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Felise B. Milan, M.D.
- Professor, Department of Medicine (General Internal Medicine)
- Assistant Dean for Learner Assessment and Clinical Competencies
Area of research
- Feedback in Medical Education OSCEs/simulation Standard Setting Teaching and assessment of clinical skills
Phone
Location
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus ~ Ruth L. Gottesman Clinical Skills Ctr. 1300 Morris Park Avenue Van Etten 2A28 Bronx, NY 10461
Research Profiles
Professional Interests
Dr. Felise Milan is currently a Professor of Clinical Medicine, the Director of the Ruth L. Gottesman Clinical Skills Center, and the Director of the Introduction to Clinical Medicine Programs for pre-clerkship medical students at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She also directs the 4th-year Clinical Skills Assessment and Review Programs. Dr. Milan’s academic She is chair of the Competency Based Medical Education (CBME) Student Assessment Committee.
interests include teaching and assessment of clinical skills (especially communication skills), performance based assessment, simulation for medical education, standard setting for assessments, psychosocial and behavioral medicine, complementary/alternative medicine and women’s health.
Dr. Milan received her medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and completed her residency training (in Primary Care Internal Medicine) and fellowship (in Psychosocial Medicine) at Brown University. Following her training, Dr. Milan joined the faculty at Brown to direct the psychosocial and complementary/alternative medicine curricula for internal medicine residents and the medical interviewing course for first-year medical students. Dr. Milan returned to New York in 1999 to join the Primary Care and Social Internal Medicine faculty at Montefiore.
Selected Publications
Selected references:
1. Milan FB, Novack DH, Goldstein MG, O’Brien MK. Are medical schools neglecting clinical skills? A survey of U. S. medical schools. Ann Beh Sci Med Educ 1998;5:3-12.
2. Milan FB, Parish S, Reichgott M. A Model for Educational Feedback Based on Clinical Communication Skills Strategies: Beyond the “Feedback Sandwich. Teach Learn Med. 2006 Winter;18(1):42-7.
3. Parish SJ, Weber CM, Milan FB, et al Teaching Clinical Skills Through Videotape Review: A Randomized Trial of Group vs. Individual Reviews. Teach Learn Med. Spring 2006;18(2):92-8.
4. Milan FB, Arnsten JH, Klein RS, Schoenbaum EE, Moskaleva G, Buono D, Webber MP. Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Inner-City Persons with or at Risk for HIV Infection. AIDS Patient Care and STDs. October 2008: 811-816.
5. Milan FB, Dyche L, Fletcher J. “How Am I Doing?” Teaching medical students to elicit feedback during their clerkships.” Medical Teacher 2011;33:904-910.
6. McEvoy M, Schlair S, Sidlo, Z, Burton W, Milan FB. Assessing third-year medical students’ ability to address a patient’s spiritual distress using an OSCE case. Academic Medicine 2014. 89(1):66-70.
7. McEvoy M, Burton W, Milan FB. Spiritual Versus Religious Identity: A Necessary Distinction in Understanding Clinicians’ Behavior and Attitudes Toward Clinical Practice and Medical Student Teaching in This Realm. Journal of Religion and Health 2014. 53(4):1249-56.
8. Kitsis EA, Milan FB, Cohen HW, Myers D, Herron P, McEvoy M, Weingarten J, Grayson MS. Who’s misbehaving? Perceptions of unprofessional social media use by medical students and faculty. BMC Medical Education Feb 18, 2016. DOI 10.1186/s12909-016-0572-x
9. Ecker, DJ, Milan FB, Cassese T, Farnan JM, Madigosky WS, Massie FS Jr., Mendez P, Obadia S, Ovitsh RK, Silvestri R, MD, Uchida T, Daniel M. Step Up--Not On--Step 2 CS: Directors of Clinical Skills Courses (DOCS) Oppose Ending Step 2 CS. Academic Medicine: Post Author Corrections: August 22, 2017
10. Schlair S, Dyche L, Milan F. Longitudinal faculty development program to promote effective observation and feedback skills in direct clinical observation.MedEdPORTAL. 2017;13:10648
11. Oza GrochowalskiJP, Rougas, George P, Milan Novel use of an OSCE to assess medical students' responses to a request for a low value diagnostic imaging test: A mixed methods analysis. Patient Education and Counseling. Oct 22, 2021.
12. Milan FB and Grochowalski JP, A resource efficient and reliable standard setting method for
OSCEs: Borderline regression method using standardized patients as sole raters in clinical case encounters with medical students. Medical Teacher. March 3, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159X.2022.2041586
13. John JT, Gowda D , Schlair S, Hojsak J, Milan FB, Auerbach L. After the Discontinuation of Step 2 CS: A Collaborative Statement from the Directors of Clinical Skills Education (DOCS). Teaching and Learning in Medicine March 14, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/10401334.2022.2039154