Stay connected with your colleagues around the globe and join us for this week’s IAMSE Cafe round table discussions. Join our moderators, Dr. Kelly Quesnelle from Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine today and Dr. Jon Wisco from Boston University School of Medicine on Thursday as they facilitate conversations focused on how… Read more »
IAMSE20 Conference Update #2
Each year, IAMSE is committed to holding a high quality, safe scientific meeting for educators from around the globe. Depending on the developing situation with COVID-19, we are committed to moving forward with an event for our membership. The format may be a hybrid in-person/virtual meeting with online presentations for attendees still under travel bans… Read more »
Adi Haramati to Present Practicing Self-care in a Time of Crisis
Join moderator Dr. Kelly Quesnelle this morning as she welcomes Adi Haramati, PhD from Georgetown University to the second IAMSE Cafe virtual discussion. Dr. Haramati will be sharing techniques for self-care during this, and other, times of high stress and crisis. Thursday, April 2, 2020 at 10AM ESTĀ ā Leading by Example: Practicing Self-care in… Read more »
Join Moderator Kelly Quesnelle for Today’s #IAMSECafe Virtual Chat!
As we all forge ahead building online classrooms and serving remote student bodies, IAMSE is here to keep you connected with your colleagues around the globe. We invite you to join us beginning today for IAMSE Cafe, a virtual round table discussion where you control the conversations. Join our moderator, Dr. Kelly Quesnelle from Western… Read more »
Free Aquifer Access: Now Available to All North American Medical and Physician Assistant Schools
Aquifer is extending their offer of free access to 146 Aquifer signature cases, plus WISE-MD and WISE-OnCall, to all North American medical schools and physician assistant programs – including non-subscribers as well as subscribers through June 30, 2020 – in an effort to support our institutions and our students in this time of critical need…. Read more »
Join Your IAMSE Colleagues for #IAMSECafe Virtual Chats!
As we all forge ahead building online classrooms and serving remote student bodies, IAMSE is here to keep you connected with your colleagues around the globe. We invite you to join us over the next few weeks for IAMSE Cafe, a virtual round table discussion where you control the conversations. Have you transitioned seamlessly online… Read more »
A special message from our partners at AAMC
We hope this message finds you doing well!Ā We want to share your great work and support the broad learning community with new or adapted clinically relevant learning experiences. Our medical and health professionsā educators are responding to this pandemic with new or adapted learning experiences that can be done without patient contact during COVID-19…. Read more »
A Review from Medical Science Educator from Dr. Dani McBeth
Each month the IAMSE Publications Committee reviews published articles from Medical Science Educator. This monthās review, written by Dr. Dani McBeth, is taken from the article titledĀ Factors Predictive of Performance on USMLE Step 1: Do Commercial Study Aids Improve Scores?Ā (doi:10.1007/s40670-019-00722-4) published inĀ Medical Science Educator, Volume 29, (pages 667ā672), 2019 by Parry, S., Pachunka, J. &… Read more »
Early Bird Deadline for #IAMSE20 Suspended
In light of the sudden shift in working and teaching conditions, as well as the sweeping global restrictions on travel and mass gatherings, we understand the uncertainties regarding the IAMSE 2020 meeting. Educators all over the world are dealing with event cancelations, postponements and format changes. Given the current climate and uncertainty facing most of… Read more »
ScholarRx offers free access to Rx Bricks online curricular system to schools affected by COVID-19
In response to a request for assistance from a partner medical school impacted by COVID-19, ScholarRx has agreed to make its Rx Bricks program available at no cost to M2 students for the remainder of the 2019-20 academic year. This comprehensive, online resource can assist schools implementing contingency plans necessitated by the COVID-19 outbreak. In… Read more »
Have an Announcement? Share it in Medical Science Educator!
In every issue of Medical Science Educator, we publish an announcements section. In this section, we share information that is of interest to the readership of the journal. Individual IAMSE members wishing to post medical education related announcements in the Journal are invited to send their requests to the Editorial Assistant atĀ journal@iamse.org. Announcements may be… Read more »
#IAMSE20 Faculty Development Course Highlight
The 24thĀ Annual IAMSE Meeting will featureĀ a host of new workshops throughout the entireĀ conference. One of our first-time workshops is Designing VR-Enhanced Educational Activities: A Backward Design Approach. This afternoon workshop will be given on Saturday, June 13Ā and will be led by Yerko Berrocal, Wen Cheng (Mark) Huang, Daniel Salcedo and James Thomas. Workshop:Ā From Theory to… Read more »