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2008 Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Awards
Paul L. Rogers, M.D.
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
For Paul Rogers, the word "intensivist" not only describes his
specialty, but a career-long approach to medical education. His
dedication to providing students the broadest possible exposure
to critical care and crisis management has made him the University
of Pittsburgh School of Medicine's (Pitt) "single most active instructor,"
as well as one of its most highly regarded.
Dr. Rogers is a professor of critical care medicine (CCM), and
is one of only a handful of Pitt clinician-educators who have achieved
tenure. He is also vice president of the Veterans Administration
Pittsburgh Healthcare System, director of the surgical intensive
care unit at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and an intensivist
at Presbyterian Hospital. Additionally, Dr. Rogers is a founding
member of the board of directors of the Academy of Master Educators
(AME), a "think tank" of top educators who focus on professional
development and promote educational scholarship.
For more than 20 years, Dr. Rogers has made the inculcation of
critical care and crisis management skills his top educational priority,
from carving out extra time for teaching to introducing new technology.
For example, to ensure that fourth-year students in the CCM elective
acquire the cognitive and technical skills needed to initially evaluate
and manage unstable ICU patients, Dr. Rogers extends his own clinical
day. Prior to leading hospital bedside rounds, he meets with students
for a daily teaching session and later joins them for an hour-long,
hands-on teaching lesson. With approximately 125 of 140 fourth-year
students choosing this course since 2005, it has become the Pitt
elective with the highest enrollment and is cited by many residents,
who took the class prior to graduating from medical school, as the
Pitt course most relevant and helpful to their graduate training.
Dr. Rogers' pioneering use of patient simulation technology to
teach critical care led to two key developments: the university's
decision to establish the Peter M. Winter Institute for Simulation
Education and Research, and the incorporation of CCM as a required
component of the third-year internal medicine clerkship. As a result,
students learn to apply knowledge in a clinical setting even before
their residency training, for which simulators are usually reserved.
As director of the Multidisciplinary Critical Care Training Program
(MCCTP), Dr. Rogers typically oversees 16-18 fellows in internal
medicine, surgery, anesthesiology, and critical care in a program
he virtually rebuilt nine years ago. In addition to reorganizing
the educational curriculum, Dr. Rogers converted the conference-style
format into interactive, problem-solving workshops, and also developed
online self-assessment examinations for each block of core lectures,
among other key components.
A native of New Orleans, Dr. Rogers received his B.S. degree from
Century College and his M.D. degree from the University of Arkansas
for Medical Sciences College of Medicine. After serving his residency
at the University of Virginia, he accepted a National Institutes
of Health fellowship in critical care medicine before joining Pitt.
About the Alpha
Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teaching Award
The Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher
Awards were established by the AOA medical honor society in 1988
to provide national recognition to faculty members who have distinguished
themselves in medical student education. The award is named for
long-time AOA executive secretary Robert J. Glaser, M.D.
Find out more about the Alpha
Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teaching Award.
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