Students as Teachers

First Annual Medical Education Leadership Institute

Mount Sinai School of Medicine - New York, NY
June 21-26, 2004

Training Tomorrows Teachers Today (T4) is an intense 5-day experience developed by the American Medical Student Association's (AMSA) Medical Education Action Committee and Mount Sinai School of Medicine (MSSM). The Medical Education Institute is intended to provide AMSA members, who are interested in academic medicine, with practical teaching and leadership skills. Students will be empowered to participate actively in the process of curriculum review and governance, and will be expected to plan and implement a project upon returning to their respective institutions.

Medical Education Summer Research

The Value of Creative Writing and Literature in Medicine

"Writing About Medicine"
An Experiment at Mount Sinai

Suzanne Feigelson, Class of 2006
David Muller, M.D., Faculty Mentor
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Becoming A Medical Teacher
Lisa Bensinger, M.D. and Jeremy Boal, M.D., Rainier Soriano, M.D., Lawrence Smith, M.D.

Fourth year student elective:  An innovative 4 week course on the “nuts and bolts” of adult learning principles and practical teaching techniques. Fourth year students are expected to transition naturally to the role of teacher once they enter internship. However, teaching is a skill rather than a gift and we hope that this new course will provide students with some formal training to excel as effective clinical teachers. In the first 3 weeks, students will spend a portion of their time in the classroom learning basic theory with medical education faculty. Students will also learn by practicing teaching in simulated and real life teaching sessions. Feedback and self-reflection will be an integral part of the course. In the last week, the students will serve as co-facilitators in a new third year medical student course where they can put their newly learned skills into practice.