Dr. Kalet
Dr. Adina L. Kalet, MD, MPH is a nationally recognized medical education researcher and clinician-educator whose work spans clinical skills assessment, remediation, professional identity formation, and educational outcomes in health professions education. Her scholarship focuses on innovative approaches to assessing and supporting learners across the continuum of medical training, particularly through simulation-based assessments and authentic readiness evaluations. Dr. Kalet has contributed to understanding professional identity formation, mentoring, and outcomes research, emphasizing longitudinal and meaningful measures that link educational experiences to clinical competence and, ultimately, patient care. She written extensively and co-edited 5 books including Remediation in Medical Education: a midcourse correction (2nd edition, 2024), a comprehensive volume now that synthesizes theory and practice around supporting learners who struggle to meet professional standards. She seeks to create evidence that informs both educational practice and policy across the health professions. In 2023 Dr. Kalet received two national career awards the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) John P. Hubbard Award for outstanding contributions to the pursuit of excellence in assessment in medical education and the Association for Academic Medical Colleges (AAMC) Award for Excellence in Medical Education for extraordinary contributions of an individual to the medical education community. She is a proud graduate of the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, class of 1982, lives in Brooklyn, has two adult children and an 80 pound dog and 8 pound cat.