Yukiko Kimura, MD, has been interested in medical education for a long time, so when the ACR REF awarded her the ACR REF Clinician Scholar Educator Award in 2008, she knew what she wanted to do.
“My original plan was relatively simple: to develop a web-based program that could use video and multimedia to teach primary care physicians, residents, and trainees how to do joint exams in children,” says Dr. Kimura, who is chief of pediatric rheumatology at Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital, Hackensack University Medical Center in Hackensack, N.J.
“There’s such a shortage of specialists to teach this sort of skill. Learning by doing a hands-on exam is the best way, but there aren’t enough specialists to be able to teach everyone this way,” she says.
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