Casey White, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean for Medical Education
Casey White has been involved in medical education most of her professional career. Initially her efforts were focused on providing higher-level administrative support in the medical student educational program. In the last ten years, she has increasingly focused her efforts on academic areas related to medical education. Her specific academic interests include medical student self-assessment in the contexts of cognitive development and self-regulated learning, performance-based learning and assessment, and the effectiveness of active learning methods including the use and effectiveness of technology and simulation.
Dr. White has collaborated with Medical School faculty members on grants, research projects, educational innovations, and assessment activities. These efforts have yielded several co-authored publications, the majority of which are focused on self-assessment including its relationship to medical student learning across multiple tasks and longitudinally over time. She has developed a framework for examining variables that influence self-assessment, and cognitive benefits of self-assessment, and is using that framework to continue her research.
In addition several of her invited presentations and papers have focused on curriculum development, clinical performance assessment, and the use of new instructional technologies in medical student education including web-based curriculum delivery and standardized patient instructors.
Dr. White was co-investigator on one of the first research grants awarded by the National Board of Medical Education (development of tools for measuring self-assessment accuracy). She is currently co-investigator on grants from the Vining Davis Foundations (development of an integrated curriculum in multiculturalism, spirituality, and end-of-life care), the NIH (development of a comprehensive educational program in Complementary and Alternative Medicine), and the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (development of simulated patient exercises to measure medical student cultural competency). She is co-investigator on a grant proposal recently submitted to the NIH on using simulation to teach skills for obtaining informed consent.
Dr. White received her Master's degree and Ph.D. in higher education from the University's Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education (CSHPE).
Contact Information
Casey White, Ph.D.
3960 Taubman Library, SPC 5726
1301 Catherine St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5726
734-763-6770
734-763-6771 fax
Email: bcwhite@umich.edu