Marcy E. Rosenbaum, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine 1204 MEB Iowa City, IA 52242 319-335-8612 E-mail: marcy-rosenbaum@uiowa.edu

Graduate Education

• Ph.D., (Medical Anthropology) University of Kentucky
• Certificate in Medical Behavioral Science, University of Kentucky
• National Institute of Mental Health Postodoctoral Fellowship, Department of Behavioral Science, University of Kentucky

Research Interests

• Evaluation of medical education and faculty development
• Clinical-patient communication
• Psychosocial oncology

Recent Publications

• Rosenbaum M.E., Ferguson K.J Using Patient-Generated Cases to Teach Students Skills in Responding to Patients’ Emotions. Medical Teacher, 28(2):180-2, 2006
• Rosenbaum, M.E., Lenoch, S., Ferguson, K. Increasing Departmental and College-Wide Faculty Development Opportunities Through a Teaching Scholars Program. Academic Medicine, 81(11):965-68, November 2006.
• Nordin, T.A., Noyes, R., Anderson, M.C., Hartz, A., Rosenbaum, M.E., James, P.A., Ely, J., Agarwal, N., Levy, B.T. Empirically Identified Goals for the Management of Unexplained Symptoms. Family Medicine, 38(7):476-82, 2006.
• Rosenbaum M.E., Schwabbauer M, Kreiter C, Ferguson K.J. Medical Student Perceptions of Emerging Learning Communities. Academic Medicine, 82(5):508-15, 2007.
• Wakefield, B.J., Tripp-Reimer, T., Rosenbaum, M.E., Rosenthal, G.E. Veterans Use of VA Care and Perceptions of Outsourcing Inpatient Care. Military Medicine, 172(6):565-7, 2007.
• Ely, J.W., Osheroff, J.A., Maviglia, S.M., Rosenbaum, M.E. Patient-care Questions that Physicians are Unable to Answer. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 14(4):407-14, 2007.
• Anderson, M., Hartz, A., Nordin, T., Rosenbaum, M., Noyes, R., James, P., Ely, J., Agarwal, N., Anderson, S. Strategies Used by Community Clinicians to Manage Patients with Medically Unexplained Symptoms. Family Medicine. In Press, 2007.
• Levy, B.T., Nordin, T., Sinift, S., Rosenbaum, M., James, P. Why Hasn’t This Patient Been Screened for Colon Cancer? An Iowa Research Network Study. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 20(5):458-468, 2007.
• Petersen, K., Rosenbaum, M.E., Kreiter, C.D., Thomas, A., Vogelgesang, S.A., Lawry, G.V. A Randomized Controlled Study Comparing Educational Outcomes of Examination Room versus Conference Room Staffing. Teaching and Learning in Medicine, In Press, 2007

Current Projects

• Coordination of the College of Medicine Faculty Development Programs
• Palliative care education
• Investigating communication concerns in oncology

Current Grant Support

• The Iowa LEND Project
  (Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and other related Disabilities)
  US PHS – Health Resources Services Administration
  $500,000
  2005-2009
  Principal Investigator: Dennis Harper
  Role: Evaluation Consultant, 10% salary support