APDIM Distinguished Medical Educator Award

APDIM Distinguished Medical Educator Award
Eric Holmboe, MD
Clowning around with Ethan!
Al Steinman: “I didn’t know what I wanted most‐ to be APDIM president or to be
The PHILLIES PHANATIC!”
Eric Holmboe MD
John Cleese
John Norcini: “Have you ever seen Eric and John Cleese in the same room?”
SERIOUS
• Identify themes in Eric’s career
• Important influences‐ “It takes a village”
• Important Traits
Still holds the PA state record In the 2 mile*!
Dared to be the best runner in PA!
Coach Ianicelli
Dared to be a great collegiate runner: Alll American at Franklin and Marshall
Tom Tape the resident, Eric the graduating medical student!
Dared to be the best medical student he could be!
Admiral James Kimble
Dared to be a major force for change in Naval preparedness!
Yale RWJ Clinical Scholars Program
“My scholars are metastases of myself!”
“I can’t believe he visited every hospital in Connecticut!
Dared to be the best scholar!
Kelly Skeff
Dared himself always to get better!
Lou Pangaro
Dared to change how residents are trained!
Spreading the milestones to Qatar
Dared to change the training of residents internationally!
And Abu Dhabi!
Dared to change the way we train residents in all primary care disciplines!
Irving “Moon” Mondschein
Second best decathalete in 1948
Bob Mathias
Olympic Champion 1948
The Holmboe Family
Daring to be a great dad and husband!
Traits and Themes
• Be aggressive in identifying mentors‐ 2 of his mentors were prior educator award recipients
• Work ethic‐ you cannot out read Eric but you can try!
• PQ and CQ‐ passion and curiosity quotients
• Vision‐ no quick leaps to success; pick an area and work it
• Humor‐ especially when you speak truth to power (Oscar Wilde); also Rule Number 6: Never take yourself too seriously (Ben Zander)
Teddy Roosevelt: Citizenship in a Republic
• Daring greatly: “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Dares us all to be better in what we do!