Medical Student Educators Development Institute

(Formerly named the Predoctoral Directors Development Institute)


The Medical Student Educators Development Institute (MSEDI) is a year-long comprehensive learning experience designed to give you the skills needed to advance your career in medical student education. You can expect to learn these skills and more:

  • Obtaining and managing resources
  • Grant writing
  • Curriculum and exam development
  • Student evaluation
  • Dealing with difficult students
  • Recruit preceptors
  • Negotiating
  • Directing a clerkship
  • Winning support from Dean and higher ups

Each fellow will form a relationship with an advisor who will be one of the MSEDI faculty and will complete a project geared toward your person interests. A special outcome for participants will be the relationships developed, with both participants as well as teachers at the Institute. We hope you will forge enduring relationships that support and guide you throughout your professional career.

Institute Schedule

The Institute includes two 1-day sessions: 

  • Thursday, January 20, 2011 prior to the 2011 Conference on Medical Student Education in Houston, TX
  • Wednesday, April 28, 2011 prior to the 2011 STFM Annual Spring Conference in New Orleans, LA

Deadlines throughout the year for project completion, submission, and advisor communication.

Institute Cost and Registration Information

Tuition for the fellowship is $2,095 (2,380 for nonmembers which includes a 1-year STFM membership). This fee includes your conference registration for both the STFM Conference on Medical Student Education (January 20–23, 2011, Houston, TX) and the STFM Annual Spring Conference (April 27-May 1, 2011, New Orleans, LA) as well as advisor/peer support during and between meetings. You must commit to attend both full-day special sessions of the Institute.

Download a MSEDI Registration Form (PDF).

Note: If you pay the tuition for the MSEDI fellowship program, you will NOT need to register for either the Conference on Medical Student Education or the Annual Spring Conference. Your fellowship fee includes registration for those conferences, and STFM staff will automatically register you for those conferences.

MSEDI Steering Committee:

Katie Margo, MD, Steering Committee Chair, University of Pennsylvania
David Steel, PhD, STFM Education Committee Chair, Texas Tech University
Alec Chessman, MD, Medical University of South Carolina
Paul Paulman, MD, University of Nebraska
Kent Sheets, PhD, University of Michigan
Alison Dobbie, MD, University of Texas
David Little, MD, University of Vermont

Past Fellows:

2009

Susan Cochella, MD
Deborah Jones, MD
Jason Moore, MD
Elizabeth Natal, MD
Vasil Nika, MD, MPH
Sarah Pritts, MD
Paul Schaefer, MD
Roberta Wattleworth, DO, MHA, MPH
Yaqin Xia, MD, MHPE

2008

Elizabeth Brown, MD, MPH
Maria Brown, DO
Nitin Budhwar, MD
Steven Crossman, MD
Stephen DeLapp, MD
Adam Dimitrov, MD
Greg Dobash, MD
Marguerite Duane, MD, MHA
W. Suzanne Eidson-Ton, MD, MS
Jocelyn Gravlee, MD
Suzanne Harrison, MD
Steven Heim, MD
Rahele Lameh, MD
Charmaine Martin, MD
Lisa Maxwell, MD
Katrina Miller, MD
Cathleen Morrow, MD
Jacob Prunuske, MD
Bal Reddy, MD
Ralph Samlowski, MD
Robin Schroeder, MD
Sarah Anne Schumann, MD
Tiffany Snyder, DO
Janice Spalding, MD

2007

Rachel Bramson, MD, MS
Jira Coumarbatch, MD
Peggy Cyr, MD
David Deci, MD
Kelly Everard, PhD
Rachel Franklin, MD
Claude Gauthier, MD
David Henderson, MD
Miriam Hoffman, MD
Karen Hulbert, MD
Patricia Jaimes-Huerta, MD
Vernon Johnson, MD
Harald Lausen, DO
Nichole LeBoyd, MD
Robert Mallin, MD
Jill S.M. Omori, MD
Evelyn Schwalenberg-Leip, DO
Stephen Scott, MD
Dan Sepdham, MD
Jim Shropshire, MD
Sharon Smaga, MD
John Turner, MD
Lori Weir, MD
Joshua Welch, MD