Thank you for your interest in our Lunch with Honors with Dr. John Burkhardt. Following University guidance, this event is canceled. We are working to reschedule for next term. Thank you for understanding.
Let curiosity lead the way! Dr. John Burkhardt will join us to discuss the impact of curiosity as a driving force behind positive change, career decisions and life choices. No stranger to an unexpected path in life, Dr. Burkhardt will be discussing his passion for education and helping others along with the balancing act of life in the emergency department and academic responsibilities in teaching and research.
His own journey began in the Honors Program with a History major at U-M. Dr. Burkhardt then moved on to Medical School at Case Western and chose to return to Michigan for his residency in emergency medicine. It was during residency that his unexpected career path commenced as he decided to make medical education (an MA and Ph.D. at Michigan) a large focus of his career in addition to work as a practitioner.
Please join us to learn more about Dr. John Burkhardt’s path and why he is passionate about the work he does in medical education toward increased accountability and equity.
Biography
John C. Burkhardt is an Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine and Learning Health Sciences. In addition to Dr. Burkhardt’s clinical work in Emergency Medicine, he has earned both a Master’s and Ph.D. in Higher Education in order to expand his quantitative and policy analytic skills to address large scale professional education issues. His research focuses on critically reevaluating medical education policy to increase fairness, equity, and ultimately address health care disparities. This interest is grounded in a commitment to bring better alignment across key components of medical education so that, as a profession, we can more fully meet societal needs and the needs of our patients. His scholarship has included areas such as recruitment, admissions, selection of residents, curriculum, and assessment. He has chosen these areas due to a belief that there is a current mismatch between our stated goals of inclusion in the profession and our preparation of physicians to meet looming needs in areas of specialization (especially primary care and emergency care), the documented needs of traditionally underserved medical populations, and the way we select, recruit, and train medical students and residents. To address these issues in a novel manner, he also has expanded his research to include examining the effect of educational diversity on health care delivery in order to reconceptualize medical education as an underutilized lever in healthcare disparities amelioration.
Areas of Interest
Research and scholarly interests: Academic and medical specialty career interest, admissions and resident selection processes, career development, educational policy, pipeline issues, public policy, health care disparities, and social justice
Subject-matter expertise: quantitative methodology, large-scale secondary data usage in research, educational policy analysis
Other professional highlights:
- Admissions Chair and Faculty, Master of Health Professions Education program
- Director of Resident Research and Scholarly Development, Department of Emergency Medicine
- Co-Director, Path of Excellence: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Education Fellow
- RISE (Research, Innovation, Scholarship, Education) Fellowship, University of Michigan Medical School
