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Dr. David Rainey. Courtesy photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

David Rainey was a nontraditional student in the University of Washington Bothell\u2019s Master of Education<\/a> program. Most M.Ed. students are teachers. Rainey was a medical student at UW Seattle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He specifically wanted to attend UW Bothell to add a master\u2019s in Education to his medical degree, said Brad Portin, who was Rainey\u2019s faculty adviser and now is professor emeritus in the School of Educational Studies<\/a>. Rainey received his M.Ed. in 2014 and M.D. in 2015. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt really served me well in terms of giving me more of the academic language and background in how medical education has evolved over the last century in the United States,\u201d said Rainey, who works as assistant director of the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency Program at Harvard\u2019s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wearing many hats <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Rainey also is an instructor at the Harvard Medical School and consulting medical director in occupational health at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said he \u201cwears all these hats\u201d out of his primary job at the Cambridge Health Alliance occupational health clinic in Boston. He spends about 80% of his time in the clinic seeing patients and training medical residents, the rest of his time teaching or doing administrative work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The M.Ed. gave him the \u201ctools and framework to evaluate how medical education is being done and what aims and goals we\u2019re serving and not serving,\u201d Rainey said. The knowledge of curriculum design and learning environments was really valuable, he said. \u201cIt\u2019s something I\u2019ve been able to put to use.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The master\u2019s degree started him on a career path into academic medicine that led to his current position, Rainey said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe things I learned through the M.Ed. at UW Bothell help inform how I teach my own class and also how I look at global issues around education reform.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research and education <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Occupational medicine doctors specialize in workplace health and safety. Rainey\u2019s own research has been in firefighters\u2019 health and nutrition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe No. 1 cause of on-duty death is not the fire, not injuries, not smoke inhalation; it\u2019s sudden cardiac death,\u201d Rainey said. \u201cA lot of it can be mitigated by reducing firefighter risk factors for cardiovascular disease.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s more challenging than telling firefighters they need to eat healthier and exercise, Rainey said. \u201cIt\u2019s really a cultural issue, and the senior officers set the tone in terms of what\u2019s for lunch and what\u2019s for dinner. We\u2019re trying a lot of educational initiatives.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rainey retains his interest in medical education reform and how schools balance physician training with research and clinical enterprises. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m interested in having the best medical instruction available to all students,\u201d Rainey said. \u201cI would like to see content between medical schools shared more universally and a greater emphasis placed on simulation, skill development and clinical training locally.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boise to Bothell <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

While Rainey was a UW Bothell student, he was living in his hometown, Boise, Idaho, with a young family. Portin was supportive and flexible in customizing courses with independent study in the areas of medical education and education technology. Rainey would travel once or twice a month to Bothell and stay a week or more. It helped that his wife\u2019s family lives in Bothell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Portin said having a medical student in the M.Ed. program showed students issues in both fields. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMedical and education quality and access share many elements,\u201d Portin said. \u201cWe were fortunate to be able to work with Dr. Rainey.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rainey valued his one-to-one meetings with Portin and fondly recalls discussions with Professor Wayne Au and Senior Lecturer Karen Gourd, who has since retired. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnother thing unique to UW Bothell was the strong emphasis on social justice in education,\u201d Rainey said. \u201cA lot of things that I read \u2014 that I might not have otherwise come across \u2014 were very enlightening and helped shape my perspective. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey also opened my eyes to issues in medicine, such as the selection process for students in medical schools, and helped me think about the ways we institutionally discriminate against people of various backgrounds and how we might go about changing that,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

M.Ed. moves forward <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The School of Educational Studies has recently completed the redesign of its M.Ed. program, offering a newly enhanced course of study. The goal is to maintain a top-tier academic program that better meets the needs of educators in a diverse array of disciplines in an accessible, affordable and inventive way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Applications for the M.Ed. will open in autumn 2019 with the first cohort of the updated M.Ed. program beginning in autumn 2020. Learn more about the UW Bothell Master in Education program.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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