Choose between the following focused tracks to tailor your education to your current and future professional needs:
TRACK 1: USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) TO IMPROVE YOUR TEACHING
Spanning two half-days: Friday, October 24, 1:00pm – 5:00pm & Saturday, 8:00am – 12:00pm
Join us for an immersive, hands-on, forward-looking session designed specifically to equip you with the knowledge and skills to integrate artificial intelligence into your daily life as an educator. Through engaging sessions where you will work alongside the faculty, you will learn tangible tools to use AI to create multiple choice questions, clinical cases, and curricula. You will learn AI-assisted content creation, advanced prompting strategies, and emerging technologies like avatars and AI scribes that will make you more efficient and effective as an educator. In addition to hands-on skill-building sessions, this course will also critically explore the implications of AI on professional identity, communication, and human connection in health care education.
Whether you are new to AI or looking to deepen your expertise, this course offers a balanced mix of foundational knowledge and advanced application. Highlights include a discussion on AI’s ability to teach communication skills, AI uses for coaching and feedback, and a learner’s-eye view of AI in 2025. With perspectives from experienced educators, technologists, and learners alike, you’ll leave prepared to deploy AI tools within your institution and lead and innovate in this rapidly evolving educational landscape. Don’t miss this opportunity to future-proof your teaching while staying grounded in the values that define us as health professions educators.
This track includes the following sessions:
- The Future is Now: Artificial Intelligence in Medical Education
- Avatars, Scribes, and Voices OH MY! ! An Overview of Current Tools and How and Why to Use Them
- Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Human Intelligence? Medical Education Opportunities and Challenges
- The Basics of Prompting for Health Professions Educators: Creating Cases and Multiple Choice Questions to Improve your Teaching
- Caring, Connectedness and Communication: Can We Use AI?
- Advanced Prompting for Health Professions Educators: Utilizing AI for Feedback, Evaluation, and Coaching
- AI in 2025: View from a Learner
Of Special Note:
- To optimize the value of this program for each participant, registration is limited to 50.
- To be assured a place in this program, early registration is strongly advised.
This track is not eligible for AAFP credit.
TRACK 2: TAKING YOUR TEACHING TO THE NEXT LEVEL
One half-day: Friday Afternoon, October 24, 1:00pm – 5:00pm
This highly interactive and hands-on skills building session will equip the modern educator with tools to be an A+ teacher in 2025. This session will provide you up-to-date techniques to improve your teaching effectiveness in the classroom and at the bedside. You will learn:
- Strategies to improve the performance of your students and advance your own critical thinking
- Tangible tips to create an elegant slide presentation without hours of tinkering and frustration
- How to give feedback using the advocacy inquiry approach
- To apply the seven tips for elevating whiteboard mini-lectures to: develop a focused whiteboard topic to enhance learner retention; design whiteboard graphics grounded in cognitive theory of multimedia learning; and apply public speaking best practices to sustain attention and motivate learners
This track includes the following sessions:
- Using Advocacy Inquiry to Improve Difficult Conversations with Learners
- Strategies to Elevate Whiteboard Mini-Lectures
- Power Up Your PowerPoint to Improve Your Lectures
Of Special Note:
- To optimize the value of this program for each participant, registration is limited to 50.
- To be assured a place in this program, early registration is strongly advised.