Faculty

Bio

David Salzman, MD, MEd, is an emergency medicine physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital with a strong interest in medical education. After completing residency training, he completed a master's in education from the University of Cincinnati. For the medical school and emergency medicine training programs, Dr. Salzman oversees the implementation of simulation-based education into all four years of each curriculum. Dr. Salzman's primary research focus has been centered on curriculum development using a specific competency-based model called simulation-based mastery learning to improve educational outcomes for medical student and resident training. These curricula span procedural and communication domains. Additionally, he collaborates with Northwestern's educational technology team to innovate the delivery of curricular content for the medical students.