Friday, October 24 • 1:00pm - 5:00pm
This program delves more deeply into the educator’s skills development as a teacher, a content creator, and an institutional leader. Choose between the following focused tracks to tailor your education to your current and future professional needs:
TRACK 1: SUCCESSFUL CAREER DEVELOPMENT FOR THE CLINICIAN-EDUCATOR
Through a series of highly interactive workshops, you will explore the skills educators need to climb an institution’s promotion ladder and succeed in a career in academic medicine. You will learn strategies to:
- Build an educational niche and navigate a successful career path
- Spearhead educational innovations and attain greater visibility for your work
- Becoming an educational change agent
- Identify your personal leadership style
- Manage your time in order to stay clinically and academically productive
This track includes the following sessions:
- Academic Career Advancement: Strategies for Personal and Professional Growth
- Helping You Help Yourself: Advocating and Negotiating
- Enhanced Efficiency and Productivity Through Better Time Management
- Key Leadership Skills for the Successful Medical Educator
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.
TRACK 2: TAKING YOUR TEACHING TO THE NEXT LEVEL
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.