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MEDICAL EDUCATION Shore to Lead Promotion and Review Board Miles Shore, the Bullard professor of psychiatry at HMS and visiting scholar at the Kennedy School of Government, has been appointed the new chair of the Academic Societies Promotion and Review Board. This standing committee, which monitors the academic and professional development of medical students, is currently chaired by David Golan, HMS professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology. Miles Shore now heads the committee that monitors medical student performance. Photo by Barbara Steiner "The review board works with the academic societies, the dean for medical education, and the registrar to help students who may be having difficulties. Under David Golan's leadership the board has done a wonderful job in expanding that helpful role, and I hope that the next board can do as well," Shore said. Intimately involved with the board's formation in 1993, Golan has helped turn student evaluation into an objective, standardized process that encompasses professional conduct and responsibility as well as academic performance. Having served as vice chair of the board from 1993 until his appointment as chair in 1998, Golan was instrumental in developing the HMS policy on student conduct and responsibility, which defines the standard of conduct expected of students. Golan also helped create guidelines for monitoring students and due process guidelines for students under consideration for unprofessional conduct or deficiency in their academic or clinical performance. Golan views the board as a tool to facilitate remediation, not punishment, for students having difficulties meeting the School's standards in either preclinical or clinical work. In an effort to promote his vision of the board as a helpful entity, Golan has cultivated the relationship between the board and the academic societies. A major goal has been to "identify students earlier in the remediation process," said Golan. "In the past I think there were students who fell through the cracks, and if we had been able to work with them they would have had fewer problems." "The decisions made by this board often have extremely important, far-reaching effects, and the deliberations of the committee therefore require the utmost in fairness, sensitivity, discernment, and wisdom. Dr. Shore is truly the perfect person to lead this committee, and I am sure he will maintain the very high standards set for the position by his predecessor, Dr. Golan," said Daniel Lowenstein, HMS dean for medical education. Shore's chairmanship begins on July 1. —Heather Ettinger