FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2005
Contact: Beverly McCoy (304) 691-1713 or Dr. Darshana Shah, (304) 696-7352
 

Prominent expert on medical education to speak at Marshall Friday

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Medical education authority David Irby, Ph.D., will provide workshops Friday (Nov. 4) to Marshall faculty and students at the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine.

Irby, vice dean for education and professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, will present a morning workshop for medical school faculty on "How to Prepare Your Educator's Portfolio." Set for 9:30 a.m. to noon, the workshop will be in the Cabell Huntington Hospital board room. He then will meet with medical school leadership at a mini-retreat, which will be followed at 3:30 p.m. by a general session open to medical students and all university faculty members. The general session will be in the Harless Auditorium on the ground floor of the Marshall University Medical Center.

Irby directs the undergraduate, graduate and continuing medical education programs of the UCSF School of Medicine, where he leads the Office of Medical Education. As a senior scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, he also co-directs a national study known as the Second Flexner Report on the professional preparation of physicians.

Over the past three decades, Dr. Irby has conducted research on clinical teaching in medicine and has received several prestigious awards, including the Distinguished Scholar Award by the American Educational Research Association, the John P. Hubbard Award from the National Board of Medical Examiners, and the Daniel C. Tosteson Award for Leadership in Medical Education from the Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

More information about Friday’s events is available from Dr. Darshana Shah, the medical school’s assistant dean for professional development in medical education, at 696‑7352.

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