Taking this Masters has been transformational. The courses, the assignments and the interactions with my peers has redefined how I view my students, faculty, educational content and the interrelationships they share. When I speak in a teaching setting, my colleagues stop and listen in a way they previously did not. My knowledge and abilities are now recognized by granting me new leadership roles where I can work toward integrating my ideas broadly into the curriculum. I am looking forward to completing this Masters so I can focus on these new roles rather than course work.

I look forward to the interactions and guidance from many expert educators within the MD program as I enter new leadership roles. I realize there is still considerably more for me to learn as evidenced by the challenges I encountered during my first ICE: Clinical Skills Committee Meeting. My professional development is now focused on building relationships with stakeholders and learning to lead. I am reading books such as Getting to Yes by Fisher and Ury. Over the last several months I have visited several Clinical Skills teaching site to get feedback about where the course is and where it should go. So far this has been an extremely valuable experience. I hope for these visits will give me the buy in and plan a future vision for clinical skills with an high-quality content base, integrated with Foundations and grounded in educational theory. The feedback will also allow me to collaborate with resistant stakeholders within the medical school. The journey over the last three years has not taken the route that I had initially planned. I feel my educational career has advanced much faster than I expected, and much of the credit for this goes to the knowledge, skills and attitudes I developed while completing this Masters in Health Practitioner Teacher Education.