IAMSE Call for Focus Sessions

Dear Members of IAMSE,

The International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) is pleased to announce the call for focus sessions for the 19th Annual IAMSE Conference to be held in San Diego, CA from June 13-16, 2015. 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 must be submitted in the format requested through the online abstract submission site www.iamseconference.org.

Submission deadline is September 30, 2014. Abstract acceptance notifications will be returned by November 15.

Please click here to submit your abstract!

Please contact Linda Fouch linda@iamse.org for any question about this call or travel award. Looking forward to seeing you in San Diego next year!

Jonathan Wisco,

Chair, 2015 Program Committee

IAMSE at AMFEM

Dear IAMSE Member:

Visit the IAMSE Booth at the AMFEM Meeting. 

4th International Congress of Medical Education

Medical Education Without Borders: The School of the Future 

Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico

June 10-14, 2014 

Visit amfem.edu.mx for more details

Save the Date - Fall IAMSE Web Seminar Series

Time are Changing: Evolution and Revolution in Medical Education 

The sessions will explore a variety of exciting innovations in medical education that include the impact of the changes in the interviewing process (Multiple Mini-Interviews, Holistic Review) on curricular modifications in medical schools, a review of best-practices for pre-matriculation programs to enhance student success in medical school, a pro and con presentation on the impact of compressing medical schools into 3 year programs, approaches to continuing basic science into the clinical years, and a review of the advantages and disadvantages of the longitudinal integrated clerkship models.

Sessions start September 11, 2014.

Please visit www.iamse.org for more information.

Rick Vari
WAS Committee Chair

IAMSE Poster Abstracts Online

Dear IAMSE Member:

The poster abstracts for the 18th Annual IAMSE Meeting are now available online!

They have been organized by the following catagories:

Assessment & Evaluation
Instructional Methods
Professional Development / Student Support
Technology Innovation
TBL/PBL, E-Learning

Registration for the conference is still open.

Click here to register

Visit iamseconference.org for more details.

IAMSE News

Dear IAMSE Colleagues,

I’m writing to you today with a number of important updates. First, it is my pleasure to announce three newly elected members to our Board of Directors. Thank you to all who participated in our recent election process.

Wilhelmina Hols-Elders - University Medical Center Utrecht

Kathryn Huggett - Creighton University School of Medicine

Richard Vari (2nd term) - Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine

According to the bylaws changes that were approved by the membership in 2013, the terms for these Board members will begin immediately following the annual conference in June. Your current Board of Directors elected the following individuals to serve as officers from January 1, 2014 – December 31, 2015:

Amy Wilson-Delfosse (president) – Case Western Reserve University School of 

        Medicine

Bruce Newton (vice president) - Campbell University School of Osteopathic

        Medicine

Veronica Michaelsen (treasurer) - The George Washington University School of 

        Medicine and Health Sciences

Luke Mortensen (secretary) - American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic

        Medicine

I would also like to congratulate Michelle Machado (School of Rural Health, Churchill Monash University), who is the inaugural recipient of the IAMSE Educational Scholarship Grant to support her project entitled, “Anatomy Learning and Retention Among Medical Students: A Cross-Sectional Mixed Methods Study.” We look forward to continue supporting projects of educational scholarship through this grants program in the coming years.  

Another new opportunity for IAMSE is the MedU Science project that is being conducted in collaboration with iInTIME (Institute for Innovative Technology In Medical Education).  The goals of this project are to identify the core basic science learning objectives that are most relevant to clinical practice and integrate these into virtual patient learning experiences for students in the clinical training phase of their education.  We look forward to bringing you more updates about this in the coming months. You can help us in this effort by completing the following survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XSVYK26

Finally, I’m looking forward to seeing you all at our annual conference in Nashville, Tennessee, USA (http://www.iamse.org/conf/conf18/index.htm) June 7-10, 2014.  Special thanks to our Program Chair for the 2014 meeting, Greg Smith (Saint Louis University), and to Vanderbilt University, our site host.  

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