Meet the Meded Team

Our Mission

Elevating medical education through evidence-based practices, real-world insights, and teamwork. We deliver bite-sized, actionable content via social media, uniting a global community of educators at all levels.

Hi, I’m Geoff Stetson, an Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Education at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). As Director of Clinical Faculty Development, I focus on improving the teaching skills of all faculty who interact with students in the clinical learning environment.

 

My academic journey began at Brown University for undergrad, followed by the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine for my MD. I completed my internal medicine residency at the University of California San Francisco, where I received training in health professions education (HPE) curriculum development, evaluation, and scholarship. I was selected as a Macy Faculty Scholar with The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation beginning in 2023.

 

I co-founded the MedEd Tag Team in 2020 with Dr. Jennifer Spicer. Originally focused on distributing content via Twitter, we’ve since expanded our reach to provide free and easily accessible resources for anyone interested in improving their clinical teaching skills. This work is particularly important because most clinical educators receive little to no training in how to be effective teachers. My vision is that by providing high-yield professional development resources we will help to create educational, supportive, welcoming, and inclusive HPE learning environments.

 

With three new full-time members on board, I’m excited about the future of the MedEd Tag Team and our ongoing commitment to providing the best content possible.

Stetson

Geoff Stetson, MD

@GStetsonMD

Jennifer Spicer, MD MPH

@JenniferSpicer4

Hey! I’m Jen Spicer, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Emory University. Medical education is my passion. It truly encompasses everything that I do.

 

I attended the University of Georgia for undergrad where my love of infectious diseases began as I was majoring in Microbiology and Marine Sciences. I went to Emory University School of Medicine where I received an MD/MPH dual degree and then completed the remainder of my clinical training at Emory: an internal medicine residency, a chief residency at Grady Memorial Hospital, and an infectious diseases fellowship. I joined the infectious diseases faculty at Emory in 2019 where I hold multiple medical education roles – as Associate Program Director of our Internal Medicine Residency Program, Director of the Medical Education Distinction for our residency, and Course Director for one of our medical school courses.

 

I co-founded the MedEd Tag Team in 2020 with Dr. Geoffrey Stetson because I wanted another outlet to share the content that I was learning in my Master’s in Health Professions Education program at the University of Illinois Chicago. I love sharing free open access medical education and learning from others’ experiences on social media. It’s what energizes me every day! My goal is to work with others to transform our medical education system to bring joy to learners and teachers.


Hi there, I’m Yihan Yang, an assistant professor of medical education and clinical sciences at the Washington Statue University (WSU) Elson S. Floyd College of medicine and core outpatient faculty member for the WSU Internal Medicine Residency Program-Everett.

 

My training and career path has led me all over the US – I completed undergrad and medical school at Emory. I couples-matched into the Yale Primary Care program for residency, where I stayed for a chief resident year. I completed an additional two-year medical education fellowship with an MHS-MedEd masters at Yale. Prior to my current role at WSU, I worked as an academic hospitalist and perioperative medicine consultant at the University of Washington.

 

Medical education– specifically educator development–has been my main academic interest. I co-founded and co-directed the Yale Clinician-Educator Distinction pathway for several years before leaving the East Coast. Currently, I direct the WSU FAMER faculty development program for GME faculty, and also serve on the advisory boards for the WSU Educator Academy and Collaboration for InterProfessional Health Education Research and Scholarship (CIPHERS).

 

In 2020, I started creating educator development tweetorials on Twitter to process what I was learning from my MHS-MedEd program. Luckily, I was able to join forces with the OG MedEd Tag Team members, Dr. Jennifer Spicer and Dr. Geoff Stetson, as well as Dr. Chris Jackson and Dr. Varun Phadke, to advance our shared goal of enhancing accessible and free clinician educator development resources. I’m very excited to see where the MedEd Tag Team goes next!

 

YIHAN YANG, MD MHS

@YihanYangMD

CHRISTOPHER D. JACKSON, MD

@ChrisDJacksonMD

Hey, I’m Chris Jackson, an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC). As Assistant Dean of Student Affairs and Associate Program Director for Curriculum in the Internal Medicine residency, I focus on improving the outpatient and inpatient didactic curricula experienced by medical students and residents.

My academic journey began at Emory University for undergrad, followed by the Medical College of Georgia-University of Georgica Medical Partnership for my MD. I completed my internal medicine residency in the University of Tennessee Health Science center, where I received training in patient safety, quality improvement, and evidence-based medicine. I was selected as a participant and then tutor in the Duke Teaching and Leading Evidence Based Practice Course beginning in 2019. Subsequently, I was selected for and completed the Society of General Internal Medicine TEACH program in 2022.

I first engaged with the MedEd Tag Team in 2021 through their Twitter content. After engaging with Dr. Geoff Stetson and Dr. Jennifer Spicer, they invited me to join the group in 2022 to bring my EBM perspective and outpatient ambulatory medicine focus to expand the HPE learning environment content they created. Participating as a team member of the MedEd Tag Team has greatly benefited my professional development and recognition as a clinician educator on a regional and national levels.

I hope to continue to help this awesome group of clinician educators provide timely, relevant, and engaging professional development to improve the clinical teaching of learners in the outpatient setting.

Helllo! I’m Varun Phadke, an Associate Professor of Medicine at Emory University. I love classroom and clinical teaching and am passionate about clinical reasoning, which infuses all of my educational activities.

 

I attended Princeton University for undergrad, then went to Harvard Medical School for my MD. I completed my internal medicine residency at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center, then spent a year doing hospital medicine at the University of Michigan before pursuing a fellowship in infectious diseases at Emory. I joined the faculty in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Emory in 2017 and currently practice both general and transplant ID. I hold several educational leadership roles, including Associate Program Director of our ID Fellowship Program, Internal Medicine Clerkship Director and Microbiology Thread Director at the Emory University School of Medicine, and Assistant Vice Chair of Education for Clinical Reasoning in the Department of Medicine.

 

I was fortunate to be recruited to join the MedEd Tag Team in 2022 to co-lead a series on Subspecialty Teaching with Dr. Spicer. I love clinical teaching and have infused many of the educational programs with which I am involved with strategies for teaching and assessing diagnostic reasoning and medical decision-making skills, as well as bedside, small group, and large group teaching. I am always eager to find outlets to share these ideas and foster conversations about teaching, especially among our subspecialty colleagues!


VARUN PHADKE, MD

@VarunPhadke2

Raj I. Patel, BS

@Rajster23

Hey! I’m Raj Patel. I’m a fourth-year medical student at the University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC), applying into anesthesiology. My interests include technology in medicine, quality improvement, and medical education.

 

I attended the University of Illinois at Chicago for undergrad where I studied Molecular and Cellular Biology. My passion for science and learning led me to pursue a career in medicine. As a medical student, I found myself constantly drawn to opportunities to serve as an educator, whether it be for my peers or my patients. I became involved with medical education through a unique organization at UIC called Student Curricular Board. The mission of our group is to offer student perspectives to the development and enhancement of the medical school curriculum. As President of this organization in my final year of medical school, I’ve really began to see the impact students can have on shaping our generation of future physicians. Student and trainee voices are critical to sparking innovation in curriculum development and individualizing education styles for the best outcomes. 

 

I am so excited to be part of the MedEd Tag Team and bring my interest in medical education outside of my campus. I love how accessible and digestable  the information is, allowing anyone to become a great educator. I am looking forward to continuing to engage in medical education throughout my career and uphold a system that inspires competent and compassionate physician leaders.