Honoring Excellence in Medical Education

Announcements

REMINDER - CALL FOR EDUCATION TOPIC POSTERS - Snow Season Education Retreat. The deadline for poster abstract submission is November 15, 2017

This is an open invitation to submit a poster about your educational work, innovation, or research. We are seeking poster submissions (whether current or past work) for the 2018 Snow Season Education Retreat. This will be an opportunity for UVM LCOM educators to share ideas and to collaborate across departments. We are particularly interested in work related to the education of professionals across the continuum of learners. We will consider posters you have presented at previous venues, other than Teaching Academy events.

The poster session is Thursday evening, January 11, with additional poster viewing time on Friday morning. The deadline for poster abstract submission is November 15, 2017. To submit an abstract, please use the poster abstract submission form, and submit to teaching.academy@med.uvm.edu. In addition, authors may elect to receive peer review and feedback on their poster(s).

REGISTRATION IS OPEN - Snow Season Education Retreat

January 11 – 12, 2018. All events are at the Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center
View the schedule and Click here to register
Thursday evening includes, reception, poster session, and dinner with induction of new Teaching Academy members and recognition of teaching and education awards. Friday is a full day education retreat which will feature workshops, networking, and keynote speaker, Susan Skochelak, MD, MPH, Group Vice President, Medical Education, American Medical Association. This event is no charge, and is open to all faculty.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - Writer's Workshop

Monday, December 4; 12:00 – 1:00 PM; Teaching Academy Resource Room, 130F
Jump-start your scholarly work, receive feedback, and offer insights from your own experience. Bring scholarly work on education topics in any stage of development – manuscripts, conference proposals, research proposals, etc. Please submit your work to: Randi-Lynn.Crowther@med.uvm.edu

Medical Education Grand Rounds

Friday, December 8; 12:00 – 1:00 PM; MedEd 300
"Best Practices and Innovations in Program Evaluation," Judy A. Shea, PhD, Professor of Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Associate Dean of Medical Education Research, Director of Faculty Growth and Development, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, RSVP for lunch: teaching.academy@med.uvm.edu.

LIMITED REGISTRATION STILL AVAILABLE - AAMC Medical Education Research Certificate (MERC) Workshop

Friday, December 8; 1:15 – 4:15 PM; MedEd 300
“Formulating Research Questions and Designing Studies,” Judy A. Shea, PhD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, use this link to complete a registration form. No charge to attend. The maximum enrollment is 25. For more information about the MERC program visit: https://www.aamc.org/members/gea/merc/

Questions about The Teaching Academy?
Please contact Teaching Academy Coordinator, Randi-Lynn.Crowther@med.uvm.edu

Regional/National Call for Proposals

NEGEA CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

The call for abstracts for our 2018 Northeast Group on Educational Affairs (NEGEA) Annual Conference "Emerging Issues in Medical Education" is now open.

The NEGEA invites abstracts for interactive workshops, oral abstract presentations, small group discussions, and posters. Proposals may represent original research (either completed or in progress) or innovations in medical education.

Abstracts can focus on any level of medical education (UME pre-clerkship or clerkship, GME, CPD, faculty development, or across the continuum).

All abstracts must be submitted online no later than 11:59pm (EST) on November 14th, 2017. Proposals can be submitted online by clicking HERE.

MORE AAMC DEADLINES

2018 GEA Regional Spring Meetings – November 14, 2017 at 11:59 pm EST.
2018 AAMC LSL Call for Medical Education Submissions - December 11, 2017 at 11:59 pm EST.
2018 RIME research and review papers - December 11, 2017 at 11:59 pm EST.

For more information email: educationalaffairs@aamc.org

AAMC Leadership and Management Foundations for Academic Medicine and Science
March 14-16, 2018
AAMC Learning Center, Washington, DC
For info visit their website

2018 IAMSE Annual Meeting

Call for Oral and Poster Abstract Presentations – December 1, 2017 at 5:00 pm EST.
http://www.iamseabstract.org/author-dashboard/

Teaching Academy in the News

Honoring Excellence in Medical Education

January 19, 2024 by Angela Ferrante

Honoring Excellence in Medical Education

The Larner College of Medicine’s Teaching Academy fosters a vibrant interdisciplinary community of educators committed to the scholarship of teaching and learning. The academy’s mission includes supporting educator development, enhancing medical education through collaboration and scholarship, and promoting an academic environment that recognizes and amplifies educators’ value locally, regionally, and nationally.

Each January, the Larner community gathers for the Teaching Academy’s Snow Season Education Retreat, an annual event lifting up the work of our medical education community and honoring outstanding educators among our faculty and leaders. Highlights of the two-day event include the Teaching Academy Induction and Award Ceremony, a plenary session, an in-person poster session, workshops, and oral abstract presentations. This year’s retreat was held January 17–19.

Kathryn Huggett, Ph.D., director of the teaching academy, assistant dean for medical education, and Robert Larner, M.D.’42 Professor in Medical Education, delivered the opening remarks at the Teaching Academy Award and Induction Ceremony on Wednesday, which was followed by an address from Larner Dean Richard L. Page, M.D. Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education and Professor of Pediatrics Christa Zehle, M.D., provided insights into the current state of medical education. The event concluded with an induction ceremony welcoming the newest Teaching Academy members and a presentation of the 2023 Teaching and Excellence in Education Awards, along with the UVM Health Network Medical Group Education Awards.

This year’s Snow Season Education Retreat plenary session, titled “Earth and Health: Integrating Planetary Health into Medical Education,” was led by keynote speaker Carlos Faerron Guzman, M.D., M.Sc., associate professor and program director of global health programs at the University of Maryland–Baltimore. Guzman is a world-renowned expert on planetary health, which is defined as “the health of human civilization and the natural systems on which it depends.” His lecture explored this emerging field and its critical importance in the training of future health professionals. The session aimed to illuminate the ways in which the health curriculum can be enriched with planetary health concepts, frameworks, and values.

Oral abstract presentations were selected from 23 poster abstract submissions. Christopher Kanner, M.D., assistant professor of radiology, presented on “Introduction to Medical Imaging: A Novel Undergraduate Course,” which included co-authors Naiim Ali, M.D., Ryan Walsh, M.D., James Graham, M.D., and Aziza Jadallah, M.M.S. Department of Medicine resident Vall Vinaithirthan, M.D., also presented, on “Discrimination-Based Trauma as a Risk Factor for Burnout Among Women Trainees in Medicine.”

Teaching Academy Awards for Teaching and Educational Excellence Conferred

The Innovation in Curriculum Development or Pedagogy Award, which recognizes an individual or team who developed an approach to teaching and learning that is innovative, intellectually rigorous, and engaging, was presented to Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Anisha Rimal, M.D., and the Department of Pediatrics. The Educational Scholarship Award, which recognizes an individual who has exceeded scholarly expectations, was awarded to Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Bei Zhang, M.D., M.S., Ph.D., MLS(ASCP)^CM. The Outstanding Contribution Award, which recognizes an individual who has made a significant contribution to medical education either for a specific, short-term initiative, or for a sustained contribution, was presented to Clara Keegan, M.D., associate professor of family medicine. The Frederick C. Morin III, M.D., Educational Leadership Award, which recognizes an individual who has demonstrated an exemplary and sustained record of service in educational leadership, committee service, and/or administration, was presented to William Raszka Jr., M.D., professor of pediatrics. The Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes an individual who has performed exemplary service in teaching, was presented to Cate Nicholas, Ed.D., PA, associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences.

From Left to Right: Kathryn Huggett, Ph.D., Bei Zhang, M.D., M.S., Ph.D., Richard L. Page, M.D., Christa Zehle, M.D.

UVM Health Network Medical Group Education Awards

Associate Professor of Surgery Mirabelle Sajisevi, M.D., was recognized as the Graduate Medical Education (GME) Educator of the Year, and Joseph Miller, B.A., of Central Programs Education, was recognized as the Continuing Medical and Interprofessional Education (CMIE) Educator of the Year.

New Teaching Academy Inductees

Distinguished Educator

Alicia Jacobs, M.D., Family Medicine

Bei Zhang, M.D., M.S., Ph.D., MLS(ASCP)^CM, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Master Teacher

Bronwyn Bryant, M.D., Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Katharine Cheung, M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D., Medicine

Jonathan Flyer, M.D., Pediatrics

Abigail Hielscher, Ph.D., Neurological Sciences

Naomi Hodde, M.D., Medicine

Emily Hadley Strout, M.D., Medicine

Alissa Thomas, M.D., Neurological Sciences

John Wax, M.D., Family Medicine

Members

Hillary Anderson, M.D., M.P.H., Pediatrics

Agnes Balla, M.D., M.P.H., Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Adam Bloom, D.O., Emergency Medicine

Elzerie de Jager, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., Medicine - Public Health Program

Emerson Floyd, M.D., Emergency Medicine

Michael Godsey, Ph.D., Biochemistry

Sakshi Jasra, M.D., Medicine

Sravan Kakani, M.D., Psychiatry

Christopher Kanner, D.O., Radiology

Shamima Khan, Ph.D., M.B.A., Medicine - Public Health Program

Ryan Mason, M.D., Emergency Medicine

Laura O’Sullivan, V.M.D., M.P.H., Medicine - Public Health Program

Samuel Paskin, M.D., Emergency Medicine

John Priester, M.D., Emergency Medicine

Anna Ricci, Ph.D., Neurological Sciences

Elizabeth Wahlberg, M.D., Medicine

Kramer Wahlberg, M.D., Medicine

Ashley Weisman, M.D., Emergency Medicine

Protégé/e

Dominique Billingslea, M.D., Medicine

Berna Buyukozturk, M.D., Surgery

Kathryn (KC) Collier, M.D., Emergency Medicine

Colton Jensen, M.D., Medicine

Kelsey Maguire, D.O., Medicine

Tessalyn Morrison, M.D., M.P.H., Medicine

Massoud Saleki, M.D., Medicine

November 2017

Upcoming Events

Research Consultation Drop-In Hours

Tuesday, November 28, 1:00 – 3:00 PM; Larner Learning Commons, Teaching Academy Resource Room 130
The Teaching Academy hosts drop-in hours for research consultation, with Alison Howe, M.S., Director of Education Program Outcome Analysis, and Leigh Ann Holterman, M.A., 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.

Mentoring Groups

Monday, November 13, 2017, 12:00 – 1:00 PM; MedEd 204
Reappointment, Promotion & Tenure, led by Charles Irvin, PhD, and Sarah McCarthy, PhD
This month’s topic is ““How to Identify a Mentor”
Open to all faculty.

Monday, November 20, 2017, 4:15 – 5:15 PM; HSRF 200
Leadership, led by Lewis First, MD, and Bridget Marroquin, MD
Closed group.

Tuesday, November 28, 5:00 – 6:00 PM; HSRF 200
Teaching for Active Learning, led by Stephen Everse, PhD, and Bridget Marroquin, MD
This month’s topic will focus on "Facilitating Learning Through Concept Maps"
Open to all faculty, no RSVP required.

Thursday, November 30, 12:00 – 1:00 PM; MedEd 203
Educational Scholarship, led by Katie Huggett, PhD, Cate Nicholas, MS, PA, EdD, and Elise Everett, MD
This month’s topic is "Basics of Survey Design" with guest Alison Howe, MS
Open to all faculty, please RSVP: teaching.academy@med.uvm.edu