Fostering Student-Faculty Partnerships for Continuous Curricular Improvement in Undergraduate Medical Education

Kirstin W Scott1, Dana G Callahan, Jie Jane Chen

  • 1K.W. Scott is a fourth-year medical student, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5415-6479. D.G. Callahan is a fourth-year medical student, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1413-5331. J.J. Chen is a third-year medical student, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5380-4825. M.H. Lynn is a fourth-year medical student, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. D.J. Cote is a fourth-year medical student and PhD student, Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts. A. Morenz is a fourth-year medical student, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. J. Fisher is a fourth-year medical student, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. V.L. Antoine is a second-year medical student, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. E.R. Lemoine is a fourth-year medical student, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. S.K. Bakshi is a fourth-year medical student, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. J. Stuart is a fourth-year medical student, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. E.M. Hundert is dean for medical education and Daniel D. Federman, M.D. Professor in Residence of Global Health and Social Medicine and Medical Education, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. B.S. Chang is advisory dean and director, Francis Weld Peabody Society, and course director, Mind, Brain and Behavior, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. H. Gooding is faculty mentor, Education Representatives Program, Harvard Medical School, and adolescent medicine specialist, Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.

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