University of New England

Associate Professor for Medical Education

After 18 years of teaching and serving as department chair at the University of Southern Maine in graduate programs in Educational Leadership and 10 years of consulting in medical education, India Broyles Ed.D., joined the faculty at UNE College of Osteopathic Medicine. She is the curriculum, instruction, and evaluation specialist for the development of the new Pediatrics Department and its curriculum continuum from medical school and clerkship to internship and residency. UNE recently appointed Dr. Broyles to serve as HIPAA privacy officer and chair of the HIPAA Compliancy Committee with primary responsibilities in setting policies and procedures and organizing faculty, student and staff training. Most recently, Dr. Broyles has designed and developed the new Master of Science in Medical Education Leadership as a joint project with Maine Medical Center, Office of Medical Education.

Dr. Broyles began her work in medical education in 1992 as a consultant to the Family Practice Residency at Maine Medical Center where she provided the framework for the curriculum development process and co-edited the Comprehensive Curriculum for a number of years. She continues to serve on the Residency Curriculum Committee and works with subcommittees related to assessment and evaluation.

Dr. Broyles provided leadership to the subcommittee on Ambulatory Curriculum, which lead to the implementation of an Intensive Direct Observation System. She co-authored a grant proposal to STFM to provide funds for one of the MMC faculty to have a mini-sabbatical at the University of Washington. Subsequently, she and Dr. George Dreher designed a training session for faculty and residents. Dr. Broyles also co-authored a 2002 grant proposal for MMC/FP to HRSA for the development of a comprehensive Faculty Development program. During 2002-2003, Dr. Broyles joined Drs. Peggy Cyr and Neil Korsen in a research project on the use of open-book test for their-year medical students in a family medicine clerkship. A poster session was being presented at 2003 STFM PreDoctoral conference in Austin, TX and their manuscript was selected for publication in Medical Teacher  in July 2005. Dr. Broyles extended this expertise in curriculum development with the residency program at MMC Dept. of Surgery and Family Practice Residencies at CMMC (Lewiston, ME) and Maine-Dartmouth (Augusta, ME).

In the fall of 2004, Dr. Broyles was nominated and accepted into the Professors of Curriculum.  Membership (limited nationally to 125) is by invitation only with a panel of POC reviewing teaching responsibilities and supporting scholarly documentation. In 2005, she was elected to the Executive Council of the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum where she also serves on the Editorial Board of the journal Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue.

Dr. Broyles was the lead consultant to the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons for the development of a national model curriculum for residencies in each of the surgical specialties, 2003-2007.  During the process, she wrote a series of monthly columns in the ACOS Newsletter and was keynote speaker at the Surgical Educators’ Seminar at ACA in 2004 and 2005.

Dr. Broyles served on the UNE/COM Curriculum Revision Committee (2004-2007).  She provided leadership to her colleagues at UNE in a curriculum evaluation project that was presented at IAMSE and STFM PreDoctoral conferences.  As a result, their paper “Stages of Concern during Curriculum Change” was published in the Journal of the International Association for Medical Science Educators in June, 2007. She serves as a reviewer for proposals and manuscripts for AERA, AATC, JAOA, and Annals of Medical Science Education.

In her later years at the University of Southern Maine, Dr. Broyles was the Chair of the Department of Professional Education. On area of scholarship in higher education focused on the implementation of technology entry and exit standards for graduate schools published in the Journal of Information Technology for Teacher Education.  In another project, she and Dr. Kenneth Nye studied the issues when school administrators made the transition to academia.  She has had a long personal and professional interest in international education. She taught a distance-learning course via ITV on International Educational Systems, secured grant funding to host a cadre of Russian educators for training in Maine, and conducted joint research with colleagues from Israel.