Teaching Academy Newsletter

Announcements

Faculty Development Video Series for Medical Educators

The Teaching Academy is proud to announce the Faculty Development Video Series for Medical Educators. Improve your teaching with this series of short videos on essential topics for medical educators. This resource features Teaching Academy members and was directed by Laurie Leclair, MD while she served as a Faculty Associate of the Teaching Academy last year.

The videos are free and open for anyone to view. CME credit is also available. For more details about the video series and how to obtain CME credit, visit http://www.med.uvm.edu/teachingacademy/resources/devleopment.

The Harvard Macy Institute’s A Systems Approach to Assessment in Health Professions Education Course

Applications are now being accepted - Deadline to apply: November 16, 2018

The Harvard Macy Institute’s A Systems Approach to Assessment in Health Professions Education is designed to encourage participants to apply systems thinking in designing assessment programs to support the continuous quality improvement of students/trainees, faculty, and curricula at their academic health science institutions. During this intensive 6-day program, educators and administrators from diverse health science disciplines will be introduced to key concepts from system theory, best practices in educational assessment, and mini-workshops focused on specific assessment approaches. Learn more and apply by clicking here

Fall 2018 Teaching Academy Events Calendar is ready!

See the final Medical Education Grand Rounds schedule, events for fall, and ongoing Teaching Academy events.  Click here for a PDF: Fall 2018 Event Flyer

You can also view these events online at: http://www.med.uvm.edu/teachingacademy/events

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Save the Dates:

2019 Mud Season Education Retreat

Friday, March 29, 2019, 8:00 am-5:00 pm, Doubletree by Hilton

A day-long education retreat featuring workshops, networking, and keynote speakers. This event is open to all faculty. Details and registration will be announced this winter!

AAMC Medical Education Research Certificate (MERC) Workshops

Friday, April 12, 2019

“Formulating Research Questions and Designing Studies” & “Measuring Educational Outcomes with Reliability and Validity”

Details and registration will be announced this winter! Registration priority for Teaching Academy members.

New Publications from Teaching Academy Members

Pediatric Program Director Minimum Milestone Expectations Before Allowing Supervision of Others and Unsupervised Practice
Li S, Tancredi D, Schwartz A, Guillot A, Burke A, Trimm RF, Guralnick S, Mahan J, Gifford K. Pediatric Program Director Minimum Milestone Expectations Before Allowing Supervision of Others and Unsupervised Practice. Academic Pediatrics. September/October 2018Volume 18, Issue 7. Pages 828-836.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acap.2018.04.010

Twenty-Four-Hour Attending Coverage and Its Effect on Trainee Educational Opportunities
O'Toole J, Huggett K, Leclair L, Stapleton R. Twenty-Four-Hour Attending Coverage and Its Effect on Trainee Educational Opportunities. Medical Science Educator. 2018 Sep 1;28(3):473-6. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-018-0588-4

New Publications to Note

Understanding Gender Differences Among Medical Students When Choosing Radiology as a Medical Specialty
Ram R, Jumper H, Lensing S, Tang JL, Deloney L, Kenney P. Understanding Gender Differences Among Medical Students When Choosing Radiology as a Medical Specialty. Academic Radiology. Oct 2018, Vol. 25, Issue 10, pp 1353-1358. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acra.2018.04.001

Subjective awareness of ultrasound expertise development: individual experience as a determinant of overconfidence
Schoenherr J, Waechter J, Millington S. Subjective awareness of ultrasound expertise development: individual experience as a determinant of overconfidence. Advances in Health Sciences Education. Oct 2018, Vol 23, Issue 4, pp 749-765. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10459-018-9826-1?wt_mc=alerts.TOCjournals&utm_source=toc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=toc_10459_23_4

What we measure … and what we should measure in medical education
Boulet J, Durning S. What we measure … and what we should measure in medical education. Medical Education. 12 Sept 2018. https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.13652

All Other Things Being Equal: Exploring Racial and Gender Disparities in Medical School Honor Society Induction
Wijesekera T, Margeum K, Moore E, Sorenson O, Ross D. All Other Things Being Equal: Exploring Racial and Gender Disparities in Medical School Honor Society Induction. Academic Medicine. 18 Sept 2018. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000002463

Data, Big and Small: Emerging Challenges to Medical Education Scholarship
Ellaway R, Topps D,  Pusic M. Data, Big and Small: Emerging Challenges to Medical Education Scholarship. Academic Medicine. 25 Sept 2018. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000002465

 

Questions about The Teaching Academy?
Please contact: teaching.academy@med.uvm.edu


Regional/National Call for Proposals

AAMC 2019 Medical Education Calls for Submissions


2019 Northeast Group on Educational Affairs Spring Meeting (NEGEA)
April 4-6, 2019 in Philadelphia, PA
2019 GEA Regional Spring Meetings Call for Submissions Deadline to apply: November 12, 2018 at 11:59 pm EST.

Learn Serve Lead 2019: The AAMC Annual Meeting
November 8-12, 2019 in Phoenix, Ariz.
2019 Call for Medical Education Submissions Deadline to apply: December 10, 2018 at 11:59 pm EST.
Including: Research in Medical Education (RIME) papers, Session proposals, and Highlights abstracts.

Teaching Academy in the News

October 2018

Medical Education Grand Rounds

Andrea Rosen

Join the Teaching Academy for:

"Museums and Medicine: The Power of Observation"

Friday, October 26, 2018
12:00-1:00pm, Med Ed 300 (Reardon Classroom)

Andrea Rosen, MA
Curator, Fleming Museum, University of Vermont

Through exercises in observation of objects and artworks, Fleming Museum of Art curator Andrea Rosen will share the potentially powerful crossovers between museum-based learning and medical education.
RSVP by 10/22 to Teaching.Academy@med.uvm.edu

Upcoming Events

Teaching Academy Book Club

Thursday, October 4
The Teaching Academy Book Club will be reading The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Join us for a discussion and dinner. RSVP to Amanda.Broder@med.uvm.edu. Participation limited to Teaching Academy Members.

Writer's Workshop

Thursday, October 11; 8:00 - 9:00 AM; Larner Learning Commons, Teaching Academy Resource Room 130F
Bring scholarly work on education topics in any stage of development – manuscripts, conference proposals, research proposals, etc.

Research Consultation Drop-In Hours

Friday, October 12, 9:00 – 11:00 AM; Larner Learning Commons, Teaching Academy Resource Room 130F
The Teaching Academy hosts drop-in hours for research consultation, with Alison Howe, MS, Director of Education Program Outcome Analysis, and Leigh Ann Holterman, PhD, Director of Curricular Evaluation and Assessment. Drop in hours occur the second Friday of the month from 9 – 11 am, and the fourth Tuesday of the month from 1 – 3 pm. First come, first served.

Research Consultation Drop-In Hours

Tuesday, October 23, 1:00 – 3:00 PM; Larner Learning Commons, Teaching Academy Resource Room 130F
The Teaching Academy hosts drop-in hours for research consultation, with Alison Howe, MS, Director of Education Program Outcome Analysis, and Leigh Ann Holterman, PhD, Director of Curricular Evaluation and Assessment. Drop in hours occur the second Friday of the month from 9 – 11 am, and the fourth Tuesday of the month from 1 – 3 pm. First come, first served.

Medical Education Grand Rounds

Friday, October 26; 12:00 - 1:00 PM; Med Ed 300 
"Museums and Medicine: The Power of Observation"
Andrea Rosen, MA, Curator, Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont
Through exercises in observation of objects and artworks, Fleming Museum of Art curator Andrea Rosen will share the potentially powerful crossovers between museum-based learning and medical education.
RSVP by 10/22 to Teaching.Academy@med.uvm.edu