TCU/UNTHSC School of Medicine Grand Rounds–Dr. David Hirsh

TCU/UNTHSC School of Medicine March 2020 Grand Rounds session on “The Science of Learning: The State of the Art” will be facilitated by David A. Hirsh, MD FACP.

Thursday, March 26, 2020
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM
UNTHSC LIB 110

Presentation Summary:
In this metacognitive romp, the speaker will teach empirically-derived educational science engaging the audience using that very educational science—it is “a play within a play” to generate learning and retention about learning and retention.

In more than a century since the Flexner report, the fields that comprise “the sciences of learning” (education, neurobiology of learning, social and cognitive psychology, among others) have advanced greatly. Despite this progress, medical education has been slow to translate these empirically-derived sciences to our educational models, structures, and practices.

In this session, we will actively engage six empirically-derived sciences of learning using these sciences of learning. My hope is that education leaders, classroom teachers, clinical educators, and learners will value and benefit from these approaches and be better able to serve our future learners, patients, and communities thereby.

About the facilitator:
David A. Hirsh, MD, FACP, is the George E. Thibault Academy Associate Professor and Director of the Harvard Medical School Academy. Dr. Hirsh also directs the HMS Academy Medical Education Fellowship. He is the co-founder and Director of Harvard’s Cambridge Integrated Clerkship–the first academic longitudinal integrated clerkship or “LIC.”

Dr. Hirsh has received local, national, and international honors for his teaching,
academic work, clinical practice, and public service. His scholarship and academic
contributions span academic domains, including “educational continuity,” medical
education transformation, medical school program design, longitudinal integrated
clerkships, OSCEs, clinical skills training and assessment, East Asian constructs of
professionalism, humanism in medicine, and the theories and sciences of learning.
Dr. Hirsh directed and authored/co-authored the cases for HMS’s OSCE for 14
years and collaborated to create OSCEs within and outside the US. He co-founded
the international Consortium of Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships (CLIC) and
serves as a visiting professor of education nationally and internationally. He is the
co-editor of a book on educational transformation.

Clinically, Dr. Hirsh was the longest serving Medical Director of the City of
Cambridge Healthcare for the Homeless Program, and he co-founded a community
health center. He continues to practice in the Department of Medicine at the
Women’s Health Center at Cambridge Health Alliance, to mentor student and
faculty research, and to teach in courses in all four years of the HMS curriculum.