Department of Internal Medicine Rebecca Hegeman to Receive Collegiate Teaching Award  Rebecca L. Hegeman, M.D. Associate Professor (Clinical) Director, UI/VAMC Dialysis Treatment Centers
5/9/2006 Nine University of Iowa colleges have announced the winners of the 2005-06 Collegiate Teaching Awards. These faculty members are recognized for excellence in undergraduate and graduate teaching in their respective colleges: Lon Moeller, Henry B. Tippie College of Business; Sherry Kay Watt, College of Education; Er-Wei Bai and John M. Wiencek, College of Engineering; Janet Guthmiller, College of Dentistry; John S. Allen, College of Law; Craig Gibson, Craig Kletzing, Judith Liskin-Gasparro, Michael Lovaglia, Daniel M. Quinn and Bryon Winn, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; David Bedell, Jo Benda and Rebecca Hegeman, UI Roy J. and Lucile A. Carver College of Medicine; Nicollet Markovetz and Janet Specht, College of Nursing; and Joseph Cavanaugh, College of Public Health. Rebecca Hegeman, clinical associate professor of internal medicine, serves as one of four faculty directors in the Carver College of Medicine Communities designed to facilitate student involvement in peer-to-peer support, education, leadership and service activities. This unique teaching and mentoring opportunity allows her to work with first-year through fourth-year medical students; she develops leadership skills among students by facilitating discussion and service learning projects. Hegeman teaches medical students, residents and fellows on inpatient wards, dialysis units, consulting services and outpatient clinics. She serves as a clinician mentor for second-year medical students when they complete history and physical exams, teaches multiple sections of course material, and facilitates small group discussions. Hegeman gives lectures to residents, and she developed a thorough review of nephrology for the Internal Medicine board review course. She also developed and delivers curriculum on renal replacement therapy to nephrology fellows. |
