he International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) is dedicated to offering thought-provoking, educational, and investment-worthy professional development sessions for its Annual Conference. A Pre-Conference Faculty Development Workshop is 3 or 6 hours in length with limited enrollment and an additional registration fee. The workshops combine appropriate amounts of didactic presentation with significant “hands-on” opportunities for participants. For the participants, a certificate of attendance will be available after completion of the course if needed.
Please note that all Pre-Conference Workshops take place on Saturday, June 15, 2024.
Full-Day Pre-Conference Workshops
| Educational Video Skills Development for Healthcare Educators 8:00 AM – 3:15 PM CDT (UTC−05:00) The workshop will empower healthcare educators to have confidence in skills necessary to create, edit, evaluate and distribute high quality educational videos for instructional purposes. The aim is to involve participants in hands-on activities that will be memorable and relevant to improve their current educational practices. | Presented by: Malli Barremkala Suzan Kamel-ElSayed James Grogan |
| Integrating Basic Science and Clinical Medicine: From Curriculum to Classroom to Learner Assessment 8:00 AM – 3:15 PM CDT (UTC−05:00) In this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to work collaboratively with their peers from other institutions to facilitate creative and shared problem-solving to promote and assess learner cognitive integration of basic science and clinical medicine. | Presented by: Leslie Fall David Harris Julie Kerry Kate Miller Khiet Ngo James Nixon Leah Sheridan Amy Wilson-Delfosse |
Morning Pre-Conference Workshops
| Developing a Statement on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Medical Education 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM CDT (UTC−05:00) The purpose of this workshop is to expand participants’ knowledge and experience with natural language processing and explore application of these technologies in the context of medical education. | Presented by: Marina Diioia Matthew Laye Launa Lynch LaToya Woods |
| Developing Resilient Mindsets in Health Professions Students 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM CDT (UTC−05:00) The purpose of the workshop is to Resilient Mindsets in Medicine is to equip faculty to create more motivationally-supportive learning environments. Faculty will learn how to leverage the power of learning mindsets in ways that can support students to be more resilient and less likely to burnout. | Presented by: Kenn Barron Alliyah Francis Zachary Himmelberger Yoi Tibbetts Mark Speicher |
| Open-Ended Questions in the Integrated Medical Curriculum: A Practical Approach 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM CDT (UTC−05:00) This workshop will allow participants to identify different types of open-ended questions, create integrated, open-ended questions linked to specific learning objectives, create and use an analytic scoring rubric, explain a process for standard-setting and the assigning of grades, and discuss the implications of emerging artificial intelligence technology for medical school assessment. | Presented by: Jeffrey Bird Judith Brenner Robert Hill Doreen Olvet |
| Using Micro-Scholarship to Incentivize Faculty Professional Development 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM CDT (UTC−05:00) The intent of this workshop is to not only provide the concept, tools, and application of Micro-Scholarship and the struggles of incentivizing faculty development but to work as a cohort to develop a consensus statement to be published in a journal with a recommendation on the urgency to incentivize faculty development and how it can advance health professions education. | Presented by: Ennid Duran Gonzalez Alice Fornari Poh-Sun Goh Charles Gullo Sol Roberts-Lieb Elisabeth Schlegel |
Afternoon Pre-Conference Workshops
| Ask, Answer, Disseminate: Your Roadmap to Educational Scholarship 12:15 PM – 3:15 PM CDT (UTC−05:00) In this workshop the facilitators will provide a framework for educational scholarship. Participants will then identify a personal educational scholarship project and develop a plan to complete and disseminate it while receiving guidance from experienced faculty members. | Presented by: Tameka Clemons Kimberly Dahlman Bonny Dickinson Martha Faner |
| Leading for the Future: Values, Mindfulness, and Allyship in Academia 12:15 PM – 3:15 PM CDT (UTC−05:00) The purpose of this workshop is to help medical educators develop into leaders and allies – identifying their values, built out of their unique lived experience, by providing a safe forum to discuss challenges and identify solutions. | Presented by: Heather Christensen Carrie Elzie Aaron Marshall |
To learn more about all of the sessions that the IAMSE Conference has to offer, please visit us at www.IAMSEConference.org. If there are any questions that our website cannot answer, please reach out to us at support@iamse.org. If you are already registered and want to add a pre-conference workshop to your schedule, you may modify your registration by clicking here.
Don’t forget to register before the Early Bird deadline on Friday, April 1 to receive a discount on registration costs!