• Develop skills to become an effective medical educator

  • Understand and contribute to scholarship in medical education

  • Develop the foundation for a future career in medical education

The CNE-TP is designed for residents with an interest in becoming clinician educators. The three-year curriculum provides training in foundations of medical education and educational opportunities with learners, in addition to what is received during residency training. The CNE-TP utilizes the resources available through the Department of Neurology, Office of Consultation and Research in Medical Education (OCRME), and University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine.

CNE-TP Curriculum

  • Spring PGY1

    Applications accepted for CNE-TP​

  • PGY2

    Identify a mentor

  • PGY2/PGY3

    Attend five Office of Consultation and Research in Medical Education (OCRME) education and teaching workshops

  • PGY3

    Begin scholarly project

  • PGY3/PGY4

    Teach neuro exam to medical students during core clerkship orientation 

  • PGY4

    Implementation of scholarly project

    June – facilitate teaching sessions and workshops for the PGY1 class during their Neurology Immersion Block

    Grand Rounds project presentations

Quarterly meetings throughout the academic year for all CNE-TP residents to discuss teaching topics and ongoing resident projects

Class of 2026

  • Rachel Marshall

Class of 2025

  • Katie Reming
  • Yanely Sanchez Ceja
  • Sophie Shogren
  • Yibing Zhang

Class of 2024

  • Kaancan Deniz
  • Mikenzy Fassel
  • Tyler Schmidt

Class of 2023

  • Erik Arneson
    • Education interests: Increasing medical student interest in neurology, teaching pre-clinical students
  • Oday Halhouli
    • Education interests: Resident curriculum development

Class of 2022

  • Amjad Elmashala
    • Project: Updating neurology medical student curriculum and lecture handouts
  • Rami Fakih
    • Project: Designing a morning report for night float residents

Class of 2021

  • Lama Abdel Wahed
    • Project: Resident didactic curriculum design, developing interactive online cases for medical students
  • Emily Tamadonfar
    • Project: Medical student clinical documentation education and evaluation: a delphi consensus study

Class of 2020

  • Annaliese Bosco
    • Project: Improving code stroke education in the emergency department
    • Presentations: Iowa Neurological Association, University of Iowa Quality and Safety Symposium
  • Jeff Karduck
    • Project: Micro lecture series for medical students