Medicine Grand Rounds - Friday, September 20

Richard J. Simons, MD Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education Professor of Medicine Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth Presenting: "Medical Education Across the Continuum

September 20, 2013
8 am - 9 am
Location
Auditorium E, DHMC
Sponsored by
Geisel School of Medicine
Audience
Public
More information
Lara Judd
603-650-6722

Please join us for Medicine Grand Rounds on Friday, September 20, 2013 for the presentation titled:

Medical Education Across the Continuum

By

Richard J. Simons, MD

Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education

Associate Vice President for Health Affairs

Professor of Medicine

Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

 

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Auditorium E, Rubin Building, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Sponsored by the Department of Medicine

Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

 

Objectives – Participants will be able to:

  1. Review the historical perspective of medical education with a special focus on bedside teaching
  2. Describe some of the forces leading to medical education reform
  3. Define and describe the competency based approach to medical education across the continuum
  4. Define some of the “next steps” of medical education reform at the UME, GME, and CME level at Geisel and DHMC

 

Dr. Richard J.  Simons currently serves as the Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education at Geisel School of Medicine and the Associate Vice President for Health Affairs for Dartmouth College. In this role, he has oversight for undergraduate medical education for the School of Medicine as well as graduate medical education and continuing medical education for Dartmouth Medical Center.

He received his medical degree from the Penn State College of Medicine in May 1981, and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Hospital in June 1984.  He then served as Chief Resident and Instructor in the Department of Medicine at Penn State’s Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.  He also completed a Geriatrics Fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC.  While Dr. Simons’ clinical role is general internal medicine, his major focus has been on medical education, having served as a Clerkship Director and Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program, and Vice Dean for Educational Affairs at Penn State’s Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and College of Medicine.  In these roles, he provided oversight for major curricular innovations at both the medical student and resident level.

Dr. Simons was elected to Mastership in the American College of Physicians in April, 2012. Dr. Simons is certified in the practice of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He continues to practice general internal medicine and geriatrics at DHMC.

Richard J. Simons, MD has stated that he has no financial interests or arrangements in association with this presentation.

Please join the Department of Medicine in welcoming Dr. Richard J. Simons to Medicine Grand Rounds.

If you are unable to attend and would like to either view Grand Rounds live on your computer or if you would like to view it another time, please use this link.

http://med.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/education/dept_medicine_grand_rounds_live.html

 

 

 

Location
Auditorium E, DHMC
Sponsored by
Geisel School of Medicine
Audience
Public
More information
Lara Judd
603-650-6722