The Division of Education Quality at NYU Langone’s Institute for Innovations in Medical Education focuses on the integrated and longitudinal evaluation of curriculum that captures innovation and outcomes across the continuum of undergraduate and graduate medical education.

The division has three main aims:

• quality: establish continuous quality improvement processes to ensure that educational efforts are leading to intended learning outcomes
• effectiveness: turn evaluation data into insight by producing evaluations that facilitate understanding and action
• efficiency: refine evaluation systems and workflows to create efficient, streamlined, and consistent processes, in order to make the best use of available resources while minimizing burden and disruption

Our Faculty and Staff

The faculty and staff in our division are leaders in the design of systems that support curricular evaluation. They focus on providing consistent and meaningful feedback to learners, faculty, and leadership to track competence across the undergraduate-to-graduate medical education continuum.

Colleen Gillespie, PhD, Director

As a social scientist, Dr. Gillespie designs and conducts formative and summative evaluations of research at the intersection of medical education and health services. She oversees curricular evaluation and reform at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and specializes in assessing physicians’ competence in communication with patients, including the use of standardized patient simulation. She maintains the undergraduate and graduate medical education registries, enabling NYU Langone researchers to make use of longitudinal educational data. Learn more about Dr. Gillespie or contact her at colleen.gillespie@nyulangone.org.

Zachary Hill-Whilton, MPA, Program Manager

Mr. Hill-Whilton is passionate about integrating design thinking, analytics, and creative technology solutions toward social impact. He is responsible for driving continuous quality improvement across evaluation and assessment processes within undergraduate medical education (UME) and the UME–graduate medical education continuum by leveraging meaningful use of data to further medical education.

Chloe Holt-Reiss, MS, Senior Project Coordinator for Outcome Evaluation

Ms. Holt-Reiss manages student outcome reporting for the division. She is responsible for generating end-of-stage surveys, assigning evaluations, and compiling data into outcome reports for students and faculty. Her work with outcomes serves as the foundation for DEQ’s work on full curricular and stage evaluations. Her role extends to the organization of data sources and definitions, she helps conduct research on the reach and effectiveness of precision education and supports faculty in writing and submitting research presentations and papers. She hopes to see education innovation for medical students translate to positive patient outcomes and care.

Nikola Koscica, MS, Data Analyst

Mr. Koscica automates and optimizes data analysis and reports regarding student and curriculum outcomes. His goal is to guide discussions and decision-making regarding medical education activities so that they can assist NYU Grossman School of Medicine in training the best possible doctors, and from that, the best possible patient outcomes.