Las Vegas City Wire

A University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), medical professor utilizes ongoing education in an effort to better teach his students.

Dale Netski’s teaching career spans stops at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the College of Southern Nevada and now UNLV's Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine; a recent UNLV news release said.

Fresh off finishing a Harvard Medical School online program that took him six months to complete, Netski noted that the acquired skills will help him teach a wide range of medical students.

“The program has allowed me to gain the necessary skills to design an engaging, interactive medical curriculum that integrates novel and traditional educational theories and methods,” he said in the release.

The Las Vegas native, who holds a doctorate in cellular and molecular biology, believes that pursuing continuing educating is the best method to prepare future doctors to enter into the field.

Netski noted that the Harvard Medical School course also provided information about scholars. 

“This course also contained several learning modules directly aimed at improving medical education scholarship, along with team projects and a capstone project,” he said in the release. “My goal is to now use what I learned from this curriculum to develop a medical education faculty development program to improve how we deliver and evaluate the educational curriculum at our medical school.”