FOR RELEASE: August 31, 2006
GALVESTON, Texas ? Dr. Ruth Levine, professor of clinical psychiatry and internal medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, has been named inaugural director of the Academy of Master Teachers at the University of Texas Medical Branch, effective Sept. 1.
The Academy of Master Teachers was recently established at UTMB to embrace a set of standards for excellence in teaching and scholarship in education, to recognize master educators and to provide guidance and mentorship in teaching skills to interested faculty members. Membership in the academy is open to faculty in each of the university’s four schools. The academy and the position of director are primarily supported with private funds from alumni and friends of UTMB.
A UTMB alumna and member of the faculty since 1991, Dr. Levine brings extensive educational experience in the UTMB and Galveston communities to this position.
Dr. Levine has a national reputation for her expertise in medical student education and serves on a number of national committees, including the National Board of Medical Examiner’s Step I Interdisciplinary Review Committee, the Executive Council of the Association of Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry and the Executive Board of the Team-Based Learning Collaborative.
Dr. Levine has received numerous teaching awards, including the Dean’s Award for Teaching Achievement and the Nancy C.A. Roeske teaching certificate for excellence in medical student education from the American Psychiatric Association, the Class of 1947 Excellence in Education Award and the AMWA Women in Medicine Award for Best Woman Teacher in the Preclinical Years.
At UTMB, Dr. Levine has had multiple leadership roles in education, including responsibilities as director of undergraduate education for the Department of Psychiatry, psychiatry clerkship director, course director of Introduction to Patient Evaluation, and co-director of the Neuroscience and Human Behavior Course and Practice of Medicine Year II Course. She has recently worked closely with her colleagues in the schools of nursing and allied health sciences to implement team-based learning across disciplines.
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