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Mary G Turco, EdD

Contact Information

Professional Interests

Health Professions Scholarship, Medical Education Outcomes Research, Leadership and Professional Development, Cultural and Gender Studies, US Education Policy, Global Health

Grant Information

Turco oversees, in collaboration with Steven Boyce, MHCDS, CPA, and Glenda Shoop, PhD, the Department of Medicine's Scholarship Enhancement in Academic Medicine (SEAM) Awards Program which provides grants to department faculty, trainees and staff for academic projects deemed worthy by a formal review committee.

Courses Taught

Leading in an Academic Health System, Course 3 in the D-H Breakthrough Leadership Program

Teaching with Simulation Instructors' Course in the D-H Simulation-Based Education and Research Center

Fundamentals of Medical Education Scholarship, e.g. Research Workshop, at SACME Annual Meetings

Geisel School of Medicine Student Leadership Elective

Dartmouth College Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Courses

Dartmouth College Women's and Gender Studies Courses including Independent Study Courses

Biography

Mary G. Turco, EdD is associate professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and Dartmouth-Hitchcock (D-H) Medical Center in Hanover and Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA. Turco's areas of focus are Health Professions Scholarship, Medical Education Outcomes Research, Leadership, Professional Development, Cultural and Gender Studies, US Education Policy, and Global Health. During academic year 2022 Turco was an Honorary Associate Professor of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is a co-editor of the book Continuing Professional Development in Medicine and Healthcare: Better Education, Better Patient Outcomes (Wolters Kluwer, 2018) to which she was also a contributor. She has published articles and chapters in various journals and books including Continuing Medical Education: Looking Back, Planning Ahead (Dartmouth College Press, Lebanon, NH, 2011).
From 2004 to 2014 she was director of the Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences and of Continuing Medical Education (CME) at D-H and Geisel. She has taught at the undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate levels at Dartmouth College and has been involved with many Dartmouth College, D-H, and Geisel global health initiatives including the Dartmouth Haiti Response (2010 Earthquake) and activities in Nicaragua, Tanzania, Russia, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Turco is a Past-President and Fellow of the Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education (SACME). She currently serves as former Chair of SACME's Strategic Affairs Committee. She has been involved in a variety of initiatives with the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). She is a member of the AMEE International Association for Medical Education - Continuing Professional Development Committee's Special Interest Group to advance scholarly CME/CPD globally.