Twenty-three outstanding faculty and staff members have completed the 2005 University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio Teaching Excellence Course (UTEC).
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.
The division of educational research and development of the academic informatics services department is proud to announce the graduates of the 29th annual UTEC. The 26-hour professional development program is a tradition at the Health Science Center – nearly 1,000 faculty, fellows and residents have completed UTEC since 1976. It is believed to be the longest continuously run teaching enhancement course at any United States health science center.
The graduates are:
Seated: Hope Hacker, M.D., assistant professor of rehabilitation medicine; Cherri Hicks instructor of family nursing; Lina Cardenas, D.D.S., M.S., Ph.D., assistant professor of pediatric dentistry; Saima Siddiqui, M.D., assistant professor of family and community medicine.
Middle row: Vidya Sankar, D.M.D., M.H.S., assistant professor of dental diagnostic science; Laura Sterling, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of family and community medicine; Bertha “Penny” Flores, instructor of family nursing care; Josephine Esquivel-Upshaw, D.M.D., MS., assistant professor of general dentistry.
Back Row: Billy James, Ph.D., assistant professor of emergency health sciences; Geoffrey Smith, instructor of emergency health sciences; Mary King, P.T., M.P.T., clinical assistant professor of physical therapy; Bruce Butterfras, assistant professor of emergency health sciences; Jason Schillerstrom, M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry; Pat Brewer, Ph.D., assistant professor of physical therapy; Marietta Paterson, Ed.D., assistant professor of deaf education and hearing science; Sandra Ehlers, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics; Clint Woosley, M.D., assistant instructor of pediatrics; Peter Gakunga, B.D.S, M.S., Ph.D, assistant professor of orthodontics; Ihab Istafanous, M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry.
Not pictured –Jill Fehrenbacher, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow of endodontics; Susan Rapp, M.S.N., R.N., instructor of family nursing; Sandra Sanchez-Reilly, M.D., assistant professor of medicine; Edward Wright, D.D.S., M.S., assistant professor of restorative dentistry.
