On behalf of the Board of Directors, I’d like to congratulate Gary Rosenfeld on receiving the Edward Patrick Finnerty Lifetime Achievement Award at the 23rd Annual IAMSE Meeting in June.
IAMSE President Richard Vari and 2019 Edward Patrick Finnerty Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Gary Rosenfeld
Edward Patrick Finnerty Lifetime Achievement Award
This award is bestowed upon an individual member who has demonstrated a sustained involvement in and commitment to the advancement of the International Association of Medical Science Educators through their many types of service to the organization at the maximal level of performance.
The special nature of this award makes it one for which a member may not apply, but rather, it represents the superlative level of recognition that the organization, through the selection by its Board of Directors, can provide to a most worthy individual whose work on behalf of IAMSE has shown a consistent history of distinguished accomplishments.
It is with sincere appreciation and gratitude to his continued efforts and outstanding support that we bestow this award to our dear friend and colleague, Gary Rosenfeld. Congratulations, and thank you for all that you do for IAMSE.
Nagaswami Vasan received the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) 2019 Outstanding Reviewer Award during the Association’s annual meeting in Roanoke, Virginia (USA).
This award is an initiative of the Editorial Board of Medical Science Educator, the peer-reviewed journal of IAMSE. The award is presented annually to recognize one of the journal’s reviewers for his/her outstanding peer review efforts over the past year. The recipients are selected based on several criteria including reviewer performance and delivering the reviews in a timely manner. Congratulations Dr. Vasan!
Thank you, Peter de Jong Editor-in-Chief, Medical Science Educator
In observance of the Independence Day holiday in the United States, the IAMSE Administrative offices will be closed on Thursday, July 4. We will resume normal hours on Friday, July 5.
On behalf of the Educational Scholarship Committee, we’d like to congratulate those who have completed this year’s IAMSE Medical Educator Fellowship Program. The Fellowship program is designed to develop well-rounded medical education scholars with additional evidence of specialized achievement that enhances and supports career advancement. The program is divided into three phases:
Completion of an AMEE Essential Skills in Medical Education (ESME) program
Completion of two, day-long faculty development courses
Completion of a project which results in educational scholarship and demonstrates the application of content themes at the participant’s home institution
IAMSE Medical Educator Fellows Class of 2019 Medical Educator Fellows Completing the Fellowship in 2019
Don’t miss your last chance to submit an abstract for a Pre-Conference Workshop or Faculty Development Course for the 24th IAMSE Annual Meeting. This meeting will take place in Denver CO, USA, from June 13-16 2020. As a reminder, proposals are to be submitted in the format requested through the online proposal submission site. Deadline for submission of abstracts is July 1, 2019.
As a reminder, the focus of these workshops should include:
• Leadership/Advancement as a Medical Educator • Research/Scholarship/Publications • Instruction/Assessment • Technology
We offer two options for these courses: six-hour faculty development courses and three-hour pre-conference workshops.
Pre-Conference Faculty Development Course A Faculty Development Course is 6 hours in length and enrollment is limited. Instructors are asked to 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.
Pre-Conference Workshop Pre-conference workshops are sessions of 3 hours in length with mainly “hands-on” opportunities for participants. The enrollment to a workshop is limited. Participants will receive a certificate of attendance after completion of the workshop.
Please contact support@iamse.org for any questions about submitting your workshop.
Join us every Thursday in September and the first Thursday in October for the IAMSE Fall 2019 Webcast Audio Seminar Series.
The theme for the Fall series is “Re-Imagining Faculty Development in Health Professions Education” where we will feature several speakers from across the US. This series will provide participants with not only practical tips for developing their own skills but also insight into how to become engaged with and possibly improve the faculty development culture within their institutions.
As always, IAMSE Student Members can register for the series for FREE! Emailsupport@iamse.org for more information.
Details about the series will be coming soon, so keep an eye on your inbox. For more details on the upcoming Fall 2019 series or our archives, please visit www.iamse.org.
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.
