Principles of Medical Education: Maximizing Your Teaching Skills

Principles of Medical Education: Maximizing Your Teaching Skills

Date: 4/7/2011 - 4/9/2011
Course #: 00312631

Location:
Cambridge Marriott-Kendall Square,
2 Cambridge Center,
Cambridge, MA

Offered by: Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research
at Harvard Medical School and
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Course Directors: Beth Lown, MD, Lori Newman, MEd, David Roberts, MD, and Richard Schwartzstein, MD

Who should attend:

clinicians, mental health professionals, family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, medical subspecialists, emergency medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, neuro

This course is an introduction to the principles of effective clinical teaching for adult learners. Through didactic and interactive sessions, participants will learn models of clinical instruction and how to apply these effective techniques to their own teaching. The course will also provide an exploration of critical thinking, reflection, assessment, and feedback. All sessions will be interactive and faculty will model instructional strategies described in the course.

Course facilitators are Harvard Medical School faculty members with advanced training in medical education and extensive experience teaching medical students, residents, and faculty. Participants will rotate through a series of 5 dynamic, small group sessions focusing on teaching methods such as case-based teaching, lecturing, bedside teaching, providing effective feedback, and ambulatory clinical teaching.

Plenary sessions will offer insights into the principles of adult learning, the fostering of critical thinking skills, the assessment of trainee competencies, and the effective use of technology for the current generation of learners (“Millennials”). Spotlight sessions will highlight essential skills and current issues in medical education. Course attendees may also visit our state-of-the-art Carl J. Shapiro Simulation and Skills Center to learn first-hand how simulation may be effectively incorporated into clinical teaching.

OBJECTIVE

Participants will have the opportunity to network and engage with like-minded clinician-educators from across the country and around the world to discuss their educational challenges and questions. Facilitators will encourage attendees to reflect on their own learning needs throughout the conference. At the Carl J. Shapiro Simulation and Skills Center, attendees will have the opportunity for hands-on participation in simulated learning experiences.

ACCREDITATION

Harvard Medical School is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Harvard Medical School designates this educational activity for a maximum of 17 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ [Course Only] or 20.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ [Course with Optional Evening Workshop]. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Full Fee $850.00 (USD)
OPTIONAL Evening Workshop (Thursday, April 7, 2011) $250.00 (USD)

All foreign payments must be made by a draft on a United States Bank or by Visa or MasterCard.

If paying by CHECK, please make payable to Harvard Medical School and mail with completed registration form to Harvard Medical School‑Department of Continuing Education, PO Box 825, Boston, MA 02117‑0825.

If paying by credit card, please register online via the REGISTER NOW! link above.

Telephone or mail‑in registration with credit card payment is not accepted.

Inquiries should be directed to the above address, made by phone: (617) 384‑8600, Monday ‑ Friday, 10 AM to 4 PM (EST), or by email: hms‑cme@hms.harvard.edu