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Petra J Lewis, MBBS

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Professional Interests

Woman's Imaging
Student education
Resident education
Faculty development

Mentoring Information

Petra would be happy to mentor faculty in the areas of: active learning; technology in education (including iPads); brain-friendly teaching; improving your Powerpoint presentations; developing psychometrically sound multiple choice questions.

Biography

Petra Lewis gained her medical degree at Guy’s Hospital, London, England. Initial UK training was followed by a Nuclear Medicine Fellowship at Johns Hopkins, two years running a clinical PET center in London, then Radiology residency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, NH. She has been on faculty at Geisel Medical School at Dartmouth since 1998. She is involved with resident and faculty education both locally and nationally. She has run the 4th year Radiology elective since 1998, and ran SBM imaging until 2009. She has been a key member of AMSER (Alliance of Medical Student Educators in Radiology), including President in 2006 and ACER (Alliance of Clinician Educators in Radiology), President in 2012, winning the AMSER Excellence in Education Award in 2013 and the APDR Achievement Award in Education in 2017. Petra has developed a number of national resources for medical student educators including the AMSER Resource Database and Radiology and CORE (Case –based Online Radiology Education), now supported by Aquifer. Between 2006-2012 she wrote and edited question items for the American Board of Radiology, and is a regular oral boards examiner for them. Between 2009-13 she was on the NMBE Step 1 anatomy test development committee and has co’edited the Oxford Handbook of Radiology, a textbook for medical students. She is one of the originators and current Editor in Chief of RadExam, a nationally used exam database which is a collaboration between the American College of Radiology and the Association of Program Directors in Radiology. She is the President of the Association of University Radiologists 2019-20 and the current Education Track Chair for the Radiology Society of North America.

She has been involved with teaching students, residents and faculty through lectures, small groups and multiple types of interactive sessions including using technology such as iPads in education and educational ‘games’. She lectures nationally and locally on educational pedagogy including ‘Brain Friendly Teaching’ and has published educational research in the radiology literature.