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

Friday, March 28 • 1:00pm - 5:00pmup arrows

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.