The IAMSE 2023 Virtual Forum is right around the corner! The Early Bird registration deadline is September 15, 2023. After the Early Bird deadline, the registration rate for both members and non-members will increase. Be sure to register before September 15 deadline to save!
Please note that ALL PRESENTERS must be registered by September 15, 2023, otherwise their presentation will be removed from the program.
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please let us know at support@iamse.org. Additional forum details and registration can be found at www.iamseforum.org.
Are you curious how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming medical education, especially its impact on faculty teaching and student learning? Join the upcoming IAMSE Fall webinar series entitled “Brains, Bots, and Beyond: Exploring AI’s Impact on Medical Education” to learn about the intersection of AI and medical education. Over five sessions, we will cover topics ranging from the basics of AI to its use in teaching and learning essential biomedical science content.
The series begins on September 7 with a presentation by Homayoun Valafar to define AI and machine learning. The series will continue on September 14 with a discussion by Erkin Otles and Cornelius James on strategies to prepare our trainees to appropriately utilize AI in their future healthcare jobs. On September 21st, Michael Paul Cary and Sophia Bessias will present on critical ethical issues, including the potential for unintended bias and disparities arising from AI. Finally, Dina Kurzweil and Bill Hersh will wrap up the series on September 28th and October 5th, respectively, with practical tips for educators and learners alike to utilize AI to maximize teaching and learning. Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to join the conversation on the future of AI in medical education.
Cornelius JamesErkin Otles
Artificial Intelligence: Preparing for the Next Paradigm Shift in Medical Education
Presenters:Ā Cornelius James, MD and Erkin Otles, MD/PhD Student Session Date & Time:Ā September 14,Ā 2023Ā at 12pm Eastern Session Description: During this session, participants will learn about the impact that artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) will have on the practice of medicine, and subsequently medical education. Participants will learn what AI and ML are, and about their current applications in healthcare. Finally, participants will be able to identify opportunities for incorporating AI/ML content into their curricula.
Are you curious how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming medical education, especially its impact on faculty teaching and student learning? Join the upcoming IAMSE Fall webinar series entitled “Brains, Bots, and Beyond: Exploring AI’s Impact on Medical Education” to learn about the intersection of AI and medical education. Over five sessions, we will cover topics ranging from the basics of AI to its use in teaching and learning essential biomedical science content.
The series begins on September 7 with a presentation by Homayoun Valafar to define AI and machine learning. The series will continue on September 14 with a discussion by Erkin Otles and Cornelius James on strategies to prepare our trainees to appropriately utilize AI in their future healthcare jobs. On September 21st, Michael Paul Cary and Sophia Bessias will present on critical ethical issues, including the potential for unintended bias and disparities arising from AI. Finally, Dina Kurzweil and Bill Hersh will wrap up the series on September 28th and October 5th, respectively, with practical tips for educators and learners alike to utilize AI to maximize teaching and learning. Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to join the conversation on the future of AI in medical education.
Homayoun Valafar, PhD
An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning with Applications in Healthcare
Presenter: Homayoun Valafar, PhD Session Date & Time: September 7, 2023 at 12pm Eastern Session Description: In this session, Dr. Valafar will provide an introductory overview of the domain of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. The session will include a brief overview of various techniques, an abstract view of training and testing AI models, some applications in the domain of Healthcare, and some of the challenges ahead.
We are just two months away from the IAMSE 2023 Virtual Forum! But before you learn what should stay and what should go, we would like to describe the two main sessions you will experience during the Virtual Forum: ignite talks and lightning talks.
What is an 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.
Each of our three Ignite Speakers will present on a topic that focuses on one of the three areas of focus of our Virtual Forum: curriculum, students, and teaching. Kimara Ellefson will present first with “Calibrating Our Compass: Flourishing as the North Star for Charting the Way Forward”, where she will challenge our attendees to rethink and reimagine longstanding approaches to successfully navigate ever-changing terrain through presentation, reflection and discussion.
Next will be Holly Gooding, presenting “How Are We Going to Get to The Moon? Developing Operating Principles for Effective Curriculum Change.” Attendees will review their own organizationās mission, vision, and values statements and contemplate how their current curriculum fits within those stated goals.
Lastly, Neil Mehta will present “Teaching in the Age of Online Resources: Designing Lesson Plans to Enhance the Value of In-Person Classroom Learning”, where attendees will review and practice a pedagogic framework for making classroom sessions both engaging, invaluable, and irreplaceable.
Meet Our Ignite Speakers!
From left to right, Kimara Ellefson, Holly Gooding, and Neil Mehta
What is a Lightning Talk?
Lightning talks are 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
This year, submitters were asked to select two categories that fell into four areas of focus that related to their work. These areas of focus are:
Lightning Talk abstracts are currently available online! Click on each focus area to view that area’s abstracts. If an abstract was submitted under categories with more than one area of focus, the abstract is listed twice. The schedule for the Lightning Talks is currently under development and will be available soon.
As a reminder, the Early Bird Deadline for the Virtual Forum is September 15th, so make sure to register today!
Don’t miss your opportunity to submit a focus session abstract for the 28th Annual IAMSE Conference to be held at the Hilton Minneapolis Resort in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA June 15-18, 2024. The IAMSE conference offers opportunities for faculty development and networking, bringing together medical sciences and medical education across the continuum of health sciences education. The theme of the IAMSE 2023 Meeting is “Empowering Educators: Embracing the Evolution of Health Sciences Education.”
The purpose of a 90-minute Focus Session is to āfocus inā on a specific topic in a small group interactive discussion format. Based on previous years, group size might vary between 10-50 individuals. The exact format for the session is free to choose by the session leader(s), as long as not more than one-third of the time is used for formal presentation, and the rest of the time is used for interaction, active learning in small groups, and discussion. The Program Committee welcomes diversity such as multi-institutional and inter-professional submissions and presenter teams consisting of junior and senior faculty and students.
All abstracts must be submitted in the format requested through the online abstract submission site found here.
The submission deadline is September 1, 2023.
Abstract acceptance notifications will be returned by November 1. Please contact support@iamse.org for any questions about your submission.
The International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) is pleased to announce that the archives for “The Struggle is Real: Breaking Barriers That Limit Student Success,” the 2022 Fall series of the Webcast Audio Seminar 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.
In addition, registration for the 2023 Fall series is now open! This series, entitled, “Brains, Bots, and Beyond: Exploring AI’s Impact on Medical Education”, will begin September 7.Ā Click hereĀ to register!Ā
If you have any issues accessing the archives, please let us know atĀ support@iamse.org.
Our association is a robust and diverse set of educators, students, 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 monthāsĀ FeaturedĀ Member isĀ Alana Newell.
Alana Newell AssistantĀ Professor Baylor College of Medicine
How long have you been a member of IAMSE?Ā I became a member of IAMSE in 2016, so Iām on my seventh year of membership
Looking at your time with the Association, what have you most enjoyed doing? What are you looking forward to?Ā Iāve most enjoyed serving on the Educational Scholarship committee, and specifically as a mentor for the Medical Educator Fellowship. I love working with other faculty, and I learn so much from their experiences and interests!
Congratulations on winning the Medical Science Educator Best Reviewer Award for 2023! What got you involved in reviewing for MSE? How has it benefitted you? Thank you! I initially got involved with reviewing for MSE because Iāve always enjoyed scholarship and wanted to support the medical education community. Reviewing has really helped me learn to turn the critical āreviewer lensā on my own scholarship and writing in a way that I donāt think I was able to do in the past.Ā
What was your favorite part of the IAMSE 2023 Conference? What insights did you take home?Ā Itās a tie: I loved having the opportunity to share ideas with everyone in person, and I very much enjoyed the fantastic speakers! I took home a notebook full of insights about cognitive processing and learning theories in medical education directly from the plenary sessions, but also notes and thoughts related to one-on-one conversations I had with other attendees. The best ideas seem to arise from casual conversations over lunch or in an elevator.
What interesting things are you working on outside the Association right now? Research, presentations, etc.Ā My co-director and I are in the midst of overhauling the curriculum for our institutionās longitudinal faculty development program ā the Baylor College of Medicine Master Teachers Fellowship Program ā to move to a competency-based model, so weāre studying the outcomes related to this shift. Hopefully weāll have exciting results to share in Minneapolis next year!
Anything else that you would like to add? I just would encourage anyone who is considering getting involved in IAMSE to do so! Itās such a welcoming organization and offers so many opportunities to grow as a medical educator.
The first step in getting involved with IAMSE is becoming a member of our association!
As a reminder, IAMSE is currently accepting focus session abstracts for the 28th Annual IAMSE Conference to be held at the Hilton Minneapolis Resort in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA June 15-18, 2024. The IAMSE conference offers opportunities for faculty development and networking, bringing together medical sciences and medical education across the continuum of health sciences education. The theme of the IAMSE 2023 Meeting is “Empowering Educators: Embracing the Evolution of Health Sciences Education.”
The purpose of a 90-minute Focus Session is to āfocus inā on a specific topic in a small group interactive discussion format. Based on previous years, group size might vary between 10-50 individuals. The exact format for the session is free to choose by the session leader(s), as long as not more than one-third of the time is used for formal presentation, and the rest of the time is used for interaction, active learning in small groups, and discussion. The Program Committee welcomes diversity such as multi-institutional and inter-professional submissions and presenter teams consisting of junior and senior faculty and students.
All abstracts must be submitted in the format requested through the online abstract submission site found here.
The submission deadline is September 1, 2023.
Abstract acceptance notifications will be returned by November 1. Please contact support@iamse.org for any questions about your submission.
The International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) invites you to join us for our second annual Virtual Forum! Join us October 18-20 as we host ignite talks, lightning talks, and more. The virtual forum is designed for all interested in teaching, designing, and leading medical and health professions sciences curricula. Participants include students & trainees, basic scientists, providers, clinicians, and other faculty from across various healthcare and educational disciplines. We specifically encourage junior faculty, postdocs, and students to participate in the forum. This year’s theme: “Should It Stay or Should It Go? Changing Health Education for Changing Times”.
The third of our three ignite speakers is Neil Mehta from Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University in the United States. He will present Teaching in the Age of Online Resources: Designing Lesson Plans to Enhance the Value of In-Person Classroom LearningĀ on Friday, October 20, 2023.
Teaching in the Age of Online Resources: Designing Lesson Plans to Enhance the Value of In-Person Classroom Learning
Neil Mehta, Cleveland Clinic Presented on Friday, October 20, 2023
With many accessible popular online educational resources, educators find it challenging to engage students in traditional classroom sessions. Ā We will review and practice a pedagogic framework for making classroom sessions both engaging, invaluable, and irreplaceable.
The International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) invites you to join us for our second annual Virtual Forum! Join us October 18-20 as we host ignite talks, lightning talks, and more. The virtual forum is designed for all interested in teaching, designing, and leading medical and health professions sciences curricula. Participants include students & trainees, basic scientists, providers, clinicians, and other faculty from across various healthcare and educational disciplines. We specifically encourage junior faculty, postdocs, and students to participate in the forum. This year’s theme: “Should It Stay or Should It Go? Changing Health Education for Changing Times”.
The second of our three ignite speakers is Holly Gooding from Emory University School of Medicine and theĀ Childrenās Healthcare of Atlanta in the United States. She will present How Are We Going to Get to The Moon? Developing Operating Principles for Effective Curriculum ChangeĀ on Thursday, October 19, 2023.
How Are We Going to Get to The Moon? Developing Operating Principles for Effective Curriculum Change
Holly Gooding, Emory University School of Medicine Presented on Thursday, October 19, 2023
How are you going to get your learners to the desired outcome, your curricular moonshot? As famously asked by Alice in Wonderland, will any way get you there? This session will begin with a twenty-minute sprint examining the importance of an institutionās mission, vision, and values at the beginning of any curriculum design project. While especially important for large-scale curricular change efforts, this is relevant to all types of curricular design.
The International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) is pleased to announce that the archives for “To Infinity and Beyond: Expanding the Scope of Basic Sciences in Meeting Accreditation Standards,” the 2022 Spring series of the Webcast Audio Seminar 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, or if you have any trouble registering for the Fall 2022 series, please just let us know at support@iamse.org.
Are you curious how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming medical education, especially its impact on faculty teaching and student learning? Join the upcoming IAMSE Fall Webcast Audio Seminar series webinar series entitled “Brains, Bots, and Beyond: Exploring AI’s Impact on Medical Education” to learn about the intersection of AI and medical education. Over five sessions, we will cover topics ranging from the basics of AI to its use in teaching and learning essential biomedical science content. Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to join the conversation on the future of AI in medical education.
Brains, Bots, and Beyond: Exploring AI’s Impact on Medical EducationĀ
Join us for each one-hour session beginning Thursday, September 7 at 12 PM EDT. Sessions in the Fall 2023 series include:
September 7, 12 PM EDT – An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning with Applications in Healthcare presented by Homayoun Valafar
September 14, 12 PM EDT – Artificial Intelligence: Preparing for the Next Paradigm Shift in Medical Education presented by Cornelius James & Erkin Otles
September 21, 12 PM EDT – Transforming Healthcare Together: Empowering Health Professionals to Address Bias in the Rapidly Evolving AI-Driven Landscape presented by Sophia Bessias & Michael Paul Cary, Jr.
September 28, 12 PM EDT – AI Tools for Medical Educators presented by Vincent Capaldi, Dina Kurzweil, & Elizabeth Steinbach
October 5, 12 PM EDT – ChatGPT and Other AI Tools for Medicine and Medical Education presented by Bill Hersh
