The Center for Excellence in Education (CEE) awarded five faculty projects funding for the 2025-2026 academic year through the annual Educational Research and Scholarly Innovation Awards. These one-year awards support faculty efforts to conduct rigorous educational research or develop projects that involve new educational approaches or novel applications of established approaches.
Educational scholarship is a significant component of the education mission of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and CEE is pleased to announce the awardees for this year, whose work spans departments and programs across the SOM and Health System. To read more about each project, please visit the CEE website.
The CEE would like to thank members of the Educational Research and Anne L. Brodie Medical Education Fund Committees for their time and efforts conducting rigorous reviews of letters of intent and full proposals throughout the spring.
Congratulations to the following faculty members:
- Zach Boggs, MD (PI), Anirudh Sundararaghavan, MD, Abraham Kanal, MD, Ritu Bansal, MD, Sara Obeid, MD MPH
“Rethinking POCUS Curriculum in Residency: Beyond Numbers-Based Portfolios and toward Practical Competency-Based Assessment using I-AIM Case Submissions” - Sarah Jones, MD, Mary Kate Worden, PhD (Co-PIs)
“Introducing a Teaching Observation Program (TOP) at UVA School of Medicine” - Brian Peterson, MD (PI), Andrew Parsons, MD, MPH, Milad Memari, MD, MS, MSEd
“Communicating Diagnostic Uncertainty to Patients: How Medical Trainees Develop Self-Efficacy Through Clinical Experience and Observational Learning”
*This project is generously funded by the Anne L. Brodie Medical Education Fund Committee for its alignment with the priorities of humanism in medicine. Please visit https://med.virginia.edu/cee/brodie/ to learn more. - Melissa Jerdonek Sacco, MD, MS, Gregory Young, MD (Co-PIs), Andrew Parsons, MD, MPH, Karen Warburton, MD, Monica Lawerence, MD, Meg G. Keeley, MD, Michael S. Ryan, MD MEHP
“Coaching across the Continuum: A learner driven UME to GME Handover” - Christopher Thom, MD, RDMS (PI), James Moak, MD, RDMS, Jakob Ottenhoff, DO, Matthew Kongkatong, MD
“Simulation Based Instruction for FAST Examination Training”
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