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Educational Scholarship Luncheon with Larry Gruppen
Larry D. Gruppen, Ph.D., Josiah Macy Jr. Professor of Medical Education and Chair of the Department of Medical Education at the University of Michigan Medical School, will be on campus Wednesday, October 1. Join us for lunch and conversation and find out what he’s doing to promote scholarship and leadership among medical faculty at the University of Michigan. Read More and RSVP.
Faculty Discuss Disclosure Issues on Struggling Students
Should faculty be informed about a future student who is struggling? Should residents working with students receive the same information as faculty? These and other questions related to “forward feeding” about students’ progress are discussed in the September issue of Academic Medicine. Find out what other institutions are doing and let us know what you think about this “thorny issue” by emailing EducationInAction@osumc.edu Your responses will be published in a future issue of Education in Action.
Resources
Web Site Features Faculty Scholarship
The Center for Education and Scholarship has created a site that provides a central location for storing and displaying the scholarship generated through the education mission of the College of Medicine. To learn about presentations, funded projects, grants and publications of your colleagues, visit the Current Scholarship section of the Center for Education and Scholarship. Send information about your scholarly work for posting to CES@osumc.edu.
Tools
MedEdPORTAL Webinars Scheduled for September
Learn about submission and peer review processes, the criteria used to evaluate the scholarship of published resources, issues associated with intellectual property and other concerns to potential authors in a free, 45-minute interactive web conference training workshop provided by MedEdPORTAL, an online publication service provided by the AAMC. Find out more about MedEdPORTAL.
Recognition and Awards
John Mastronarde, MD, pulmonologist and director of the OSUMC asthma center, has been named president of the Association of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Program Directors. As president, he will be responsible for communications with program directions, as well as monitoring and responding to developments in training, accreditation, credentialing, manpower, financing, and other issues affecting programs in pulmonary and/or critical care medicine. Dr. Mastonarde will assume his new duties in 2010. Read more.
Faculty Teaching Scholars Program
Congratulations to the first cohort of faculty who participated in the 2008 Faculty Teaching Scholars Program. This program provides formal training for faculty in educational theory, teaching skills, peer review, educational scholarship and leadership. Selection is competitive, with acceptances limited to twelve participants who will complete the curriculum and develop an educational scholarship project. View the list of participants and find out more.
Education Journal Club
Torre D, Daley B, Sebastian J, and Elnicki D, “Overview of Current Learning Theories for Medical Educators,” The American Journal of Medicine, Volume 119, issue 10 (October, 2006), p. 903-907
A solid grounding in learning theories can help you make important decisions about your teaching and can help you as you share your instructional approaches with your colleagues. Understanding key learning theories provides a rational basis for selecting instructional strategies and matching evaluation methods to curricular goals. This article provides an excellent overview of learning theories with practical examples from medical education. This article is available through the E-Journals on the Prior Health Sciences Web Site (use this link if you are off campus).
An article in Slate.com (http://img.slate.com/) asks whether an ignorant doctor is really better than a tired one. The article, titled “The Nightmare of Night Float” by Sandeep Jauhar, focuses on the increased use of night float interns due to resident work-hour restrictions. Read more.
Upcoming Seminars
Wednesday, September 17
“Adult Learning and Current Educational Theories for Medical Educators,” Dr. Cynthia Ledford
12:00 noon – 1:00 pm, 400 Prior Health Sciences Library
A solid grounding in learning theories can help you make important decisions about your teaching. During this session you will get a booster shot on adult learning and other learning theories, including an overview, practical examples and exercises applicable to health sciences education. One (1) hour of Category I CME credit.
September 22-23
Teaching Resources 101
Presented by the Health Sciences Instructional Designers Community of Practice
Room 460B Prior Prior Health Sciences Library & Center for Knowledge Management
376 West 10th Avenue
Sessions presented throughout the week include:
- “Teaching and Technology,” - Overview of technology resources and their use in the classroom
- “Carmen Quickstart” - Get a jumpstart on the basics of Carmen
- “Turning Point” - Learn how to integrate clickers into your classroom
- “Podcasting 101” - Learn the basics of podcasting
- “Media Manager” - Learn how to upload, organize and share your teaching/research/project digital media files, including podcasts, in this easy-to-use Arts and Sciences instructional resource
- “Library Services and Copyright” - Copyright issues and closed reserve and other library services
- “Digital Union” - Overview of the resources available at the Digital Union
Reminder: If you have an idea for a workshop that you would like to submit for the SGIM Conference next May, please contact the Center for Education and Scholarship , or Dr. Lucey at
Catherine.lucey@osumc.edu.
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