Eva Aagaard, MD

Biography

Eva Aagaard, MD, FACP is the Carol B and Jerome T Loeb Professor of Medical Education, Vice Chancellor for Medical Education, and Senior Associate Dean for Education at WashU Medicine. A practicing general internist, in her current leadership role, she oversees medical education across the continuum including undergraduate (UME), graduate (GME) and continuing medical education as well as allied health professional and graduate training. This includes spearheading a large scale curriculum reform effort in the MD program, and promoting the development of multiple initiatives to promote the career development and success of educators on campus. Nationally she led development of the Society of General Internal Medicine TEACH Program and partnered to develop the MedEd Scholarship Faculty Development Program. Internationally she developed the Health Education Advanced Leadership Program in Zimbabwe (HEALZ).

Dr. Aagaard is a former member of the American Board of Internal Medicine Specialty Board, former Council Member for the Society of General Internal Medicine, and participates actively with the National Board of Medical Examiners as a reviewer for licensing exam content. She served as a core member of the Milestones in Internal Medicine Writing Committee and Milestones 2.0, leading to the Next Accreditation System at the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Her areas of interest include curriculum reform, competency-based education and assessment, particularly as it relates to the UME to GME transition, and remediation. She is passionate about mentoring, coaching and sponsorship and speaks widely on these topics. She has won more than 16 awards for clinical excellence, teaching, and humanism in medicine, including the University of Colorado’s President’s Teaching Award, the Society of General Internal Medicine Mid-Career Mentoring Award,  the Elizabeth Gee Award for the Advancement of Women, and the Washington University Distinguished Faculty Award. 

Research & Scholarship work is in primary areas:

1. Competency assessment and remediation- In this space, Dr. Aagaard is working with colleagues at CU to complete research on competency in GI procedures using learning curves. Locally, they are developing a new framework for competency assessment in the MD program. She is also working nationally on Milestones in Internal Medicine and at ABMS on remediation planning and development for practicing physicians.
2. Situational Awareness- Dr. Aagaard is interested in how and when physicians develop situational awareness and how we might assess this. She has worked nationally to develop a tool and is now working with one of our residents to assess the reliability and validity of that tool.
3. Curriculum development- Dr. Aagaard works locally and nationally on a variety of emerging areas of curriculum development. Currently, she is particularly interested in how we teach social and structural determinants of health. She has worked with a national team to define key areas necessary for instruction at the UME and GME level. She is also very interested in community engaged work and is interested in investigating the impact of such work on student/ resident career development and trajectory.