Monday, September 19, 2011

Mark your Calendars! Upcoming IAMSE Web Seminars

All sessions will be at noon eastern.

Interprofessional Education
 Thursdays January 12, 19, 26, Feb 2, 9, 16


Promise and Challenges of Virtual Learning Environments
Tuesdays March 6, 13, 20, April 3, April 10, April 17

Times They are Changing: Evolution and Revolution in Medical Education

Thursdays September 6, 13, 20, 27, October 4, 11

Follow details at http://www.iamse.org

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

IAMSE - Call for Officer Nominations

With the recent revisions to the IAMSE By-laws, the Officers of the Association can be drawn from the membership at large as well as from the Board members. As such, we are issuing this call for nominations for the Officer positions: President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer. The officers must be current IAMSE members in good standing. The duties of the officers and the board can be reviewed at (http://www.iamse.org/bylaws.htm).

If you wish to nominate yourself or an IAMSE colleague, please send a letter of interest to Pat Finnerty (Officer Nominations Committee, edward.finnerty@dmu.edu) no later than Friday, October 7, 2011.

This letter should include the following information:

1. Position of interest.
2. Short biographical sketch.
3. Description of your involvement with IAMSE.
4. Identification of the qualities and expertise you bring to the office.
5. Description of your goals for IAMSE over the next two (2) years.

If you wish to nominate an IAMSE colleague, please contact them and have them submit the materials directly to Pat Finnerty (edward.finnerty@dmu.edu ).

As per the By-laws, the Officer Nominating Committee (Giulia Bonaminio, Joe Stein and Pat Finnerty) will review the nominations and prepare a list of nominees for each position by November 1 for review and election by the members of the Board of Directors.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

IAMSE Web Seminar - September 1st

Join us on September 1st - 12:00 - 1:00 pm ET

1910 and 2010: What's with these Carnegie reports on medical education?


Presenter: David Irby

Twice over the past one hundred years The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has called for the reform of medical education. In 1910, Abraham Flexner stressed the importance of scientific research and educational excellence in the training of physicians, which resulted in a transformation of medical education. In 2010, the Carnegie Foundation called for actions that will transform medical education again: standardization of learning outcomes and individualization of learning processes; integration of formal knowledge and clinical experience; development of habits of inquiry and improvement; and explicit attention to the formation of professional identity (Cooke M, Irby DM, O'Brien BC. Educating Physicians: A Call for Reform of Medical school and Residency). In this webcast. Dr. Irby will describe the Flexnerian legacy and the key recommendations of the report. Subsequent webcasts will deal with the report's major themes separately.

For More information & Registration:

http://iamse.org/development/2011/was_2011_fall.htm

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Registration Now Open! IAMSE Fall Web Seminar Series


Please join us for the upcoming IAMSE web seminar series ...

The Second Flexnerian Report: Implications, Applications and Expectations

Not in the century since Flexner's epic report that reformed medical education, has there been such change in the training of physicians. The Carnegie Foundation again commissioned a blueprint to improve the education of physicians for our times holding a promise to reshape the future for decades to come. It has the promise to also impact medical education for decades to come. To paraphrase the four main findings of the report, the I's have it: 1) individualize the path to standardized learning outcomes; 2) integrate and collaborate in learning; 3) inquiry and improvements should become habits; and 4) identity formation of the physician as a professional should be strengthened. We are privileged to have authors of this report and leaders in medical education present their thoughts on the opportunities and challenges facing changes in contemporary medical education.

Sept 1
1:00 pm ET
1910 and 2010: What's with these Carnegie reports on medical education?
David Irby
Sept 8
1:00 pm ET
Integration and Inquiry, Innovation and Improvement
Bridget O'Brien
Sept 15
1:00 pm ET
Individualization
Catherine Lucey
Sept 22
1:00 pm ET
Instituting and Using a Holistic Admissions Process
Marlene Ballejos
Sept 29
1:00 pm ET
Professional Identity Formation 
Kelley Skeff

For more information and registration details please go to:

http://iamse.org/development/2011/was_2011_fall.htm

Monday, May 9, 2011

IAMSE Board of Director Election Results

Dear IAMSE Members:

I am excited to announce the election of four new Board members as a result of the recent elections. Each will fill a three year term, beginning on June 1.

Michael Lumpkin, Georgetown University USA
Luke Mortensen, Des Moines University USA
Joe Stein, Upstate Medical University USA
Richard Vari, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine USA

In addition, Vaughan Kippers, from University of Queensland, Australia was recently named to the Board to fill a vacancy. Please join me in congratulating our new members as they continue our recent Board’s fine 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 St Petersburg, Florida in June. It’s not too late to register and contribute to what will be an exciting and dynamic meeting.



Frazier
Frazier Stevenson, MD
Associate Dean, Undergraduate Medical Education
Professor of Medicine
University of South Florida College of Medicine