Congratulations to the following IAMSE members:

James N. Norton, Ph.D. from South Portland, Maine, has been named the 2010 Didactic Instructor of the Year by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA). http://www.une.edu/news/2010/nortondidactic.cfm

Kurtis G. Kornish, Ph.D. received the “Golden Apple” outstanding teaching award from the first year medical students at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine. http://www.unmc.edu/physiology/index.cfm?conref=3

Dean Parmelee, M.D. was invited to lead an International Symposium at the 2010 AMEE meeting in Glasgow, Scotland on Team-Based Learning in Medical Education. Joining him on the podium were Larry Michaelsen, the creator of TBL in the business school domain, Dr. Sandy Cook from Duke/NUS Singapore, Dr. Hossam Hamdy from the University of Sharjah, UAE, and Dr. Toshi Yoshioka from the Women's Medical College of Tokyo. He also conducted two workshops on TBL. http://www.med.wright.edu/aa/parmelee.html

Alfred Roy, M.D. from the Department of Pathology at St. Matthew’s University School of Medicine won the “Golden Apple” award for his teaching last semester.

Shivayogi Bhusnurmath, M.D., Dean of Academic Affairs at St. George’s University School of Medicine presented on the use of modified essay questions in the evaluation of medical students at the Association of Pathology Chairs Course Directors Section meeting held in Seattle this last July. 

Rob Carroll, Ph.D. was appointed as the Interim Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs in the Basic Sciences at Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University. http://www.ecu.edu/physiology/carrollr.cfm

Kevin F. Moynahan, M.D., was promoted to Deputy Dean for Education at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. In this role, he oversees undergraduate medical education, graduate medical education, dual degree programs and continuing medical education.

John Pelley, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Biochemistry at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine received the Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award. http://www.ttuhsc.edu/som/cbb/faculty/pelley.aspx

Welcome to our New Members!

15th Annual IAMSE Meeting

"Building Healthcare Professionals in a
Medical Science Curriculum"

June 18-21, 2011
St. Petersburg, FL
St. Petersburg, Hilton Hotel

Follow meeting details at http://iamseconference.org

Call for Poster Abstracts is currently open!  Deadline to Submit:  March 1, 2011 - details here

Registration will open January 1st!

Winter Web Audio Seminar Series

"New Places, New Opportunities, New Ideas in Medical Education"

January 18- February 22, 2011

New medical schools are opening their doors every year in response to an increasing demand for medical practitioners and, correspondingly, medical education. Do they avail of this opportunity to do business as usual or to be innovative and do something different? We asked this question of six medical schools whose curricula reflect their unique missions and their responses form the basis of this seminar series.  New opportunities in medical education that they speak to include:  increased training in medical research skills across all four years of the undergraduate curriculum; a true integration of inter professional training into medical education; a committed focus on professionalism enabled through a program of mentored self assessment and reflection; and, dealing with cultural differences with a transplanted curriculum.

Mark your Calendar for the Spring Series

"The Use of E-Learning in Medical Education"

Series starts March 8, 2011

Medical Science Educator

Beginning January 1, 2011,  JIAMSE, The Journal of the International Association of Medical Science Educators will take on a new name - Medical Science Educator.  Watch your email for further announcement and the launch of the new Journal Website!

10th Annual Team-Based Learning Conference

March 2-4, 2011
Las Vegas, NV
Planet Hollywood
Meeting Website:  TBLCMeeting.org

Deadline to submit poster abstracts - December 15, 2010

2nd all Russian Conference on Medical Education

March 24-25, 2011
Moscow Russia
Meeting Website:  ACMOK

6th Congress of the Asian Medical Education Association

March 23-26, 2011
Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
Meeting Website:  AMEA Scientific Programme

2011 AMEE Meeting

August 27-31, 2011
Vienna Austria
Meeting Website:  AMEE.org