About
Caroline (Stoddard) Astemborski, MD, MEHP is a graduate of Clemson University and University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville. After medical school, she attended residency at Prisma Health Upstate in emergency medicine graduating in 2020. After residency, Dr. Astemborski attended Prisma Health Upstate as a two-year Medical Education & Technology Fellow in the department of emergency medicine. During fellowship, she attended Johns Hopkins University and received her Master of Education of Health Professionals and Post Graduate Certificate in Evidence Based Teaching in 2022.Her capstone project focused on the impact of learning content management systems on residency programming. Dr. Astemborski currently serves as the Assistant Program Director of the Medical Education & Technology Fellowship working to mentor fellows in their medical education research interests. Additionally, she is a clinical assistant professor at University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville where she serves as faculty for Integrative Practice of Medicine. Dr. Astemborski has been recognized as a national educator. Her research interests include evidence-based education, small group learning, just-in-time teaching, classroom engagement, gamification, equality in education, mentorship, and technology in education including AR/VR, 3D printing and low fidelity models. Prior publications, include exploring learning outcomes using escape rooms, small group learning and use of standardized patients during residency. Current projects include bystander microaggression interventions, impact of learning content management systems on residency programs, and escape rooms in medical education. For more information, see her Curriculum Vitae
How their research is transforming health care
My research is focused on medical education and pedagogy specifically working to advance our delivery of educational models to improve our learners’ knowledge, clinical reasoning and leadership to better patient experience and outcomes. My current projects focus on learners’ experience of micro aggression in the clinical environment, providing bystander scripting for intervening in microaggressions, intervening in microaggression impact on burn-out, using technology to improve education programming and delivery of content (AR/VR, 3D printing, gamification, multimedia slide design, learning content management systems, flipped classrooms), small group teaching methods to improve clinical reasoning, and coaching of leadership qualities. My research is important to improve the quality of medical education, promote evidence-based practice, advance the discipline of medical education, and prepare healthcare learners for the challenges of the future healthcare delivery.
Health research keywords
Instructional Design, Gamification, Small Group Learning, Clinical Reasoning, Equality in Education
