Fall IAMSE Web Series - Times are Changing: Evolution and Revolution in Medical Education

We begin our 11th year of IAMSE faculty development webcast seminars with a discussion of the contemporary changes in health professions education. Things are different from "when we were in school". No kidding!

Professors teach differently. Our curricula are likely to be more integrated and in an applied context. Our role as a content expert may diminish as we become facilitators of learning and application of science in medicine. This poses challenges as teachers and education administrators. Drs. Carroll and Standley will explore these changing roles.

Students learn differently. While we learned in a linear, building-block fashion the millennial learner may follow a non-linear, asynchronous route to understanding. Drs. Roberts and Pelley will help us understand their learning needs and processes, and how our teaching can transform them.

Learning may be assessed differently. "Classical" exams are great for assessing factual knowledge but novel methods can require higher-order thinking and application. Drs. Brenner; Ginzburg and Metzger will explore new approaches that may be more appropriate for the patient-care world for which are students are being prepared.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Students still are motivated to learn their profession, faculty members are still motivated to facilitate learning efficiently, and schools are still motivated to use resources appropriately. Just differently.

Series to begin September 6th! Watch the IAMSE website for further details.

Nehad El Sawi, Chair WAS Committee

IAMSE Board of Director Election Results

Dear IAMSE Members: 

It is my pleasure to announce to you that we have four newly elected members of our Board of Directors. Thanks to all who participated in our recent election process.

William Jeffries – University of Vermont, College of Medicine, USA
Jan Kuks – University Medical Centre Groningen, State University of Groningen, Netherlands
Norma Saks – University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, USA
Greg Smith – St. Louis University, School of Medicine, USA

In addition, India Lane, from the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine was recently named to the Board to fill a vacancy.

Please join me in congratulating our new Board members as they join our continuing 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 Portland, Oregon this June (http://www.iamseconference.org). It’s not too late to register and participate in what I promise you will be a fantastic meeting!

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

IAMSE Medical Educator Fellowship

This symposia-style course is open to those individuals who have completed an ESME program (Essential Skills in Medical Education) and have officially enrolled in the IAMSE Medical Educator Fellowship by the IAMSE 2012 Annual Meeting Early Registration deadline via the Annual Meeting Registration Form.

The course is composed of 2 required modules, one 2-hour module and a 1-hour module. The 2-hour module will include presentation of, and discussion and feedback on portfolio projects with fellowship faculty and mentors; and one-on-one mentoring on portfolio projects. During the final hour, fellows will come back together to present information acquired from their mentors and program faculty as pertains to their portfolio projects.

Detailed information on Fellowship requirements is available on the IAMSE website. Pre-requisite: Completion of the Essential Skills in Medical Education (ESME) program.

For additional information please contact Susan Pasquale

IAMSE WAS - What would you like to hear?

Dear IAMSE Membership:

The International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) Webcast Audio-Seminar Series (WAS) was established in 2002 to assist and promote faculty development in medical education. Each theme-based six-part series explores timely faculty development topics. Speakers and participants range from New Zealand to Qatar with an average of 40 medical schools online per seminar.

We would like feedback from the membership for planning of future series. What are the topics and/or themes you would like to see presented and addressed in the coming year?

Several examples are presented below, please rank by priority and list other topics of interest.

We look forward to hearing back from you by Friday, January 27, 2012.

Thanks,

IAMSE WAS Committee

• Effective educator
• Basics of medical education, curriculum design, feedback
• Supporting the medical educator
• Mentoring, professional networking, peer evaluation of teaching process, trust
• Research skills for medical students
• Staying “up-to-date” with accreditation; North American, European…etc
• Constructing or updating medical education facilities
• Admissions

What are the new skills for faculty, best practices, interviewing, new MCAT Other ideas:

IAMSE Web Seminar - Learning Together to Practice Collaboratively: Some Principles for IPE an IPC

Webcast Audio Seminar Series Interprofessional Education in the Health Sciences Please join us for the January 12th session:  Learning Together to Practice Collaboratively: Some Principles for IPE and IPC In this session our presenter, John Gilbert, will cover a little of the history of interprofessional education for patient centred collaborative practice. Then he will discuss some fundamental principles that need to be acknowledged and systematized if IPE/ICP are to realized on university and college campuses and across health care systems. For more information please to to: http://iamse.org/development/2012/was_2012_winter.htm

Website: www.iamse.org

Email: support@iamse.org

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