Medical Education - Faculty Profiles: Debra Kamen

Faculty Profile : Dr. Deb Klamen

Debra Klamen, MD, MHPE
Associate Dean for Education & Curriculum
Professor and Chair, Dept of Medical Education

801 N Rutledge, Room 3050
dklamen@siumed.edu
(217)545-7932

Educational Background | Research Interests & Projects | Teaching Interests & Activities | Selected Publications & Presentations | Grants/Honors

Educational Background

1977-1981 B.S., University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL
1981-1985 M.D., University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
1996-1998 M.H.P.E., University of Illinois, Chicago, IL

1995 Harvard Macy Institute: Program for Physician Educators, Boston, MA
2001-2002 Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine Program for Women, Philadelphia, PA
2005 Harvard Macy Institute: Program for Leaders in Healthcare Education, Boston, MA

Postdoctoral Training

1985-1988 Resident in Psychiatry, University of Illinois Hospital, Chicago, IL
1988-1989 Chief Resident in Psychiatry, University of Illinois Hospital, Chicago, IL

Research Interests & Projects

Stress Management in Medical School and Residency
Medical Education - Curriculum Design
Medical Education - Evaluation and Assessment
Medical Education – Outcomes
Medical Education – Longitudinal Performance Assessment
Medical Education – Evaluation and Remediation of Failing Students
Medical Education – Diagnostic reasoning acquisition

Teaching Interests & Activities

1. Faculty development in the following areas:

Adult learning
Preparation for Promotion and Tenure
Stress Management
Improving clinical performance appraisals
Diagnosing and Treating the failing student
Curricular development and implementation

2. Student teaching in the following areas:

Clinical psychiatry
Problem based learning
Clinical reasoning
Patient safety

Selected Publications & Presentations

Journal Publications

Reed G. Williams, Debra L Klamen, Christopher B White, Emil Petrusa, Ruth-Marie E. Fincher, Carol F. Whitfield, John H. Shatzer, Teresita McCarty, and Bonnie M. Miller. Tracking Development of Clinical Reasoning Ability Across Five Medical Schools Using a Progress Test. Academic Medicine. 2011;86(9):1148-1154.
Klamen DL, Borgia PT. Predicting Failing Performance on a Senior Clinical Performance Examination: The Utility of Pre-Clerkship Clinical Performance Examinations. Academic Medicine. 2011;86(40):516-520.
Klamen DL, Williams RG. The Efficacy of a Targeted Remediation Process for Students Who Fail Standardized Patient Examinations. Teaching and Learning in Medicine. 2011;23(1):3-11.
Roberts NK, Klamen DL. The case for teaching explicit reading strategies to medical students. Medical Education. 2010;44(4):328-329.
Klamen DL, Reynolds K, Montgomery L, Yale B. Using a Simulated Inpatient Unit to teach hand off skills to medical students. Medical Education. 2009; Nov;43(11):1097-8. Epub 2009 Oct 3.
Distlehorst LH, Dawson BK, Klamen DL. Supervisor and Self-Ratings of Graduates From a Medical School With a Problem-Based Learning and Standard Curriculum Track. Teaching and Learning in Medicine. 2009;21(4):291-298.
Mayer, D, Klamen DL, Gunderson A, Barach P. Designing a Patient Safety Undergraduate Medical Curriculum: The Telluride Interdisciplinary Round Table Experience. Teaching and Learning in Medicine. 2009;21(1):52-58.
Williams, Reed G., Klamen, Debra L. and Hoffman, Rebecca M. (2008) Medical Student Acquisition of Clinical Working Knowledge, Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 20:1, 5 - 10
Williams RG, Klamen DL, Mayer D, Valaski M, Roberts NK. A sampling strategy for promoting and assessing medical student retention of physical examination skills. Acad Med 2007 Oct;82(10 Suppl):S22-5.
Williams R, Klamen D. See one, do one, teach one - exploring the core teaching beliefs of medical school faculty. Medical Teacher 2006 Aug;28(5):418-24.
Williams R, Klamen D. Forecasting Resident Performance: Partly Cloudy. Academic Medicine 2005 May;80(5):415-22.

Books

Klamen DL, Pan PD. Psychiatry: PreTest Self-Assessment and Review (13th ed.). Lange Medical Books/McGraw Hill, New York, New York, in press.
Toy EC, Klamen DL. Case Files; Psychiatry. 4rd Edition. Lange Medical Books/McGraw Hill, New York, New York, in press.
Klamen DL, McDowell C, Clark T. Resident Readiness; Emergency Medicine. Lange Medical Books/McGraw Hill, New York, New York, in press.
Klamen DL, Meier, A. Resident Readiness; Surgery. Lange Medical Books/McGraw Hill, New York, New York, in press.
Klamen DL, Yeomans E. Resident Readiness; Obstetrics/Gynecology. Lange Medical Books/McGraw Hill, New York, New York, in press.
Klamen DL, Rull G. Resident Readiness; Internal Medicine. Lange Medical Books/McGraw Hill, New York, New York, in press.
Klamen DL, Lower T, Lack J, Kink L. Resident Readiness; Pediatrics. Lange Medical Books/McGraw Hill, New York, New York, in press.
Klamen DL, Williams RG. The Diagnosis and Treatment of the Failing Student: Standardized Patient Examinations. SIU Press, Springfield, Illinois, 2010.
Klamen DL, Pan PD. Psychiatry: PreTest Self-Assessment and Review (12th ed.). Lange Medical Books/McGraw Hill, New York, New York, 2009.
Toy EC, Klamen DL. Case Files; Psychiatry. 3rd Edition. Lange Medical Books/McGraw Hill, New York, New York, 2009.
Klamen DL, Pan PD. Psychiatry: PreTest Self-Assessment and Review (11th ed.). Lange Medical Books/McGraw Hill, New York, New York, 2006.
Toy EC, Klamen DL. Case Files; Psychiatry. 2nd Edition. Lange Medical Books/McGraw Hill, New York, New York, 2006.
Toy EC, Klamen DL. Case Files: Psychiatry. Lange Medical Books/McGraw Hill, New York, New York, 2004.

Presentations

2011

March, CGEA Annual Meeting, "Use of a Diagnostic Justification Exercise to Assess Clinical Reasoning", Omaha, Nebraska
March, CGEA Annual Meeting, "The Diagnosis and Treatment of Students with Clinical Performance Deficits", Omaha, Nebraska

2010

January, Achieving Balance, SIUSOM "Hit the Ground Running" Series, Springfield, Illinois
February, First Annual Symposium on Teaching and Learning, "SIU Innovations", Springfield, Illinois
March, Stress Management, SIUSOM "Hit the Ground Running" Series, Springfield, Illinois
November, AAMC Annual Meeting, "Predicting Failing Performance on a SCCX Examination", Washington, DC
November, AAMC Annual Meeting, "Practical Guide for Improving Resident Clinical Performance Appraisals", Washington, DC
November, AAMC Annual Meeting, "Nurse Educators in Medical Education", Washington, DC
November, AAMC Annual Meeting, "The Use of an Electronic Medical Record in a Standardized Patient Laboratory", Washington, DC
November, AAMC Annual Meeting, "Teaching Basic Clinical Skills when Clinical Faculty are Scarce", Washington, DC

2009

January, Achieving Balance, SIUSOM "Hit the Ground Running" Series, Springfield, Illinois
March, Stress Management, SIUSOM "Hit the Ground Running" Series, Springfield, Illinois
June and September, Stress Management, ISMIE Core Series, Chicago, Illinois

2008

February, and August, Stress Management Workshops for Physicians. Presented for ISMIE in Chicago, Illinois and Orland Park, Illinois, and for Springfield Clinic, Springfield, Illinois.
February, Problem Based Learning, Prathima Medical School, Karimnagar, India
March, Take This Job and Love It – Preparing for an LCME Site Visit, Central Group on Education Affairs Annual Meeting, Columbus, Ohio
December, Problem Based Learning, Aichi Medical School, Nagoya, Japan

2007

January, The Longitudinal Performance Examination at Southern Illinois School of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

2006

November, SIUSOM Curriculum, Aichi Medical School, Nagoya, Japan

2005

April, Core Teaching Beliefs of Medical School Teachers, CGEA Annual Meeting, Madison, WI. (with Reed Williams)
September, Negotiation Skills – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, AAP Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois (with Susan Lieff and Michele Pato)
September, Core Teaching Beliefs of Medical School Teachers, AAP Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois (with Reed Williams)
September, Program Evaluation, AAP Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois (with Rachel Yudkowsky)

Grants/Honors