Johnnie P. Frazier, MD, M.Ed, FAAP

An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t. It’s knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it’s how to use the information you get.   (Attribute to William Feather)

Thirty-seven years of my medical career has been sustained and dedicated to expanding medical teaching/learning experiences to medical students, residents, fellows, faculty, and the local community. In the last nineteen years, I have focused on second and third year medical student education pertaining to curriculum designed especially for student learning in an outpatient environment-clinic setting. In 1994, as Director of the Power Medical Center (PMC), I successfully established a “private best practice model” designed for third year medical students’ education. The PMC clinic provides general services for over 6,000 patients/families where medical students intimately learn and demonstrate their clinical skills in performing history/physical examinations, clinical care procedures, oral presentations/writing skills, and hone their clinical reasoning skills under direct supervision from attendings. The PMC has become one of the highest rated and premier student learning ambulatory experiences sought out by third year medical students. After completing the Educational Scholars Fellowship Program-Baylor College of Medicine/UTMS/UT Dental School in 2005, I introduced and initiated Team Based Learning (TBL) a novel learning strategy in the pediatric department and designed the first TBL modules on ADHD, Pediatric Lower Respiratory Tract Infections, and Abdominal Pain. In 2007, I created and designed a modified TBL framework for Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital Pediatric Residency In-Patient Learning curriculum on “Common Pediatric In-Patient Diagnoses”. Students and residents rated their TBL experiences as highly valuable. Internationally, I am a member of the Team Base Learning Collaborative and was the primary writer of the organization’s first bylaws in 2010. In addition after completing a Master’s degree in Medical Teaching/Education in 2009, I created a learning-ware titled, “The Pediatric Ear Exam” for medical students/residents to access for review and improvement of ear exam skills which is still active to date.  This is available through Canvas and can be accessed with permission.

I initiated and was assisted in developing the first ambulatory learning algorithm on ADHD for evaluating children in a busy pediatric clinic. This learning ADHD algorithm was presented as a workshop nationally at the National Pediatric Society meeting in Washington, DC. I am frequently requested to speak at elementary/middle schools to students on medical topics / medical careers. I am frequently sought out to speak on television, radio-other print, electronic media to the general public on pediatric “hot topics”.

I am an inaugural member of the Academy of Master Educators and currently member of the Curriculum Committee. I have served as a mentor to students from many of the Houston area colleges many of whom have been admitted to University of Texas Medical School-Houston UTMS/other medical schools nationally. I currently serve as faculty mentor to several junior faculty members.

I have written several peer reviewed publications and developed several medical education poster presentations.

This is a small glimpse into what I have done professionally.

My thirst to further any learner’s education will never be quench or my interest in educational development.