It is our pleasure to invite you to join us for the Ninth
Annual Meeting of the International Association of Medical Science Educators
(IAMSE), to be held in Los Angeles, California from July 16-19, 2005. This
event, hosted by the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine
, will explore issues in the teaching and learning of sciences fundamental to
practice in all health professions. The meeting is directed toward course and
clerkship directors, basic scientists, academic physicians, preceptors, deans
for medical education, academic affairs, faculty development, CME, educational
psychologists, and all those who have interest in more appropriately
integrating science within health professions curricula. As global
interdisciplinary events, IAMSE annual association meetings attract
participants on average from thirty countries, who represent subject
disciplines throughout all human health professions and veterinary medicine.
The program for IAMSE 2005 addresses today’s current
issues and trends that influence science teaching and learning within the
curriculum. Three significant examples are “How We Learn,” “Effective
Organizational Change” and “Students’ Voice in Education.”
As in previous IAMSE annual association meetings, internationally recognized
speakers will set the stage with topics for numerous interactive small group
focus sessions and hands-on workshops. Poster sessions and oral presentations
of original work have been expanded. On Saturday, day-long courses in faculty
development will be provided in five concurrent offerings and the registration
limit set at thirty individuals per course. The Monday plenary session
promises a lively, provocative debate that examines “30 Years of PBL.”
A special Tuesday morning plenary session provides an update on “USMLE
– What Should Preclinical Educators Know?”
New features in the program for IAMSE 2005 include:
1) faculty development courses that may be applied towards the Medical
Education Research Certificate (MERC) offered by the Research in Medical
Education (RIME) section of the AAMC Group on Educational Affairs; 2) “Innovations
in Technology Supported Learning” which allows exhibitors
and faculty to join forces to provide hands-on, up-to-date information on a
variety of topics; and 3) the first series of Resource Xchange sessions
that invite participants to share material on a range of medical education
topics.
Venues for IAMSE 2005 will be the Keck School of Medicine,
USC, and the Omni Los Angeles Hotel at California Plaza. USC’s School of
Medicine, founded in 1885, was the first medical school established in the
region. In 1999, in recognition of extraordinary philanthropic support from
the W.M. Keck Foundation, the Keck School of Medicine received its present
name. The four-diamond Omni Hotel, where meeting registrants will stay, is
located on historic Bunker Hill in the very center of downtown Los Angeles.
(Register before June 15 to receive the reduced IAMSE group rate!)
The IAMSE gala social event this year will provide
registrants and their guests the unique opportunity to experience the Autry
National Center’s Museum of the American West, located in Los Angeles’
scenic
Griffith Park. Gene Autry, known as “America’s Favorite Singing Cowboy,”
is the only entertainer to have five stars on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. The
Autry National Center explores the experiences and perceptions of the diverse
peoples of the American West.
Participants who register before April 1, 2005 will qualify
for reduced registration rates. The deadline for Poster Abstract Submission is
March 15. We cordially invite you to join us this coming July for a
professional development experience in the true style of the International
Association of Medical Science Educators.
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