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IAMSE at APMEC 2019 in Singapore

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The 16th Asia Pacific Medical Education Conference (APMEC) will be taking place in Singapore from January 9-13th, 2019. IAMSE is proud to be included in APMEC 2019 as participating partner reflecting the strong collaboration we have built over the years. The IAMSE booth will be present at the conference to exhibit, so if you plan on attending this meeting, do not forget to swing by and say hello! 

There will also be several workshops, lectures, and session with IAMSE involvement for you to consider:

  • Workshop: “Developing Fair and Holistic Approaches to Evaluate Biomedical Science Educators”
  • Workshop: “An Experiential Introduction to Mind-Body Medicine Skills: Tools to Reduce Stress and Foster Resilience and Well-being”
  • Workshop: “Using Social Media to Disseminate Your Scholarly Work”
  • Workshop: “Tips and Tricks for Successfully Publishing Scholarly Work in an International Journal on Medical Education”
  • Opening Keynote Address: “Fostering Well-Being in the Learning Environment: The Imperative for Medical Educators”
  • Plenary Lecture: “Embracing Curricular Revision: Integrating Foundational and Clinical Sciences to Create Better Future Health Professionals”
  • Panel Discussion: “Supporting Biomedical Science Educators: A Matter of Self-Esteem, Identity and Promotion Opportunities”
  • Symposium: “Integration of Biomedical Science and Clinical Education: How to Make It Work?”
  • IAMSE Sharing Session to learn more about IAMSE as an organization

For more information on the APMEC Meeting, please click here.

IAMSE Excellence in Teaching Award Nominations Still Open

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Don’t forget that nominations for the 2019 Excellence in Teaching awards are still open, both of which will be presented at the annual meeting in Roanoke, Virginia in June.

Since 2007, IAMSE has honored member medical educators with two prestigious awards to recognize and promote teaching excellence and educational scholarship in the medical sciences. Qualified candidates may self-nominate, or be nominated by an IAMSE colleague.

Details regarding each award, the required application materials, and deadlines are found in the document linked here. All nomination/application packets must be received by Danielle Inscoe (Danielle@iamse.org) no later than February 28, 2019.

WAS Winter 2019 : The Learning Environment During Residency

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The 2019 IAMSE Winter Webcast Audio Seminar Series is right around the corner! The 2019 winter series of the IAMSE webinar program will focus on the role of the learning environment in health science education. The significance and importance of the learning environment is based on the assumption that a poor environment is associated with poor student performance, burn-out and stress. For the Winter Series, we’ve lined up seven speakers to shine a light on the topic across multiple landscapes in medical education. Our third speaker is Dr. John Co, Director of Graduate Medical Education at Harvard Medical School.

The Learning Environment During Residency
Presenter: John Co, MD, MPH, CPPS, FAAP
Session: January 24, 2019 at 12pm Eastern TimeThe Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) established the Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) Program in 2012 to provide institutions that train residents and fellows with formative feedback to improve patient care while optimizing the clinical learning environment (CLE) in the 6 CLER Focus Areas (Patient safety, Health care quality (including health care disparities), Care transitions, Supervision, Fatigue management, mitigation, and duty hours, Professionalism). In the Fall of 2018, the ACGME released its second CLER National Report of Findings, which details findings from the second set of visits to nearly 300 ACGME Sponsoring Institutions with 3 or more core residency programs. During the webinar, we will present findings from the report, as well discuss changes over time since the first cycle of CLER visits.

Save the Date for the Spring 2019 Webcast Audio Seminar Series

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Join us every Thursday in March and the first Thursday in April for the IAMSE Spring 2019 Webcast Audio Seminar Series. 

The theme for the Spring series is “The Role of Basic Science in 21st Century Medical Education” where we will feature several speakers from across the US and Europe. Speakers will discuss topics such as the changing roles of the basic science educator, going lecture free, and the role of foundational sciences in clinical years. 

As always, IAMSE Student Members can register for the series for FREE! Email support@iamse.org for more information.


Details about the series will be coming soon, so stay tuned. For more details on the upcoming Winter 2019 series or our archives, please visit www.iamse.org.

Consider Donating to IAMSE This Year

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On behalf of IAMSE and the Finance Committee, we hope you have a joyous holiday season and wish you a happy and prosperous new year. We ask that you consider including IAMSE in your year-end charitable giving plans. Your gift will support the IAMSE mission to advance health professions education through faculty development and to ensure that medical science education continues to be firmly grounded in foundational sciences and includes the best practices of teaching. It will also help to provide travel awards that enable junior faculty members and students to attend our meetings and to access our educational resources.

Donating is easy—please access the “Make a Donation” button on the IAMSE website under the “Connect” subheading or by clicking here. A contribution in any amount would help greatly. 

Thank you very much for your consideration.

Happy Holidays from the IAMSE Admin Team!

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From everyone in the IAMSE office, we would like to wish you and your family a wonderful holiday season!

The IAMSE Administrative Office will be closed on December 24 & 25, 2018 and on December 31, 2018 and January 1, 2019 for the holidays.

We are truly grateful for the support you have provided to us at IAMSE and are greatly looking forward to what 2019 has in store!

IAMSE Winter 2019 Webinar Series: “Overview & Introduction of the Learning Environment

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The 2019 IAMSE Winter Webcast Audio Seminar Series is right around the corner! The 2019 winter series of the IAMSE webinar program will focus on the role of the learning environment in health science education. The significance and importance of the learning environment is based on the assumption that a poor environment is associated with poor student performance, burn-out and stress. For the Winter Series, we’ve lined up seven speakers to shien a light on the topic across multiple landscapes in medical education. Our first speaker is Dr. Larry Gruppen from the University of Michigan Medical School.

Overview & Introduction of the Learning Environment
Presenter: Larry Gruppen, PhD
Session: January 10, 2019 at 12pm Eastern TimeThe importance and visibility of the learning environment has grown in recent years as various regulatory agencies focus attention on possible deficiencies in the learning environment (LE). The LE has been associated with stress and burnout, quality improvement initiatives, and curriculum design. This session will discuss the challenges in developing a conceptual framework for the LE, current limitations in measuring the LE, and initiatives designed to improve the LE.

Don’t Miss These Great IAMSE How-to Guides

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As you may know, IAMSE has published two how-to manuals: the How-To Guide for Active Learning and the How-To Guide for Team-Based Learning as well as a Japanese Translation of the How-To guide for Team-Based Learning.

20150906_114002_21772 How-To Guide for Active Learning: This manual is a compilation of teaching strategies in active learning to adapt to your own large group settings. Each chapter is a specific description of a strategy written by authors who are experienced in using the strategy in a classroom environment with students. The Manual chapters are designed to be accessible and practical to the reader. The manual is edited by Alice Fornari and Ann Poznanski.
How to guide for TBL How-To Guide for Team-Based Learning: This “How-To” Guide for Team-Based Learning is a manual that provides an overview of the fundamental components TBL and serves as a blueprint for instructors considering using this technique. The manual also identifies factors that will facilitate or sabotage a successful implementation of TBL. Authored by Ruth Levine and Patricia Hudes, both internationally recognized experts in the field of TBL.
TBL Japanese Manual Cover How-To Guide for Team-Based Learning Japanese Translation: IAMSE is proud to announce that we now have a Japanese translation of this “How-To” guide! The How-To Guide for Team-Based Learning was authored by Ruth Levine and Patricia Hudes and translated by Yukari Igarashi,  Mariko Iida, Yoko Shimpuku, Yoichiro Miki, and Hiromi Seo.

If you’d like to purchase a digital copy of one or both of these manuals, please visit the IAMSE store here. Each manual is $5 for members or $10 for non-members. Please note: These manuals are for individual use only.

IAMSE WAS Archives Now Available!

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Did you know that we archive each season of the Webcast Audio Seminar series? Reaching all the way back to Winter 2011, you can search the topics, speakers and presentations in our webcast series greatest hits collection.

The Webcast Audio Seminar archives are located on our website under the Events tab as Web Seminars. Here, you will be able to search the archival or browse by year and series.

If you have any issues accessing the archives, please just let us know at support@iamse.org.

IAMSE Featured Member: Sean Herrin

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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 Sean Herrin, DC.

Sean Herrin

Sean Herrin, DC
Associate Professor, Department of Basic Sciences
University of Western States
Portland, Oregon, USA

How long have you been a member of IAMSE?
I’ve been a member since 2015. I began with the Essential Skills in Medical Education (ESME) training with Ron Harden and Adi Haramati. But even before then I did Mind-Body Medicine training at Georgetown University with Adi in 2012.

In your years with the association, what have you been up to?
I serve on the Membership committee as well as serving as a reviewer for Medical Science Educator. I’m also a reviewer for the Journal of Chiropractic Education. I actually received training on being a journal reviewer through MSE at the annual meeting. I’m actively working on a research paper with Amber Heck through the Fellowship program.

Fantastic! What’s the focus of that research?
The project we are working on is an extension of three years of survey research on student distress and burnout, depression and substance abuse. We are working together to combine everything into a presentation and written work to hopefully get published. I’m getting some support (from Amber) but more importantly I’m getting encouragement…from people who are doing the same sorts of things who have a proactive educational attitude.

As a multi-year member, what is a standout benefit that keeps you engaged in IAMSE?
As an educator from the chiropractic field – everyone just being so open and so collaborative has been amazing. You won’t believe how much you get just from sitting at lunch with faculty from other schools. It’s the intangibles that I value more than even specific technique. The broadening of my horizons of what’s being done in our field and the cross pollination is great. For (chiropractic), we’re just a much smaller industry and (IAMSE) has really helped us broaden our horizons. As a clinician coming into a teaching environment, I’ve learned more about what I do in the last three years with IAMSE than in the previous twelve years.

Want to learn more about our collaborative Fellowship program? Click here!

IAMSE Excellence in Teaching Award Nominations Now Open

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Since 2007, IAMSE has honored member medical educators with two prestigious awards to recognize and promote teaching excellence and educational scholarship in the medical sciences. We now open the nominations for the 2019 Excellence in Teaching awards, which will be presented at the annual meeting in Roanoke, Virginia in June.

The Distinguished Career Award for Excellence in Teaching and Educational Scholarship (formerly called the Master Scholar Award) 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 should be Professor, Associate Professor, or equivalent rank, or have demonstrated greater than 10 years of educational scholarship. Additionally, candidates must have a significant record of engagement within IAMSE.

The Early Career Award for Excellence in Teaching and Innovation honors an IAMSE member who has made significant contributions to the field in the short time they have focused their careers toward enhancing teaching, learning and assessment. Candidates for this award will be Assistant Professor or equivalent rank, or have demonstrated less than 10 years of educational scholarship.

Qualified candidates may self-nominate, or be nominated by an IAMSE colleague.

Details regarding each award, required application materials, and deadlines are found in the document linked here. All nomination/application packets must be received by Danielle Inscoe (Danielle@iamse.org) no later than February 28, 2019.

How to Connect with the IAMSE Admin Team

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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 and conference management. Julie will continue to oversee the rest of the management team to support the overall needs of the Association.

Danielle Inscoe, QAS
Managing Director

Danielle’s role with IAMSE will be as the first point of member contact whether by phone or email. She will be helping to manage the day-to-day operations of the Association and will be available to answer questions regarding memberships, web audio seminars and upcoming Association activities.

Amoritia Strogen-Hewett, QAS
MSE Editorial Assistant, Conference Logistics

Amoritia currently serves as the Editorial Assistant for Medical Science Educator. She also plays a major role in abstract management for the conference as well as on-site logistics.

Cassie Chinn, MAJ, QAS
Communications Director

Cassie manages the social media aspect of IAMSE. She helps create posts to get the word out about what goes on within the organization. She also ensures the website for IAMSE is always up to date while also helping get new content posted as it becomes available.

How to Connect with the Team:
IAMSE
c/o JulNet Solutions, LLC
1404 1/2 Adams Avenue
Huntington, WV 25704
Phone: 304-522-1270
Fax: 304-523-9701

Email:
Julie Hewett: julie@iamse.org
Danielle Inscoe: danielle@iamse.org
Amoritia Strogen-Hewett: amoritia@iamse.org
Cassie Chinn: cassie@iamse.org

When in doubt? support@iamse.org

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