Felise B. Milan
<p>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. </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
OSCEs/simulation
Standard Setting
Teaching and assessment of clinical skills
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Dr. Milan specializes in the education of medical students, including teaching and assessing communication and interpersonal skills in a clinical setting. She has participated in research to define and develop ways of assessing medical student competency. In addition, Dr. Milan has made important contributions to using feedback in medical education, integrating complementary and alternative medicine into modern clinical practice, and applying behavioral and psychiatric knowledge to the practice of primary care medicine.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Dr. Milan has presented her novel curriculum and educational models nationally and internationally. She currently serves as the director of the Ruth L. Gottesman Clinical Skills Center at Einstein, where students and residents learn in a simulated and monitored clinical setting. She also leads several key educational programs at Einstein for teaching and evaluating students’ clinical and interpersonal skills.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoHeader" style="margin-left: 22.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; mso-pagination: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: center 22.5pt 3.0in right 6.0in; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">Selected references:</span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoHeader" style="margin-left: 22.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; mso-pagination: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: center 22.5pt 3.0in right 6.0in; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span></strong><!--[endif]--><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Milan FB</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, 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. </span></p>
<p class="MsoHeader" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 22.5pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoHeader" style="margin-left: 22.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; mso-pagination: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: center 22.5pt 3.0in right 6.0in; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span></strong><!--[endif]--><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Milan FB</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, 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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoHeader" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoHeader" style="margin-left: 22.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; mso-pagination: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: center 22.5pt 3.0in right 6.0in; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span></strong><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;">P</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">arish SJ, Weber CM, <strong>Milan FB</strong>, 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.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoHeader" style="margin-left: 22.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; mso-pagination: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: center 22.5pt 3.0in right 6.0in; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Milan FB</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, Arnsten JH, Klein RS, Schoenbaum EE, Moskaleva G, Buono D, Webber MP. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Inner-City Persons with or at Risk for HIV Infection. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">AIDS Patient Care and STDs. October 2008: 811-816.</span></p>
<p class="MsoHeader" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoHeader" style="margin-left: 22.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; mso-pagination: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: center 22.5pt 3.0in right 6.0in; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span></strong><!--[endif]--><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Milan FB</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, Dyche L, Fletcher J. “How Am I Doing?” Teaching medical students to elicit feedback during their clerkships.” Medical Teacher 2011;33:904-910.</span></p>
<p class="MsoHeader" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-align: justify;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoHeader" style="margin-left: 22.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; mso-pagination: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: center 22.5pt 3.0in right 6.0in; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span></strong><!--[endif]--><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 10pt;">McEvoy M, Schlair S, Sidlo, Z, Burton W,<strong> Milan FB. </strong></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Assessing third-year medical students’ ability to address a patient’s spiritual distress using an OSCE case. Academic Medicine 2014. 89(1):66-70.</span></p>
<p class="MsoHeader" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-align: justify;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoHeader" style="margin-left: 22.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; mso-pagination: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: center 22.5pt 3.0in right 6.0in; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span></strong><!--[endif]--><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 10pt;">McEvoy M, Burton W, <strong>Milan FB</strong>. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #262626;">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.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoHeader" style="margin-left: 22.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; mso-pagination: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: center 22.5pt 3.0in right 6.0in; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Kitsis EA, <strong>Milan FB</strong>, Cohen HW, Myers D, Herron P, McEvoy M, Weingarten J, Grayson MS<strong>. </strong></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">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</span></p>
<p class="MsoHeader" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoHeader" style="margin-left: 22.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; mso-pagination: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: center 22.5pt 3.0in right 6.0in; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span></strong><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ecker, DJ, <strong>Milan FB</strong>, 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. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #3b3030;">Academic Medicine: </span><a style="color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/toc/9000/00000"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #867c9c; text-decoration: none;">Post Author Corrections: August 22, 2017</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoHeader" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoHeader" style="margin-left: 22.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; mso-pagination: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: center 22.5pt 3.0in right 6.0in; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span></strong><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Schlair S, Dyche L, <strong>Milan F</strong>. Longitudinal faculty development program to promote effective observation and feedback skills in direct clinical observation.<em>MedEdPORTAL</em>. 2017;13:10648</span></p>
<p class="MsoHeader" style="margin-left: 22.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; mso-pagination: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: center 22.5pt 3.0in right 6.0in; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;"> </p>
<p class="MsoHeader" style="margin-left: 22.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in; mso-pagination: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: center 22.5pt 3.0in right 6.0in; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><a style="color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Oza+SK&cauthor_id=34716052"><… style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">11. Oza</span></a><span class="authors-list-item"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; background-color: white;"> SK, Joo P, </span></span><a style="color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Grochowalski+JH&cauthor_id=34… style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"> Grochowalski</span></a><span class="author-sup-separator"><sup><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; background-color: white;"> </span></sup></span><span class="comma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; background-color: white;">JP, </span></span><a style="color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Rougas+S&cauthor_id=34716052"… style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"> Rougas</span></a><span class="authors-list-item"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; background-color: white;"> S</span></span><span class="author-sup-separator"><sup><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; background-color: white;"> </span></sup></span><span class="comma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; background-color: white;">, George P, <strong>Milan </strong></span></span><span class="authors-list-item"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">FB</span></span><span class="authors-list-item"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">. </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><a style="color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2021.10.021" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">10.1016/j.pec.2021.10.021</span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">12.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Milan FB</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"> and Grochowalski JP, A resource efficient and reliable standard setting method for</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">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</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><!-- [if !supportLists]-->13.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 10pt;">John JT, Gowda D , Schlair S, Hojsak J, <strong>Milan FB</strong>, 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</span></p>
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