Mastering the Skills of the Modern Medical Educator (Optional Add-On)

Friday, October 27 • 1:00 - 6:00 pm

This program delves more deeply into the educator’s skills development as a teacher, a content creator, and an institutional leader. Choose among the following four 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:

  • Designing Your Career: Turning Your Vision Board into Reality
  • Enhanced Efficiency and Productivity through Better Time Management
  • Key Leadership Skills for the Successful Medical Educator
  • Helping You Help Yourself: Advocating and Negotiating

Of Special Note:

  • Lunch will be provided
  • To optimize the value of this program for each participant, registration is limited to 30
  • To be assured a place in this program, early registration is strongly advised.

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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 2023. This session will provide you up-to-date techniques to improve your teaching effectiveness in the classroom and at the bedside. You will learn:

  • Best practices to teach clinical reasoning techniques such as concept mapping and de-biasing strategies
  • 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
  • Strategies to enhance interactivity of online learning, including all the tips and tricks that Zoom has to offer 
  • Tips for making physiology fun and accessible to all learners 
  • How give feedback using the advocacy inquiry approach 

This track includes the following sessions:

  • Using Advocacy Inquiry to Improve Difficult Conversations with Learners
  • Tips for Teaching Physiology
  • Using Concept Mapping to Create Windows into the Learner's Thinking and Reasoning
  • Best Practices for Teaching on Zoom 
  • Power Up Your PowerPoint to Improve Your Lectures 

Of Special Note:

  • Lunch will be provided
  • To optimize the value of this program for each participant, registration is limited to 30
  • To be assured a place in this program, early registration is strongly advised.

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TRACK 3: SIMULATION-BASED MEDICAL EDUCATION

Simulation-based medical education is a standard component of all medical education these days. This highly interactive track will provide with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to become simulation educator at your institution. Whether you are new to simulation, run small low-fidelity sessions, or lead a state-of-the-art simulation center, this track will give you skills to use simulation in novel ways to enhance the learning experience for all. No prior experience with simulation-based medical education is necessary. You will learn:

  • Strategies to utilize simulation based medical education in any learning situation (not just a simulation center) 
  • Definitions of augmented and extended reality and how you can incorporate these tools into your simulation teaching 
  • Practical tips to create the perfect simulation cases 
  • Best practices for using simulation to assess learners of all levels 

This track includes the following sessions:

  • Beyond the Sim Center: Simulation-Based Medical Education in 2023
  • Best Practices for Using Augmented and Extended Reality 
  • Crafting the Perfect Sim Case: A Hands-On Immersive Exercise
  • Strategies for Utilizing Simulation as an Assessment Tool for All Learners

Of Special Note:

  • Lunch will be provided
  • To optimize the value of this program for each participant, registration is limited to 30
  • To be assured a place in this program, early registration is strongly advised.

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TRACK 4: LEVERAGING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR YOUR EDUCATIONAL MISSION  

Digital education—self-directed learning in virtual settings such as podcasts, streaming videos, or social media—is now the dominant form of medical education for medical students, residents, and continuing medical education. Creating, curating, and critically appraising digital resources is an essential skill for medical educators in the 21st century. This hands-on interactive track will provide a practical introduction for educators of all levels. No prior experience with digital education is necessary. In this track you will learn:

  • How digital education can enhance your educational mission 
  • Fundamental principles of crafting educational tweets, tweetorials, and Twitter chats
  • Best practices for engaging in teaching and networking on social media 
  • Skills to create podcasts, infographics, visual abstracts, and whiteboard animations

This track includes the following sessions:

  • Why We Teach / Introduction to Digital Education
  • Leveraging Social Media for Your Teaching Mission
  • Podcasting Skills Workshop
  • Creating Infographics and Visual Abstracts for Your Teaching
  • Creating Whiteboard Animations for Your Teaching

Of Special Note:

  • Lunch will be provided
  • To optimize the value of this program for each participant, registration is limited to 30
  • To be assured a place in this program, early registration is strongly advised.

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