IAMSE Board of Director Election Results

Dear IAMSE members:

Thanks to all of you who voted in the recent IAMSE elections. Current Board members William Jeffries, Floyd Knoop, Susan Pasquale, and Ferhan Sagin were reelected to new three year terms, and you elected one Board newcomer--Amy Wilson-Delfosse from Case Western in Cleveland who has recently taken on leadership of our Membership Committee. Welcome, Amy, and congratulations to all who were elected. I also want to express my appreciation for the other candidates who agreed to be nominated for this important task, and hope they will try again. I hope that many of you will seek to become more involved in IAMSE leadership in the future. The best way to do so is to become visible and involved. Present a seminar at the annual meeting or volunteer for committee membership, and while you are there, take on a special project. We are a dynamic and inclusive organization that rewards involvement! I can speak from personal experience here, as I did not attend my first IAMSE meeting until 2002, but am now President of the organization.

The revisions to our Bylaws were approved with 97% approval. I will write you with more details on the implications for our committee structure soon, but the Board hopes that one important sequela will be improved integration of our various educational activities, so that a theme presented at our annual meeting might be followed up later in the year with a Web Seminar or JIAMSE feature article.

We are doing very well in registrations for our first European annual meeting this June-July in Leiden. The over 220 preregistrants are a record for annual meetings, and we are very appreciative to those of you who are making the sacrifice to attend a distant meeting in hard economic times. This should be an exciting chance to renew old connections and meet new educators in a lovely historic city. So start studying Dutch (see the IAMSE website for help), reading your maps, reviewing the works of Rembrandt and preparing for a wonderful cultural experience. I look forward to greeting you there!

Frazier Stevenson
President, IAMSE

MedBiquitous Annual Conference Update

Hotel Reservation Deadline Extended

The deadline for hotel reservations for the MedBiquitous Annual Conference has been extended to April 13. A block of rooms has been reserved at the Sheraton Baltimore City Center for the special rate of $169 per night. To guarantee a room at this rate, reserve a room online
(http://www.starwoodmeeting.com/StarGroupsWeb/res?id=0812163163&key=19C67), or contact the Sheraton directly and mention MedBiquitous.

Sheraton Baltimore City Center
101 W. Fayette St.
Baltimore, Maryland 21201
+1-410-752-1100

Online Registration Deadline Approaching

The deadline for online registration for the MedBiquitous Annual Conference is April 21. Register online now at: http://www.regonline.com/medbiq2009

The conference gives participants the opportunity to learn how technology standards and innovations can support common solutions to the challenges in healthcare education and assessment. The program includes unconferences, interactive workshops, panels, and innovation
demonstrations on virtual patients, SCORM for Healthcare, competency-based learning, e-learning, quality improvement, Web 2.0, and many other topics related to innovation in healthcare education.

Speakers include:

* Dr. David Cook, Associate Director of Medicine and Director of the Office of Educational Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
* Gabrielle Campbell, M.B.A., Director, Business Development, Association of American Medical Colleges
* Ronald Harden, OBE MD FRCP FRCS FRCPC, Association for Medical Education in Europe
* Richard Hawkins, M.D., American Board of Medical Specialties
* Kate Regnier, M.A., M.B.A., Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education
* Nabil Zary, Ph.D., DBE DSc FRCP, Project leader, Karolinska Insitute

More information on the conference is available on the conference home page: http://www.medbiq.org/annualconference

Valerie Smothers
Deputy Director
MedBiquitous
email: valerie.smothers@medbiq.org
tel: 410-385-2367 x131
fax: 410-385-6055
web: http://www.medbiq.org

Handling the Job of Chief Resident A Leadership Preparation Conference for New Chiefs

June 5-7, 2009
Marriott Waterside Hotel * Tampa, Florida

Early Registration Cut-off and Hotel Reservation Deadline is May 15.
Reserve Your Place By Registering Today!
www.sma.org/chief09

Conference Features and Highlights:

Interactive Presentations Using Case-Based Discussions
Practical and Useful Problem-Solving Strategies You Can Implement Immediately
Emphasis on Leadership Skills to Handle Difficult Individuals and Stressful Situations
Faculty Available for Personalized, One-on-One Discussions
& More!

Attendees will also have access to the Physicians-in-Training Community which provides the opportunity for continued learning and development of leadership skills as well as a platform to effectively advocate for issues of importance. The community provides a forum for change by allowing participants to identify priorities from interaction with colleagues thus empowering each other to become a cohesive voice to improve the effectiveness of healthcare while enhancing their professional identity.


View the Schedule or Register today!
www.sma.org/chief09


You may also call Professional Development at 1-800-423-4992 ext. 620 for information.


Southern Medical Association...Advocacy, Leadership, Quality and Professional Identity

MedEdPORTAL Relaunch!

On April 7, 2009, the AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) launched the MedEdPORTAL 2.0 repository and Web site (www.aamc.org/mededportal). MedEdPORTAL is a free medical and dental publication service that promotes access to high-quality, peer-reviewed educational teaching and assessment resources online.

While the new MedEdPORTAL Web site may look familiar, the back-end of the system has undergone dramatic improvements. The Web site is now fully integrated with a powerful content and digital asset management system to host resources online. Through major enhancements, the new MedEdPORTAL site provides you with the ease of downloading resources directly from the Web site; allowing 90 percent of MedEdPORTAL’s 1,300 publications to be available for download or by directly linking to external Web sites. The remaining 10 percent of publications will continue to be disseminated by MedEdPORTAL staff due to size limitations or because those publications are assessment tools in which authors have requested protection through a human firewall.

The new MedEdPORTAL Web site also features a robust search engine that will allow you to search for published resources through a greater number of metrics (e.g., the “Find” function searches the published abstract in addition to any text included in the published resource files, such as PowerPoints, Word documents, PDFs, etc.). In addition, the new Web site collects a variety of end-user data that can be used by authors to demonstrate the particular impact and utilization of their published materials.

We encourage you to share this information with your colleagues and to disseminate it to your respective listserves. Please visit the new MedEdPORTAL 2.0 repository Web site at www.aamc.org/mededportal.

Questions? Contact MedEdPORTAL at mededportal@aamc.org.

MedEdPORTAL
Association of American Medical Colleges
2450 N Street, NW
Washington, DC 20037-1127
Email: mededportal@aamc.org
Phone: 202-828-0496
Web: www.aamc.org/mededportal