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Susan E. Farrell, MD, EdM
Associate Dean for Assessment and Evaluation
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Director, Objective Structured Clinical Examinations
Office of Medical Education
Harvard Medical School
Susan E. Farrell, MD, EdM, is the Associate Dean for Assessment and Evaluation at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Farrell graduated from Syracuse University with a BS in engineering, and Tufts University School of Medicine in 1990. Her clinical training was in emergency medicine and medical toxicology, both at The Medical College of Pennsylvania. She completed her master’s in education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2008, with a focus on assessment and evaluation methods.
Dr. Farrell has worked in medical education at Harvard Medical School (HMS) since 1998, as the Director of Student Programs and the Emergency Medicine Clerkship at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and as a course tutor and lecturer. Dr. Farrell is the Director of the HMS OSCE Program, which spans the entire four-year medical curriculum, and co-leads the interprofessional education societal theme for medical students at HMS.
Dr. Farrell has been a Rabkin Fellow in Medical Education, a Harvard Macy Scholar, and faculty and steering committee member of the Harvard Macy Educator courses, including co-director of the affiliated 3-day program for post-graduate trainees who aspire to clinician educator careers.
She worked as an educator in the Partners Healthcare Office for Graduate Medical Education and a Program Director at Partners Healthcare International (PHI), where she created and implemented faculty development programs in undergraduate, post-graduate, and interprofessional clinical curricula and assessment methods. Her international work includes the development of resident-teacher programs in New Zealand, the creation of interprofessional continuing education programs in Singapore, the design of new post-graduate training programs and physician curriculum development for a hospital system in India, and undergraduate medical education assessment processes in Spain.
Dr. Farrell established the Office of Continuing and Professional Development at the MGH Institute for Health Professions in 2017, responsible for the oversight and joint accreditation of external interprofessional continuing education. She is also actively engaged in certification efforts at the National Board of Medical Examiners and a Director of the Board of the American Board of Emergency Medicine.
Dr. Farrell’s interests are in curriculum development, methods for assessing clinical skills and program evaluation, and interprofessional faculty development related to clinical teaching, assessment skills, teaming, and leadership.
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