Associate Professor | Associate Dean of Admissions and Assessment

Associate Professor | Associate Dean of Admissions and Assessment

Associate Professor | Associate Dean of Admissions and Assessment

Palo Alto, California, USA

Palo Alto, California, USA

Palo Alto, California, USA

Stanford University School of Medicine

Stanford University School of Medicine

Stanford University School of Medicine

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Holly Caretta-Weyer is Associate Dean of Admissions and Assessment for the Stanford University School of Medicine as well as Director of Evaluation and Assessment for the Stanford Emergency Medicine Residency Program. Holly is currently the principal investigator on an AMA Reimagining Residency Grant focused on redesigning assessment and implementing competency-based medical education across the continuum of emergency medicine training using a precision education lens. She is additionally a recent visiting scholar with the American Board of Medical Specialties and the recipient of the International Educator of the Year Award from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.  Holly completed her medical training at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine where she also did her emergency medicine residency training and was chief resident. She then completed a Medical Education Scholarship Fellowship at Oregon Health & Science University focused on the implementation of competency-based assessment. She additionally completed her MHPE at the University of Illinois at Chicago during that time. Her research interests focus on the implementation of competency-based education and assessment across the continuum of medical education, summative entrustment and promotion decision-making, and residency selection in a competency-based system, the latter of which she is pursuing as her topic of study for her PhD in Medical Education from Maastricht University.