Dr carla pugh biography
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Educator Carla Pugh, M.D., Ph.D., designs medical simulators rigged with sensors that provide a quantitative assessment of medical skills.
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Inspired at a young age by “healing” her toys, she pursued a B.S. at U.C. Berkeley in Neurobiology and her M.D. at Howard University School of Medicine. She describes herself as a visual learner who has difficulty not using her hands to learn a new skill.
Early on in her medical training, she realized that there was a deficit in quantitatively measuring hands-on or “haptic” skills. Dr. Pugh sought to fill this gap in medical training and understood she needs to learn more about how to educate effectively first.
Dr carla pugh biography
She received her Ph.D. in Education from Stanford University and was the first surgeon to ever receive a Ph.D. in Education. Recently, she moved back to Stanford University where she became a Professor of Surgery at the School of Medicine and the Director of Technology-Enabled Clinical Improvement Center.
In Dr.
Pugh’s 2014 TEDMED talk