MD Program
Teaching Opportunities
Passionate teachers are critical to the success of our Northwestern University medical students. Choose a learning format or schedule that works for you — from a fixed, weekly, small-group session to a flexible, one-on-one preceptorship — and work with MD students at any point in their course of study. Search or browse options below.
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assessment
M4 Teaching Selective
Provide Feedback in the M4 Teaching Selective
- Provide written feedback to the M4 students on written peer assessment feedback completed by the M4 students for M2 mentees
- October to April. Feedback will be completed remotely. Number of students you will review will be forthcoming.
- Flexible
- TS Coordinator
- Anisha Kshetrapal, MD, MSEd - Faculty Lead
small group teaching
M1 Clinical Medicine (CM)
M1 Clinical Skills Small Group Preceptor
- Opportunity to teach clinical skills such as communication skills, history-taking and physical exams. Small groups typically consist of 4-8 students. Students practice with standardized patients in the Outpatient Simulation Center.
- One, two-hour session every week (or every other week)
- M1 Clinical Skills small groups: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays; 1:00-3:00 p.m. from August to May
- CM Coordinator
- Bilal Al-Khalil, MD - Faculty Lead
- Nichole Ng, MD - Faculty Lead
small group teaching
Health Equity & Advocacy (HEA)
Small Group Leader
- Facilitate small group discussions about health care disparities, social determinants of health and health advocacy. Small group discussion guides will be provided for each session, so no content expertise required.
- M1: 5 hours of faculty development (Mondays 5-6pm) and 5 hours of leading small groups (Wednesdays 11a-12p)
- HS Coordinator (312-503-0729)
- Laura Arneson - Faculty Lead
- Asantewaa Ture - Faculty Lead
small group teaching
M2 Clinical Skills (CM)
M2 Clinical Skills Small Group Preceptor
- Opportunity to teach clinical skills such as communication skills, history-taking and physical exams. Small groups typically consist of 4-8 students. Students practice with standardized patients in the Outpatient Simulation Center.
- One, two-hour session every week (or every other week)
- M2 Clinical Skills small groups: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays; 3:15-5:15 p.m. from July to March
- CM Coordinator
- Bilal Al-Khalil, MD - Faculty Lead
- Nichole Ng, MD - Faculty Lead
small group teaching
Medical Decision-Making (MDM)
Small Group Leader
- M1: Small group sessions focus on the application of evidence-based medicine concepts such as literature searches, study design, likelihood ratios, ROC curves, decision analysis, and meta-analysis.
- M2: Small group sessions focus on critical appraisal of medical literature.
- M1: There are twelve, 50-minute faculty-facilitated sessions. Sessions are broken into two blocks, (Block 1: August - December; Block 2: January - May). You can sign up to be a sub, do a full block or both blocks. The small group sessions occur on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday from 3:00 - 3:50pm, approximately every other week.
- M2: There are seven, 50-minute student-led sessions. (Students lead the first five sessions, and the last two are faculty-led review sessions.) The small group sessions occur on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday, from 1:00 -1:50pm, approximately once a month.
- MDM Coordinator (312-503-3295)
- Cheryl Lee, MD - Faculty Lead
- Jah-Won Koo , MD - Faculty Lead
small group teaching
Problem Based Learning (PBL)
Small Group Leader
- Problem-based learning is a student-led, faculty-facilitated approach in which learners collaboratively investigate and analyze clinical cases to apply foundational scientific knowledge, develop clinical reasoning skills, and integrate ethical and public health perspectives into patient care.
- Two, two-hour sessions per week for two to six weeks
- M1: Monday/ Wednesday from 1 to 3 p.m. or Tuesday/ Thursday from 1 to 3 p.m.
- M2: Monday/ Wednesday from 3 to 5 p.m. or Tuesday/ Thursday from 3 to 5 p.m.
- PBL Coordinator
- Nahzinine Shakeri, MD - Faculty Lead
- Giselle Rodriguez, MD - Faculty Lead
small group teaching
Professional Development (PD)
Small Group Leader
- Ethics small group discussions (Ethics in Action)
- Transition to being a physician small group discussions (Personal Transition to the Profession)
- Ethics in Action M1: One-hour session per month (M, T, W or TH) from 1:00 to 2:00 pm, March through May.
- Ethics in Action M2: One-hour session per month (M, T, W or TH) from 1:00 to 2:00 pm, September through December.
- Personal Transition to the Profession M1/2: One-hour session per month (M, T, W, or TH) from 12:00 to 1:00 pm, late summer through spring.
- PD Coordinator
- Joshua Hauser, MD - Faculty Lead
small group teaching
Synthesis and Application Modules (SAM)
Small Group Leader (Simulation, CM, Ethics, H&S)
- Facilitate a small group discussion (Ethics, H&S, CM) or a simulation session designed to integrate physiology, pharmacology, and clinical medicine. Prior experience teaching in the simulation lab is beneficial.
- Phase 1a SAM I (mid November)
- Phase 1a SAM II (late March)
- Phase 1b SAM (early March)
- Phase 2 SAM (late August)
- Varies 2-4 hours per session
- SAM Coordinator
- David Salzman, MD - Faculty Lead
small group teaching
Ultrasound Sessions
Small Group Leader
- Lead groups of M1 and M2 students in the hands-on Ultrasound sessions
- Varies, usually 2-3 hours several times throughout the year
- Can commit to one or more sessions, depending on your availability
- CM Coordinator
- Russ Horowitz, MD - Faculty Lead
individual student mentoring
Area of Scholarly Concentration (AOSC)
Student Research Mentor
- Longitudinal commitment to mentor a student's scholarly project.
- Projects are conducted over four years, though most work is completed during the first two years.
- Ad hoc days and times
- Liza Rivnay
- Kelly Bachta, MD - Faculty Lead
- Chad Achenbach, MD - Faculty Lead
individual student mentoring
Mentoring a student in an educational project
- Provide feedback and guidance to students in an education-based project.
- Flexible and dependent on the project.
- Anisha Kshetrapal, MD, MSEd - Faculty Lead
large group teaching
Science in Medicine (SM)
Lecturer, Leader of Team-Based Learning Session or Flipped Classroom
- • Faculty with content expertise will prepare an active learning session to engage students and direct their learning.
- • 50-minute lecture or 80-minute Team-Based Learning (TBL) scheduled according to the needs of each Phase 1 module
clerkship
Clerkships - Emergency Medicine
As needed per clerkship directors
- Direct Observation of student's clinical skills
- Participation in the performance assessment of clinical skills and knowledge (OSCE)
- Molly Estes, MD - Faculty Lead
clerkship
Clerkships - ICU
As needed per clerkship directors
- Direct Observation of student's clinical skills
- Participation in the performance assessment of clinical skills and knowledge (OSCE)
- Angela Gipson
- Michael Ault, MD - Faculty Lead
- Timothy Rowe, MD - Faculty Lead
clerkship
Clerkships - Medicine
As needed per clerkship directors
- Direct Observation of student's clinical skills
- Participation in the performance assessment of clinical skills and knowledge (OSCE)
- Clinical case conference, etc
- Stefanie Reiff, MD - Faculty Lead
- Kelley Wachsberg, MD - Faculty Lead
clerkship
Clerkships - Neurology
As needed per clerkship directors
- Direct Observation of student's clinical skills
- Participation in the performance assessment of clinical skills and knowledge (OSCE)
- Clinical case conference, etc
- Stephen VanHaerents - Faculty Lead
clerkship
Clerkships - OBGYN
As needed per clerkship directors
- Direct Observation of student's clinical skills
- Participation in the performance assessment of clinical skills and knowledge (OSCE)
- Clinical case conference, etc
- Jamillah Collins (312-472-4672)
- Weronika Armstrong - Faculty Lead
clerkship
Clerkships - Pediatrics
As needed per clerkship directors
- Direct Observation of student's clinical skills
- Participation in the performance assessment of clinical skills and knowledge (OSCE)
- Clinical case conference, etc
clerkship
Clerkships - PM&R
As needed per clerkship directors
- Direct Observation of student's clinical skills
- Participation in the performance assessment of clinical skills and knowledge (OSCE)
- Clinical case conference, etc
clerkship
ECMH and Integrated Primary Care
As needed per clerkship directors
- Long-term and short-term Clinical Preceptor
- Participation in the performance assessment of clinical skills and knowledge (OSCE)
- Clinical case conference (Health Equity, High Value care, Evidence-Based Medicine)
- Dhanya Limaye, MD - Faculty Lead
- Jah-Won Koo, MD - Faculty Lead
clerkship
Clerkships - Psychiatry
As needed per clerkship directors
- Direct Observation of student's clinical skills
- Participation in the performance assessment of clinical skills and knowledge (OSCE)
- Clinical case conference, etc
- Mike Marcangelo, MD - Faculty Lead
clerkship
Clerkships - Surgery
As needed per clerkship directors
- Direct Observation of student's clinical skills
- Participation in the performance assessment of clinical skills and knowledge (OSCE)
- Clinical case conference, etc
- Jason Burke (312-926-9411)
- Joe Herrold, MD - Faculty Lead