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  Dr. Elaine Dannefer

Dr. Elaine Dannefer was appointed Director of Educational Research and Assessment in the Office of Curricular Affairs at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine in 2003. She earned her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Rochester in 1989 and her MSW from Indiana University in 1972. She has been in medical education for almost twenty years, first as a medical education researcher/program evaluator, then as Associate Dean for Curricular Affairs at the University of Rochester Medical School (1998-2003). At Rochester she established a new Curricular Affairs Office that provided faculty and curriculum development, conducted educational research, and implemented program evaluation for the Double Helix Curriculum, nationally known for its successful integrated curriculum and comprehensive assessment of professional competence. Her scholarship activities include co-authoring a number of articles related to innovative curricular and assessment activities. She has also played a key role in acquiring external funding to support curricular and assessment activities. Specific accomplishments include developing a Standardized Patient program for educational purposes and comprehensive assessments and a Dean’s Teaching Fellow program designed to support scholarship in medical education. In her current position at CCLCM, her primary focus is student assessment. She the PI of an external grant that is funding the development of a comprehensive ePortfolio assessment system used for both formative and summative purposes.


Selected Publications:
  • Dannefer EF, Henson LH, Grady-Welicky T, Bierer SB, Meldrum S, Nofziger A, Barclay C, Epstein RM. Peer Assessment of Professional Competence. Medical Education (Accepted for publication).
  • Bierer SB, Fishleder AJ, Dannefer EF, Farrow N, & Hull AL. (2004). Pyschometric properties of an instrument designed to measure the educational quality of graduate training programs. Evaluation and the Health Professions, 27:410-424, 2004.
  • Epstein RM, Dannefer EF, Nofziger AC, Hansen JT, Schultz SH, Jospe N, Connard LW, Meldrum SC, Henson LC. Comprehensive Assessment of Professional Competence: The Rochester Experiment. Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 16:186-196,2004.
  • Dannefer EF and Henson LC. Refocusing the role of simulation in medical education: Training reflective practitioners. In Dunn WF (ed.), Simulators in Critical Care and Beyond. Des Plaines, IL: Society for Critical Care Medicine, 2004.
  • Medina-Walpole A, Clark NS, Heppard B, Dannefer E, McCann, R. Launching the Aging Theme at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Forthcoming in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
  • Quill, TE, Dannefer EF, Markakis K, Epstein RE, McGrail K, Milella M. An Integrated Biopsychosocial Approach to Palliative Care Training of Medical Students. Journal of Palliative Care, 6:365-380, 2003.
  • Dannefer, EF, Hundert EM, Henson, LC. "Medical Education Reform at the University of Rochester and the Biopsychosocial Tradition," in The Biopsychosocial Approach: Past, Present and Future, edited by Rich Frankel, Susan McDaniel and Tim Quill. University of Rochester Press, 2003.
  • Dannefer EF, Johnston MA, Krackov SS. "Communication and the Process of Educational Change." Academic Medicine Supplement, 73:16S-23S, 1998.
  • Cohen J, Dannefer EF, Seidel HM, Weisman CS, Wexler P, Brown TM, Brieger GH, Margolis S, Ross LR, Kunitz SJ. "Medical Education, Change: A Detailed Study of Six Medical Schools." Medical Education, 28:350-360, 1994.

 
   
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