Faculty Development Opportunities

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The IAMSE Webcast Audio Seminar Series, Fall 2006 will begin on Tuesday, October 17, 2006 and end on November 21, 2006. The theme of this series was “Learner Centered Strategies for the Lecture Hall.”
The 2006 AAMC Annual Meeting was held October 27-November 1, 2006, in Seattle, Washington. The theme was “Pursuing Excellence, Creating Value.” Keynote speakers included Jim Collins, management educator and author of Built to Last and Good to Great and, also, William Sullivan of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Cutting edge topics included: “Treating America’s Newest Veterans” and “Transforming Chronic Care in Academic Settings.”
Six faculty from SUNY Stony Brook visited IUSM on October 9-10, 2006 because they are interested in adopting a competency based curriculum. IUSM students, administrators, competency directors and the medical education team participated in interactive discussions with the SUNY visitors to share information about assessment, competency databases, OSCEs, and general successes and challenges noted after ten years of implementation of a competency based medical education program.
Wendy Levinson, M.D., FRCPC, Professor of Medicine and Chair, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, presented “Disclosing Medical Error: A Challenge for Physicians” on Friday March 3, 2006 on the IUSM campus. Dr. Levinson visited Indianapolis as part of a Pfizer Visiting Professorship Grant in Clear Health Communication.
The 2005 Annual Medical Education Retreat was held October 10, 2005 at Bradford Woods. The session focused on teaching Team Based Learning in a format that can be applied to courses currently being taught at IUSM. Retreat facilitators included Dr. Larry K. Michaelsen, Central Missouri State University as well as Dr. Dean Parmalee and Dr. Gary Neider, both from Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine.
On Monday, September 26, 2005 representatives from St. Georges University, Grenada spent the day visiting various IUSM departments to learn more about how the school operates the regional medical education system and develop our medical school curriculum.
Indiana University School of Medicine hosted its first annual Relationship-Centered Care Initiative Immersion Conference from August 23-26, 2005 in Indianapolis, IN. Teams of education administrators and leaders (6-7 persons per school) participated to learn more about purposeful approaches to organizational culture change. The following medical schools were represented at the inaugural conference: Baylor, Dartmouth, Drexel, Indiana University, McMaster University, Southern Illinois University, University of Missouri-Columbia and University of North Dakota.
On Thursday, May 12, 2005 the following interactive webcast was shown: Cultural Competency in Health Professions Training: Considerations for Implementation. The webcast was sponsored by the AAMC American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP).
The following IAMSE Webcast Audio Seminars were offered during spring 2005: Learning Theories (March 8), Learning Portfolios (March 22), Learning Styles (April 5), Analyzing Learners and Learning Context (April 21), Concept Mapping as a Student Learning Tool (May 3), and Student-Centered Academic Counseling (May 17).
Thirty-three IUSM faculty and education staff participated in a luncheon discussion about Team Based Learning on Friday, March 11, 2005 at University Place Hotel. Team learning is an innovative approach to small group teaching that can be used successfully in classes with high student to faculty ratios (e.g., over 100:1). It was developed by Dr. Larry K. Michaelsen, while a faculty member at the University of Oklahoma, and has been refined and disseminated into a variety of disciplines over the last twenty-five years, including medical education. The luncheon was the first in a series of TBL educational events that have been planned for spring 2005. Additional events will include a session with Dr. Paul Haidet, a faculty member at Baylor Medical School and an opportunity for interested faculty to participate in a three day Team Based Learning immersion workshop led by experts at Wright State University in Ohio.
On February 28, 2005, representatives from the University of Miami School of Medicine visited IUSM to learn about developing a center system for medical education. Florida Atlantic University will be a regional campus for the University of Miami and will begin to provide medical education for first and second year students.
Ronald Epstein, M.D., from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, participated in the Medical Ethics and Humanities Series. “Mindful Practice” was held on Friday, November 10, 2004 in the IU Cancer Research Institute auditorium. This presentation provided practitioners and learners with tools to recognize and develop mindful practice within themselves and colleagues, and helping to promote mindful practice.
Aviad Haramati, Ph.D., Professor of Physiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine participated as our Visiting Professor at the 2004 IUSM Education Retreat. The event was held on Monday, October 11, 2004 at the Marten House Conference Center on the north side of Indianapolis. Dr. Haramati was chosen by the AAMC in 2002 as one of the quintessential medical educators in our country and has done remarkable work examining how the competencies (especially self-awareness, self care, and personal growth) can be fostered within the curriculum in a scientific context.
On July 19 and 20, 2004, representatives from McMaster University Faculty of Health Sciences, Toronto, CA visited IUSM to learn about the development and management of our competency-defined curriculum, and tracking and documentation of student performance. McMaster University is one of the first medical schools to use a problem-based learning approach to teaching and pioneered many of the teaching approaches used in other schools today.
Jordan Cohen, M.D., president of the Association of American Medical Colleges, participated in Grand Rounds on Wednesday, June 9, 2004. His lecture, “Professionalism: A New Covenant for a New Era,” was held in Van Nuys Medical Science Building, Room 326. Dr. Cohen is a dynamic speaker, carries visionary messages and is one of the most important and influential leaders in medical education throughout the world.
William Branch Jr., M.D., the Chief of General Internal Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and the Koppaka Scholar in Humane Medicine at IUSM, participated in the IUSM Visiting Scholar Day. On Wednesday, March 3, 2004, he presented “Teaching Professional Values: Why It Matters.” On Tuesday, March 2, 2004, he held a dinner and workshop entitled “Physicians as Patients: Personal and Family Views.” Dr. Branch is internationally recognized as an educator and researcher with a focus on humanism, ethics, and professionalism.
Paul Batalden, M.D., from Dartmouth University School of Medicine visited IUSM on January 27, 2004 as a consultant to the Fetzer Relationship-Centered Care Initiative. He is a national expert on clinical microsystems and quality improvement. The focus of his visit was on medical education microsystems and their role in the professional cultural formation work being done at Indiana University School of Medicine.