Health Sciences Education Grand Rounds   
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
202 Light Hall

"Building Learning Portfolios into a New Curriculum: Lessons Learned"

  Lindsey Henson, MD, PhD

Vice Dean for Medical Education and Student Affairs
Professor of Clinical Biomedical Science and Medical Education
Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine
Florida Atlantic University

A boxed lunch will be provided for all registrants.

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About Dr. Henson:
Dr. Henson is responsible for undergraduate medical education at the new FAU College of Medicine in Boca Raton, FL, which matriculated its first class in 2011 and received provisional LCME accreditation in February 2013. Prior to joining FAU, she was the education dean at three established US medical schools that were undertaking curriculum reform – the University of Minnesota, Case Western Reserve University, and the University of Rochester – and was Chair of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at the University of Louisville. She was involved in creation of the Double Helix Curriculum at Rochester and the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western. Dr. Henson earned her MD and PhD in nutrition at UCLA and served on the faculty in medicine and kinesiology at UCLA before completing her anesthesiology residency there. Her academic and administrative work has focused on curriculum design and implementation, change management, portfolios in competency assessment, simulation in healthcare education, and accreditation of medical education programs across the continuum.

CME Credit:
Sponsored by Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; Office for Health Sciences Education, Educator Development Core and  the Academy for Excellence in Teaching