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Deborah Ziring, MD
Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs/Undergraduate Medical Education
Professor of Medicine
Contact Information
1025 Walnut Street
College Building, Suite 100
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs/Undergraduate Medical Education
Professor of Medicine
Publications
- Exploring the presence and roles of humility when experiencing situations of uncertainty
- Nothing about Us Without Us: Improving Representation of Disability in Medical School Curriculum Through Explicit Inclusion
- Exposing the disability-related hidden curriculum in case-based learning: A qualitative study
- Making decisions “in the dark”: Learning through uncertainty in clinical practice during Covid-19
- Navigating Uncertainty in Clinical Practice: A Workshop to Prepare Medical Students to Problem-Solve During Complex Clinical Challenges
Certifications
- Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine
- State of Pennsylvania Unrestricted Medical License
- Drug Enforcement Administration Practitioner License
Awards
- Excellence in Medical Education, Best Short Communication UME Clerkship (AAMC Northeast Group on Educational Affairs), 2017
- John A. Benson Jr., MD Professionalism Article Prize (American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation), 2016
- Nominated Golden Apple Award -- IFM Class of 2016 (Drexel University College of Medicine), 2014
- Golden Apple Award – PIL Class of 2016 (Drexel University College of Medicine), 2014
- Nominated Golden Apple Awards – PIL & IFM Classes of 2015 (Drexel University College of Medicine), 2013
- Angelo Pinto Educator Award (Drexel University College of Medicine), 2012
- Outstanding Teaching Award, Internal Medicine Residents (Hahnemann University), 1992
- Alpha Omega Honor Society, Member (New Jersey Medical School), 1985
- Merck Manual Award (New Jersey Medical School), 1985
- Janet M. Glasgow Memorial Achievement Citation (New Jersey Medical School), 1985
- Gertrude Ash Memorial Award (New Jersey Medical School), 1985
- President’s Academic Achievement Award (College of Allied Health Temple University), 1981
Research & Clinical Interests
Dr. Ziring was recruited to SKMC in 2015 to lead the design and implementation of a new four- year UME curriculum that successfully launched in 2017. The organizational culture change that was necessary to support successful implementation and the processes required to sustain change in a complex system are a focus of her scholarly work. In addition, recent scholarly work has focused on health systems science and incorporating uncertainty in medical education. Dr. Ziring has been a PI/Co-PI with the American Medical Associations’ Accelerating Change in Medical Education (ACE) consortium since 2016. This involvement has enabled her to build a collaborative national network across the AMA consortium schools which has been invaluable to ongoing innovation at SKMC. Dr. Ziring has also been nationally recognized for her scholarship in medical professionalism as an invited speaker at the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation and Alpha Omega Alpha Invitational Meetings. Her Academic Medicine manuscript, “How Do Medical Schools Identify and Remediate Students with Professionalism Lapses? A Study of US and Canadian Medical Schools” received the John A. Benson Jr. Professionalism Article Prize by the ABIM Foundation in 2016.