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 David Stern, M.D., Ph.D. Research Associate Professor , CHGD; Associate Professor Internal Medicine and Medical Education, UM Medical School and VA Ann Arbor Health Care System David Stern practices general internal medicine at the Ann Arbor VA medical center, where he also teaches residents and medical students. Over the past decade he has been associate director of the Introduction To The Patient Course at the University of Michigan Medical School, and faculty director of the Standardized Patient Program. He now serves as Director of Global REACH, Michigan Medical School 's international initiative "to facilitate health research, education, and collaboration among the University of Michigan Medical School faculty, students, and our global partners for the benefit of patients worldwide." He is Director of the University of Michigan's Minority Health International Research Training Program. In addition to administrative responsibilities, his primary research interest is in the development and assessment of professional behavior of physicians. He is the author of over 100 abstracts and papers on the topic, and is editor of "Measuring Medical Professionalism," to be published by Oxford University Press in 2005. He has served as a consultant and visiting professor at medical schools nationally and internationally, conducting workshops and seminars on teaching, learning, and evaluating professionalism. In 2001, he was invited to participate as a member of the Core Committee of the Institute for International Medical Education and their project to evaluate outcome competencies of medical schools internationally. For the IIME pilot project in China , he directed the IIME task force on assessment, organized and managed faculty workshops, and organized the test administration in 2003. Subsequent international panels for standard setting at the student and school levels have helped the IIME to achieve its goal of measuring outcome standards in medical education. David Stern is PI of the Minority Health and Health Disparities International Research Training Grant (MHIRT), supported by NIH and administered through CHGD. He was a China Medical Board Distinguished Fellow and an Arnold P. Gold Foundation Fellow in 2003-04, and a member of the Gold Humanism Honory Society in 2004. |