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TEACHING PROFESSOR Associate Director of the Center for Leadership and Innovation in Medical Education (CLIME)
TEACHING After a meandering path with excursions down a few career side-tracks (such as physical therapy, PhD and many years of postdoctoral work in Neuroscience, curriculum development, and technical writing), I found a home as an educator in the Department of Biological Structure, intertwining threads from these all these former lives. I am currently a Teaching Professor, and an Associate Director of the Center for Leadership and Innovation in Medical Education (CLIME). I teach in formal team-taught courses in several programs within the School of Medicine, including anatomy (Human Form and Function) and Neuroscience (Mind, Brain, and Behavior) for medical students, neuroscience for students in the Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Prosthetics and Orthotics Programs, and neuroanatomy for graduate students. In my role as Associate Director in CLIME, I teach and mentor faculty in their professional teaching roles, help run faculty development sessions, such as workshops on Teaching with Zoom, and facilitate Learning Community sessions within and beyond the UW School of Medicine. In addition to my more traditional teaching responsibilities, I work in diverse settings with learners of all ages, and from all levels of the educational spectrum: undergrads, neurology residents, faculty, trainees, K-12 students and their teachers, and the general public. In past years, in collaboration with faculty from the School of Nursing and Bioengineering, I’ve taught online courses funded by SEPA (Science Education Partnership Awards), presented in summer institute programs (How Do I Learn Text) for middle school teachers from across Washington state, participated in “Doc for a Day” and other outreach programs, and even made a guest appearance in one of an award-winning series of videos on the brain, directed by Dr. Eric Chudler. Recently, Dr. Ric Robinson and I enjoyed the experience of being live streamed in an interactive presentation for “Evenings with Neuroscience” I delight in the challenge of content creation and curation and am constantly engaged in co-creating the best learning environment with and for my students. From way back in the late 1980’s, with the development of the Digital Anatomist Program and the Neuroanatomy Interactive Syllabus, (one of the earliest efforts to create online materials for self-directed learning), to recent efforts with Pressbooks and 5HP open source educational tools, I have loved combining the effective use of ever-changing technology with innovative teaching techniques. I firmly believe that the key to the best learning experience is in building relationships that foster individual growth in addition to content mastery.
One of my favorite quotes about teaching is this: “Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.” (Scott Hayden) I am grateful to have found a home in the Department of Biological Structure that allows me the privilege of indulging these loves every day.
RESEARCH Please see my Google Scholar profile for neuroscientific research articles.
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CONTACT Email : kmull@uw.edu Office Hours : By appointment |
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