Course Info

The Techniques and Strategies That Significantly Improve Student Engagement, and Teaching and Mentoring Effectiveness

Principles of Medical Education: Maximizing Your Teaching Skills will be held online this year, using live streaming, electronic Q&A, and other remote learning technologies.

OVERVIEW

Incorporating best practices, newer principles of adult learning, and widely available technologies into your teaching can significantly improve your ability to engage and inspire students, residents, fellows, and colleagues. This special program, ranked among Harvard Medical School’s highest-rated CME courses, is a uniquely comprehensive exploration of best practices for teaching medicine at the bedside, in ambulatory settings, and in the classroom.

The 2024 curriculum helps medical educators to:

Provide more effective feedback that motivates change
Utilize active learning strategies in small and large group teaching settings
Deliver more impactful and engaging lectures
Identify effective best practices for mentor-mentee relationships
Optimize evaluation of trainee competencies
Improve the interactivity of small group discussions
Enhance critical thinking and self-learning among students using concept maps and inductive reasoning
Describe real-time strategies to address unprofessional behavior
Identify strengths and weaknesses of various assessment tools
Integrate social media and digital education into your teaching portfolio
Incorporate technology into your teaching
Create an action plan for implementing and sustaining effective change as leaders in medical education
Identify strategies to recognize and mitigate bias
Identify personal and organizational strategies for well-being

Case-based and hands-on learning are a hallmark of this course, with significant participant interaction and active modeling of instruction techniques. Whether you are newer to teaching or a seasoned educator and mentor, this course will give you modern tools and practices to optimize skills transfer and learner success.

SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

Areas of focus in which attendees will deepen their skills include:

Interactive Lecturing
Bedside Teaching
Effective Mentoring
Impactful Feedback
Developing Curriculum
Assessing Learners
Learner Engagement
Teaching Critical Thinking
Teaching and Maintaining Wellness

OPTIMIZED FOR REMOTE EDUCATION

The 2024 program has been enhanced for distance learning. In addition to being live streamed, all sessions will be recorded and made available to participants for online viewing for 90 days after the end of the course.

OPTIONAL ADD-ON WORKSHOP

Friday, March 22, 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

TRACK 1 - SUCCESSFUL CAREER DEVELOPMENT FOR THE CLINICIAN-EDUCATOR

Through a series of highly interactive workshops, you will explore the skills educators need to climb an institution’s promotion ladder and succeed in a career in academic medicine. You will learn strategies to:

Build an educational niche and navigate a successful career path
Spearhead educational innovations and attain greater visibility for your work
Becoming an educational change agent
Identify your personal leadership style
Manage your time in order to stay clinically and academically productive

Space is limited for this workshop; early registration is advised.

TRACK 2: TAKING YOUR TEACHING TO THE NEXT LEVEL

This highly interactive and hands-on skills building session will equip the modern educator with tools to be an A+ teacher in 2024. This session will provide you up-to-date techniques to improve your teaching effectiveness in the classroom and at the bedside. You will learn:

Strategies to improve the performance of your students and advance your own critical thinking
Tangible tips to create an elegant slide presentation without hours of tinkering and frustration
Strategies to enhance interactivity of online learning, including all the tips and tricks that Zoom has to offer
How to give feedback using the advocacy inquiry approach
Principles of effective twitter messages and infographic/visual abstract design
Key tools within infographic-making software, such as Canva