C. Frank Starmer
Associate Dean for Learning Technologies
Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University
Duke - National University of Singapore Graduate
Medical School
Address:
Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore
8 College Road
Singapore 169857
phone: +65 6516 5668
email: frank.starmer at duke-nus dot edu dot sg
web: http://www.duke-nus.edu.sg
I'm having the biggest adventure of my life: the opportunity to build a
learning enterprise from the ground up. This is an opporutnity to put a bit
of life into Gene
Stead's insights and dreams
(pdf) and/or
(
From Stead to Singapore: Building a new way to learn (160 MB mp4 video
of Oct 16, 2009 Medical Grand Rounds @ Duke).
The Singapore venture is also an opportunity to out-Duke Duke.
The Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School
has no formal lectures. Our learning is team-based, learning from each other.
Our content mastery is biased toward what we use 80% of the time in order
to minimize exposure to the forgetting process. We have added search skills
to the list of core competencies that one much master.
Our goal is to shift brain energy expended on
learning soon-forgotten concepts to learning, thinking and curiosity chasing.
The new Duke-NUS Graduate
Medical School is a great laboratory for exploring these ideas proposed
my dad and
Gene Stead.
When not at work, I am engaged in chasing curiosity with family and
subjecting myself to weekly spider therapy sessions, a well known remedy
for Singapore's too-many-people. Spider therapy transcripts are available in
my photo essays, where I reveal
what others frequently do not see (because they have not
enabled their curious eyes and learned to focus their curiosity).
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Frank at Duke-NUS
Frank in the field
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