Welcome to a large (now over 3000!) and growing international community of educators from all disciplines in healthcare!  We are looking forward to coming together via the power of technology for three stimulating days of learning, teaching, community building, and networking.

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We are going to take full advantage of the power of remote learning over Zoom to bring together your voices from across the world for three days of active learning. You will meet and interact with colleagues from around the globe, share your insights, and learn from different perspectives on health professions education challenges in 2026 and beyond.

 

An important part of this course is building community and creating opportunities to connect with one another. We want you to get to know US, and we want to get to know YOU! To help make our virtual classroom feel as engaging and connected as possible, we encourage you to keep your camera on whenever you are able. Seeing one another makes a real difference and helps create the interactive learning environment that makes this course so special.

 

Please follow us on Instagram and X (@BIDMC_Education) to see live tweets throughout the course and participate in the discussion. We will be posting papers, resources, and relevant points from each talk throughout the course with hashtag #HMSMedEd26. We want to hear from you! We will also be posting these resources in the chat during the conference and including them in the bibliographies on the website for those of you that do not use social media.

 

We have created a collection of most of the articles referenced in the course through the free app called Read by QxMD. This app can be downloaded on both the iOS app store and Android / Google Play store. This app does require that you have a university-affiliated library login. The steps to get this app up and running can be found here: https://readbyqxmd.com/ and our curated article pdf's can be accessed by choosing to "Follow" the collection of articles entitled "Principles of Medical Education." 

 

We have also created some high yield videos that are meant to complement the material in the course. You will have access to these throughout the course and we encourage all to watch them.

 

• SNAPPS – Dr. Daniel Ricotta

• Concept Mapping – Theory – Dr. Richard Schwartzstein

• Concept Mapping – Practice – Dr. Jeremy Richards

 

To summarize, this is going to be an interactive and engaging course!  Before we start, please do the following:

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• Download latest version of zoom

• Follow us on X and Instagram @BIDMC_Education (#HMSMedEd26)

• Download Read by QxMD apphttps://readbyqxmd.com/

• Log into www.principlesofmeded.com  (using the password provided by HMS in the welcome note). This is where you will find everything you need for the course including the current agenda, zoom link, videos, and syllabus materials.

 

We look forward to teaching and learning together over these action-packed days! The course will begin promptly at 8:00am (Eastern) on Tuesday, October 20th at http://www.principlesofmeded.com/ (using the password provided by Harvard Medical School CME).

 

Please reach out to us if you have any questions (education@bidmc.harvard.edu).  

 

See you soon,

Course Directors

www.principlesofmeded.com

Instagram and X: @BIDMC_Education

Email: education@bidmc.harvard.edu

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