Center for Education
Supporting Interdisciplinary Medical Education
BIDMC's Center for Education was established in 2004 to facilitate planning and coordination of the medical center's interdisciplinary and interdepartmental medical education enterprise. We support the many elements of our educational mission which serve medical students, residents, fellows, attending physicians and ultimately, our patients.
The Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research, founded in 1996, continues to provide the infrastructure which allows the Center for Education to develop and promote its innovative programs aimed at excellence in teaching and research at academic medical centers. We commit to:
- Sustain the highest quality educational programs for our trainees that will lead to the best and safest care for our patients;
- Help maintain first-rate educational facilities; and
- Foster an environment dedicated to lifelong learning.
We pledge to develop medical education leaders who will serve communities locally, nationally and throughout the world.
Medical Education Annual Report
The BIDMC mission emphasizes a deep commitment to world-class education and research in the service of patient care. The Center for Education proudly supports the hospital's faculty, educational leaders, administrators, residents, fellows and medical students by creating innovative programs and resources for teaching and learning. As we continue to implement our strategic plan for education, we are excited to share the ongoing impact of our work. Through rigorous education research, we document how specific educational interventions enhance patient care, reinforcing BIDMC’s role as a national and international leader in medical education.
BIDMC and HMS Teaching Awards
Each June marks not only the end of an academic year for medical students and residents, but also a time to recognize individual faculty and house staff for particularly noteworthy accomplishments as teachers and as care providers. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) holds a special place within the Harvard Medical School (HMS) community for its commitment to, and excellence in, medical education. This reputation is well supported by the number and diversity of HMS awards received by BIDMC faculty each year.
We are delighted to honor and congratulate the all recipients of year-end awards from Harvard Medical School and from individual departments within BIDMC.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), in conjunction with Harvard Medical School, bestows one very special teaching award each year. The S. Robert Stone Award for Excellence in Teaching is given in honor of the late past Board Chair of Beth Israel Hospital by his children. The award has been presented annually since 1981 to a member of the Harvard Faculty at BIDMC for outstanding achievement in the teaching of medical students and house staff. Nominations for the award are received from those who know our faculty the best — our students, residents and fellows.
Stewart H. Lecker, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Nephrology Fellowship, BIDMC
Dr. Stewart Lecker is Director of the Nephrology Fellowship program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and a core faculty member for students in the Homeostasis 2 course. Students who nominated Dr. Lecker for this award wrote that he "is the best professor and attending I have worked with in my four years at HMS. He managed not only to simplify complex concepts for us, but to inspire interest in material that most students consider among the most difficult and humbling — renal physiology." He "would always explain the physiological principles to help me understand for a lifetime rather than simply memorize an answer. This speaks volumes to his priorities in teaching and to his passion for what he does."
Previous recipients of the S. Robert Stone Award include:
- Donald Antonioli, MD
- Patricia Come, MD
- Margot Kruskall, MD
- Lewis Landsberg, MD
- Henry Klapholz, MD
- Steven Weinberger, MD
- Leon Goldman, MD
- Ary Goldberger, MD
- George Kurland, MD
- Booker Bush, MD
- Mark Peppercorn, MD
- William Cochran, MD
- Michael Ronthal, MD
- Gillian Lieberman, MD
- Sanjiv Chopra, MD
- Michael Cahalane, MD
- Mitchell T. Rabkin, MD (Honorary)
- John P. Doweiko, MD
- Johanna A. Pallotta, MD
- Mary Fishman, MD
- Frank W. Drislane, MD
- William Silen, MD (Honorary)
- Reed E. Drews, MD
- Harvey Goldman, MD (Honorary)
- Richard M. Schwartzstein, MD
- Helen Shields, MD
- Ronald Silvestri, MD
- Hope Ricciotti, MD
- C. Christopher Smith, MD
- David H. Roberts, MD
- Sara Fazio, MD
- Theodore Steinman, MD
- Peter Clardy, MD
- Amy Ship, MD
- John Mitchell, MD
- Bernard Chang, MD
- Mark P. Callery, MD
- Adolf W. Karchmer, MD
- Melanie Hoenig, MD
- Thomas Lamont, MD
- Grace Huang, MD
- Paul Sprin, MD
- Dara Brodsky, MD
- Michael Kahn, MD
- Anita Vanka, MD
- Yvonne Gomez-Carrion, MD
- Julius Yang, MD
- Penny Greenstein, MD
