Rachel Brown, MD receives USC 2011 Clinical Teaching Award

The University of South Carolina has awarded Rachel Brown, MD, clinical associate professor, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, the 2011 Clinical Teaching Award.  Since joining the faculty in 2003, Brown has achieved significant accomplishments, including designing a medical student training module and an objective structured clinical exam to teach and evaluate how students care for adults with disabilities in a primary care practice setting, which is supported by a grant by the South Carolina Disabilities Board; making substantial improvements in the organization and quality of the clerkship program; presented work in a peer reviewed presentation at the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Pre-Doctoral meeting; and she has published a manuscript in the highly impact-rated journal, Academic Medicine, in October 2010. As an educational leader in the SOM, she has served on the Grade Change Subcommittee, the Standards of Professionalism Committee, the Curriculum Committee, the Student and Loan Committee, and the Academic Standards Committee.

Brown is consistently rated as a highly effective teacher, earning learner evaluations that rate between 4.5-5.0 on a 1-5 Likert scale. Her peer evaluations have also been outstanding, nearly always rated as 5 on this same scale.  In addition, during her tenure, she has been the recipient of five different teaching awards, including two Teaching Advancement Awards, the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award, the Kay McFarland Women in Medicine Award, the Resident of the Year Award, and the department’s Teaching Award and Brenda Boehm Award for Excellence in Obstetrics