The Imperative for Incorporating Mind-Body Medicine in Health Professions Education
Presenter: Adi Haramati, PhD
January 26, 12 PM ET

More than half of practicing physicians exhibit characteristics of chronic stress and burnout. This trend may begin earlier with the observed decline in empathy during medical student training and alarming rates of burnout in medical and other students in the health professions. In this presentation, Dr. Haramati will review published outcomes on curricular interventions to help students and faculty manage stress, foster empathy and build resilience. He will also share his perspective on why it is essential to incorporate mind-body techniques into the training curriculum for all health professionals – something that will require both skill and courage.

For more information and to register for the Winter 2017 Audio Seminar Series, please click here.

Strategies for promoting personal health & wellness and leading change at the individual level
Presenter: Catherine Pipas, MD, MPH
January 19, 12 PM ET

Leaders in Academic Medical Centers face a need for robust change in healthcare. They are faced with diminished resources, expanded expectations and are called upon daily to lead change and achieve the “Triple Aim” of better health, better care and lower costs. Leaders of change also face increased stress and burnout. Thomas Bodenheimer’s, “Quadruple Aim” challenges leaders to prioritize their own health in order to effectively promote the health of others. By applying the continuous quality improvement (CQI) process at the personal level, leaders can demonstrate the knowledge and skills to lead change while simultaneously promoting personal improvement.

This session will focus on describing strategies for leading change at the personal level. Participants will have an opportunity to reflect on the components of the process of change, their own resilience, personal vision and to strengthen their commitment to personal health choices. They will critically analyze and prioritize areas for personal improvement and define global aims, SMART objectives, actionable steps, timelines, challenges and resources for sustainability. The process begins with a personal needs assessment and ends with an actionable personal improvement plan. Participants will be supported to implement their personal plans and to partner and disseminate tools with team members and colleagues at their home institution.

At the conclusion of this seminar, the participant will be able to:

• Describe the importance of achieving “The Quadruple Aim”
  
• Discuss Strategies for Leading Change Personally and at the Team level
  
• Adapt the model for systems improvement as a framework from which to apply personal health improvement

For more information and to register for the Winter 2017 Audio Seminar Series, please click here.

IAMSE is pleased to announce the Spring 2017 Web Seminar Series!

Remediation in Health Science Education

As a follow-up to the IAMSE fall 2016 web seminar series on assessment, the spring 2017 IAMSE web seminar series will continue with exciting, informative sessions focusing on remediation. The goal of remediation is to correct the course of students who have gone astray in their journey to become a health professional. However, because of the varying components in a professional health science curriculum including basic science knowledge, clinical skills, and professionalism coupled with ever changing curricular modifications; effective remediation in health science education has become a complex issue with many challenges. To explore some of these issues, the spring web seminar series will provide a series of presentations by speakers who will share their experiences and expertise in remediation. The fundamental groundwork for the understanding of the importance of successful remediation will be laid and examples of programs who have applied these principles to integrated basic science courses and clinical skills will be provided. A timely presentation on the approaches to remediation of the new paradigm in undergraduate medical education assessment: Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) will be included. Licensing exam failures are a major concern in health professions education and one session will be dedicated to a panel presentation of identification of students in jeopardy of not passing and/or remediation of these exams from the perspectives of allopathic (USMLE Step-1), osteopathic (COMLEX), and physician assistant (PANCE) medical programs. The series will also contain a session on the many issues (philosophical, educational, and legal) of “forward-feeding” assessment information on learners to faculty in subsequent courses. The audience will be invited to contribute to the series by sharing their experiences and insights using the phone line or our newly implemented backchannel communication.

March 2 – Remediation of Basic Science in Integrated Blocks – Presented by Giulia Bonaminio and Jeannette Guerrasio

March 9 – Remediation of “High Stakes” Professional Exams (USMLE Step-1, COMPLEX, PANCE) – Presented by Aubrey Knight, Nicole Wadsworth, and Pat Kenney-Moore

March 16 – Remediation of EPAs and “Trust Decisions” – Presented by Bryan Martin

March 23 – “Forward Feeding of Assessment Information” Should We Do It? – Presented by Lynn Cleary

March 30 – Remediation of Clinical Skills – Presented by Cate nicholas and Cami Curren

Registration is set to open in January. Please visit www.iamse.org for more information.

Improving Medical Student Mental Health: A Multifaceted Approach
Presented by Stuart Slavin, MD, MEd
January 12, 12 PM ET

Dr. Slavin will provide an overview of a multi-faceted initiative at Saint Louis University School of Medicine that is designed to enhance the mental health of pre-clinical medical students. He will describe the various components of the initiative, the mental health outcomes for students, and the resilience and mindfulness curriculum that is taught to the students.

For more information and to register for the Winter 2017 Audio Seminar Series, please click here.

Physician burnout and distress – causes, consequences, and a structure for solutions
Presenter: Colin West, MD, PhD
January 5, 12 PM ET

This session will briefly review data on physician burnout and dissatisfaction before considering current knowledge of the contributors to and consequences of physician burnout and distress. We will then discuss evidence in support of both individual-focused and organizational solutions, and how these may be aligned with the known drivers of burnout and distress to optimize benefits.

For more information and to register for the Winter 2017 Audio Seminar Series, please click here.

The International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) is pleased to announce that the archives for the 2016 Winter Series of the Webcast Audio Seminars, Research in Health Sciences Education, are now available 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 questions or problems accessing the archives, please just let us know at support@iamse.org.