Anderson Spickard, III, M.D., M.S., is Associate Professor of Medicine in the Departments of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics. He is currently the Director of the Medical Student Clerkship Program for the Department of Medicine, the Director of Programs for Technological Innovations in Medical Education for the Medical Center, and appointed to Master Teacher in the School of Medicine.

Prior Work: Since joining the Vanderbilt faculty in 1995, Dr. Spickard has built an active practice and teaching contribution in Internal Medicine and has conducted faculty development workshops and studies of innovative approaches to medical education. He directs the Core Medicine Clerkship in the third year of medical school and the Core Primary Care Clerkship in the fourth year of medical school. Dr. Spickard also brings his expertise in study design and the evaluation of medical education to form partnerships between departments in the Medical Center that are providing Vanderbilt innovative curricula and a sustained research agenda in medical education. Dr. Spickard has won a number of local teaching awards and was named the 2000 Teacher of the Year for the Southern Region of the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM). And serves on the Vanderbilt Academic Program Committee. He has served on the National Program Committee for SGIM for a number of years and was instrumental in creating the Innovations in Medical Education session that is a standard format now at the national SGIM meeting. Dr. Spickard currently sits on the SGIM National Education Committee, and is he is an Executive Council Member of the Tennessee Chapter of the American College of Physicians.

Interests: Dr. Spickard's research interests include all aspects of medical education with a special focus on the design and application of innovative informatics approaches to medical education.