Samantha King, MD is an Assistant Professor practicing CU Anschutz Pulmonary and Critical Care at Denver Health and the University of Colorado. She graduated from the University of Kansas School of Medicine and completed her Residency, Chief Residency, and Fellowship training here at the University of Colorado. Her areas of clinical expertise are sarcoidosis and interstitial lung diseases (ILD). As a Clinician Educator, she is studying ILD education for pulmonary fellows. She recently completed a mixed methods study to create a consensus-driven content outline for ILD education in pulmonary fellowship and is excited to have the support of PACE as she develops and implements an ILD curriculum.

Project Description: While in fellowship, Dr. King completed a mixed methods study to create a consensus-driven content outline for ILD education in pulmonary fellowship. Last academic year, with the support of PACE, she used this content outline and situated learning theory to transform the ILD curriculum at the University of Colorado. This work was programmed as a workshop at a national meeting. Now, thanks to the ongoing support of PACE, she is disseminating this curriculum across multiple fellowship programs, and comparing outcomes between in person and asynchronous or self-directed content delivery.

Anna Muñoa, MD, is an Associate Professor of Clinical Practice in the CU Anschutz Division of Hospital Medicine with an interest in medical education. She has a clinical passion for working in underserved communities and been part of the CU Anschutz Division of Hospital Medicine at Denver Health Medical Center for over 10 years. She serves as the Associated Director of Communication Skills for the CU SOM Plains Curriculum, Developing Our Clinical Skills. More recently, she has worked with a group of medical educators from schools across the country to develop best practices for patient-centered communication in medical documentation. Dr. Muñoa’s PACE project will work to create a curriculum for first year medical students based on these best practices. A rubric will also be developed to evaluate this curriculum, along with curriculum at other sites. This hopefully will be a curriculum that can be expanded to additional levels of learners and a rubric that be validated across multiple institutions.

Project Description: Dr. Muñoa’s PACE project will work to create a curriculum for first year medical students based on these best practices. A rubric will also be developed to evaluate this curriculum, along with curriculum at other sites. This hopefully will be a curriculum that can be expanded to additional levels of learners and a rubric that be validated across multiple institutions.

Ben Vipler, MD is an Associate Professor in the CU Anschutz Division of Hospital Medicine. He completed undergraduate and medical school at the University of Miami before completing his residency and chief residency in internal medicine in the United States Navy at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Dr. Vipler served his active-duty military commitment serving as Associate Program Director for a Navy internal medicine residency outside Virginia Beach, and deployed on the USNS Comfort. After his honorable discharge, Dr. Vipler completed a Master’s degree in education and general internal medicine fellowship at Penn State where he performed qualitative and mixed methods research around transformative learning theory among medical learners. Now at the University of Colorado, he directs on of the university hospital’s longitudinal integrated clerkships, and in his free time can be found at any one of the Epic Mountain resorts, at a concern, or home watching college football.

Project Description: Dr. Vipler intends to study the implementation of a self-reflection tool called the Immunity Map as part of the broader Immunity-to-Change approach to overcoming barriers. Dr. Vipler will qualitatively analyze the use of Immunity Maps as a means to find potential solutions for remediating or struggling medical residents and fellows.