Call for Oral, Poster and eDemo Abstracts

Dear Members of IAMSE,

The International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) is pleased to announce the call for abstracts for Oral, Poster and eDemo presentations for the 17th Annual IAMSE Conference to be held in St Andrews, Scotland (UK) from June 8-11, 2013. The IAMSE meeting offers opportunities for faculty development and networking, bringing together medical sciences and medical education across the continuum of health care education.

All abstracts for Oral, Poster and eDemo presentations must be submitted in the format requested through the online abstract submission site www.iamseconference.org. Submission deadline is January 18, 2013. Abstract acceptance notifications will be returned by March 1.

IAMSE offers a travel award to provide financial assistance to student or junior faculty IAMSE members to attend the annual meeting. Award winners would be selected by the Educational Scholarship Committee on the basis of several criteria. See the website www.iamseconference.org for more information.

Please contact Julie Hewett at julie@iamse.org for any question about this call or travel award. Looking forward to seeing you in St Andrews, Scotland next year!

Frazier Stevenson, Chair, 2013 Program Committee

Winter 2013 IAMSE WAS Registration now Open!

Research Literacy for Health-Professions Students: Promoting Competence in Assessing Evidence-Based Medicine

The expectation that the practice of medicine be evidence-based compels medical educators to effectively incorporate research education into health sciences curricula. With standards of care in a constant state of flux, it is imperative that health science professionals have the ability to competently interpret the quality of evidence in medical research publications. Educators must effectively and efficiently teach content and lay a foundation of critical thinking skills sufficient to support research literacy. This past summer the Medical Science Educator devoted a special issue to this topic. This series will expand upon issues addressed in the journal and showcase schools that have developed curricular innovations to promote research literacy among their students.

Jan 10 12:00 pm ET Research Literacy: The What and Why William Galey, Howard Hughes

Jan 17 12:00 pm ET Building Practitioner Research Literacy Skills (PRLS) Across the Curriculum des Anges Cruser

Jan 24 12:00 pm ET Student Perception of Research Literacy Grace Brannan

Jan 31 12:00 pm ET Curriculum Design to Promote Research Literacy Heather Zwickey

Feb 7 12:00 pm ET The Medical Graduate as Scientist and Scholar: A UK Perspective Shelby S. Webster

Feb 14 12:00 pm ET Teaching Scientific Research Skills in an Elective Curriculum: Obstacles, Opportunities and Outcomes Ingrid Bahner

To Register: http://iamse.org/development/2013/was_2013_winter.htm

IAMSE President Receives Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award

We are pleased to announce that Amy Wilson-Delfosse, IAMSE President, has been named the 2012 Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award winner. 

This award will be given to Dr. Wilson-Delfosse during the upcoming annual AAMC meeting in San Francisco, November 2-7, 2012.

The Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Awards were established by the AOA medical honor society in 1988 to provide national recognition to faculty members who have distinguished themselves in medical student education. The award is named for long-time AOA executive secretary Robert J. Glaser, M.D.

This award recognizes the significant contributions to medical education made by gifted teachers. Up to four awards will be granted each year. Each awardee will receive a $10,000 grant. The awardee's nominating institution will receive $2,500 for teaching activities, and, if the nominating institution has an Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) chapter, the chapter will receive a stipend of $1,000 toward its activities.

Click for details:  https://www.aamc.org/newsroom/newsreleases/311210/121025.html

2012 Master Teacher & Master Scholar Award Winners

The International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) is pleased to announce the winners of the prestigious Master Scholar Award and Master Teacher Award for 2012. The Master Teacher Award was established to honor an IAMSE member who has consistently demonstrated extraordinary excellence in teaching. The Master Scholar Award recognizes an IAMSE member who has a distinguished record of educational scholarship.

Master Teacher Award Winner: Herb Janssen, MEd, PhD, He received his bachelor’s degree from Midwestern State University, a master’s degree in education and biology from Texas Tech University, and his Ph.D. in medical physiology from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. After completing his degree, he accepted a position in the Departments of Orthopedic Surgery and Physiology. Four years ago he moved to El Paso after he accepted a position as professor of physiology in the Department of Medical Education at the TTUHSC, Paul L Foster School of Medicine in El Paso. He currently teaches medical students, nursing students, and volunteers in outreach educational programs with local high schools. These outreach programs are designed to encourage high school students to pursue a career in the healthcare profession. He is currently rewriting an interactive textbook on renal physiology and is preparing a “user-friendly” guide for students planning to apply to medical school. Master Scholar Award Winner: Giulia Bonaminio, PhD, She received her B.S. degree in Biology from Bowling Green State University and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Molecular Genetics from The Ohio State University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Medical Genetics at Stanford University. She served for five years as the Biomedical Curriculum Specialist at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. In 1997 she moved to the University of Kansas School of Medicine. Dr. Bonaminio is the Associate Dean for Medical Education, the Director of the Office of Medical Education, and Research Professor in the Department of Family Medicine. She has been a member of IAMSE since 1997 and has served as a Board Member, Vice President, President and Past President. Dr. Bonaminio has recently been named a fellow by the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program for Women at Drexel University College of Medicine.

The International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) is a professional society based on the guiding principle that all who teach the sciences fundamental to medical practice should have access to the most current information and skills needed to excel as educators. With members in over 40 countries, IAMSE is international in scope and interdisciplinary in nature. For more information, please visit iamse.org.

IAMSE Web Seminar - Basic Medical Science Course Directors in Integrated Medical Curricula

Basic Medical Science Course Directors in Integrated Medical Curricula

Presenter: Cynthia Standley

In this session we will discuss the creation of an integrated systems block curriculum from the perspective a basic medical scientist. During the first two years of the Phoenix track of the ArizonaMed curriculum, the curriculum is designed in blocks that integrate the traditional basic science disciplines (physiology, anatomy, pathology, etc.) into organ systems and disease units. Clinical content and skills are progressively integrated with basic science subjects. Woven through the blocks are curricular themes covering such topics as behavioral science, ethics and humanism, bioinformatics, population and public health. The following questions will be discussed: 1) What are the challenges for a basic scientist in designing integrated courses? 2) What resources are most helpful? 3) How do you orient a clinician to teaching in the preclinical years? 3) How do you choose your subject matter and prioritize what really needs to be taught? At the end of this session, participants will leave with a bevy of tips to get them started in designing or refining their own curriculum.

Oct 4 12:00 pm ET Basic Medical Science Course Directors in Integrated Medical Curricula
Registration: http://iamse.org/development/2012/was_2012_fall.htm

IAMSE Web Seminar - Novel Assessment Strategies in an Integrated Curriculum

Novel Assessment Strategies in an Integrated Curriculum

Presenter: Judith Brenner, Samara Ginzburg, & Keith Metzger

In this session we will discuss the general scheme of assessment and some of the specific assessment techniques and instruments used to evaluate undergraduate medical students at the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine. The focus of this system of assessment is to both evaluate traditional medical student competencies as well as the ability of students to apply basic medical knowledge to clinical scenarios and link basic and clinical science. Additionally, our assessments aim to provide meaningful feedback to students in the form of developmental, competency-based milestones.

Topics highlighted in this session will be:

• Overview of the assessment scheme at the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine 
• Use of a regular "Reflection, Integration and Assessment" week to provide opportunities for both summative and formative assessment of students 
• Assessment of higher-order learning in traditional laboratory courses 
• Assessment in Case-Based Learning: Use of self and group assessments in sessions and in weekly follow-up essays

Sep 27 12:00 pm ET Novel Assessment Strategies in an Integrated Curriculum
Registration: http://iamse.org/development/2012/was_2012_fall.htm

Master Scholar Award and Master Teacher Award for 2012.

Huntington, WV August 2, 2012 -

The International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) is pleased to announce the winners of the prestigious Master Scholar Award and Master Teacher Award for 2012. The Master Teacher Award was established to honor an IAMSE member who has consistently demonstrated extraordinary excellence in teaching. The Master Scholar Award recognizes an IAMSE member who has a distinguished record of educational scholarship.

Master Teacher Award Winner: Herb Janssen, MEd, PhD, He received his bachelor’s degree from Midwestern State University, a master’s degree in education and biology from Texas Tech University, and his Ph.D. in medical physiology from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. After completing his degree, he accepted a position in the Departments of Orthopedic Surgery and Physiology. Four years ago he moved to El Paso after he accepted a position as professor of physiology in the Department of Medical Education at the TTUHSC, Paul L Foster School of Medicine in El Paso. He currently teaches medical students, nursing students, and volunteers in outreach educational programs with local high schools. These outreach programs are designed to encourage high school students to pursue a career in the healthcare profession. He is currently rewriting an interactive textbook on renal physiology and is preparing a “user-friendly” guide for students planning to apply to medical school.

Master Scholar Award Winner: Giulia Bonaminio, PhD, She received her B.S. degree in Biology from Bowling Green State University and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Molecular Genetics from The Ohio State University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Medical Genetics at Stanford University. She served for five years as the Biomedical Curriculum Specialist at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. In 1997 she moved to the University of Kansas School of Medicine. Dr. Bonaminio is the Associate Dean for Medical Education, the Director of the Office of Medical Education, and Research Professor in the Department of Family Medicine. She has been a member of IAMSE since 1997 and has served as a Board Member, Vice President, President and Past President. Dr. Bonaminio has recently been named a fellow by the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program for Women at Drexel University College of Medicine.

The International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) is a professional society based on the guiding principle that all who teach the sciences fundamental to medical practice should have access to the most current information and skills needed to excel as educators. With members in over 40 countries, IAMSE is international in scope and interdisciplinary in nature. For more information, please visit iamse.org.

IAMSE Silent Auction Outcome

The IAMSE Development Committee is very pleased to announce that this year's Silent Auction at the IAMSE meeting in Portland was able to infuse $3000.00 into our organization's Annual Conference Scholarship!

As you maybe aware, the funds gathered through the Silent Auction each year are used to support competitive awards to medical education scholars; these awards are directed toward attendance and travel costs at our annual conference.

This year's awardee of the $1000.00 IAMSE Conference Scholarship was Leticia Rojas from Touro University in Nevada (USA). The funds allowed her to present her work "HOW TO ENSURE AN EFFECTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN A MEDICAL INSTITUTION, A MIXED METHOD" at the Portland meeting. This scholarship provides for the ability of IAMSE to wisely invest in the professional promise of our novice medical education scholars and engage them in the mission and goals of our organization.

The committee offers its sincere thanks to all attendees who participated in this year's Silent Auction for their generous contributions to this wonderful program. We especially want to thank our benevolent auction item donors who make this event so successful year after year! We hope that you find these efforts to be a reflection of appropriate good stewardship of IAMSE's finances and that you will continue to support this scholarship program through your kind participation in the future.

Julie Tebo and Peter de Jong, co-chairs
IAMSE Development Committee

IAMSE Web Seminar - Adapt, evolve or become extinct

Adapt, evolve or become extinct: Making educational change work FOR you

Presenter: Rob Carroll

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change" - Charles Darwin

The education of students at the preschool through University level is rapidly changing, and instructors who understand the basis of these changes will be most effective educators. Most of the curriculum innovations are developed and supported by research on teaching and learning. This presentation will review the impact of Bloom's Taxonomy, Knowles' theory of the Adult Learner, and Kolb's 4-Stage Learning Cycle on the classroom and curriculum. Assessment of learning is also changing, moving from measuring knowledge (learning objectives) to skills (competencies). In the shift to competencies, today's mentor must stimulate and monitor the professional development of their students and trainees. In USA, medical residents are assessed by competencies which include Medical Knowledge, Patient Care, Practice-Based Learning and Improvement, Interpersonal and Communication Skills, Ethics and Medical Professionalism, and Systems-Based Practice. In this changing environment, the essential role of the teacher remains unchanged: to create an effective learning environment, to provide direction for the learner, and to model effective learning behaviors.

Sep 20 12:00 pm ET Adapt, evolve or become extinct: Making educational change work FOR you

Registration: http://iamse.org/development/2012/was_2012_fall.htm

Join us at Lunch at the AMEE Meeting

Dear Colleagues,

For those of you attending the 2012 AMEE meeting in Lyon in a couple of weeks, please plan to join us on Tuesday for lunch.

When: Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Where: St. Claire 3B

During lunch we will have the opportunity to share with the AMEE participants information about our association and what it has to offer its members as well as the current details for the 2013 IAMSE/AMEE Meeting in St. Andrews. Plus this will be a chance to say hello to your fellow colleagues from IAMSE, Slice of Life, GRIPE, TBLC and others.

Looking forward to seeing you in a couple of weeks!

Julie K. Hewett
IAMSE Association Manager

IAMSE Web Seminar - Teaching to transform the brain

Teaching to transform the brain
Presenter: John Pelley

It is not surprising that the term "transformation" has multiple uses in educational thought. Information is transformed into knowledge, the brain is transformed physically, and learners are transformed into self-directed producers of their own understanding. This presentation will help teachers better understand both their role and the student's role in these transformation events. Learning always follows the same biological process involving a physical change in the brain. This change, termed consolidation, is not just limited to long-term memory, but occurs for any part of the learning process. The conscious use of any given functional area of the brain will, therefore, consolidate that part of the learning process. The Experiential Learning Cycle (ELC) proposed by Kolb is a Constructivist model that can has been matched by Zull to the major functional areas of the cerebral cortex to provide insight into the use of teaching strategies. It will be proposed here that each functional area of the brain represents a different learning skill. The development of neglected learning skills through Deliberate Practice (DP) automatically produces self-directed problem solvers by balancing the ELC. Teacher-directed DP spontaneously evolves into learner-determined DP resulting in lifelong maintenance of expert learning skills. As such, this presentation will provide an argument that learning skills can be developed through DP, just as with clinical skills - because clinical skills, after all, are learning skills.

 It will be helpful but not essential if attendees visit Dr. Pelley's website at www.ttuhsc.edu/SOM/success and download the free book, SuccessTypes.

Sep 13 12:00 pm ET Teaching to transform the brain
Registration: http://iamse.org/development/2012/was_2012_fall.htm

IAMSE Web Seminar - Reaching and Teaching Millennial Learners

Presenter: David H. Roberts

Generations are groups of individuals who are born or live at the same time and who share experiences and environmental influences by virtue of similar age. By extension and as a result of these shared experiences and environment, these groups often share attitudes, ideas, values, styles and problems. In the US over the last nearly 100 years, there have been several distinct generations, commonly known as the "Silent" generation, the "Baby Boomers", the Generation X, and now the "Millennial" Generation. Each generation has its own set of characteristics, defining moments and values, and shared conflicts and achievements. These generational characteristics have had and continue to have significant influences on teaching and learning at all pedagogic levels. The current generation poses a new set of challenges and opportunities for medical educators. This session will review those challenges, including the growing body of literature about digital professionalism as well as the opportunities, including specific strategies for educators to enhance teaching and learning for Millennial trainees.

Sep 6 12:00 pm ET Reaching and Teaching Millennial Learners

Registration: http://iamse.org/development/2012/was_2012_fall.htm

IAMSE Web Seminar - Times are Changing: Evolution and Revolution in Medical Education

Times are Changing: Evolution and Revolution in Medical Education

We begin our 11th year of IAMSE faculty development webcast seminars with a discussion of the contemporary changes in health professions education. Things are different from "when we were in school". No kidding!

Professors teach differently. Our curricula are likely to be more integrated and in an applied context. Our role as a content expert may diminish as we become facilitators of learning and application of science in medicine. This poses challenges as teachers and education administrators. Drs. Carroll and Standley will explore these changing roles.

Students learn differently. While we learned in a linear, building-block fashion the millennial learner may follow a non-linear, asynchronous route to understanding. Drs. Roberts and Pelley will help us understand their learning needs and processes, and how our teaching can transform them.

Learning may be assessed differently. "Classical" exams are great for assessing factual knowledge but novel methods can require higher-order thinking and application. Drs. Brenner; Ginzburg and Metzger will explore new approaches that may be more appropriate for the patient-care world for which are students are being prepared.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Students still are motivated to learn their profession, faculty members are still motivated to facilitate learning efficiently, and schools are still motivated to use resources appropriately. Just differently.

Starting September 6th

Details and Registration can be found:

http://iamse.org/development/2012/was_2012_fall.htm

Fall IAMSE Web Series - Times are Changing: Evolution and Revolution in Medical Education

We begin our 11th year of IAMSE faculty development webcast seminars with a discussion of the contemporary changes in health professions education. Things are different from "when we were in school". No kidding!

Professors teach differently. Our curricula are likely to be more integrated and in an applied context. Our role as a content expert may diminish as we become facilitators of learning and application of science in medicine. This poses challenges as teachers and education administrators. Drs. Carroll and Standley will explore these changing roles.

Students learn differently. While we learned in a linear, building-block fashion the millennial learner may follow a non-linear, asynchronous route to understanding. Drs. Roberts and Pelley will help us understand their learning needs and processes, and how our teaching can transform them.

Learning may be assessed differently. "Classical" exams are great for assessing factual knowledge but novel methods can require higher-order thinking and application. Drs. Brenner; Ginzburg and Metzger will explore new approaches that may be more appropriate for the patient-care world for which are students are being prepared.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Students still are motivated to learn their profession, faculty members are still motivated to facilitate learning efficiently, and schools are still motivated to use resources appropriately. Just differently.

Series to begin September 6th! Watch the IAMSE website for further details.

Nehad El Sawi, Chair WAS Committee

IAMSE Board of Director Election Results

Dear IAMSE Members: 

It is my pleasure to announce to you that we have four newly elected members of our Board of Directors. Thanks to all who participated in our recent election process.

William Jeffries – University of Vermont, College of Medicine, USA
Jan Kuks – University Medical Centre Groningen, State University of Groningen, Netherlands
Norma Saks – University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, USA
Greg Smith – St. Louis University, School of Medicine, USA

In addition, India Lane, from the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine was recently named to the Board to fill a vacancy.

Please join me in congratulating our new Board members as they join our continuing efforts to make IAMSE the preeminent international venue for faculty development in health sciences education.

I look forward to seeing you at our upcoming meeting in Portland, Oregon this June (http://www.iamseconference.org). It’s not too late to register and participate in what I promise you will be a fantastic meeting!

Regards,
Amy

Amy L. Wilson-Delfosse, Ph.D.
President, International Association of Medical Science Educators
Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Assistant Dean for Basic Science Education
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

IAMSE Medical Educator Fellowship

This symposia-style course is open to those individuals who have completed an ESME program (Essential Skills in Medical Education) and have officially enrolled in the IAMSE Medical Educator Fellowship by the IAMSE 2012 Annual Meeting Early Registration deadline via the Annual Meeting Registration Form.

The course is composed of 2 required modules, one 2-hour module and a 1-hour module. The 2-hour module will include presentation of, and discussion and feedback on portfolio projects with fellowship faculty and mentors; and one-on-one mentoring on portfolio projects. During the final hour, fellows will come back together to present information acquired from their mentors and program faculty as pertains to their portfolio projects.

Detailed information on Fellowship requirements is available on the IAMSE website. Pre-requisite: Completion of the Essential Skills in Medical Education (ESME) program.

For additional information please contact Susan Pasquale

IAMSE WAS - What would you like to hear?

Dear IAMSE Membership:

The International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) Webcast Audio-Seminar Series (WAS) was established in 2002 to assist and promote faculty development in medical education. Each theme-based six-part series explores timely faculty development topics. Speakers and participants range from New Zealand to Qatar with an average of 40 medical schools online per seminar.

We would like feedback from the membership for planning of future series. What are the topics and/or themes you would like to see presented and addressed in the coming year?

Several examples are presented below, please rank by priority and list other topics of interest.

We look forward to hearing back from you by Friday, January 27, 2012.

Thanks,

IAMSE WAS Committee

• Effective educator
• Basics of medical education, curriculum design, feedback
• Supporting the medical educator
• Mentoring, professional networking, peer evaluation of teaching process, trust
• Research skills for medical students
• Staying “up-to-date” with accreditation; North American, European…etc
• Constructing or updating medical education facilities
• Admissions

What are the new skills for faculty, best practices, interviewing, new MCAT Other ideas:

IAMSE Web Seminar - Learning Together to Practice Collaboratively: Some Principles for IPE an IPC

Webcast Audio Seminar Series Interprofessional Education in the Health Sciences Please join us for the January 12th session:  Learning Together to Practice Collaboratively: Some Principles for IPE and IPC In this session our presenter, John Gilbert, will cover a little of the history of interprofessional education for patient centred collaborative practice. Then he will discuss some fundamental principles that need to be acknowledged and systematized if IPE/ICP are to realized on university and college campuses and across health care systems. For more information please to to: http://iamse.org/development/2012/was_2012_winter.htm

Website: www.iamse.org

Email: support@iamse.org

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