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.

Nikola Košćica, MS, Data Scientist

Mr. Košćica brings data science technologies, statistical methods, and emerging AI strategies to help evaluate the curriculum at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He is responsible for the development of data pipelines, reports, and dashboards that translate student evaluation data and experience into analytical metrics, as well as the analysis of student performance and effectiveness of developing teaching technologies. The goal of this work is to guide and inform decision making that turns world-class medical students into world-class doctors.