Red Hot Chili Pepper - Clinical and Basic Science Integration at Paul L. Foster School of Medicine

IAMSE Web Seminar Series Continues .....

Thursday, October 1, 2009
1:00 - 2:00 pm ET
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Red Hot Chili Pepper - Clinical and Basic Science Integration at Paul L. Foster School of Medicine

We read the journals and listen to the seminars about exciting new paths for medical education in the 21st century, and then face the reality of time, money, space and intransigence. What would I do if I had a clean slate? This seminar series will provide an overview of contemporary possibilities and then focus on some of the ways five new medical schools from around the world faced the opportunities and challenges of developing their curricula. They incorporated the latest approaches in simulation and virtual-patient teaching, integrative learning, early and continued patient contact, and even restructured the way faculty are appointed to departments. Each medical school has its own approaches and limitations yet there are common goals from which we can all learn. This webcast series will highlight new educational approaches in medical education and practical experiences for their implementation.

Introduction: Educating the Physician of the 21st Century: Providing the Slate for Medical Schools to Write On

IAMSE Web Seminar - If I Had a Clean Slate ... New Medical School Curricula

Date: September 17, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm ET
Registration: http://iamse.org/development/2009/was_registration.htm



Introduction: Educating the Physician of the 21st Century: Providing the Slate for Medical Schools to Write On

Almost 100 years ago, a teacher named Abraham Flexner was commissioned by the Carnegie Foundation to review medical education in the United States and Canada and using a clean slate, to write the future of medical education. The slate that Mr. Flexner created has influenced medical education for the past century. Over the past 100 years, many elements of the slate have gotten smeared and some have disappeared altogether. It is now time to wipe the slate clean and create a new picture of medical education. During this session we will imagine that we now have the same opportunity that Flexner had (but without funding from the Carnegie Foundation) - to develop the approach to medical education in the 21st century. What will we include on the slate; what should we include on the slate? What does medical education in the 21st century look like? What would we retain from Flexner's slate? What would we erase and add to the slate? What questions was Flexner wrestling with at the beginning of the 20th century and how have those questions changed, or remained the same, at the beginning of the 21st century? We will consider a brief history of medical education - how we got where we are today - and then explore the opportunities and the challenges facing medical educators as we develop a slate for medical education in the 21st century.

Presenter: M. Brownell Anderson, M.Ed.

For additional details: http://iamse.org/development/2009/was_2009_fall.htm

Please Join IAMSE in Malaga during the AMEE Meeting

LUNCH INVITATION – AMEE 2009, Malaga Spain

The IAMSE Board of Directors welcomes and invites all medical science educators for a networking lunch with colleagues from all over the world.

When: Tuesday, September 1
Time: 12:45 – 14:15
Where: Restaurant Pavilion 2

The International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) is 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. Through IAMSE, medical science educators from over 40 countries have a rich network of information and mutual support, and belong to an organization dedicated to their professional development.

The IAMSE lunch directly follows the symposium 7C: ‘Teaching Basic Science to Students and Residents’ in Conference Room 2.1. This symposium is organized and presented by IAMSE-members.

For more information regarding IAMSE, please visit our booth during the Exhibit hours or visit us online at www.iamse.org

See you in Malaga!

If I Had a Clean Slate ... New Medical School Curricula

Fall 2009 IAMSE Web Seminar Series:


We read the journals and listen to the seminars about exciting new paths for medical education in the 21st century, and then face the reality of time, money, space and intransigence. What would I do if I had a clean slate?

This seminar series will provide an overview of contemporary possibilities and then focus on some of the ways five new medical schools from around the world faced the opportunities and challenges of developing their curricula. They incorporated the latest approaches in simulation and virtual-patient teaching, integrative learning, early and continued patient contact, and even restructured the way faculty are appointed to departments! Each medical school has its own approaches and limitations, yet there are common goals from which we can all learn. This webcast series will highlight new educational approaches in medical education and practical experiences for their implementation. All Sessions are 1 hour in length and start at 1:00 pm Eastern

Sept. 17 Introduction: Educating the Physician of the 21st Century: Providing the Slate for Medical Schools to Write On

Oct. 1 Red Hot Chili Pepper - Clinical and Basic Science Integration at Paul L. Foster School of Medicine

Oct. 8 A Distributed Community Instructional Model of Medical Education

Oct. 15 Medicine in a Virtual World - Using Simulation Technology to Enhance the Curriculum

Oct. 22 The Commonwealth Medical College, Scranton, Pennsylvania

Oct. 29 Team-based Learning: from 0 - 60+ in 18 months

For additional information and registration:
http://iamse.org/development/2009/was_2009_fall.htm

IAMSE Board of Director Election Results

Dear IAMSE members:

Thanks to all of you who voted in the recent IAMSE elections. Current Board members William Jeffries, Floyd Knoop, Susan Pasquale, and Ferhan Sagin were reelected to new three year terms, and you elected one Board newcomer--Amy Wilson-Delfosse from Case Western in Cleveland who has recently taken on leadership of our Membership Committee. Welcome, Amy, and congratulations to all who were elected. I also want to express my appreciation for the other candidates who agreed to be nominated for this important task, and hope they will try again. I hope that many of you will seek to become more involved in IAMSE leadership in the future. The best way to do so is to become visible and involved. Present a seminar at the annual meeting or volunteer for committee membership, and while you are there, take on a special project. We are a dynamic and inclusive organization that rewards involvement! I can speak from personal experience here, as I did not attend my first IAMSE meeting until 2002, but am now President of the organization.

The revisions to our Bylaws were approved with 97% approval. I will write you with more details on the implications for our committee structure soon, but the Board hopes that one important sequela will be improved integration of our various educational activities, so that a theme presented at our annual meeting might be followed up later in the year with a Web Seminar or JIAMSE feature article.

We are doing very well in registrations for our first European annual meeting this June-July in Leiden. The over 220 preregistrants are a record for annual meetings, and we are very appreciative to those of you who are making the sacrifice to attend a distant meeting in hard economic times. This should be an exciting chance to renew old connections and meet new educators in a lovely historic city. So start studying Dutch (see the IAMSE website for help), reading your maps, reviewing the works of Rembrandt and preparing for a wonderful cultural experience. I look forward to greeting you there!

Frazier Stevenson
President, IAMSE