Putnam Scholar Announced
Jan Hanson, B.A., M.A.Ed., Ed.S., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics and Family Medicine, Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, has been named as the 2010 Putnam Scholar.
Her project as a Putnam Scholar is designed to equip faculty to teach and evaluate medical students’ communication skills, using the Essential Elements of Communication (EEC) tool to build consistent, coordinated teaching across the curriculum. The project is developed to establish validity and reliability of the EEC in their teaching settings. Finally, the project will develop additional items to address communication skills in areas of current curricular concern, including shared decision making, communication in the setting of an electronic health record, and healthcare team communication, particularly as related to patient safety.
Selection of Dr. Hanson was made by the Putnam Scholar Committee, chaired by Kathleen McGrail, MD, which deliberated among the highly-qualified applications that were received for this year’s position. Committee members are William Branch, MD; Richard Frankel, PhD; Robert Lawrence,MD; William Salazar, MD; and Timothy Quill, MD.
The Putnam Scholars Program celebrates AACH co-founder, Samuel Morse Putnam, MD, whose work was defined by his commitment as an advocate for education and research in physician-patient communication.
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