We started this last day with a session on Curriculum Design by Dr. Morgan Soffler. Although other design methods exist, she focused on Kern’s 6 step curriculum design: problem identification, targeted needs assessment, goals &objectives, educational strategies, implementation, evaluation & feedback. Dr. Soffler stressed that this is not a linear process and is iterative. We also spent the last few minutes thinking about how to use AI for curriculum development.   Dr. Huma Fa

Dr. Chris Smith came back for his second talk on assessment of learning. He taught us that to be competent one must possess the required skills in all domains within a certain context at a defined stage of education or practice. He discussed the important issues of “competent vs. competence.” Dr. Smith added another pyramid to our repertoire of pyramids – Miller’s Pyramid (knows, knows how, shows how, does) and talked about how to get the top of Miller’s Pyramid!  (We told yo

We kicked off this morning with Dr. David Roberts talking about leveraging technology with an emphasis on generative AI and large language models. He provided a great overview and taught us some of the basics.       He demonstrated how we can use Chat GPT to help us with a teaching session – a session on HTN for nurse anesthetist students.   He shared with us, the anatomy of a prompt: ·       Context/Role ·       Learners/stage- “I am teaching students, residents etc…” ·     

Dr. Chris Smith kicked off our first afternoon with an exciting talk on clinical teaching.   During his talk, he told us that patients, teachers, and learners, like clinical teaching, but there are a lot of barriers and challenges to teaching at the bedside. One of the biggest barriers is TIME! (Other barriers include patient privacy, faculty knowledge, micro and macro aggressions.)  One way to overcome the TIME challenge is to prepare! He also talked about the microskills of

We kicked off the course with a great session by Dr. David Roberts. David inspired us to invest in our professional development to improve our teaching, He also talked about the ladder of competence and the goal to move from unconscious incompetence to mindful competence.  He reminded us that we don’t cover material, we uncover knowledge.   He shared Alvin Toffler’s powerful quote:   “The illiterate of the 21 st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those