Six faculty members across Harvard Medical School (HMS), including four BIDMC faculty, have been selected for the 2023-2024 Rabkin Fellowship in Medical Education. The Rabkin Fellowship in Medical Education is a nationally recognized faculty development program – one of the first of its kind – in its 26th year that provides intensive training and protected time for HMS faculty to advance careers in academic medicine as educational leaders. The Fellowship is named for Mitchell T. Rabkin, MD, CEO emeritus of Beth Israel Hospital.

The fellowship is co-led by Celeste Royce, MD and Anita Vanka, MD. Dr. Royce is the Clerkship Director and Director of Undergraduate Medical Education for the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Course Director for the Transition to the PCE, Harvard Medical School. She is Assistant Professor for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Vanka, in addition to being Co-Director of the Rabkin Fellowship, is Director of the Practice of Medicine Course at HMS, Associate Director & Advisor of the Hinton Society at HMS and Associate Director of the Principal Clinical Experience at BIDMC. She is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

The Shapiro Institute for Education and Research at BIDMC is thrilled to announce the 2023-2024 Rabkin Fellows in Medical Education:

Katherine Brag, MD

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Department of Dermatology

Brittany Charlton, ScD

Harvard Medical School

Department of Population Medicine

Brooke Lubinski, MD

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Department of Medicine

Vilas Patwardhan, MD

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Department of Medicine

Aidan Sharkey, MD

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Department of Anesthesia

Ged Wieschhoff, MD

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Department of Radiology

Further information about the program may be found at: www.shapiroinstitute.org/rabkin-fellowship