Download a copy of Dr. Z's presentation from the Internship Conference:

Lessons from the Medical Model [PPT, 173kb]

Audio files of the presentation to be posted shortly.

Dr. Zalneraitis has been a Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology, since 1994. He has been the Pediatric Residency Program Director for the past 16 years, and serves as Assistant Dean for Clinical Education at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. He also has also been the Director of Medical Education at Connecticut Children's Medical Center since the hospital opened in 1996. He has been the recipient of 12 teaching and education awards in pediatrics at the University of Connecticut.

Dr. Zalneraitis received his M.D. from Brown University, and completed his postgraduate training in Harvard University Medical School programs, in pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital and in neurology and child neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He currently is a member of The American Board of Pediatrics, and is appointed to the Residency Review Committee for Pediatrics of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. He is the Immediate Past President of the Association of Pediatric Program Directors and Past Chair of the Organization of Program Director Associations. He was selected to participate in the National Pediatric faculty Development Scholars program of the Ambulatory Pediatrics Association, and is program director representative to the Federation of Pediatric Organizations and the Pediatric Education Steering Committee.

In these roles in graduate medical education, he has been actively involved in the evolving transformation to competency-based education, through implementation of the "Outcomes Project", a joint effort of the national medical training accrediting agency: the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, and the certifying body: The American Board of Medical Specialties. He has recently contributed to summarizing the challenges of the shift from process to outcome driven education, as co-author of a paper in Pediatrics: "The state of pediatric residency training: a period of transformation of graduate medical education." This fundamental shift in approach to the education and training process in medicine may be of relevance to the consideration of education, training and certification of competence of architects of the future.