Dr. Cynthia Mosher is a primary care physician with an avid passion for using simulation-based education to improve the knowledge and practice of healthcare students and professionals in various stages of their education and careers.
One of the first MGH IHP Health Professions Education PhD graduates, Dr. Mosher’s research work focuses on the unique topic of engagement in distance simulation and distance debriefing. Her body of work is serving to contribute to the development of international standards and best practice guidelines for distance simulation and distance debriefing. Her interest in this area of simulation-based education was fed by the coronavirus pandemic and the challenges educators and students faced with simulation and debriefing in the online setting.
Dr. Mosher also serves as an assistant director in the Department of Clinical Skills at Alfaisal University College of Medicine, delivering simulation-based education in clinical skills training for medical and pharmacy students. Her experience and work in the Middle East have provided her with a unique relationship and cultural diversity experience that serves her well as a faculty member in the Department of Health Professions Education in contributing to the development and launch of the MGH IHP Masters in Health Professions Education Simulation Track hybrid program at Alfaisal University, the first of its kind in the Middle East.
- MBBBS, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- MSHS, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham Alabama
- PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions
