Doug Lemov's field notes

Reflections on teaching, literacy, coaching, and practice.

08.24.22 Workshop: Helping Medical Educators Become Master Teachers

In September, we’ll be offering our first workshop for medical educators.  Our purpose is to study techniques that can help people in the medical field teach more effectively and more productively.  Yes, we borrow from outstanding K-12 examples… but we also study real world examples of how doctors are taught. This video of University of Pittsburgh…


07.13.22 Details on Our First Workshop Specifically for Medical Educators

For some time we’ve been doing increasing work in the medical profession, with medical educators joining us at our workshops and sharing video of their teaching to build their instructional skills. Now, I’m happy to say we are offering our first workshop specific to the medical education community. It’ll consist of 6 90-minute afternoon online workshops…


03.01.13 Lessons from Dr. Fuller

I’m in the Palmetto state today… talking with medical faculty at the Greenville Hospital System in Greenville South Carolina. Last night I chatted with J. Michael Fuller, the Vice Chairman for Faculty Development and Education in the Department of Medicine here and found myself pretty impressed by the things Dr. Fuller does with his teachers. Not…