Meet the Scholars – Medical Education and Teaching

Kegan Cox
Mentor Name:
Dr. Sheena Eagan, Department of Bioethics and Interdisciplinary Studies
Project Title:
Empathy As it Relates to Documentation of Social Determinants of Health in Primary Care

Emily Tate
Mentor Name:
Dr. Walter “Skip” Robey, Department of Emergency Medicine
Project Title:
Virtual Reality in Simulation-Based Education: Is It Effective in Teaching Clinical Competency in Point-of-Care Ultrasound Techniques?

Ryan Dickerson
Mentor Name:
Dr. Kori Brewer, Department of Emergency Medicine
Project Title:
Effects of Interprofessional Mass Casualty Incident Simulation on Role Perception and Communication between Medical, Physician Assistant, and Nursing Students

Courtney Elliott
Mentor Name:
Dr. Lacy Hobgood, Department of Pediatrics
Project Title:
Sexual Abuse in Children: Medical Education Improvements

Alexandra Doherty
Mentor Name:
Dr. Kim Fender, Department of Emergency Medicine
Project Title:
Standardization of Undergraduate Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Curricula

William Haycox
Mentor Name:
Dr. David Gilbert, Department of Family Medicine
Project Title:
eENC: Telemedicine and Doctoring at Brody

Divya Srinivas
Mentor Name:
Dr. Walter “Skip” Robey, Department of Emergency Medicine
Project Title:
Using a self directed learning technique for learning suturing skills: does the medical student self assessment agree with that of faculty observers?

Jared Barkes
Mentor Name:
Dr. Ryan Moore, Division of Neonatology and Newborn Medicine
Project Title:
Effectiveness of Medical Play in Decreasing Stress and Anxiety in the Siblings of N.I.C.U. Patients

Kari Beasley
Mentor Name:
Dr. Luan Lawson, Department of Emergency Medicine and Dr. James Coleman, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Project Title:
A comparative study between in-person and virtual delivery of a peer instruction session to second-year medical students

Brady Buchanan
Mentor Name:
Dr. Philip Boyer, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Project Title:
Student Response to Providing Review Materials in an Anki Flashcard Format

Kelly Davis
Mentor Name:
Dr. Arne Anderson, Department of Pediatrics
Project Title:
Preparing Future Physicians to Treat Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Regan Lane
Mentor Name:
Dr. Craig Wuthrich, Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology
Project Title:
Examining the role of three-dimensional models in medical student understanding of embryology topics

Olivia Campbell
Mentor Name:
Dr. Jill Sutton and Ms. Monica Horne, CNM, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Project Title:
IPE with Certified Nurse Midwives and Medical Students on the Ob/Gyn Clerkship: A qualitative review of medical student experience

Denise Elizondo
Mentor Name:
Dr. Philip Boyer, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Project Title:
An Evaluation of Pre-Clinical Medical Education in Endocrine Pathology. Gap and Overlap Analysis.

Mitchell Jester
Mentor Name:
Dr. Philip Boyer, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Dr. Ann Sperry, Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology
Project Title:
Integration of Pathology Content into the Histology Curriculum and Its Impact on Student Performance

Amanda Mathew
Mentor Name:
Dr. Hellen Ransom, Department of Bioethics and Interdisciplinary Studies
Project Title:
Enhancing Education of Medical Ethics Foundational Concepts

Emmanuella Mensah
Mentor Name:
Dr. Miller Johnstone, Department of Family Medicine
Project Title:
The Impact of Narrative Medicine in the M3 Family Medicine Clerkship: Addressing physician burnout by nourishing empathy and active listening.

Matthew Parrish
Mentor Name:
Dr. Lisa Domico, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology and Dr. Walter C. “Skip” Robey, Department of Emergency Medicine
Project Title:
Simulation based reinforcement of pharmacology principles. Is it superior to the standard lecture model?

Keyur Patel
Mentor Name:
Dr. Kendall Campbell and Mr. Milton Bond, Division of Academic Affairs
Project Title:
Brody RISE

Amber Priester
Mentor Name:
Dr. Shannon Longshore, Department of Surgery
Project Title:
Pediatric Trauma Imaging

Andrew Brown
Mentor Name:
Dr. Kori Brewer, Department of Emergency Medicine
Project Title:
The Use of Pre-Laboratory Tutorial Videos in the M1 Neuroscience Course

Caitrin Curtis
Mentor Name:
Dr. John Norbury, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Project Title:
Teaching Conflict Resolution Techniques to Fourth-Year Medical Students Using Standardized Professionals; The Educational Impact of a Required, Combined Neurology-Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clerkship for Fourth-Year Medical Students

Brenham Hughes
Mentor Name:
Dr. Joseph Lane Wilson, Department of Family Medicine
Project Title:
Assessing Student Understanding of DRESS Syndrome through a Problem Based Learning Case Study

Jacob Jackowski
Mentor Name:
Dr. Walter C. “Skip” Robey, Department of Emergency Medicine
Project Title:
Heart murmur simulation for pre-clinical curriculum

Scott McLaughlin
Mentor Name:
Dr. Emily Askew, Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology
Project Title:
Effects of pelvis and perineum dissection videos on student performance in a condensed medical curriculum

Andrew Piner
Mentor Name:
Dr. Robert M. Lust, Department of Physiology
Project Title:
Enhancing traditional lecture: Audio/visual pre-lecture supplementation in a condensed medical school curriculum

Shubham Upadhyay
Mentor Name:
Dr. Philip Boyer, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Project Title:
Effects of Virtual Reality on teaching cardiac congenital pathology

Allison Connelly
Mentor Name:
Dr. Stephen Charles, Office of Medical Education
Project Title:
Patient Education in the Pre-Clinical Years of Medical School: A Pilot Study

Kelsey Evans
Mentor Name:
Dr. Danielle Walsh, Department of Surgery
Project Title:
Stop the Bleed: Medical Students as Instructors of the Bleeding Control Basics (B-Con) Course

Richard Jordan
Mentor Name:
Dr. Kelly Harrell, Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology and Dr. Philip Boyer, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Project Title:
The Need for Pathology: A Modular Approach to Pathology Integration in the Gross Anatomy Laboratory

Kaitlyn O’Connor
Mentor Name:
Dr. Kelly Harrell, Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology
Project Title:
The Implementation of Peer-led Anatomy Review Sessions for USMLE Step 1 Examination Preparation

R. Lee Stanley
Mentor Name:
Dr. Kelly Harrell, Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology
Project Title:
Peer-Directed Small Group Learning in M1 Gross Anatomy: Enhancing Student Learning While Reducing Required Contact Hours

Christopher Thomas
Mentor Name:
Dr. Jill Sutton, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Project Title:
Examining the Impact of the Hidden Curriculum on First Year Medical Students: A Mixed Methods Sequential Explanatory Study

Angela Vuong
Mentor Name:
Dr. Leigh Patterson, Department of Emergency Medicine
Project Title:
Medical Student Chest X-ray Knowledge: A Survey

Amber Whitmill
Mentor Name:
Dr. Stephen Charles, Office of Medical Education
Project Title:
Training Medical Student Facilitators of Peer Assisted Study Sessions Using an Objective Standardized Teaching Exercise

John Wooten
Mentor Name:
Dr. Kori Brewer, Department of Emergency Medicine
Project Title:
Disaster Day: Teaching Medical Students to Triage in a Simulated Mass Casualty Incident