Ofelia Martinez, M.D., M.P.H., director of clinical skills at the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University, has been awarded a prestigious two-year fellowship by the National Board of Medical Examiners.
Martinez, M.D., M.P.H., was one of only eight recipients of the inaugural Strategic Educators Enhancement Fund (SEEF) Medical Education Research Fellowship, selected from a nationwide pool of 52 applicants.
Dr. Martinez, one of the founding members of the school, oversees the longitudinal clinical skills curriculum, one of the cornerstones of the institution’s educational philosophy. Her responsibility is the development, implementation, and assessment of the students’ clinical skills – which start for students when they don a white coat on their first day of their first year.
Prior to joining the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University, she directed the New York Medical College Foundations of Clinical Medicine Program for First and Second Year Medical Students for five years and has served as the medical director for the Clinical Skills Training Center during the inaugural three years.