An unprecedented opportunity for learning

UNPRECEDENTED TIMES

On behalf of our Stanford Clinical Science, Technology and Medicine Summer Internship, we wish to welcome to our Summer 2020 student cohort. Our successful Stanford summer internship program, now in it’s fourth year, has grown into one of the most popular and successful clinical summer internship opportunities at Stanford. We are excited that you will be joining our faculty from Stanford this summer to engage in this once-ina-lifetime opportunity to gain knowledge, skills and mentorship to foster your interest in compassionate careers in science, technology and medicine.

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented circumstances for our society and educational system. The highly-contagious coronavirus has the potential to cause a widespread public health crisis unless drastic measures are undertaken.

One of these adjustments is the need for social distancing, the consideration of isolating people from each other to prevent transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the infectious agent that causes COVID-19.

At Stanford, this means that the Dean of the University has closed the campus to students for the forseable future. Students at our peer institutions, such as the University of California system and Harvard Medical School will not return to classes this summer or fall. Due to the nature of the pandemic, many leaders in academic medicine are faced with unprecedented decision regarding the very nature of education.

UNPRECEDENTED OPPORTUNITIES

In the Stanford AIM Lab, we view this as an unprecedented opportunity to discover and explore how we at Stanford can adapt our world-class educational programs to the online world of distancelearning. For us, this world isn’t new: we’ve been engaged in online learning since 2006 when our lab was established at Stanford to innovate medical education. Over the past 14 years, we have created milestones in educational technology, including the first educational iPad application from the Stanford School of Medicine,

and the first educational series to meaningfully include patients and end-users of health care at academic meetings. We were one of the first labs to research and publish on the use of social media in medical education. Our online learning ecosystem for anesthesiology education, Learnly, is used by over 30 other educational institutions around the US and worldwide.

Altogether, these capabilities give our lab, and the Stanford Clinical Science, Technology and Medicine Summer Internship program that we run, the capabilities to bring our students this summer an engaging, interactive and educational experience that aims to bring our Stanford experts to your home.

Stanford Course Faculty

Larry Chu, MD Executive Director

Amy Price, DPhil, Senior Research Scientist, Stanford AIM Lab, Associate Program Director

Bassam Kadry, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Associate Program Director, Leadership Development

Some of our confirmed guest speakers

Steven Chu, PhD Professor of Physics, Stanford University, former US Secretary of Energy, Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1997 Stanford University

Yi Cui, PhD Professor of Materials Science

May Chu, PhD Clinical Professor, Colorado School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Senior Science Advisor, USAID and WHO

Francisco Grajales VP and Director, Digital Health North America, Novartis Pharmaceuticals

Debbie Lin, PhD Executive Director of Boehringer Ingelheim Digital Ventures Fund, Boehringer Ingelheim

Ying Ling Lin, PhD Consultant, World Health Organization

Christine Park, MD Director of Graham Clinical Performance Center, University of Illinois-Chicago, Immediate Past President, Society for Simulation in Health Care

Teddy Sayed, PhD Wearables Researcher, Microsoft, Research in Software Engineering (RiSE) Redmond Lab