Basic Immunology for First-Year Medical Students
Since joining the faculty at Unversity of Pennsylvania, I co-led an M1 Immunology small group for 6 session in the fall of 2017 and again in 2018. 18 students led themselves through immunology cases prepared by the course directors, and I facilitated discussion of the material.
In the fall of 2016, I was an instructor in the Basic Immunology course for M1 students at Northwestern University Medical School. I gave the large group lectures on Effector Functions of Humoral Immunity, Mucosal Immunology, and Immunity to Microbes to the class of ~150 students, who either attended in person and/or watched online.
I prepared learning guides for students to review in advance of the lecture. This is an example of the learning guide for Mucosal Immunology
I also prepared and gave 3 large group presentations. This is an example of the presentation on Effector Functions of Humoral Immunity
Finally, I wrote and submitted MCQs for the three topics I covered.
Here is an example question that I wrote for the Immunity to Microbes session:
#. You read a journal article describing potential viral pandemics in the next ten years. One potential scenario involves a pathogenic virus that has mutated ONLY its surface capsid without any additional protein mutations.
Which of the following mechanisms of the immune response to this virus is MOST LIKELY to be affected by this viral mutation?
a) Killing of infected cell via CD8+ T lymphocyte
b) Killing of infected cell via NK cell
c) Neutralization by antibody
d) Production of interferon
e) Recognition via Toll-like receptor
Learner Evaluations
2017 University of Pennsylvania - Pending
2016 Northwestern University
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“Dr. Feldman did a really good job with his immunology lectures. He was engaging and reassured us that we would not have to know all the little details yet. He made it clear what was important for us to know at this point. His powerpoint was very well put together and easy to follow along with in class.”
“I feel that you did a very good job of incorporating the scope of the topics that you wanted to discuss with the clinical cases you used as examples. You had a very nice framework for each lecture that allowed you to still mention more detailed topics without having to justify their presence as an example or for the sake of being thorough.”
“Dr. Feldman was of the most articulate lecturers in the immunology series. His presentation was clear, clinically relevant, and memorable.”
“You had excellent lectures - the slides were all well organized, and I really appreciated that you said ahead of time what to really focus on. You were also a great presenter, and learning guides were good.”
“These lectures were great! Dr. Feldman was one of the best lecturers of the immunology section. The goals at the beginning of each lecture were incredibly helpful, as were the clinical cases. The key concepts were easy to follow and heavily emphasized, which made the information easy to remember. More lectures by Dr. Feldman would be great.”
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