18th Annual IAMSE Meeting Highlights

Dear Colleagues,

The 18th annual International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) meeting will be held at the Sheraton Music City Hotel in Nashville Tennessee from June 7 10th, 2014. This annual event brings together medical educators from around the world to attend and participate in preconference workshops, plenary sessions, focus sessions, poster sessions, eDemos, panel discussions and social activities. Our attendees include faculty, staff and administrators from Allopathic & Osteopathic Schools of Medicine, Schools of Nursing, Veterinary Schools, Schools of Allied Health, Schools of Public Health and Schools of Alternative Medicine.

The following plenary sessions have been confirmed for this meeting:

• David Pederson, M.Ed. "Reframing Undergraduate Medical Education-Leveraging Emerging Clinical Technologies to Prepare Tomorrow's Physicians. David's session will include the use of simulation, ultrasound and robotic surgery to engage tomorrow's physicians.
• Linda Norman, DSN, RN, FAAN "Inter-Professional Education (IPE): Synchronous, Asynchronous, Clinical Practice, Simulation Across Disciplines, Across Universities". Linda's session is an interesting twist on Interprofessional Education that not only encompasses IPE within Vanderbilt university but this novel program also promotes IPE between universities. 
• Karen Cornell, D.V.M. "Providing Effective Feedback to Students and Colleagues". Karen's session will stress the importance of good communication skills and how to handle difficult conversations. 
• Nikki Woods, Ph.D. "Cognitive Connections: Making the Case for Integrated Basic Sciences" This session will focus on how physicians utilize foundational sciences to assist in their clinical reasoning and decision making. 
• We will end our meeting with an interactive session led by John Pelley, Ph.D. John's session entitled "Making Active Learning Effective" will address new ways to engage students outside of didacticlectures. 

Preconference workshops are also available for all attendees for a additional nominal fee and include; the use of simulation in medical curricula (including IPE), teaching innovations in the dissection lab, publishing scholarly work, continuous integration of basic science and clinical medicine, ultrasound teaching in undergraduate medical curricula, making active learning effective and applying adult learning theories to education in the health sciences.

For additional information about the meeting or our organization please visit www.iamseconference.org. Please note the deadline for submission of focus sessions for the meeting is September 30th and we invite you to consider submitting your ideas for a possible inclusion in this meeting.