advance what is currently known about health and disease (PL 3)
  2. Apply a systematic approach to design, implement, and evaluate a scholarly project (MK 8)
  3. Assess outcomes of work on a scholarly project to define appropriate next steps (PD 2)
  4. Present scholarly work clearly and concisely in a structured abstract, poster, and verbal poster presentation (CS 1) 

FLEX Projects

Anna Brady, MD is in the Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care. Her areas of interest within the Physician as Teacher Track are:

  1. Holistic review for GME recruitment (ongoing projects)
  2. Fostering autonomy in GME trainees
  3. Survey design and program evaluation

Please contact her at bradyan@musc.edu to discuss participating in this research.

Parneet Grewal, MD, completed her neurology residency at the University of Kentucky in Lexington and her Vascular Neurology fellowship at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. She is currently working as an Assistant Professor in stroke division at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. In the Physician as Teacher Track, her areas of interest include:

  1. Resident wellness & education and educating the community about stroke

Her Research Track interests include:

  1. Treatment of acute stroke
  2. Gender disparities in stroke and healthcare unfairness
  3. Stroke in women
  4. Stroke rehabilitation and recovery

She would love to work with anyone passionate about the above-mentioned areas as mentorship and research collaborator.

Paul McDermott, Phd has two FLEX projects available for the Spring of 2023:

  1. Interactive Learning: Develop an interactive learning module for Brightspace using the HTML-based platform H5P. Specific topics include: 1) Heart Sounds and 2) Tools of Molecular Genetics. Students will research the topic, produce a working H5P module. and develop an assessment tool. The module could potentially be submitted to the AAMC MedEd portal for peer-review or for sharing in a H5P library.
  2. Animated Cell Biology Videos: Students will work on developing animated videos for processes in cell biology. Specific topics include: 1) Synthesis of Membrane Proteins, 2) Endosomes and Lysosomes, and 3) Vesicular Trafficking. This project requires that the student has some experience working on computer animations. The animated videos could potentially be submitted to the AAMC MedEd portal for peer-review.