Development Team

The authors want to hear from you. If you have found this module helpful for your learning, your clinical practice, or your research, please contact David McCormick or Caroline Paul with comments questions and suggestions.

Dr. Caroline R. Paul is a general academic pediatrician. Her academic interests lie in medical educational scholarship and research. One of her key clinical interests is in pediatric otoscopy and in the accurate diagnosis of acute otitis media. At the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, she developed and implemented a successful 2 hour lab regarding pediatric otoscopy for medical students for over 10 years. She has designed and implemented learning lab sessions for residents as well. She has also presented key medical education research regarding learning pediatric otoscopy at the national level at the Pediatrics Academic Societies’ meetings and at the Council of Medical Student Education in Pediatrics meetings. Her research has resulted in the development of peer reviewed curricula for medical students and pediatric and emergency medicine residents. These curricula focus on teaching and evaluation in direct patient care settings. As the primary investigator, she and her co-authors developed a validated instrument, SCOPE, to enable rigorous teaching and evaluation of pediatric otoscopy in direct patient settings. Dr. Paul is also researching barriers for faculty to teaching this critical topic for learners and methods including technology that can optimize teaching and evaluation regarding pediatric otoscopy.

Dr. McCormick served as a pediatric resident at the University of Minnesota. Then as an officer in the US Navy, during the Vietnam war, he was stationed at the virology lab at Camp Lejeune, N.C.. They worked primarily on diagnosis of acute respiratory infections and meningococcal vaccine. After a general pediatrics fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital, he joined a pediatrics practice in Concord, MA. Subsequently, in 1985 he joined the pediatric faculty at UTMB, Galveston, where he became interested in AOM diagnosis. He collaborated on several otitis media projects focusing on pneumococcal vaccines, bacterial and viral interactions, and judicious antibiotic use for AOM. With others at UTMB he developed an AOM teaching website, and has conducted many AOM workshops for students and residents.

Other Developers: Mary Jo Urbani, M.S., original website developer, Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX;Jack Stamer, Undergraduate Research Scholars Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.