Matthew R. Klein, MD MPH is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Clinician Educator at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
Originally from Chicago, Dr. Klein earned his MD from Brown in 2014. He trained in emergency medicine and completed a fellowship in medical education scholarship at the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University. He developed a passion for education while serving as chief resident, assistant program director, and clerkship director at Northwestern, before joining the Brown Emergency Medicine faculty in 2023.
Dr. Klein currently serves as a Mary B. Arnold Mentor and an Emergency Medicine Specialty Advisor, in addition to teaching second-year students in the Doctoring course. He is a member of the medical school admissions committee and the medical committee on academic standing and professionalism. Clinically, he works as an attending physician at Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital.
Dr. Klein's academic interests include curriculum design, simulation-based mastery learning, and career advising. He has published in several education journals, including Academic Medicine, Medical Teacher, the Journal of Graduate Medical Education, and AEM Education & Training.
Klein, Matthew R., Leibowitz, Maren K., Fant, Abra L. "Evidence‐Informed Emergency Medicine Career Advising." AEM Education and Training, vol. 8, no. 3, 2024. |
Klein MR, Quarles AR, Fant AL. "Help Me Help You: How to Request a Letter of Recommendation." Southern Medical Journal, vol. 117, no. 2, 2024, pp. 106-107. |
Mitchell, Meghan, Klein, Matthew, Salzman, David, Fant, Abra. "Procedure Passports: The Journey to Procedural Competency." Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, vol. 25, no. 3.1, 2024. |
Klein, Matthew R., Loke, Dana E., Barsuk, Jeffrey H., Adler, Mark D., McGaghie, William C., Salzman, David H. "Twelve tips for developing simulation-based mastery learning clinical skills checklists." Medical Teacher, 2024, pp. 1-6. |
Klein MR. "All good things." AEM Education and Training, vol. 7, no. 2, 2023, pp. e10859. |
Rising KL, Cameron KA, Salzman DH, Papanagnou D, Doty AMB, Piserchia K, Leiby BE, Shimada A, McGaghie WC, Powell RE, Klein MR, Zhang XC, Vozenilek J, McCarthy DM. "Communicating Diagnostic Uncertainty at Emergency Department Discharge: A Simulation-Based Mastery Learning Randomized Trial." Academic Medicine, vol. 98, no. 3, 2023, pp. 384-393. |
Klein, Matthew R. "Secondary outcomes." AEM Education and Training, vol. 7, no. 6, 2023. |
Poluch M, Feingold-Link J, Ankam N, Kilpatrick J, Cameron K, Chandra S, Doty A, Klein M, McCarthy D, Rising K, Salzman D, Ziring D, Papanagnou D. "I Don't Have a Diagnosis for You: Preparing Medical Students to Communicate Diagnostic Uncertainty in the Emergency Department." MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources, vol. 18, 2022, pp. 11218. |
Klein MR, Schmitz ZP, Adler MD, Salzman DH. "Simulation-based Mastery Learning Improves Emergency Medicine Residents' Ability to Perform Temporary Transvenous Cardiac Pacing." Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, vol. 24, no. 1, 2022, pp. 43-49. |
Papanagnou D, Klein MR, Zhang XC, Cameron KA, Doty A, McCarthy DM, Rising KL, Salzman DH. "Developing standardized patient-based cases for communication training: lessons learned from training residents to communicate diagnostic uncertainty." Advances in simulation (London, England), vol. 6, no. 1, 2021, pp. 26. |
Klein MR, Schmitz ZP, Adler MD, Salzman DH. "Development of a Rigorously Designed Procedural Checklist for Assessment of Emergency Medicine Resident Performance of Temporary Transvenous Cardiac Pacing." AEM Education and Training, vol. 5, no. 3, 2021, pp. e10566. |
Leibowitz MK, Scudder MR, McCabe M, Chan JL, Klein MR, Trueger NS, McCarthy DM. "Emergency Medicine Influencers' Twitter Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed-methods Analysis." Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, vol. 22, no. 3, 2021, pp. 710-718. |
Klein MR. "Maintaining cerebral perfusion." AEM Education and Training, vol. 5, no. 4, 2021, pp. e10708. |
McCarthy DM, Powell RE, Cameron KA, Salzman DH, Papanagnou D, Doty AM, Leiby BE, Piserchia K, Klein MR, Zhang XC, McGaghie WC, Rising KL. "Simulation-based mastery learning compared to standard education for discussing diagnostic uncertainty with patients in the emergency department: a randomized controlled trial." BMC Medical Education, vol. 20, no. 1, 2020, pp. 49. |
Klein MR, Sanguino SM, Salzman DH. "A Challenge to Disrupt the Disruptive Process of Residency Interview Invitations." Journal of Graduate Medical Education, vol. 11, no. 4, 2019, pp. 375-377. |
Klein MR. "Infections of the Oropharynx." Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, vol. 37, no. 1, 2019, pp. 69-80. |
Klein, M.R., Fant, A., Lank, P. "15 Does Standardized Video Interview Score Correlate With In-Person Interview Score in Emergency Medicine Residency Applicants?." Annals of Emergency Medicine, vol. 72, no. 4, 2018, pp. S7-S8. |
Klein, Matthew R., Levine, Matthew R. "High pressure injection injury." Visual Journal of Emergency Medicine, vol. 8, 2017, pp. 46-47. |
Safdar B, Bezek SK, Sinusas AJ, Russell RR, Klein MR, Dziura JD, D'Onofrio G. "Elevated CK-MB with a normal troponin does not predict 30-day adverse cardiac events in emergency department chest pain observation unit patients." Critical pathways in cardiology, vol. 13, no. 1, 2014, pp. 14-9. |
Safdar B, McGregor AJ, McKee SA, Ali A, Radulescu R, Himelfarb NT, Klein MR, Mazure CM. "Inclusion of gender in emergency medicine research." Academic Emergency Medicine, vol. 18, no. 2, 2011, pp. e1-4. |
Year | Degree | Institution |
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2014 | MD | Brown University |
2010 | MPH | Yale University |
2009 | BA | Yale University |
Board Certification | American Board of Emergency Medicine, Emergency medicine | - |