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Call for IAMSE 2024 Virtual Forum Lightning Talk Abstracts

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The International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) is pleased to announce the call for abstracts for Lightning Talk presentations for the third IAMSE Virtual Forum to be held October 23-25, 2024. The IAMSE Virtual Forum is an entirely virtual synchronous event offering opportunities for faculty and student development and networking, bringing together medical sciences and medical education across the continuum of healthcare education.

IAMSE Virtual Forum Info

Lightning Talks are short 7-minute live presentations followed by 7-minutes of questions and answers that will provide presenters a chance to share their work, including works in process. Abstracts for Lightning Talks must be submitted in the format requested through the online abstract submission site here.

Submission deadline is August 5, 2024.

There is no limit on the number of abstracts you may submit, but it is unlikely that more than one presentation per presenter can be accepted due to scheduling complexities. Abstract acceptance notifications will be returned in September 2024. Please contact support@iamse.org for any questions about your submission.

We hope to see you virtually this October!

Submit Your Abstract Here!

Call for IAMSE 2024 Virtual Forum Lightning Talk Abstracts

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The International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) is pleased to announce the call for abstracts for Lightning Talk presentations for the third IAMSE Virtual Forum to be held October 23-25, 2024. The IAMSE Virtual Forum is an entirely virtual synchronous event offering opportunities for faculty and student development and networking, bringing together medical sciences and medical education across the continuum of healthcare education.

IAMSE 2024 Virtual Forum Info

Lightning Talks are short 7-minute live presentations followed by 7-minutes of questions and answers that will provide presenters a chance to share their work, including works in process. Abstracts for Lightning Talks must be submitted in the format requested through the online abstract submission site here.

Submission deadline is August 5, 2024.

There is no limit on the number of abstracts you may submit, but it is unlikely that more than one presentation per presenter can be accepted due to scheduling complexities. Abstract acceptance notifications will be returned in September 2024. Please contact support@iamse.org for any questions about your submission.

We hope to see you virtually this October!

Submit Your Abstract!

Online Registration for #IAMSE24 Closing May 31st

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Time is running out if you’d like to register for the IAMSE 2024 conference in Minneapolis, MN, USA. On Friday, May 31st at 11:59 PM EDT online registration for the event will be CLOSED. If you have not yet registered but are planning to attend in person, please be sure to register before the deadline. Registration may be found at www.iamseconference.org.

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

Register for #IAMSE24
Click Here for the Full Conference Schedule!

Congratulations to the IAMSE 2024 Distinguished & Early Career Award Winners

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IAMSE, on behalf of the Professional Development Committee, would like to congratulate Leah Sheridan and Jorge Cervantes on receiving the Distinguished Career Award and Early Career Award, respectively.

Leah Sheridan and Jorge Cervantes

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. Leah Sheridan, the 2024 awardee, is an Associate Dean for Medical Education and Professor, Integrative Medical Sciences, at Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, OH, USA.

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. Jorge Cervantes, the 2024 recipient, is an Associate Professor at the Nova Southeastern University Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine, Medical Education Department, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA.

Congratulations to Dr. Sheridan and Dr. Cervantes. They will both be honored at the 28th Annual IAMSE Conference in June. Good luck to both of you in all your future endeavors.

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IAMSE 2024 Virtual Forum Information

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Call for Lightning Talks is now open

IAMSE is pleased to invite you to join us for the Third Annual IAMSE Virtual Forum. The Forum will take place October 23-25, 2024. Read on to learn more about this exciting event and keep your calendars open!

Presentation Descriptions

  • Ignite talk: Throughout the forum, there will be three ignite talks. These talks consist of a 20-minute presentation, a 20-minute breakout activity for all attendees, and concludes with a 20-minute large group discussion.
  • Lightning Talks: These short sessions, 7-minute presentations with 7-minutes of questions and answers, provide all scholars with a chance to share their works including works in process.

Important Deadlines

This timeline has not been finalized by the Program Committee and is therefore tentative
August 2024 – Registration Open!
August 5, 2024 – Lightning Talk Abstract Deadline
September 1, 2024 – Lightning Talk Notification Deadline
September 15, 2024 – Early Bird Deadline
September 15, 2024 – Presenter Registration Deadline*
October 2024 – Presentation Schedule Finalized
October 23-25, 2024 – IAMSE 2024 Virtual Forum

*Any presenter who is not registered by this date will have their name pulled from the forum program. If the presenter is the only presenter listed, their session will be pulled from the forum program.

Tentative Forum Schedule

Schedule subject to change, the finalized schedule will be listed on the Virtual Forum registration website when it opens later this year

DateSessionStart Time (EDT)End Time (EDT)
Wednesday, October 23, 2024Virtual Help Desk9:30 AM10:00 AM
Wednesday, October 23, 2024Welcome10:00 AM10:15 AM
Wednesday, October 23, 2024Ignite Talk10:15 AM11:15 AM
Wednesday, October 23, 2024Break11:15 AM11:30 AM
Wednesday, October 23, 2024IAMSE Update11:30 AM12:00 PM
Wednesday, October 23, 2024Lightning Talks12:00 PM1:00 PM
Thursday, October 24, 2024Virtual Help Desk9:30 AM10:00 AM
Thursday, October 24, 2024Welcome10:00 AM10:15 AM
Thursday, October 24, 2024Ignite Talk10:15 AM11:15 AM
Thursday, October 24, 2024Break11:15 AM11:30 AM
Thursday, October 24, 2024IAMSE Update11:30 AM12:00 PM
Thursday, October 24, 2024Lightning Talks12:00 PM1:00 PM
Friday, October 25, 2024Virtual Help Desk9:30 AM10:00 AM
Friday, October 25, 2024Welcome10:00 AM10:15 AM
Friday, October 25, 2024Lightning Talks10:15 AM11:15 AM
Friday, October 25, 2024Break11:15 AM11:30 AM
Friday, October 25, 2024IAMSE Update11:30 AM12:00 PM
Friday, October 25, 2024Ignite Talk12:00 PM1:00 PM
Friday, October 25, 2024Virtual Forum Close1:00 PM1:15 PM
Are you in a different time zone? Click here to see what time the sessions will be for you!

IAMSE CoG Meetings – May 2024

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Two IAMSE Communities of Growth (CoG) will be meeting this month! The IAMSE AI CoG and the IAMSE Black Medical Educators CoG will both meet on Zoom. Below are the details for each CoG meeting. 

IAMSE AI CoG

The AI Community of Growth meeting on Zoom will take place at Noon (12 PM) EDT on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. IAMSE AI CoG meetings will then take place regularly at 12 PM ET on the first Wednesday of each month. For information on how to join the AI CoG meeting, email Doug McKell at douglas.mckell@gmail.com.

The May IAMSE AI CoG meeting will also include five different moderated discussions on the following topics:

  1. AI-HPE Research: “Identifying Gaps in Evidence-based Knowledge”
  2. AI-HPE Publications: “Identifying the Best AI-HPE Articles and Resources”
  3. AI-HPE Predictive Analytics: “How to know what to do, why, when, and for whom”
  4. AI-HPE Faculty Development: “Supporting Effective AI Use”
  5. AI-HPE Assessment Applications: “Measuring Learning Outcomes and Identifying Gaps”

IAMSE Black Medical Educators CoG

The IAMSE Black Medical Educators CoG meeting will take place at 12:30 PM EDT Friday, May 3, 2024. IAMSE Black Medical Educators CoG meetings will then take place quarterly at 12:30 PM ET on the first Friday in August, November, February, and May. If you are a black medical educator interested in learning more about this CoG and/or how to become a member, please contact Jacqueline Powell at jpowell@msm.edu.

IAMSE CORE (Community Outreach, Research, and Engagement) Community of Growth

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IAMSE Communities of Growth are ongoing groups of like-minded individuals who want to informally get together to connect over an area or topic of their interest. One of these communities is the IAMSE CORE (Community Outreach, Research, and Engagement) Community of Growth (CoG). 

CORE is meant to serve as a community of growth for individuals involved in service-learning and outreach programs. Members of CORE will benefit from learning about the efforts of others involved in similar work, while serving as a source of best practices within the field of service-learning and outreach. Specifically, CORE will promote a rigorous scholarly approach to service-learning and community outreach and engagement.

Additional goals of this COG are to develop and share best practices in service-learning and outreach and provide support for individuals looking to create or improve their own outreach or service-learning program. The hope is that CORE will serve as a starting point for those looking to get more involved in service-learning and outreach, or for those looking to make the switch to a more rigorous scholarly approach. As such, CORE will work towards developing workshops and presentations (such as those at IAMSE 2022 and ASPBP 2023) as well as best practices documents.

Through this work we hope to develop a reputation as a welcoming and beneficial group for both novices and veterans within the field of service-learning and outreach. CORE will help to lead the way in the field of service-learning and outreach, particularly among medical school professionals. By improving the rigor of the field there is a hope that service-learning and outreach will be recognized as a valuable form of scholarly work.

This will be achieved both through the creation of a community of growth and by encouraging scholarly presentations examining service-learning and outreach in the form of articles, posters, presentations, and workshops.

The next meeting of the CORE CoG will be 3 PM EDT on Monday, July 8, 2024. The CORE CoG will then meet at 10 AM EDT on Thursday, September 12, 2024, followed by 3 PM EST on Monday, November 18, 2024.

A presentation of the CORE CoG will take place during oral presentations at the Annual IAMSE Conference coming up in June in Minneapolis, Minnesota as well!

For more information about the CORE CoG, as well as the other active IAMSE CoGs. click here.

Thank you,
Peter Vollbrecht and Natascha Heise
CORE Community of Growth Leaders

You Don’t Want to Miss Your Chance for Faculty Development at #IAMSE24!

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The 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.

All Pre-Conference Workshops take place on Saturday, June 15, 2024. If you are already registered for the conference and want to add a pre-conference workshop to your schedule, you may do so by modifying your schedule. To modify your registration, click here!

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. As a reminder, if you are already registered and want to add a pre-conference workshop to your schedule, you may modify your registration by clicking here. 

Register for #IAMSE24 Today!

IAMSE CoG Meetings – April 2024

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Two IAMSE Communities of Growth (CoG) will be meeting this month! The IAMSE AI CoG and the IAMSE Black Medical Educators CoG will both meet on Zoom. Below are the details for each CoG meeting. 

The AI Community of Growth meeting on Zoom will take place at Noon (12 PM) EDT on Wednesday, April 3, 2024. IAMSE AI CoG meetings will then take place regularly at 12 PM ET on the first Wednesday of each month. For information on how to join the AI CoG meeting, email Doug McKell at douglas.mckell@gmail.com.

The IAMSE Black Medical Educators CoG meeting will take place at 1:30 PM EDT Friday, April 5, 2024. IAMSE Black Medical Educators CoG meetings will then take place regularly at 1:30 PM ET on the first Friday of each month. If you are a black medical educator interested in learning more about this CoG and/or how to become a member, please contact Jacqueline Powell at jpowell@msm.edu.

IAMSE Fellowship 2024 Conference Cohort Now Accepting Applications

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IAMSE is pleased to announce that applications for the 2023 Medical Educator Fellowship (MEF) Program are now being accepted! IAMSE is once again offering members and non-members the option of beginning the MEF Program during the IAMSE Annual Conference. 

The primary goal of the MEF is to support the development of well-rounded healthcare education scholars through a program of targeted professional development and application of learned concepts to mentored research projects. The program is designed for healthcare educators from all backgrounds who wish to enhance their knowledge and productivity as educational scholars.

Please note applicants are required to have completed the Fundamentals in Health Professions Education (Fundamentals) OR the Essential Skills in Medical Education (ESME) Program as a prerequisite. For more detailed information about the program, please visit the information on our website at http://www.iamse.org/fellowship-program/.

Applicants for the next cohort will be accepted until May 1, 2024. To submit your application, please click here. For questions about the Fellowship or how to apply, please contact support@iamse.org. We thank you for your interest and look forward to supporting you in achieving your professional goals in educational scholarship.

Apply for the 2024 MEF Program

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Last Chance to Submit Your Application for the IAMSE 2024 IM-REACH Program!

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Don’t miss your opportunity to be a part of the 2024 cohort of the IAMSE Mentoring Certificate Program (IM-REACH)! 

Mentoring students, postdocs, and faculty and guiding their work is crucial for their success in diverse career paths that encompass leadership, clinical and educational roles. The IAMSE Mentoring Certificate program is a productive way to prepare for a role as mentors and support mentees in their career paths and academic pursuits. Mentorship is a skill for both the mentor and mentee, a true dynamic relationship that is a journey in pursuit of career engagement and success.

The IM-REACH certificate program provides an opportunity to enhance skills, gain experience, and engage in reflection and growth as a mentor and ultimately influence your relationship with your mentee. The goal of this program is to develop well-rounded, diverse health professional education mentors through targeted professional development in key aspects of mentorship, which includes both knowledge and skills. The program will provide evidence of that mentorship leads to specialized achievement that enhances and supports career advancement for both mentors and mentees. 

  • Participants will complete a one-year certificate program with a scholarly project related to their professional needs as a mentor or as an educational leader supporting mentorship programs with mentors and mentees.
  • Participants will complete a validated mentoring assessment pre- and post-program in order to demonstrate growth, comfort, and knowledge gained.
  • Participants will keep a reflective journal detailing the experiences of a current mentor/mentee relationship in order to guide their learning and growth as a mentor/mentee. This will be debriefed with a program leader in individual sessions.
  • The year-long certificate focuses on the dual role of mentors and mentees in establishing a mentor/mentee relationship;  this journey will explore how the mentees roles evolve based on the developmental stage and goals of the mentee in one or more areas of their career.

The program will include every other month group workshops based on content from the IAMSE mentoring manual (virtual). The alternating months will be a one-on-one meet-up with a program leader/facilitator to address individual needs as a mentor and mentorship on the program project. It will conclude one year later with a three-hour workshop at IAMSE (virtual or face-to-face) to wrap up the program. Here, fellows will present their final project to the group with the goal of eventually presenting as a poster at the IAMSE Conference the following year. 

Applicants for this cohort will be accepted until April 1, 2024. All accepted applicants will be informed by April 15, 2024. Payment must be submitted to IAMSE by May 1, 2024. You may submit your application by clicking here. For questions about the IM-REACH Program or how to apply, please contact support@iamse.org. We thank you for your interest and look forward to supporting you in achieving your professional goals in educational scholarship.

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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 entitled Peer‑Led Versus Conventional Teacher‑Led Methodological Research Education Sessions: An Initiative to Improve Medical Education Research Teaching (15 June 2023) by Maria Anna Bantounou & Niraj Kumar.

Overview of the study: To enhance doctors’ engagement with research, the National Medical Research Association (NMRA) developed a research teaching series, delivering peer-led (PL) sessions by medical students and conventional teacher-led (CL) sessions by licensed physicians/lecturers. This article assesses the effectiveness of the series and compares the PL and CL approaches. Thirteen teaching sessions were delivered virtually via Zoom weekly either delivered by peers or conventional teachers. Feedback was provided by participants on completion of every session using a 10-point Likert scale assessing their knowledge pre-and post-training. A total of 87 participants were included generating 782 feedback forms, 367 (47.1%) for PL and 412 for CL sessions. The median knowledge scores significantly increased following each session (p-value < 0.05) independent of the teaching approach. An overall improvement in the median knowledge score from all sessions from 5/10 to 8/10 was reported. There was no significant difference between knowledge gained from the CL or PL teaching. Didactic PL research training sessions are equally effective as CL sessions. 

Implications for medical education: It is established that research is an important part of undergraduate medical education. The teaching of research skills is inconsistent at medical schools and space is very limited in the required curriculum time. Prior research skills vary and this is especially true in the UK system where medical students are in a 6-year program post high school. As post-graduate training becomes more competitive research is an outcome that can distinguish a student upon medical school graduation. This article delivers an online curriculum and assesses how students can increase their knowledge of essential research skills post a formal program. The data collected was on knowledge acquisition pre/post each session and not over knowledge if they attended most of the sessions or all thirteen. The impact of attending multiple research sessions on research potential and possible outcomes would be interesting. Limitations are appropriately stated as well.  The final important implication of peer teaching vs conventional teachers is a very important outcome of this paper. Medical students want to practice teaching to be ready for teaching as future physician educators. This paper supports that peers can be successful teachers. This outcome also aligns with the need for resources needed to offer curriculum content outside of the required medical curriculum. Conventional teachers are a limited resource for extra or co-curriculum content (elective or selective). Peers as a resource are beneficial to the school, students as teachers, and students who are learners. This article encourages medical education leaders to develop near-peer teaching opportunities.

Alice Fornari, EdD, FAMEE, RDN, HEC-C
Professor of Science Education & Family Medicine
Associate Dean of Educational Skills Development, 
Zucker SOM at Hofstra/Northwell 
Vice President of Faculty Development at Northwell Health