The DISCO Lab for Scholarship and Innovation is our commitment to educational research and dissemination of scholarly efforts. The DISCO Lab for Scholarship and Innovation has generated peer-reviewed publications, delivered presentations at national conferences, and developed enduring educational resources distributed across medical schools nationwide.
Further Information
For more information about the DISCO Lab, please contact Dr. Steve Caloudas (Director) at steve.caloudas@bcm.edu.
Student Co-Investigators
Annabel Langan
MEDICAL STUDENT
Brooke Cohen
MEDICAL STUDENT
| Title | Authors | Venue - Format |
| A Medical Student’s Guide to Academic Anxiety. | Caloudas, S.G., Merlinsky, E., Cohen, B., and Stolar, A. | Academic Medicine (2026), Peer-Reviewed Publication |
| Evaluating the Impact of a Pre-Matriculation Program Targeting Self-Efficacy, Institutional Belongingness, and Metacognition | Caloudas, S.G., Appelbaum, N., Vallejo, J., Ismail, N., and Stolar, A. | Medical Science Educator (2025), Peer-Reviewed Publication |
| Implementation Matters: Collaborative Solutions to Tackle Academic Anxiety Among Medical Students. | Merlinsky, E., Stolar, A. and Caloudas, S.G. | Learn Serve Lead 2025: AAMC Annual Meeting, Oral Presentation |
| Professionalism and Remediation: How Institutions are Addressing “Lower-Level” Transgressions in UME | Caloudas, S.G., Bright, A., and Syed, M. | Learn Serve Lead 2025: AAMC Annual Meeting, Table Discussion |
| Early Development and Evaluation of an Integrated Academic Support Program for Medical Students | Caloudas, S.G., Appelbaum, N., Vallejo, J., Ismail, N., and Stolar, A. | Learn Serve Lead 2024: AAMC Annual Meeting, Poster Presentation |
| Supporting Our Anxious Learners: How Faculty Can Apply Evidence-Based Strategies to Help Students with Academic and Professional Development Anxiety. | Caloudas, S.G. | Learn Serve Lead 2024: AAMC Annual Meeting, Table Discussion |
| Rapid But Not Haphazard: Implementation of an Integrated Academic Support Program for Undergraduate Medical Students. | Caloudas, S.G., Boedeker, P., and Stolar, A. | 2024 Global Implementation Science, Poster Presentation |
| Evaluating the Impact of a Pilot Pre-Matriculation Program: Medical Student Perspectives and Experience | Caloudas, S.G., Appelbaum, N., Ren, M., Kamdar, A., Bergemann, A., Toussant, R., Vallejo, J., Ismail, N., and Stolar, A. | 2024 AAMC Southern Group on Educational Affairs (SGEA) Regional Conference, Oral Presentation |
| Pre-Matriculation Programs for Incoming Medical Students: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation. | Caloudas, S.G. and Shaw, P. | Learn Serve Lead 2023: AAMC Annual Meeting, Table Discussion |