Kevin Stanko

Kevin grew up in Simsbury, Connecticut and graduated from Dartmouth College in 2016 with a degree in Biology. He then spent a year in Hanover working as a Teaching Science Fellow at Dartmouth. In this role, he served as a near-peer resource to students in introductory biology classes. He provided one-on-one teaching of class material and evidence-based study strategies, facilitated review sessions, and used student feedback to help professors improve current and future course offerings. Through this experience he became interested in the ways in which students learn, and how classes can be designed around this to help students learn more effectively.

As a MedEd Scholar, Kevin hopes to get involved in curriculum design. He is very interested in how pedagogical techniques of medical education are evolving at Geisel to incorporate more team-based learning and flipped classroom opportunities. He hopes to be involved in this change moving forward, as well as pursue the development of medical student-specific learning tools to facilitate transition into the high volume of material during the first year.