Dear Members of IAMSE,

The International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) is pleased to announce the call for abstracts for Oral, Poster and eDemo presentations for the 18th Annual IAMSE Conference to be held in Nashville, TN from June 7-10, 2014. 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 for Oral, Poster and eDemo presentations must be submitted in the format requested through the online abstract submission site www.iamseconference.org. Submission deadline is January 17, 2014. Abstract acceptance notifications will be returned by March 1.

IAMSE offers a travel award to provide financial assistance to student or junior faculty IAMSE members to attend the annual meeting. Award winners would be selected by the Educational Scholarship Committee on the basis of several criteria. See the website www.iamseconference.org for more information.

Please contact Tina Walls tina@iamse.org for any question about this call or travel award. Looking forward to seeing you in Nashville next year!

Greg Smith,
Chair, 2014 Program Committee

Medical Educator Fellowship Program

Dear IAMSE members,

The International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) is pleased to offer the Medical Educator Fellowship. Through targeted professional development in key aspects of medial education, the goal of this program is to develop well-rounded medical education scholars with additional evidence of specialized achievement that enhances and supports career advancement.

Program Description:
The program encourages proficiency in five content areas - curriculum design, teaching methods and strategies, assessment, educational scholarship, and leadership - that can be attained in three phases:

Phase 1: Completion of an AMEE ESME Program.

Phase 2: Completion of two, day-long faculty development courses. One of the courses must be completed at an annual IAMSE meeting. The second may be completed either at an annual IAMSE, AMEE or Ottawa meeting.

Phase 3: Completion of a required project, resulting in educational scholarship, which demonstrates application of content themes at the participant's home institution. Participants will be expected to submit a project proposal prior to the Annual Meeting.

Who Should Participate:
The program is designed for medical science educators who have completed an ESME program, and are seeking to become more knowledgeable as educators and leaders. Participants will complete a project portfolio that demonstrates how they applied program content areas at their home institutions.

Detailed information on the Fellowship is available on the IAMSE website at http://iamse.org/

Application Requirements:
Applications to the Fellowship must be submitted by the IAMSE Annual Meeting Early Registration deadline via the Annual Meeting Registration Form. The Fellowship fee of $550 USD includes the 3-hour conference workshop modules and materials. Payment is due in full by the meeting's Early Registration deadline. Refund requests must be received in writing one month prior to the course. No refunds will be made after that date.

For additional information contact Joe Stein at steinj@upstate.edu

Call for Proposals to Host the IAMSE Meeting

Dear Members of IAMSE,

Each year IAMSE organizes its Annual Meeting on Medical Education and Professional Development, one of its kind in the international scene of Medical Education. Participants from over 30 different countries will be visiting the meeting.

For the 2016 meeting, the IAMSE Site Selection Committee is investigating possible sites to organize the meeting. At this point, we would like to invite all IAMSE members to consider their own institution to be a possible host for the meeting. Hosting the meeting gives many advantages in establishing new connections with colleagues from other medical schools. And it also offers the host institution to show its own successes and facilities to others.

The Site Selection Committee strongly prefers IAMSE Annual Meetings to be connected with an institution in the field of medical education. Therefore your help and suggestions are invaluable!

Please consider your own institution as possible host for 2016 and discuss this with your own faculty members. More details can be found in the attached document. If you seriously consider hosting, please send us a motivated letter of intention before November 30, 2013. We do not need a full proposal yet. As soon as the Board of Directors of IAMSE has judged all letters of intention, a limited number of institutions will be asked to send in a full proposal.

Letters of intention can be send to Julie Hewett at julie@iamse.org

Please consider our offer and help IAMSE to continue the organization of the Annual Meetings in the future!

Bruce Newton
Chair of the IAMSE Site Selection Committee

Medical Science Educator Issue 23-3S Now Available

Welcome to the 23(3S) special issue of Medical Science Educator on the topic of Interprofessional Education.

This special issue was initiated during a panel discussion at the annual meeting of the Generalists in Medical Education in San Francisco in November 2012, where representatives of The Generalists, IAMSE and ASPE (Association for Standardized Patient Educators) discussed the topic of Interprofessional Education in great detail. The call for manuscripts on this topic was very successful and we are proud to present to you 27 articles in this special issue.

This year, during the 2013 annual meeting of the Generalists in Medical Education in Philadelphia, we will present this special journal issue to the meeting participants, and we will help to move the discussion forward in a panel discussion titled: “Interprofessional Education: Best Practices”. I am proud that Medical Science Educator can make a contribution to the ongoing discussions in medical education.

Please feel free to share this issue with colleagues within your institutions! I hope that you and your colleagues will enjoy this issue of Medical Science Educator.

To download: Click here

Peter G.M. de Jong, PhD
Editor-in-Chief

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.