We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the one-day IAMSE conference, to be held February 28, 2020 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Immediately preceding the 2020 Ottawa Conference, this conference of the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) will have many opportunities for faculty participation, development, and networking, and brings together medical sciences and medical education across the continuum. Participants include basic scientists and clinical faculty from a variety of health care and educational disciplines. Students are also encouraged to attend and participate in the program.
Featured opening plenary speakers include Neil Osheroff, Vishna Devi Nadarajah, Sharifah Sulaiha Binti Syed Aznal, and Bonnie M. Miller. The topic of this opening plenary session will be: “Overcoming Barriers to Curricular Revision: Perspectives from Faculty and Administration Leaders.” Our closing plenary speakers include Ronald Harden, Dujeepa Samarasekera and Kimberly Lomis. The topic of the closing plenary will be: “What Are the Next Steps in Health Professions Education?”
If the measure of a successful meeting is in its engaged participants, its rigorous scientific presentations, its conducive venue, its collegial interactions, and its detailed organization and focus on education and service, then the 2019 IAMSE Meeting was an enormous triumph thanks to your sustaining participation. We hope that our diverse and dynamic slate of plenary speakers provided in-depth insight and perspectives that are valuable to your educational work.
Your attendance helps IAMSE achieve its goals while allowing our members to receive valuable networking and resources. The enthusiasm and positive spirits that were so clearly apparent helped make our time together both productive and enjoyable. Our heartfelt thanks and great appreciation are extended to the 2018-19 Program Committee for their extensive efforts in planning this outstanding meeting in Roanoke, VA, USA.
Next year the 24th IAMSE Annual Meeting will take place in Denver CO, USA, from June 13-16 2020. For updates on this meeting, be sure to follow the IAMSE Facebook and Twitter pages.
Thank you, James Pickering 2019 Program Committee Chair
The next issue of the membership newsletter of the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE), IAMSE Connects, will be published in July. The purpose of this newsletter is to connect the IAMSE membership with information about our society, about opportunities to get involved with IAMSE, and about each other.
We are very pleased to dedicate one section of this newsletter to recognize the professional accomplishments of our members but we need your help! Have you received awards or promotions or landed a great new job in the last year? We would like to know about it and celebrate your professional accomplishments in our newsletter.
Please send your news to Cassie Chinn at cassie@iamse.org or submit it online here for inclusion in the next edition. Sorry, we can only include professional accomplishments in the newsletter, but welcome you to share your personal news on the IAMSE Facebook and Twitter pages! Thanks for your help!
Deadline: July 1, 2019
Thank you, Jennifer Baccon Chair, IAMSE Membership Committee
The International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) is pleased to announce that the archives for “Integrating Nutrition and Wellness Instruction: Practical Applications for Health Science Educators,” the 2018 Spring Series of the Webcast Audio Seminars are now online!
The Webcast Audio Seminar archives are located on the IAMSE website under the Events heading as Web Seminars. Here, you will be able to search the archives or browse by year and series. If you have any issues accessing the archives, please just let us know at support@iamse.org.
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 IAMSE. This month’s Featured Member is Dr. Machelle Linsenmeyer.
Machelle Linsenmeyer, EdD, NAOME Fellow Associate Dean for Assessment and Educational Development West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine Lewisburg, WV
How long have you been an IAMSE member? I went to my first conference in 2009 but I believe I’ve been a member since 2008.
Have you ever served on the IAMSE Program committee before working on the 2019 team? I sat on the Program committee in 2014 for the Nashville meeting.
What was your experience like on the Program Committee? I loved being on the program planning committee because you don’t really appreciate how much goes on behind the scenes. Selecting the hotel, logistics, reviewing abstracts, picking the keynote speakers. I think it’s exciting to be part of that group that is putting it all together and the energy behind it.
What was a standout experience for you? When I served in 2014 there was a speaker that I was able to bring forth and do the introduction for. It made me feel like a bigger part of the conference. Bringing their name/topic to the forefront was exciting. It was exciting be closer to the actual speakers and topics than you normally would get to do by just attending. You really have more of a passion behind it because you are more alert to what people feel about the program. The other thing is when you hear feedback you run to the other (committee members) and say, “We need to make a change!”
What interesting things are you working on outside the Association right now? One of the other things that I love about IAMSE is that they really are partners with other organizations. I just recently stepped off (the) Program (Committee) for the Generalists, which I had the opportunity to be on for several years. It was nice to see the exchange of booth, exhibit space, and resources between the two organizations. That participation with other organizations is a fun experience. I’ve also done a lot of talks at the AMEE and OTTAWA conferences and IAMSE is always represented there. I like having interactions with other people at conferences and doing the presentations. I just recently did a presentation on Entrustable Professional Activities and Portfolios at the Ottawa conference in Abu Dhabi this past March. I also led roundtable discussions on EPA’s during AAMC.
Is there anything else you’d like to speak on about your longstanding membership in IAMSE? Something else that is just great is the number of resources IAMSE offers. Manuals, faculty development opportunities, the journal. There are just so many resources. I find myself sharing those ideas and resources at my institution all the time.
For more information on volunteering for an upcoming program or any of our other open committees, please visit our Volunteer Opportunities page.
As we put the finishing touches on the 23rd Annual Meeting, we would like to extend a sincere THANK YOU to the volunteers, attendees, speakers and exhibitors that have already made our event a success. The IAMSE Administrative Office will be closed on June 4-13, 2019 while facilitating the Meeting in Roanoke. We will resume normal business hours on Thursday, June 13, 2019.
The 23rd Annual IAMSE Meeting will feature a host of focus sessions from Sunday to Tuesday. One of our first-time sessions is Mentoring 101- How to be an Effective Mentee: A Focus Session From the IAMSE Student Professional Development Committee. This morning session will be given on Sunday, June 9 and will be led by Student Professional Development Committee members.
Focus Session: Mentoring 101- How to be an Effective Mentee: A Focus Session From the IAMSE Student Professional Development Committee Time: Sunday, June 9 from 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Speakers: IAMSE Student Professional Development Committee Members
Most medical schools offer individualized faculty-mentored research opportunities to their students. One of the major contributing factors for medical students to be successful in these scholarly endeavors is the mentorship they receive. Effective mentorship has been associated with a positive impact on professional development and enhanced research productivity. Indeed, mentorship has been shown to be a crucial contributor to the successful outcome for science trainees at all levels. Yet, many students struggle to have an effective relationship with their mentor. This focus session is provided by the members of the IAMSE committee on Students’ Professional Development. The goal of this session is to prepare students on how to identify a mentor and how to develop and maintain a productive mentor-mentee relationship. For this purpose, personal and professional characteristics of both mentor and mentee that are crucial for an effective relationship will be examined. Common obstacles and mistakes that contribute to a failed relationship will be examined and interventions towards an effective relationship will be identified. Case studies will be utilized to discuss and examine these issues and students and mentors are encouraged to add their experiences to the discussion. At the end of the session, a consensus of how to make the mentor-mentee relationship effective will be drafted.
Session Objectives
explain the need for mentorship
articulate the expectations of both mentor and mentee
identify and address personal and professional characteristics of an effective mento
identify and address personal and professional characteristics of an effective mente
recognize common obstacles and pitfalls towards an effective relationship
contrast effective and failing mentor-mentee relationships
identify and implement an intervention to improve failing mentor-mentee relationship
Additional details about this and our other focus sessions, as well as registration information, can be found at http://www.iamseconference.org.
Roanoke has so many entertainment, dining, shopping, nightlife, golf, and spa options, it can be tough to choose which experiences are perfect for your trip. We’ve picked a few highlight attractions and events that you may be interested in during your stay at the annual conference. If you have some downtime before, during, or after the IAMSE Meeting, be sure to visit some of the wonderful things the area has to offer!
1. Mill Mountain Star and Park The Roanoke Star is an iconic symbol of Virginia’s Blue Ridge and a must-see spot when visiting the region.
2. Virginia Museum of Transportation The Virginia Museum of Transportation fires the imagination! Climb aboard decades-old steam locomotives while watching modern trains zoom by on active mainline tracks.
3. Taubman Museum of Art The Taubman Museum of Art is part of the lively metro mountain mix of arts, culture and outdoor fun in the heart of downtown Roanoke, Virginia.
4. Roanoke Valley Greenways The Roanoke Valley Greenways system is a hugely popular spot for biking, walking, and running, and winds through various communities in Virginia’s Blue Ridge.
5. Center in the Square Center in the Square houses five attractions including the Roanoke Pinball Museum, The Roanoke STARCADE, Harrison Museum of African American Culture, Kids Square, the Science Museum of Western Virginia with the Hidden Garden, and a live performance theatre with performances produced by Mill Mountain Theatre, Roanoke Ballet Theatre, and Opera Roanoke within our signature building in downtown Roanoke.
The International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) would like to remind you that abstracts for Oral and Poster presentations are still be accepted for the one-day IAMSE conference in Asia, on February 28, 2020. This conference will focus on “Integration in Medical and Health Science Education” and will take place in the internationally recognized Shangri-La Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The meeting immediately proceeds the international Ottawa Conference on assessment, also held in Kuala Lumpur. With the one-day IAMSE conference we specifically reach out to participants from the Asia-Pacific region, but of course, we also welcome participants from other parts of the world to join us. The IAMSE meeting offers opportunities for faculty development and networking, bringing together medical sciences and medical education across the continuum of health care education.
Submission deadline is September 15, 2019. There is no limit on the number of abstracts you may submit, but in the case of scheduling conflicts only presentations per presenter might be granted. Abstract acceptance notifications will be returned by November 15, 2019.
The academic program of the IAMSE 2019 Annual Meeting has now been finalized. We are excited to offer a large number of presentations on a variety of topics. The oral presentations can be found in the daily program on the website. The poster abstracts are listed in one of eight categories:
This year, we have 22 posters that are in the running for the Best Poster Presentation Award and 12 oral presentations for the Best Oral Presentation Award. These awards recognize the most outstanding medical education peer-reviewed presentations at the IAMSE annual meeting. The presenters of the winning poster and oral presentation will receive a plaque, one year of IAMSE membership, and access to one series of the IAMSE Audio Seminars. All award nominated posters and orals are scheduled to be presented on Sunday. In case you have not yet registered, we hope that the wealth of presentations might make you consider joining us in June. Additional meeting details and registration can be found atwww.iamseconference.org.
The 23rd Annual IAMSE Meeting will feature a host of new focus sessions throughout the entire meeting. One of our newly-added sessions is Entrustable Professional Activities – Implications for the Preclinical Faculty and Curriculum. This morning workshop will be given on Sunday, June 9 and will be led by Carrie Chen, Jessica Jones and Ming-Jung Ho.
Focus Session: Entrustable Professional Activities – Implications for the Preclinical Faculty and Curriculum Time: Sunday, June 9 from 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Speakers: Carrie Chen, Jessica Jones and Ming-Jung Ho – Georgetown UniversityThere is increasing interest in the use of entrustable professional activities (EPAs) to define and assess competencies in health professions education. Individual schools, as well as national organizations in multiple countries, have begun defining and adopting EPAs for undergraduate medical education. Typically these initiatives engage faculty in the clinical curriculum and focus on learning and assessment in the workplace. Yet an effective competency framework must engage faculty throughout the curriculum and address the preclinical as well as clinical curriculum. The goal of this focus session is to consider the roles of the preclinical faculty and the preclinical curriculum within an EPA context. Participants will discuss and proactively develop potential leadership roles for the preclinical faculty to effectively engage in and lead EPA implementation efforts to ensure the ongoing relevance of the classroom curriculum. Session Objectives: • Discuss the concept of entrustment and its application to classroom learning and assessment • Develop strategies to incorporate entrustment into preclinical course expectations • Analyze opportunities for improved partnership with the clinical curriculum within an EPA framework • Engage in institutional conversations and help lead EPA implementation efforts at their home institutions
To add this session to your schedule, please email us at support@iamse.org. You can also log back in to your registration using this link and update your schedule at any time. Additional details about this and our other focus sessions, as well as registration information, can be found at http://www.iamseconference.org.
