Announcements
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Medical Education Grand Rounds
Peer Observation of Teaching
Come learn about the rationale and plans for our upcoming pilot of peer-observation of teaching.
Friday, February 19, 2021
12:00-1:00pm, Zoom
Jesse Moore, MD and Karen Lounsbury, PhD
Robert Larner, MD College of Medicine, University of Vermont
RSVP for Zoom link: teaching.academy@med.uvm.edu
AAMC Medical Education Research Certificate (MERC) Workshops
The Teaching Academy is hosting two AAMC Medical Education Research Certificate (MERC) Workshops on Friday, May 7 and Friday, May 14, 2021.
The Medical Education Research Certificate (MERC) program is intended to provide the knowledge necessary to understand the purposes and processes of medical education research, to become informed consumers of the medical education research literature, and to be effective collaborators in medical education research.
The program is open to all who are interested in improving their educational research skills and is targeted for those with a background in medical education but relatively less experience in conducting educational research. There is no charge to participate, however you must pre-register.
Introduction to Qualitative Data Collection Methods
Friday, May 7, 2021
1-4pm
Zoom
Facilitator: Britta Thompson, PhD, Co-Director, Office for Scholarship in Learning and Education Research, Penn State College of Medicine
Register here for this session.
This workshop is intended for physicians and generalists in medical education, as well as faculty and staff involved in student affairs, who wish to develop perspectives and skills for collecting qualitative data, such as data from focus group discussions, interviews, observation field notes, and responses to open-ended questions—used in admissions processes, program development, curriculum evaluation, needs assessments, performance evaluation, and various scholarship and research applications.
After participating in this workshop, learners will be able to:
- Demonstrate applied knowledge of the appropriate selection, use, and standards for rigor of some common methods for collection of qualitative data;
- Generate research questions appropriate for qualitative studies and choose appropriate data collection methods;
- Demonstrate applied knowledge of approaches to achieve rigor in the design of qualitative studies and collection of qualitative data;
- Demonstrate essential skills required for conducting focus groups.
Hypothesis Driven Research
Friday, May 14, 2021
9am-12pm
Zoom
Facilitator: Cayla Teal, PhD, MA, Assistant Dean for Assessment & Evaluation, University of Kansas Medical Center
Click here to register for this session.
Following completion of this workshop, attendees will be able to discuss:
- How to translate a research question into a hypothesis, and how to develop the null hypothesis;
- The steps in hypothesis testing;
- Type 1 and Type 2 errors;
- Power, sample size, confidence interval, and statistical significance.
There is no charge to participate, however you must pre-register. You must register for each session individually at the links above. A minimum of 8 participants is required, the maximum enrollment is 25. For more information about the MERC Program, visit: https://www.aamc.org/members/gea/merc/ Questions? Please contact Teaching Academy Coordinator, Amanda Broder
Elise Lovell to Present: Coalition for Physician Accountability UME-GME Review Committee
Based on the enthusiastic response to the Winter IAMSE Series, entitled “USMLE STEP-1 is Going to Pass/Fail: Now What Do We Do?,” IAMSE is excited to add a special follow up session on February 25th at 12:00 pm on an update from the important work of the UGRC. The session will be presented by one of the UGRC Co-Chairs: Elise Lovell, an emergency medicine physician and the prior chair of the Organization of Program Directors’ Associations (OPDA).
Session: February 25, 2021 at 12pm Eastern Time. Register for this FREE session here.
20th Annual TBLC Meeting
March 3 - 5, 2021. For details and to register, click here: https://julnet.swoogo.com/tblcmeeting/852090
COVID-19 Research Slam
Thursday March 18, 2021 from 8am-12pm:
Interested faculty will give short 15 min presentations (with 5 min of Q+A) on their COVID- related research in 6 general categories/themes of COVID-related research but all themes are welcome:
1) Clinical/translational research
2) Epidemiology, public health, and infection control research
3) Basic science research
4) Mathematical and computational modeling research.
5) Biotechnology and Engineering research
6) Environment/Climate/Ecology research
All faculty interested in presenting their research are encouraged to participate. For those interested, please send the title of your talk to Renee Sarao (and which of the six themes it best represents). Renee’s email is: renee.sarao@uvm.med.edu
Faculty Development Series for Clinical Teachers 101
This 3-part faculty development series will cover all the major topics for Medical Education during the Clerkship. This program is available to all teachers, residents, fellows, faculty, and staff (i.e., clerkship coordinators). Each part (101, 201, and 301) consists of 6, one-hour sessions with the curriculum to repeat every 3 years. The curriculum is available at all teaching sites.
A Certificate of Completion will be awarded after completing at least 4/6 of the yearly sessions and a total of 12/18 (70%) of the sessions. Recordings are available on the Teaching Academy website.
| Date | Time | Session | Instructor |
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| September 24, 2020 | 7:30-8:30 am | Grading/Assessment | Garth Garrison, MD |
| December 10, 2020 | 7:30-8:30 am | Anatomy of a Clerkship | Elise Everett, MD |
| January 14, 2021 | 7:30-8:30 am | Teaching in the Clinical Setting | Karin Gray, MD |
| March 11, 2021 | 7:30-8:30 am | Feedback (Formative/Summative) | Cate Nicholas, EdD |
| May 13, 2021 | 7:30-8:30 am | Competencies, Goals, Objectives | William Raszka, MD |
| July 8, 2021 | 7:30-8:30 am | UME Framework | Kathryn Huggett, PhD |
CMIE credit is given for attendance.
In support of improving patient care, The Robert Larner College of Medicine at The University of Vermont is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
The University of Vermont designates each session a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s)TM. Each physician should claim only those credits commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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Questions about The Teaching Academy?
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