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Last Call for IAMSE #VirtualForum22 Pre-conference Course Abstracts

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Don’t miss your chance to submit for online Professional Development Workshops for the 2022 IAMSE Virtual Forum, to be held online December 3-6, 2022. The theme for the virtual forum is Health Professions Education Without Borders.

Proposals will be accepted until June 1, 2022. The 2022 Virtual Forum Committee will review all proposals and select  6-8 workshops for inclusion in the program. Workshops are 3 hours long. Depending on your location the actual timing of the session might be outside regular working-day hours.

IAMSE workshops focus on career and professional development and should be useful for advancing the career of the attendee. Areas of focus for these workshops include:

• Leadership/Advancement as a Medical Educator
• Research/Scholarship/Publications
• Instruction/Assessment
• Technology
• Service Engagement

Pre-conference workshops proposals must include the following information:
• Title of the workshop
• Name and e-mail of Organizer
• Facilitator(s) information
• Summary of the workshop and how it will advance the career of the attendee
• Level of the workshop (Introductory/intermediate/advanced)
• Who should participate

All abstracts must be submitted in the format requested through the online abstract submission site found here.

Please note if you are having technical issues with your submission, we highly recommend using Chrome as your browser. If you are still experiencing issues after changing browsers, please contactsupport@iamse.org

Thank you,
IAMSE

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#VirtualForum22 Pre-conference Faculty Development Course Abstracts Still Being Accepted

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Proposals are still being accepted for online Professional Development Workshops for the 2022 IAMSE Virtual Forum, to be held online December 3-6, 2022. The theme for the virtual forum is Health Professions Education Without Borders.

Proposals will be accepted until June 1, 2022. The 2022 Virtual Forum Committee will review all proposals and select  6-8 workshops for inclusion in the program. Workshops are 3 hours long. Depending on your location the actual timing of the session might be outside regular working-day hours.

IAMSE workshops focus on career and professional development and should be useful for advancing the career of the attendee. Areas of focus for these workshops include:

• Leadership/Advancement as a Medical Educator
• Research/Scholarship/Publications
• Instruction/Assessment
• Technology
• Service Engagement

Pre-conference workshops proposals must include the following information:
• Title of the workshop
• Name and e-mail of Organizer
• Facilitator(s) information
• Summary of the workshop and how it will advance the career of the attendee
• Level of the workshop (Introductory/intermediate/advanced)
• Who should participate

All abstracts must be submitted in the format requested through the online abstract submission site found here.

Please note if you are having technical issues with your submission, we highly recommend using Chrome as your browser. If you are still experiencing issues after changing browsers, please contactsupport@iamse.org

Thank you,
IAMSE

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IAMSE 2022 Face-to-Face
Registration Closing May 25th

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Time is running out if you’d like to register for the IAMSE 2022 face-to-face conference in Denver. On Wednesday, May 25th at 11:59 PM EDT online registration for the face-to-face conference will be CLOSED. If you have not yet registered but are planning to attend the conference in person, please be sure to register before the deadline. Registration for the virtual-only portion of the conference will remain open until the conclusion of the conference on June 7th. Registration may be found at www.iamseconference.org.

If you miss this deadline, we will be offering registration on-site in Denver. Looking forward to seeing you there!

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IAMSE #VirtualForum22 Call for Virtual Pre-Conference Faculty Development Workshop Abstracts

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On behalf of the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE), I am pleased to announce that the 2022 Virtual Forum Program Committee is soliciting proposals to be considered for the inaugural IAMSE Virtual Forum slate of Saturday pre-conference workshops, to be held virtually on December 3-6, 2022. The theme for the virtual forum is Health Professions Education without Borders.

Proposals will be accepted until June 1, 2022. The 2022 Virtual Forum Committee will review all proposals and select 6-8 half-day workshops for the meeting. (Half-day workshops are 3 hours and may start in the morning or afternoon/early evening.)

IAMSE Saturday workshops focus on Career/Professional Development and should be useful for advancing the career of the attendee. The broad umbrella areas of focus for these workshops include:

• Leadership/Advancement as a Medical Educator
• Research/Scholarship/Publications
• Instruction/Assessment
• Technology
• Service Engagement

Saturday pre-conference workshops proposals must include the following information:
• Title of the workshop
• Name and e-mail of Organizer
• Facilitator(s) information
• Summary of the workshop and how it will advance the career of the attendee
• Length of Workshop
• Level of the workshop (Introductory/intermediate/advanced)
• Who should participate

All abstracts must be submitted in the format requested through the online abstract submission site found here.

Please note if you are having technical issues with your submission, we highly recommend using Chrome as your browser. If you are still experiencing issues after changing browsers, please contact support@iamse.org

Thank you,
Sol Roberts-Lieb, EdD
Chair, IAMSE 2022 Virtual Forum Committee

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A Medical Science Educator Article Review From Dr. Jennifer Fischer

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This month the IAMSE publications committee review is taken from the article titled Developing Comprehensive Strategies to Evaluate Medical School Curricula published in Medical Science Educator (30 October 2018) by Sally A. Santen, Moshe Feldman, Sara Wier, Courtney Blondino, Meagan Rawls, and Susan DiGiovanni. 

For medical education, the ultimate goal of training students to be prepared for residency has not changed, but the educational environment is rapidly shifting. The pandemic has driven new policies and procedures that ultimately affect the delivery of curriculum. These swift adjustments introduce new methods of content delivery that evolve with the health policies and procedures of the moment. As public health mandates vary over time, resources shift, and staff changes occur, it becomes increasingly critical for schools to assess the curricula changes being made. Faculty who participate in curriculum, assessment, and student committees, can benefit from understanding if curricular modifications are achieving the desired goals.

As many programs were forced to adjust training strategies, a question to ask may be what do we keep and what do we go back to? The article by Santen, et al, describes the importance of curricular evaluation and provides resources to achieve meaningful feedback. Readers can identify sources for data collection and can also recognize what those sources help to measure. The authors outline the significance, not only of data collection and multiple sources, but also how context and relationships between facts can be informative. Using this information, educators and administrators can evaluate if trends in attitudes and skills provide insight into the strengths of curriculum and which aspects may need improvement.

Additionally, the article describes key stakeholders in medical school communities that will benefit from the analysis. The monograph offers examples of opportunities for implementing and reviewing evaluation strategies in order to align training with program goals. 
As schools balance the demands of medical education and health safety for students and staff in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, evaluating curriculum changes can inform decisions about which curriculum pieces are working and which are not. The informed decisions should be aimed to meet the needs of the student learners and to improve resident readiness. 

Jennifer Fischer, PhD
Associate Professor
Rowan University
School of Osteopathic Medicine
Department of Molecular Biology

#IAMSE23 Call for Pre-Conference Faculty Development Course Abstracts

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On behalf of the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE), I am pleased to announce that we are now accepting proposals for pre-conference faculty development courses that will be delivered the Saturday before the 2023 IAMSE meeting. The annual meeting will be held in Cancun, Mexico from June 6-13, 2023.

Proposals will be accepted through July, 1, 2022. The Professional Development Committee will review all proposals and select 2-3 full-day workshops and 7-8 half-day workshops for the meeting. 

A pre-conference faculty development course is 3 or 6 hours in length and enrollment is limited. Instructors are asked to combine appropriate amounts of didactic presentations with significant “hands-on” opportunities for participants. For the participants, a certificate of attendance will be available after completion of the course if needed. Pre-conference faculty development courses focus on career/professional development, and the workshops should be useful for advancing the career of the attendee. The broad umbrella areas of focus for these courses include:

  • Leadership/Advancement as a Medical Educator
  • Research/Scholarship/Publications
  • Instruction/Assessment
  • Technology

Proposals must include the following information:

  • Title of the course
  • Name and e-mail of organizer
  • Facilitator(s) information
  • Summary of the course and how it will advance the career of the attendee
  • Length of the course (3 or 6 hours)
  • Area of focus for the course (Leadership/Advancement; Research/Scholarship/Publications; Instruction/Assessment; Technology)
  • Level of the course (introductory/intermediate/advanced)
  • Description of the target participants. 

All abstracts must be submitted in the format requested through the online abstract submission site found here.

If you have any questions about submitting your proposal, please contact IAMSE via email at support@iamse.org.

Thank you,
Jonathan Wisco, PhD
Chair, IAMSE Professional Development Committee

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Say hello to our featured member Aaron Marshall!

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Our association is a robust and diverse set of educators, students, 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 IAMSE. This month’s Featured Member is Aaron Marshall.

Aaron Marshall, PhD
Position: Associate Professor
University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine 

How long have you been a member of IAMSE?
Joined in 2017 around the time of the Burlington, VT conference.

Looking at your time with the Association, what have you most enjoyed doing? What are you looking forward to?
I appreciate the duality of IAMSE, being both an established organization and yet small and nimble enough to accept new ideas and people into important roles. The most impactful experience to my career has been the ESME course with Drs. Haramati and Harden and the subsequent fellowship program. I also enjoy serving IAMSE (to ensure it stays thriving), by volunteering for the Denver Conference program committee and reviewing conference abstracts. Hopefully more to come in that arena. 

Tell us a bit more about the poster you will be presenting in Denver at the annual conference?
“Using Experiential Learning to Underscore Interprofessional Education in Nutrition” is an IAMSE-funded project about experiential learning and its impact on student attitudes and intentions regarding a historically underserved part of medical school (medical nutrition). To our teams’ surprise, while participants in this experiential learning intervention wanted to incorporate more nutrition in a “typical” patient encounter, they recognized (from the experience as a patient) that providing too little information (in context of 15-minute appointment) is counterproductive. This recognition highlighted the importance of other health professionals. 

What workshop, session or event are you most looking forward to in Denver? 
As a member of the Program Committee, I am obligated to say ALL the sessions will be excellent. Joking aside, the committee (under Maria Sheakley’s leadership) is very proud of the conference lineup. The pre-conference workshop Aligning Values and Behaviors: A Path to Authentic Leadership for Women in Academia is one I am looking forward to. 

What interesting things are you working on outside the Association right now? 
Dr. Heather Christensen and I co-founded a taskforce aimed at improving gender equity (all genders) at our college. The ongoing efforts were part of an accepted presentation to Advancing Gender Equity for Faculty: Allyship and Inclusive Leadership Strategies, a conference taking place at Bowling Green State University in May.

Anything else that you would like to add?
Many past featured members have talked about how great IAMSE is as a response to this question. Ditto for me. Like my home city of Cincinnati, IAMSE has big-time offerings with the feel of a small, homey organization. 

For more information on sessions, presentations and to register for #IAMSE22 visit www.IAMSEconference.org.

#IAMSE22 Focus Session Spotlight: Enhancing Your Professional Development Through Publication

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The 26th Annual IAMSE Meeting will feature a host of new sessions throughout the entire conference. One of our first-time focus sessions is Enhancing Your Professional Development Through Publication. This course will be given Tuesday, June 7, 2022 from 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM and will be led by our partners in the Association for Study in Medical Education (ASME) Sandra Nicholson and Kim Walker. 

Conference Info

Enhancing Your Professional Development Through Publication
Presenters: Sandra Nicholson and Kim Walker – ASME
Date and Time: Tuesday, June 7, 2022, 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM

Publishing is increasingly important to academics working in medical education as a means to disseminate their practice and seek external validation of their own professional development. Currently, a successful publication track record in appropriate scientific journals is used as a marker of academic rigor and frequently features within promotion criteria. However, we argue that high-quality publications in appropriate journals and books are more than steps to promotion. The skills required to develop and write for publication alongside understanding what constitutes a high-calibre manuscript are essential medical education scholarship credentials.

Full Session Info

For more information on half-day faculty development sessions, and to register for the 26th Annual IAMSE Meeting, please visit www.IAMSEconference.org.

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Congratulations to the 2022 IAMSE Distinguished & Early Career Award Winners

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IAMSE, on behalf of the Professional Development Committee, would like to congratulate Kathryn Huggett and Jaya Yodh on receiving the Distinguished Career Award and Early Career Award, respectively.

  • Kathryn Huggett
  • Jaya Yodh

The Distinguished Career Award for Excellence in Teaching and Educational Scholarship recognizes an IAMSE member who has a distinguished record of educational scholarship, including educational research and dissemination of scholarly approaches to teaching and education. Candidates must have a significant record of engagement within IAMSE. Kathryn Huggett, the 2022 awardee, is the Director of The Teaching Academy, Assistant Dean for Medical Student Education, and Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of Vermont Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine.

The Early Career Award for Excellence in Teaching and Innovation honors an IAMSE member who has made significant innovations to the field in the short time they have focused their careers toward enhancing teaching, learning and assessment. Candidates must have demonstrated less than 10 years of educational scholarship. Jaya Yodh, the 2022 recipient, is a Teaching Associate Professor and Medical Education Facilitator in the Department of Biomedical and Translational Biosciences at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine, and Research Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 

Congratulations to Dr. Huggett and Dr. Yodh. They will both be honored at the 26th Annual IAMSE Meeting in early June. Good luck to both of you in all your future endeavors.

Thank you,
Jonathan Wisco
Chair, IAMSE Professional Development Committee

For more information on workshops, presentations and to register for the
2022 IAMSE Annual Conference please visit www.IAMSEconference.org

A Medical Science Educator Article Review From Dr. Alice Fornari

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This month the IAMSE Publications Committee review is taken from the article titled “A Culinary Medicine Elective Course Incorporating Lifestyle Medicine for Medical Students, MSE (2021) 31, pages 1343-1349 (2021), by Shinichi Asano, Amy E. Jasperse, Dina C. Schaper, Robert W. Foster & Brian N. Griffith.

Culinary Medicine (CM) programs have developed due to a lack of nutrition education in USA-medical schools. Culinary Medicine is described as an evidence-based field joining the art of food cooking with the science of medicine. There is evidence that CM is an effective means for learners to increase their perceived knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy in nutrition.

Gap: This article describes a CM intervention that in addition includes essential components of lifestyle medicine: physical activity and emotional health. This focus on lifestyle medicine makes this elective unique.

The 2-week elective course was taught by instructors, clinicians, and chefs and offered to 3rd and 4th year students had the following components: pre-selected modules from Health Meets Food curriculum were chosen for self-directed study resources. This elective also included a scientific literature review of a topic relevant to CM. The final component was a lecture on clinical applications of exercise physiology, exercise testing, and prescription and guidelines supported by the American College of Sports Medicine. The lecture was followed by a hands-on experiential laboratory session focused on fitness. This was followed by a diabetes counseling lecture by a certified diabetes care educator. The conclusion was an ethics discussion related to food and nutrition ethical issues. This was a literature-based discussion with pre-selected articles and questions.

Assessment: An anonymous electronic survey pre-course and post-course was administered to assess the students’ experience and overall course feedback. It included both quantitative and qualitative questions. The survey results the CM elective increased students’ perceived knowledge of nutrition. This is consistent with other literature on CM as a framework to enhance medical students’ knowledge of nutrition principles and confidence and apply them to disease management when counseling patients. The outcome of the lifestyle medicine component of the course needs further assessment and larger participation.

Alice Fornari, EdD FAMEE RDN
Vice President Faculty Development 
Northwell Health 
Office of Academic Affairs 
Associate Dean
ZSOM at Hofstra Northwell
Science Education Dept
Member IAMSE Publications Committee

Registered Students Can Attend NEST for FREE at #IAMSE22!

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Join the IAMSE 2022 Annual Meeting in June so you can attend this free, in-person workshop just for students! This free workshop co-developed with ScholarRx will provide student participants with an introductory, hands-on experience in applying Kern’s Six-Step model to design a complete education activity with appropriate pedagogic strategies. Students will also explore models of converting medical education design and development into scholarship.

Conference Info

New Educator and Scholar Training (NEST): A Professional Development Workshop for Students
Presenters: Colleen Croniger, Amber Heck, Tao Le & Elisabeth Schlegel
Date: Saturday, June 4, 2022
Time: 8:30 AM – 11:30 AM

After participating in this session, student attendees should be able to:

  • Describe a framework for medical education professional development
  • Discuss and apply principles and best practices for curriculum design, pedagogic strategies, and educational scholarship
  • Identify and synthesize themes that integrate across major domains of medical education professional development.
Full Session Details

For more information on half-day faculty development sessions, and to register for the 26th Annual IAMSE Meeting, please visit www.IAMSEconference.org.

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#IAMSE22 Faculty Development Session Spotlight: Technology-Assisted Faculty Development

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The 26th Annual IAMSE Meeting will feature a host of new sessions throughout the entire conference. One of our first-time pre-conference faculty development sessions is Technology-Assisted Faculty Development: Ideas, Development, Implementation, & Outcomes. This virtual three-hour faculty development course will be given Monday, May 23 and will be led by Alice Fornari, Machelle Linsenmeyer and Elisabeth Schlegel. 

Conference Info

Technology-Assisted Faculty Development: Ideas, Development, Implementation, & Outcomes

Presenters
Alice Fornari – Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell
Machelle Linsenmeyer – WVSOM
Elisabeth Schlegel – Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell
Date and Time: Monday, May 23, 2022, 3:30 PM – 6:30 PM

The distribution of faculty development in new and innovative formats is important for meeting the needs of faculty members and health professionals. This does not mean simply changing old content to a new format. Without careful planning, the use of technology can fail to achieve desired faculty learning outcomes or worse, become a deterrent to faculty using these technologies. There are several new innovations in faculty development that are surfacing to mitigate some of these issues. They center around modalities and just-in-time tools that put the resources in the hands of educators and foster their lifelong learning mentality of medicine in a format that is more versatile and accessible.

Full Session Info

For more information on half-day faculty development sessions, and to register for the 26th Annual IAMSE Meeting, please visit www.IAMSEconference.org.

Register for #IAMSE22