Fraum Named Loeb Teaching Fellow
Tyler J. Fraum, MD, an associate professor of radiology for Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR) at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, was selected to join the 2025-27 Carol B. and Jerome T. Loeb Teaching Fellowship.
Established in 2004 by the Academy of Educators, the program aims to advance clinical education at the university by honoring faculty committed to excellence and education. Fellows receive dedicated time to implement innovative ideas to enhance the education of medical students and trainees.
With this dedicated time, Fraum plans to reinvent MIR’s radiologic physics curriculum. “An understanding of radiologic physics is critical for residents to acquire, as it is the basis for optimizing images, recognizing artifacts, building protocols and minimizing radiation risk,” he said. But residents often see the subject as a “bitter pill” they must tolerate to complete their training, Fraum added. “The goal is to make the curriculum cognitively nourishing yet enjoyable; in other words, to transform it into a ‘gummy vitamin’ for our residents.”
Fraum will work with radiologist and physicist colleagues from MIR to incorporate active learning strategies — audience response, case-based formats — to enhance engagement and focus on practical, clinically relevant topics that residents are likely to encounter throughout their careers.
