It’s time once again to begin thinking about selection of those to serve on the Board of Directors of the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE). IAMSE is currently seeking self-nominations and alternate nominations of candidates from across the membership. International members are particularly invited. The Board of Directors is the governing body that… Read more »
If you organize or know of a workshop, symposium or educational activity that might be of interest to our educator community, share it with Medical Science Educator. In every issue of Medical Science Educator, we publish an announcements section. In this section we share information that is of interest to the readership of the journal…. Read more »
In observance of the Labor Day holiday, the IAMSE Administrative offices will be closed on Monday, September 3. We will resume normal hours on Tuesday, Spetember 4.
Did you know that we archive each season of the Webcast Audio Seminar series? Reaching all the way back to Winter 2011, you can search the topics, speakers and presentations in our webcast series greatest hits collection. The Webcast Audio Seminar archives are located on our website under the Events tab as Web Seminars. Here, you will be… Read more »
Each month the IAMSE Publications Committee reviews published articles from the archives of Medical Science Educator or of its predecessor JIAMSE. This month’s review, written by Dr. John L. Szarek, is taken from the article titled Development of an Educational Activity for First- and Second-Year Medical Students Using Cadaver Pathologies to Enhance Clinical Reasoning and… Read more »
The first day of our 22nd annual meeting is packed with workshops, seminars and speakers. Saturday’s activities will cover a variety of topics including educational research manuscript reviews, enhancing leadership skills and an introduction to game-based teaching and learning. During the afternoon block of sessions Maryellen Gusic and Wendy Hobson-Rohrer will present a dynamic interactive session… Read more »
Each month the IAMSE Publications Committee reviews published articles from the archives of Medical Science Educator or of its predecessor JIAMSE. This month’s review, written by Dr. John L. Szarek, is taken from the article titled Using Small Case-Based Learning Groups as a Setting for Teaching Medical Students How to Provide and Receive Peer Feedback, published… Read more »
Each month the IAMSE Publications Committee reviews published articles from the archives of Medical Science Educator or of its predecessor JIAMSE. This month’s review, written by Dr. Louis B. Justement, is taken from the article titled Analysis of Strategies for the Teaching of Difficult Threshold Concepts in Large Undergraduate Medicine and Science Classes, published in… Read more »
The International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) is pleased to announce the “ScholarRx-IAMSE Student Educational Research Grants” Program, developed in partnership with ScholarRx to promote student participation in medical education research. Up to two (2) student grants will be awarded for up to $2500. Applicants will need to have a faculty mentor sign off… Read more »
DEADLINE EXTENDED Since 2007, IAMSE has honored member medical educators with two prestigious awards to recognize and promote teaching excellence and educational scholarship in the medical sciences. We now open the nominations for the 2018 Excellence in Teaching awards, which will be presented at the annual meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada in June. The Distinguished… Read more »