Faculty
Salzman, David H
Course Director - Educational Technology
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medical Education
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, Salzman oversees the implementation of simulation-based education into all four years of each curriculum. 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.
Shaunfield, Sara
Course Director - Qualitative Research
Research Associate Professor of Medical Social Sciences (Outcome and Measurement Science)
Bio
Sara Shaunfield, MD is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Social Sciences at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She takes a social constructivist approach to research, primarily utilizing qualitative methods to understand experiences, develop measures, and evaluate interventions with the aim of enhancing patient and informal caregiver health outcomes. Dr. Shaunfield has over fifteen years' experience conducting qualitative research with patients, caregivers, health professionals, and medical students. Her qualitative research training and experience includes open-ended and semi-structured interviews, focus groups, provider interviews, expert panels, concept elicitation interviews, cognitive interviews, qualitative data analysis, and grant writing to support qualitative and mixed methods research. She has served as informal content mentor or advisor on qualitative research methods to several graduate students, junior faculty, K scholars, and staff. Dr. Shaunfield looks forward to teaching the MS-HPE Qualitative Research course and am excited to train the next generation of educators, clinicians, and healthcare professionals on conducting rigorous qualitative research in the health professions educational environment.