As you may know, IAMSE conducts a silent auction at the annual meeting each year. The purpose of the silent auction is to raise money to fund scholarships for attending the annual meeting. It is important to support and foster the interests and scholarly activities of the younger generation who will one day step into… Read more »
Dear Colleagues, Our association is a robust and diverse set of educators, researchers, medical professionals, volunteers and academics that come from all walks of life and from around the globe. Each month we choose a member to highlight their academic and professional career, and see how they are making the best of their membership in… Read more »
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. Individual IAMSE members wishing to post medical education related announcements in the Journal are invited to send their requests to the Editorial Assistant at journal@iamse.org. Announcements may be… Read more »
The Professional Development Committee is soliciting proposals to be considered for the 2019 IAMSE slate of Professional Development Pre-Conference (Saturday) workshops. Proposals will be accepted through July, 1, 2018. The committee will review all proposals and select 3-4 full day workshops and 6-8 half day workshops for the meeting. IAMSE Professional Development Pre-Conference workshops focus… 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 »
The IAMSE Admin team has grown. To better support your membership needs, it may be helpful to know our members and what they do for IAMSE. Julie K. Hewett, CMP, CAE Association Manager Julie has been supporting IAMSE for nearly 20 years in many different ways. Currently, she is responsible for Board and Committee support… Read more »
Medical Science Educator, the peer-reviewed journal of the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE), publishes scholarly work in the field of health sciences education. The journal publishes four issues per year through Springer Publishing. We welcome contributions in the format of Short Communication, Original Research, Monograph, Commentary, and Innovation. Please visit our website www.medicalscienceeducator.org for a… Read more »
This year we are excited to offer two full-day faculty development workshops at our annual meeting. Participants can choose from two exciting events featuring an introduction into scholarly research, literature review, collaborative exercises and discussion. Our second featured workshop is Basics of Team-Based Learning in a Day presented by Amy Lin, MD, Abbas Hyderi and Hugh Clements-Jewery…. Read more »
In case you missed last week’s Webcast Audio Seminar (WAS) Session, here are the highlights of this session: Peer Support: Mitigating the Emotional Toll of Medical Errors Presenter: Jo Shapiro, MD, FACS April 5, 12 PM ET There is an abundance of research that makes the case for a peer support program for those who… Read more »
In case you missed last week’s Webcast Audio Seminar (WAS) Session, here are the highlights of this session: Project on the Good Physician: Using Life Stories to Study Medical Student Wellness Presenters: Tania M. Jenkins, PhD and John D. Yoon, MD March 29, 12 PM ET The Project on the Good Physician is a longitudinal… Read more »
Wrapping up our plenary speaker highlights for the 22nd Annual IAMSE Meeting is Dr. Aviad Haramati. Keenly eyeing the meeting’s focus of integrating nutrition and wellness education in teaching the health sciences, Dr. Haramati’s presentation titled “Fostering Well-being in the Learning Environment: the Imperative for Medical Science Educators” will discuss issues surrounding physician stress and… Read more »