Associate Professor of Family Medicine

Overview

David Anthony has worked in academic Family Medicine his entire career. After training at Brown University’s residency and completing an Academic Family Medicine Fellowship at Boston University, he has been a member of the faculty of the Department of Family Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. There, he has served as Director of Medical Student Education since 2010. In this capacity, he serves as the Clerkship Director, oversees the Family Medicine electives, and directs the recruitment and faculty development of community family physician faculty. At a national level, Dr. Anthony serves as the Academic Director for Curriculum at Aquifer, a non-profit organization that develops innovative virtual teaching tools for health professions education. He served as the  Director of the Medical Student Educators Development Institute from 2014 to 2019. He has received numerous teaching and academic awards, including being a co-winner of the 2010 STFM Research Paper of the Year Award, a co-winner of the 2015 STFM Innovative Program Award for his work with Aquifer, and winner of the 2011 Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award from Alpert Medical School.

His particular academic interests include the application of evidence to clinical practice, quality of care at hospital discharge, and particularly the use of digital online media in medical education and teaching clinical reasoning. 

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