Professional Biography
Dr. Corrie Stankiewicz serves as an Online Coach/Facilitator for the master’s program in Medical Education at Penn GSE. Dr. Stankiewicz is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the Section Chief of Hospital Medicine at the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center (CMCVAMC) in Philadelphia, PA. She serves as the Site Director for Undergraduate and Graduate Medical Education at CMCVAMC, where she sees patients and supervises trainees on the inpatient wards as a Staff Teaching Hospitalist.
Dr. Stankiewicz graduated with a double major in chemistry and biology from Ursinus College. She was a Ph.D. student in physical chemistry at Cornell University, but left with her master’s degree after discovering that she had a passion for teaching but less so for bench research. Dr. Stankiewicz spent 4 years teaching chemistry and physics at Arapahoe Community College in Littleton, Colorado and Schenectady Community College in Schenectady, NY prior to matriculating at the Perelman School of Medicine where she earned her M.D. in 2008. She completed her Internal Medicine residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 2011, after which she joined the Perelman School of Medicine faculty, practicing hospital medicine within the Division of General Internal Medicine. She was a member of the inaugural cohort of the master’s program in Medical Education at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving her master’s in Medical Education in 2014.
Dr. Stankiewicz has had a life-long interest in how people learn. She has developed expertise in coaching M.D.’s on techniques for enhancing their clinical teaching. She is also interested in the intersection of medical education and excellent patient care, particularly in coaching trainees surrounding their communication skills with patients.