Registration is Now Open - Fall IAMSE Web Seminar "Times are Changing: Evolution & Revolution in Medical Education"

Times are Changing: Evolution and Revolution in Medical Education: 2013 Edition Developing Teaching Tools and Measuring Learning Progress in New Ways

Learning in context, clinical decision making, self-directed learning, asynchronous teaching, etc., etc. We've heard the buzz words of new approaches to clinically-oriented teaching and testing, but how do we as instructors learn to apply these skills? This webcast series will provide how-to sessions on some of these approaches. Developing focused clinical cases for teaching may not be intuitive for non-clinicians or clinicians. Our first session will introduce and illustrate how basic and clinical principles of disease and treatment can be constructed into clinical cases for lectures, PBL /TBL sessions and NBME-style exam questions.

There are defined principles and useful resources to employ, and pitfalls to avoid, that will help us all with this skill. How about testing? Are we confident that students can retain and apply knowledge and skills in an increasingly sophisticated manner? A subsequent session will discuss progress testing in which repeated measures of standards can document student progress and highlight remaining deficiencies over time. Script concordance is another new approach by which students must make value judgments of clinical data and apply new information to the next decision step. This approach helps mold and measure the everyday decision pathway that clinicians must travel.

Finally, there are new approaches to teaching and learning that are more difficult to monitor and measure. Curricula are mandated to have active and independent learning time. What does this really mean? Is it "efficient"? Our last two sessions will focus on independent learning. We will discuss effective use, pros and cons, and best approaches to using learning time as well as the use of social media in teaching. This final presentation of the series will explore roles, ethics, age differences, documentation, and effectiveness as challenges and opportunities with this approach to medical education.