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Physician. Medical educator. Learning designer. Medicina y diseño de aprendizaje para ciencias de la salud.

I design learning for clinical, scientific, and professional topics.

I am a physician and pediatrician with 10 years of university teaching experience and 5 years coordinating continuing medical education programs. My work in learning design grew from those experiences and from a question I kept encountering in education: how do you help someone understand complex information well enough to use it?

That question still guides much of my work.

Diseño aprendizaje para temas clínicos, científicos y profesionales. Me formé como médica y pediatra. Desde 2016 doy clases a estudiantes de medicina, y entre 2019 y 2024 coordiné programas de educación médica continua.

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Medicine taught me to identify what matters, organize complex information, and make decisions with incomplete information.

Teaching added another set of questions. What does the learner already know? Where are they likely to get confused? What needs explanation? What needs practice? What should they be able to do when the experience ends?

Knowing a subject deeply does not automatically make it easy to teach.

I have worked with medical and scientific content for most of my professional life. I understand the terminology, the evidence behind it, and the way clinicians think about information. Learning design gives me a systematic way to decide how that information should be organized, taught, practiced, and assessed.

I care about accuracy. I also care about whether the learner can use what they learned.

Diseño aprendizaje, escribo sobre ciencia y armo estrategia de programas para salud y educación profesional.

La formación médica me enseñó a priorizar: qué va primero, qué puede esperar. La docencia me enseñó algo distinto. Saber el contenido y ayudar a alguien a aprenderlo son dos habilidades diferentes.

En educación médica veía el mismo problema una y otra vez: había conocimiento experto real, pero la enseñanza alrededor no tenía suficiente estructura. Médicos y especialistas conocían su tema a fondo. Las sesiones construidas sobre ese conocimiento no siempre ayudaban a los estudiantes a entenderlo o aplicarlo.

Esa pregunta se queda conmigo: ¿cómo mantener la precisión de un contenido complejo mientras se cambia su forma lo suficiente para que las personas puedan aprender de él?

Learning designer
2025–present

Independent practice

I design learning experiences for clinical, scientific, and professional topics.

My work includes course design, microlearning, case-based learning, assessments, interactive learning, visual learning materials, and digital learning development with tools such as Articulate Rise and Storyline.

Projects often begin with dense source material, expert knowledge, or content that already exists in another format. I review the material, identify what learners need to know or do, organize the content, and design the learning experience around those decisions.

University lecturer and medical educator
2016–present

I have taught medical and biomedical sciences to university students since 2016.

My teaching experience includes Medical Genetics, Pediatrics, Biology, Anatomy and Physiology, and Anatomy and Embryology. I have taught students at different stages of their medical education and worked with lectures, clinical cases, assessment, and simulation-based activities.

Teaching for 10 years has given me direct experience with common misconceptions, differences in prior knowledge, cognitive load, assessment decisions, and the practical limits of what learners can process at once.

Continuing medical education coordinator
2019–2024

I coordinated continuing medical education programs for healthcare professionals, from educational needs assessment and program design through implementation, evaluation, and revision.

I worked with faculty, subject-matter experts, institutional partners, and healthcare organizations to develop live, virtual, and hybrid programs for different professional audiences.

This gave me direct experience with the full continuing medical education cycle and with the decisions required to take a program from an identified educational need through delivery and evaluation.

Physician and pediatrician

I trained as a physician and completed my specialty in Pediatrics at Hospital Infantil Dr. Robert Reid Cabral in Santo Domingo.

My clinical training shapes how I work with medical and scientific content. I can assess the clinical relevance of source material, preserve important distinctions when simplifying complex topics, and work directly with physicians and other subject-matter experts at the level of the content.

It also informs how I design clinical learning, especially when the learner needs to interpret evidence, reason through a case, or make a decision.

Diseño de aprendizaje
2025–presente

Diseñadora de aprendizaje — práctica independiente

Diseño de aprendizaje para temas clínicos, científicos y profesionales, incluyendo microlearning, arquitectura de cursos, materiales visuales, evaluaciones y estrategia de experiencia de aprendizaje.

Educación médica
2016–presente

Docente universitaria / Educadora en genética médica

Docencia en genética médica y temas biomédicos para estudiantes de medicina, con énfasis en claridad, relevancia clínica y comprensión científica usable.

Educación médica continua
2019–2024

Coordinadora de educación médica continua

Diseño de programas, coordinación académica, colaboración con expertos, apoyo a la implementación y evaluación de iniciativas educativas para profesionales de la salud y equipos de trabajo.

Base clínica
Base clínica

Médica y pediatra

La formación médica y pediátrica informa mi forma de abordar la complejidad, priorizar lo importante y diseñar aprendizaje que apoye el criterio y la aplicación.

Professional backgroundTrayectoria profesional
Medicine and health sciences
Degree
Doctor of MedicineUniversidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo
2005–2011
Specialty
Specialty in PediatricsHospital Infantil Dr. Robert Reid Cabral
2013–2017
Master's
Master's degree in Human and Precision GenomicsUniversidad Internacional de La Rioja
Started 2024
Medical affairs
Medical Affairs PrimerMedical Affairs Professional Society (MAPS)
March 2026
Digital health
Gestión de Salud DigitalADEN
May 2026
Learning design and professional practice
LXD
Learning Experience Design: Orientation to the ProfessionUniversity of Michigan
March 2025
Online teaching
Online Education: The Foundations of Online TeachingMacquarie University
August 2024
Project work
Gestión de Proyectos SpecializationTecnológico de Monterrey
May 2025
AI training
Generative AI Professional TrainingCYMETRIA
May 2026
Medicina y ciencia clínica
Título
Doctora en MedicinaUniversidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo
2005–2011
Especialidad
PediatríaHospital Infantil Dr. Robert Reid Cabral
2013–2017
Maestría
Genómica Humana y de PrecisiónUniversidad Internacional de La Rioja · En curso
2024–presente
Actualización clínica
Down syndrome: health care updates for the primary care pediatricianHarvard Medical School
Mar 2021
Medical affairs
Medical Affairs PrimerMedical Affairs Professional Society (MAPS)
Mar 2026
Diseño de aprendizaje y educación online
LXD
Learning Experience Design: Orientation to the ProfessionUniversity of Michigan · Credential ID CX829VXLDZD9
Mar 2025
Docencia online
Online education: The foundations of online teachingMacquarie University · Credential ID 12Z3SQKLDRI4
Ago 2024
Innovación
Gestión innovadora: transformando instituciones educativasUniversidad Austral, Buenos Aires · Credential ID O8RECQFJ3VOS
May 2025
Estrategia, liderazgo e inclusión
Proyectos
Gestión de Proyectos SpecializationTecnológico de Monterrey · Credential ID 9O9G5XGLOODV
May 2025
Liderazgo
Leadership CertificateMIU City University Miami · Credential ID 27c1c523-8c45-4880-84fd-415e0c49aae9
Sep 2024
Habilidades digitales
Green Digital Skills CertificateINCO Academy · Credential ID 2027386034WF
Mar 2024
Género
Representaciones Culturales de las SexualidadesUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Dic 2023
Inclusión
Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging for AllLinkedIn Learning
May 2021
Work togetherTrabajemos

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