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 HTN for nurse anesthetist students.

He shared with us, the anatomy of a prompt:

·       Context/Role

·       Learners/stage- “I am teaching students, residents etc…”

·       Content request

·       Goal – “learners will use this for…”

·       Additional iteration, tone, clarification

We had a good discussion of pros and cons and he left us with some thought provoking questions:

What does it mean to be an educator in the world of AI? A Healthcare professional? A Human?

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

We then pivoted from AI into a very “old” method of teaching (no comment on Rich’s age as he said!!) 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 and Dr. Fishman.  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 text, ensure that fonts are big enough.

We then had a powerful talk on feedback by Dr. Meredith Atkins teaching us how to do one of the most difficult things – give effective feedback!! Dr. Atkin’s shared Jack Ende’s powerful definition of feedback: “…an informed, non-evaluative, objective appraisal of performance intended to improve…skills-rath than an estimate of the trainee’s personal worth…”

Dr. Atkins talked about the power of positive framing and depositing into the feedback bank. We talked about how feedback should be authentic, timely, specific, behavior focused.

She shared a few feedback frameworks, telling us she likes COIN

C- Context – define the contex

O- Observation – describe the behavior

I – Impact – Clarify the impact

N- Next – Make a suggestion

She taught us about the cognitive and motivational factors for giving feedback and she re-iterated some of what Dr. Smith told us yesterday (see that spaced repetition) about the praise: criticism ratio and ensuring that we praise in public and given feedback to improvement in private.

We ended a busy morning with an inspiring talk from Dr. Grace Huang on personal and professional strategies for academic advancement.  She wanted us to reframe how we think about this as professional vitality!  She led us through some self reflection exercises to help us identify areas of interest.

One of the exercises she had do was an educational mission statement:

I want to teach _____(which learners?)

about ____ (which topics?)

o that I can improve ____ (what outcome?)

She helped us think through on tendencies as innovators, leaders, scholars.

She left us with many insightful points, one of the most important is that development is not linear!