Bio
With formal training and deliberate practice, Dr. Rassbach serves as the Pediatrics Residency Program Director, the co-Director of the Medical Education Scholarly Concentration for Residents and Fellows, and the co-Director of the Medical Education Peer Scholarship Community. Dr. Rassbach feels privileged to contribute to medical education locally and nationally. In 2013 she developed the novel Stanford Pediatrics Residency Coaching Program as well as the Stanford Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship Program. She also served as an Associate Program Director, Advisor, and Director of Assessment for the Pediatrics Residency Program from 2012-2019, at which time she became the Residency Program Director. In all of these roles, Dr. Rassbach teaches multiple levels of learners through bedside teaching, direct instruction, facilitating discussions, coaching, mentoring and role-modeling. She has studied and disseminated her work on numerous medical education topics and her scholarship has impacted other residency programs around the country who have since started Coaching Programs modeled after Stanford’s. In addition, her work in fellowship education has influenced other institutions’ fellowship program development and has led to ACGME’s initial accreditation of Pediatric Hospital Medicine fellowship programs. Her current scholarship focuses on learning environment, competency-based training, and health care communication.
