Bio
Becky Blankenburg, MD, MPH is the Assistant Dean of Graduate Medical Education, Associate Chair of Education in Pediatrics, and Director of the Coaching Program at Stanford and the Immediate Past President of the Association of Pediatric Program Directors (APPD). In the past, she has served in residency leadership for 13 years (as Stanford Pediatrics Residency Program Director and Associate Program Director) and fellowship leadership (developed and co-led the Stanford Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship). Her educational research interests focus on building a more diverse, inclusive and equitable learning environment and helping learners develop a sense of belonging, professional identity formation, and competence through longitudinal coaching and scholarly mentorship.
Specific studies/areas of interest include:
(1) Diversity and Inclusion:
(a) Leadership Education in Advancing Diversity (LEAD) Program - She co-built and is studying an innovative approach to improving diversity, inclusion, belonging, and equity. Now in its 6th year, the LEAD Program is a 10-month longitudinal leadership program for residents and fellows across GME to promote leadership skills in improving diversity, equity, and inclusion.
(b) APPD Confronting Racism Action Team - Dr. Blankenburg leads the APPD Confronting Racism Action Team nationally, which has 16 subcommittees developing new approaches to (i) Improving our Organizational Infrastructure to be Actively Anti-Racist; (ii) Anti-Racism Training for Residents/Fellows/Faculty/Staff; (iii) Mentoring/Sponsorship Pathways for Underrepresented in Medicine learners, faculty and staff; and (iv) Improving our Patient Health Equity.
(2) Coaching Initiative: Dr. Blankenburg co-leads a national collaborative of GME Coaching Programs. Coaching is an innovative approach to provide longitudinal assessment and feedback to residents, and help residents develop skills of lifelong learning, self-reflection, and goal-setting. This program pairs a faculty coach with ten residents, who they follow for all three years. She is studying the impact of coaching on residents' professional identity formation.
(3) Scholarly Concentrations: She is studying the impact of scholarly concentrations on resident learners' scholarship, subsequent scholarly activity, career development.
