Arts
Learners' Review
Weaving a Community
HMS students Jie Jane Chen (class of 2020) and Jonathan Kusner (class of 2021) describe their motivation to create “Weave”— their innovation to facilitate relational mentorship.
SCIENCE OF LEARNING
Possible Marker Found to Predict Long-term Learning
I had a new role, and it gave me an idea.
In 2012 I began work as Associate Chief of Staff for Education at the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System. In this role (which includes the Designated Institutional Official for graduate medical education) I am responsible for the education of the more than 3000 trainees who rotate through VA Boston each year, including over 400 medical students and 1300 residents and fellows. As a researcher who has spent my career examining learning and memory in both healthy individuals and those with memory disorders, my first thoughts were: What can I do to improve learning across the medical center?
