Remediation in Medical Education (PDF)

Adina Kalet, MD, MPH, is the Stephen and Shelagh Roell Endowed Chair and Director of the Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Institute for the Transformation of Medical Education at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Prior to this she spent 32 years at New York University School of Medicine ending as a tenured Professor of Medicine and Surgery and Co-Director of the Program on Medical Education Innovation and Research (PrMEIR). The mission of PrMEIR is to advance medical education scholarship and to institute best practices for patient-centered, evidence-based medical education. She led the Research on Medical Education Outcomes (ROMEO) unit of PrMEIR, as part of the Section of Primary Care, Division of General Internal Medicine, and Department of Medicine. ROMEO is a group of dedicated cross-disciplinary researchers seeking to link education and health services research methodology to study how educational interventions lead to long-term outcomes in learners and patients. For the past 10 years Dr. Kalet has directed the NYU Clinical Translational Science Institute Translational Research Education and Careers Mentor Development Program (NYU CTSI TREC MDP), which prepared 15-20 researchers annually for their role in mentoring translational research. She has held the Arnold P. Gold Professor of Humanism and Professionalism, practiced and taught primary care medicine in the urban inner city, has been the PI or program director on a number of cross-disciplinary and multi-institutional curriculum development and research grants. Dr. Kalet has written extensively on issues of clinical skills evaluation and remediation, faculty development and mentoring, professional identity development assessment and psychosocial aspects of medicine. She has been primary mentor on federal Career Development Awards, numerous Master's Theses and countless mentoring committees. In 2012-2013 she took a sabbatical during which she wrote a book entitled Remediation in Medical Education: A Midcourse