The Medical School Engagement Program (MSEP) provides a way for education leaders to encourage medical student interest in endocrinology and recognize the best and brightest learners with opportunities to engage with leaders in our field. The Society is delighted to announce the 2024 inaugural recipients of the MSEP Award.
Eric J. Epstein, MD
“We would design one award for pre-clinical achievement in the endocrine systems course, awarded to a student who showed interest outside of the classroom (shadowing, etc.) or a med-ed improvement project. We would also design a clinical award for a student who engaged with the community for the betterment of endocrine patients, or worked on a research project or clinical case write-up which led to an abstract or poster at The Endocrine Society meeting.” (Learn More)
Alex Tuttle, MD, MEd
Erika Zevin, MD
"The IUSM Endocrinology student interest group will focus on curating a selection of speakers, hands-on-learning activities, and volunteer opportunities to enable student members to appreciate the field itself and to learn about varied endocrine career pathways (e.g. clinical, research, and industry)." (Learn More)
Dimpi Desai, MD
Neil Gesundheit, MD
Joy Wu, MD
“Students will be matched to faculty mentors based on overlapping clinical and/or research interests who can provide additional guidance. Students in the Endocrine Interest Group will be invited to attend didactic events in the Division including weekly case conference and endocrine grand rounds, and monthly journal club. Division networking events will afford additional opportunities to meet with faculty and fellows, including an annual alumni mixer, fellows welcome party, and holiday party.”
Teodor Duro, MD
Kristen Gonzales, MD
Christina Lovato, MD
"We have faculty who specialize in different endocrine conditions, so the students could choose to work with any faculty member based on topic of interest (eg. obesity, lipids, pituitary/adrenal, thyroid/parathyroid, etc). We will also invite students to join our various conferences which includes case conference, journal club, imaging conference, and multidisciplinary adult/peds conference. Students will be offered the opportunity to present at one of the conferences if interested.” -Teodor Duro, University of New Mexico (Learn More Here and Here)
Aleona Zuzek, MD
"The UC Department of Internal Medicine has a long-standing history of engaging students toward a career in internal medicine. Opportunities beginning in medical student years 1 and 2 include an active internal medicine club, a research symposium where students present their research from years 1 and 2, and a panel of faculty members from various subdivisions of internal medicine. Opportunities for students in their third year and during their internal medicine clerkship, include writing and submitting an abstract based upon interesting clinical scenarios that they have encountered during this clerkship. These abstracts are submitted to the Ohio American College of Physicians (ACP) medical student competition each Fall, routinely winning top awards in the abstract competition. Our approach, if chosen for this award, would be in part, to build upon the aforementioned existing infrastructure of engagement and mentorship with the focus on endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism. An example would be to facilitate students’ preparation and submission of abstracts related to endocrine, diabetes & metabolic conditions to the regional ACP meeting, and ultimately to the Endocrine Society national meeting"
Brian O'Neill, MD, PhD
Amal Shibli-Rahhal, MD
“We also plan to create Endocrine Elective Tracks that will be available to medical students who participate in MSIG-E 9 and complete Endocrine rotations. These tracks will expose students to burgeoning topics in Endocrine clinical care and research such as health care disparities in Endocrine care, Diabetes technology and its use in diabetes care as well as high-risk Obstetrics, and weight management for which our division has 4 providers running weight management clinics both at U of Iowa and the Iowa City VA.”
Megan Kristan, MD
“We will employ a personalized, multifaceted approach to interest and engage early learners in Endocrinology. Adult Endocrinology will spearhead this movement, with support from our Pediatric Endocrinology partners. We feel that Endocrinology has many positive attributes which should be highlighted and featured to early-stage learners.”
Susan Kirk, MD
“Workshops will be held after regular hours and include dinner and a wide exposure to faculty from across the University of Virginia, with a focus on Adult and Pediatric Endocrine faculty. Second, we plan to develop a 'near-peer' program with our current Endocrinology fellows. As students are often more comfortable exploring career options with those closer to their level of training or education, our fellows will meet regularly with the MSEP participants for informal lunches or social gatherings. Each MSEP participant will be assigned an Endocrine career advisor with whom they can have regular contact during their residency to answer questions, provide networking, and aid in applying for Endocrine fellowships.”
Jennifer Kelley, MD, MSCE
Andrea Utz, MD, PhD
“We envision a longitudinal, integrated effort that will span all four years of medical student education so that students can enter these programs at any time during medical school. To help students navigate the many possible entry points to the field, we plan to establish an Endocrine Interest Group with an “Endocrine Road Map” to guide and sustain interest.” (Learn More Here and Here)
Adnin Zaman, MD
“Our Division is dedicated toward increasing the pipeline and introducing students to Endocrinology, and we will provide additional support beyond what this award would give us. In fact, for us, this award is not as much about the funds from the ES, but about the prestige of having the ES supporting our efforts, and about the added resources that we will be able to offer our medical students.” (Learn More)