Day 2 Morning

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 inpatient diabetes (thanks to participation help!)

David shared with us his recommendation for the one book we should read: Co-Intelligence Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick.

David got us “nerve-cited” (nervous and excited) and left us with his 4 pearls:

1.     Always invite AI to the table

2.     Be the human in the loop

3.     Treat AI like a person (but tell it what kind of person)

4.     Assume this is the worst AI you will ever use

Remember, good teaching is about good content, technology is just the tool!

We then pivoted from AI into a very “old” method of teaching. Dr. Schwartzstein taught us about how to design and deliver more effective lectures – a big challenge these days! He provided some techniques to improve learner engagement. (There is that word engagement again! How many times has this been brought up throughout the course?!?!) The goals of a good lecture are to inspire learners, challenge them, and transmit information. Dr. Schwartzstein expanded upon the use of questions that you heard about from Dr. Hayes.  He told us we should wait 7 seconds after we ask a question. He taught us to be careful with our visual aids (make sure we are writing large enough on white board/blackboards) and with our PowerPoints – ensure that we limit the number of texts, ensure that fonts are big enough.

We then had an inspiring talk on Mentoring by Huma Farid. She talked about the benefits of mentoring for the mentee: acceleration of career trajectory, promotion, adapting to new environment, gaining new skills, the mentor: satisfaction, collaboration, affirmation, and the institution: increased satisfaction, retention, better patient care.

She talked about the importance of needing multiple mentors and the concept of fractional mentorship

She also talked about the power and value of peer mentoring! She left us with some homework – to reach out and thank a mentor of ours.

Dr. Anandaiah wrapped up the morning session with a talk on Interprofessional Teaching. She started by defining interprofessional education (IPE) which is “when two or more professions learn WITH, FROM, ad ABOUT each other to improve collaboration and the quality of care.” She shared how IPE is often done in UME but can be difficult in GME, so she shared the idea of Interprofessional Teaching (IPT) – which is using all team members to teach.

She shared that incorporating Interprofessional Teaching (IPT):

·       Facilitate and nurture trust amount care team members

·       Create and effective and efficient learning environment

·       Improve patient care and outcomes

She inspired us to give this a try but INVITING colleagues from different professions to teach.