Twenty-nine outstanding faculty and staff members have completed the 2004 University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio Teaching Excellence Course (UTEC).
In December they received their certificates of completion after completing the 36-hour professional development course. The participants gained experience in evaluating student performance, planning courses and writing lesson plans, teaching psychomotor skills, presenting lectures, creating PowerPoint presentations, working with challenging students, providing feedback, developing Web-based courses and using small group case-based learning methods. In addition, they were introduced to cognitive research pertinent to the health professions education and analyzed their own teaching strategies.
December 2004 marked the course’s twenty-ninth year and now has more than 700 graduates. It is believed to be the longest continuously run teaching enhancement course at any United States health science center.
Bill Hendricson is the course director and Drs. David Henzi and Aggie Manwell-Jackson were instructors this year. UTEC classes will be conducted again in the fall by the division of educational research and development in the academic and informatics services department.
Congratulations to the 2004 UTEC graduates. They are:
School of Allied Health Sciences:Michael Geelhoed, P.T. (Physical Therapy)
Ann Hamilton Newstead, P.T. (Physical Therapy)
Marisela Perez, B.S. (Dental Hygiene)
Melva Perez, O.T.R. (Occupational Therapy)
Ruth Skellett, Ph.D. (Deaf Education and Hearing Science)
Elizabeth Wilkes, Ph.D. (Deaf Education and Hearing Science)
Dental School:Isabel Gay, Ph.D. (Pediatric Dentistry)
Cara Knight, D.D.S., Ph.D. (Dental Diagnostic Science)
Erica Oliveira, D.D.S., M.P.H. (General Dentistry)
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences:Weislaw Furmaga, M.D. (Pathology)
Danet Lapiz, Ph.D. (Pharmacology)
Pothana Saikumar, Ph.D. (Pathology)
Nathan Weiderhold, PharmD (Pharmacology)
Medical School:Thea Ballinger (Family and Community Medicine)
Louise Brumfield, C.R.N.A. (Anesthesiology)
Michael Dawes (Psychiatry)
Sally Dunlap, Ph.D. (Family and Community Medicine)
Sean Garcia, M.D. (Medicine)
Rolando Lozano, M.D. (Pediatrics)
Glen Medellin, M.D. (Pediatrics)
Liliana Oaks, M.D. (Family and Community Medicine)
Albert Sanders (Orthopaedics)
James Tanyi (Radiology)
Leticia Vargas (Family and Community Medicine)
Nursing School:Pamela Keys, M.S.N. (Chronic Nursing Care)
Joseph Lucke, Ph.D. (Family Nursing)
Afiliated Programs:Irene Fernando, R.N. (University Hospital)
Marcia Isaacs (Academic Informatics Services)
John McManus, M.D. (U.S. Army Institute for Surgical Research)
