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#IAMSE20 in Denver Call for Focus Sessions – Due September 1

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Time is still available to submit a focus session abstract for the 24th Annual IAMSE Conference to be held at the Hotel Hilton Denver City Center from June 13-16, 2020. The IAMSE meeting offers opportunities for faculty development and networking, bringing together medical sciences and medical education across the continuum of health care education.
The purpose of a 90-minute Focus Session is to “focus in” on a specific topic in a small group discussion format. Groups of 10-50 individuals consider a particular topic in an interactive format. Formats can be variable. For instance, the Session Leader may arrange for the pros and cons of a particular issue to be presented by a mini-panel discussion. Alternately, the group may be subdivided and certain tasks assigned to be developed for summary during the last 20-minutes of the session. Discussion in a paradigm of professional development is the goal, so not more than one-third of the time is to be used for a formal presentation (half of the time if using panel discussion format).
All abstracts must be submitted in the format requested through the online abstract submission site found here.
Submission deadline is September 1, 2019. Abstract acceptance notifications will be returned by November 1.
Please contact support@iamse.org for any questions about your submission.
We hope to see you next year!
Thank you,
Bonny Dickinson
Chair, IAMSE 2020 Program Committee

IAMSE to Visit the 2019 AMEE Meeting in Vienna, Austria

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The 2019 Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) Annual Conference will be taking place in Vienna, Austria from August 24 – 28, 2019. The IAMSE booth will be present at the conference to exhibit, so if you plan on attending this meeting, don’t forget to swing by and say hello!
During the meeting, you will also have an opportunity to see IAMSE in action at the sponsored symposium titled “Adapting to the Changing Times in Health Sciences Education.”
Date of Presentation: Monday, 26 August 2019
Time of Presentation: 10:15am – 12:00pm
Location of Presentation: Room L3, Level 1
Presenters: Peter GM de Jong, Sandy Cook, Neil Osheroff, Cathy Pettepher and Rick C Vari

IAMSE will also be hosting the IAMSE Luncheon for all members and non-members interested in our work to stop by and meet over lunch. There will be ample opportunity to informally talk to leadership and colleagues.
Date of the IAMSE Luncheon: Tuesday, 27 August 2019
Time of Presentation: 12:00pm – 02:00pm
Location of Lunch: Room 0.51, Level 0.  Located near the catering stations directly opposite Hall E and Hall E Foyers.

We look forward to seeing you in Austria! For more information on the AMEE Meeting, please click here.

Posters and Orals Still Being Accepted for #IAMSE20ASIA in Kuala Lumpur

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Due September 15

The International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) would like to remind you that abstracts for Oral and Poster presentations are still being accepted for the one-day IAMSE conference in Asia, on February 28, 2020. This conference will focus on “Integration in Medical and Health Science Education” and will take place in the internationally recognized Shangri-La Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The meeting immediately precedes the international Ottawa Conference on assessment, also held in Kuala Lumpur.

Please click here to submit your abstract today.

Submission deadline is September 15, 2019. There is no limit on the number of abstracts you may submit, but in the case of scheduling conflicts, only one presentation per presenter might be granted. Abstract acceptance notifications will be returned by November 15, 2019.

You Can’t Miss the IAMSE Annual Conference in 2020!

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IAMSE is pleased to invite you to join us at our next year’s annual meeting. Learn more about this exciting event and keep your calendars open!

24th Annual IAMSE Meeting
June 13-16, 2020
Denver, Colorado, USA

 

Conference Program
The IAMSE meeting offers many opportunities for faculty development and networking, and brings medical sciences and medical education across the continuum together. This year’s main topic is Envisioning the Future of Health Sciences Education. Confirmed keynote speakers are Maria Mylopoulos, PhD (University of Toronto, Canada); Megan Sumeracki, PhD (Rhode Island College, USA); Poh-Sun Goh, MBBS, FRCR, MHPE (National University of Singapore, Singapore); and Renay Scales, PhD (University of Kentucky, USA). The meeting offers workshops, focus sessions, oral and poster presentations, and several networking opportunities. In addition to the program, the IAMSE Fellowship and AMEE-ESME course will be offered. This year’s annual meeting is hosted by Rocky Vista University.
Who Should Attend?
The meeting is designed for all those who teach and lead curricula in the sciences of medicine and health. Participants include basic scientists and clinical medical faculty as well as members representing faculty from various other health care disciplines and educational disciplines. Also, students are always represented and involved in the program. This international meeting typically hosts over 25 nationalities from around the world.
About Denver
Denver, Colorado is a walkable, outdoor city with 300 days of sunshine, brilliant blue skies and breathtaking mountain scenery. Founded in 1858 as a gold mining camp, Denver is located at the base of the majestic Rocky Mountains, 5,280 feet (1,609 meters) above sea level – exactly one mile high. Denver offers urban adventures for all ages, spring, summer, fall or winter. Explore e Mile High City without ever needing a car. Getting into the city center is easy with direct rail service from Denver International Airport to Denver Union Station.
For more details, please visit www.iamseconference.org.

 

Don’t Miss These Great IAMSE How-to Guides

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As you may know, IAMSE has published two how-to manuals: the How-To Guide for Active Learning and the How-To Guide for Team-Based Learning as well as a Japanese Translation of the How-To guide for Team-Based Learning.

20150906_114002_21772 How-To Guide for Active Learning: This manual is a compilation of teaching strategies in active learning to adapt to your own large group settings. Each chapter is a specific description of a strategy written by authors who are experienced in using the strategy in a classroom environment with students. The Manual chapters are designed to be accessible and practical to the reader. The manual is edited by Alice Fornari and Ann Poznanski.
How to guide for TBL How-To Guide for Team-Based Learning: This “How-To” Guide for Team-Based Learning is a manual that provides an overview of the fundamental components TBL and serves as a blueprint for instructors considering using this technique. The manual also identifies factors that will facilitate or sabotage a successful implementation of TBL. Authored by Ruth Levine and Patricia Hudes, both internationally recognized experts in the field of TBL.
TBL Japanese Manual Cover How-To Guide for Team-Based Learning Japanese Translation: IAMSE is proud to announce that we now have a Japanese translation of this “How-To” guide! The How-To Guide for Team-Based Learning was authored by Ruth Levine and Patricia Hudes and translated by Yukari Igarashi,  Mariko Iida, Yoko Shimpuku, Yoichiro Miki, and Hiromi Seo.

If you’d like to purchase a digital copy of one or both of these manuals, please visit the IAMSE store here. Each manual is $5 for members or $10 for non-members. Please note: These manuals are for individual use only.

#IAMSE20 in Denver Call for Focus Sessions – Due September 1

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The International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) is pleased to announce the call for focus sessions for the 24th Annual IAMSE Conference to be held at the Hotel Hilton Denver City Center from June 13-16, 2020. The IAMSE meeting offers opportunities for faculty development and networking, bringing together medical sciences and medical education across the continuum of health care education.
The purpose of a 90-minute Focus Session is to “focus in” on a specific topic in a small group discussion format. Groups of 10-50 individuals consider a particular topic in an interactive format. Formats can be variable. For instance, the Session Leader may arrange for the pros and cons of a particular issue to be presented by a mini-panel discussion. Alternately, the group may be subdivided and certain tasks assigned to be developed for summary during the last 20-minutes of the session. Discussion in a paradigm of professional development is the goal, so not more than one-third of the time is to be used for a formal presentation (half of the time if using panel discussion format).
All abstracts must be submitted in the format requested through the online abstract submission site found here.
Submission deadline is September 1, 2019. Abstract acceptance notifications will be returned by November 1.
Please contact support@iamse.org for any questions about your submission.
We hope to see you next year!

Reimagining Faculty Development in Health Professions Education

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Faculty development can be defined as the myriad ways in which institutions and organizations support faculty members’ roles in education, research, service, and administration. These faculty development activities can take on a variety of forms and may have a range of goals and objectives. This Fall, the IAMSE webinar series will take a close look at faculty development for educators in the health professions. The five-part webinar series will begin with an introduction to current trends in faculty development for educators and scholars including identifying current challenges and opportunities. The series will then continue by examining specific topics in faculty development in detail.  First, we will hear about recruiting, retaining, and developing a diverse faculty, which is crucial in creating and maintaining an inclusive learning environment. The following session will be a how-to webinar on the construction of strong promotion and tenure packets based on the educational mission of one’s institution. Next, two innovative faculty development programs will be presented as case studies in successful faculty development, one sponsored by an institution and another sponsored by a professional society. The series will conclude with a webinar examining strategies for early intervention, specifically how to develop trainees as medical educators. This series will provide participants with not only practical tips for developing their own skills but also insight into how to become engaged with and possibly improve the faculty development culture within their institutions.

IAMSE Fall 2019 Webcast Audio Seminar Series

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Register yourself for the series!

Faculty development can be defined as the myriad ways in which institutions and organizations support faculty members’ roles in education, research, service, and administration. These faculty development activities can take on a variety of forms and may have a range of goals and objectives. This Fall, the IAMSE webinar series will take a close look at faculty development for educators in the health professions. The five-part webinar series will begin with an introduction to current trends in faculty development for educators and scholars including identifying current challenges and opportunities. The series will then continue by examining specific topics in faculty development in detail. First, we will hear about recruiting, retaining, and developing a diverse faculty, which is crucial in creating and maintaining an inclusive learning environment. The following session will be a how-to webinar on the construction of strong promotion and tenure packets based on the educational mission of one’s institution. Next, two innovative faculty development program will be presented as case studies in successful faculty development, one sponsored by an institution and another sponsored by a professional society. The series will conclude with a webinar examining strategies for early intervention, specifically how to develop trainees as medical educators. This series will provide participants with not only practical tips for developing their own skills but also insight into how to become engaged with and possibly improve the faculty development culture within their institutions.

Join us on Thursdays in September and October at 12pm Eastern for a deeper look at:

  • September 5 – The Current Landscape of Faculty Development: Challenges and Opportunities – Alice Fornari, EdD
  • September 12 – Recruiting, Retaining and Developing a Diverse Faculty – Darin Latimore, MD
  • September 19 – Congratulations! You’ve been promoted! Introducing the IAMSE Educator Toolkit – Bonny Dickinson, PhD and Maria Sheakley, PhD
  • September 26 – Innovative Faculty Development Programs: Two Case Studies – David Rogers, MD and Melissa Klein, MD
  • October 3 – “See One, Do One, Teach One”: Developing Trainees as Medical Educators – Valerie O’Laughlin, PhD and Teri Turner, MD

And the best part is

IAMSE Student Members Register FREE!

For more information on the series, student discount code or to register for individual sessions, contact support@iamse.org.

 

Congratulations to the 2019 Distinguished & Early Career Award Winners

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On behalf of the Educational Scholarship Committee, IAMSE would like to congratulate Neil Osheroff and Kelly Quesnelle on receiving the Distinguished Career Award and Early Career Award, respectively.

IAMSE 2019 Distinguished Career Award recipient, Neil Osheroff; IAMSE President \
Richard Vari; IAMSE 2019 Early Career Award Winner, Kelly Quesnelle

The Distinguished Career Award for Excellence in Teaching and Educational Scholarshiprecognizes an IAMSE member who has a distinguished record of educational scholarship, including educational research and dissemination of scholarly approaches to teaching and education. Candidates should be Professor, Associate Professor, or equivalent rank, or have demonstrated greater than 10 years of educational scholarship. Additionally, candidates must have a significant record of engagement within IAMSE.

The Early Career Award for Excellence in Teaching and Innovation honors an IAMSE member who has made significant innovations to the field in the short time they have focused their careers toward enhancing teaching, learning and assessment. Candidates for this award will be Assistant Professor or equivalent rank or have demonstrated less than 10 years of educational scholarship. Congratulations to Dr. Osheroff and Dr. Quesnelle on being honored at the 23rd Annual IAMSE Meeting in early June. Good luck to both of you in all your future endeavors.

Congratulations to the 2019 IAMSE Educational Grant Winners

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The International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) wishes to encourage and support scholarship in medical science education and funds multiple research grants every year. At the 2019 annual meeting, five faculty grants were given totaling $22,929. In addition, the Principal Investigator of each funded project will be awarded an additional $1,500 travel award to present the results of their grant research at a future IAMSE meeting. 

Faculty Awards
John Paige
Securing Unbiased Real-time Evaluations in Team Training of Interprofessional Students (SURE T2IPS).

Joann Quinn
Leadership Essentials in Undergraduate Medical Education and the Barriers to Implementation

Kristina Lisk
Making connections explicit: the effect of self-explanation and worked examples on integration

Diane Biskobing What is the Evidence for Differences in Faculty and Student Perceptions on Multiple Choice Questions Margaret McNulty
Improving Professional Role Knowledge Among Allied Health Students 

Congratulations to this year’s grant award winners. We are eager to see and hear about your findings. More information regarding IAMSE Educational Grants, including information on submitting yourself for consideration, can be found at our website. 

Thank you,
Amber Heck
IAMSE Educational Scholarship Committee

Say Hello to Our July Featured Member, ZX Chen!

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Say Hello to Our Featured Member – Zhi Xiong Chen!

Our association is a robust and diverse set of educators, researchers, medical professionals, volunteers and academics that come from all walks of life and from around the globe. Each month we choose a member to highlight their academic and professional career, and see how they are making the best of their membership in IAMSE. This month’s Featured Member is Dr. Zhi Xiong Chen.

Zhi Xiong Chen, B.Sc. (Hons), MHPE, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer and Integration Lead Educator (Medicine)
Deputy Education Director
Assistant Dean of Students
National University of Singapore
Singapore

Tell me a bit about your medical and professional background and what brought you to IAMSE?
I’m a pediatric cancer scientist by training. Initially I was introduced to IAMSE through APMEC meetings, but my involvement didn’t really take off until I became involved with the 2020 Asia meeting when I was introduced to (IAMSE Treasurer and 2020 in Asia Program Chair) Neil Osheroff by my mentor/colleague Dr Dujeepa Samarasekera in 2017. Since then, I got to know the Association a lot better in the past two years and that time has gone by really quickly. 

How are you involved with the Association?
I am on the Program Committee of the 2020 Asia meeting. It is a huge collective effort. I play a bit role relative to other heavyweights in helping to move the meeting along. At the early stage, we looked into venue and dates relative to IAMSE strategic thrusts, and crafting timelines for submissions and registration. Later on, we put together the plenaries and focus session proposals recommended by the reviewers in order to build a strong meeting. The number and quality of submissions was really encouraging. Hopefully, the meeting will help IAMSE better understand the medical education landscape in this region and connect new members from this part of the world to IAMSE. I am also pleased to share that APBSEA and I have been deeply engaged with IAMSE in coming up with sessions for the past 2 APMEC meetings, culminating in a Biomedical Science Track this year, and we can expect yet another great year together at APMEC 2020. On the other hand, thanks to support from IAMSE, I am grateful for my ‘inaugural’ IAMSE experience in 2018. At the 2019 IAMSE meeting, we managed to increase our participation from APBSEA and Singapore. We even had our first focus session! The IAMSE meeting is certainly going to be on my calendar from now on! 

You also founded your own association. Tell me about APBSEA.
APBSEA stands for the Asia-Pacific Biomedical Science Educators Association (APBSEA). It aspires to be an inclusive network of enthusiastic biomedical science educators from several countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Our members consist of educators with a PhD or a PhD and MBBS/MD who are involved in a spectrum of health professions education. APBSEA is now 1.5 years old and we are supporting, developing and empowering educators in the Asia-Pacific region through the creation of opportunities for collaboration, knowledge-sharing and the enhancement of biomedical sciences’ teaching and learning in health professions education.
 Currently, we have 70-80 members at more than 20 institutions across 10 countries or more. We are grateful to IAMSE for welcoming us with open arms and investing much strength and effort in helping us to grow and walk on our own two feet. IAMSE’s spirit of enterprise, openness and positivity is deeply appreciated and has been a key driver of influence and strength in our growth. We really wish to nurture the spirit of helping each other succeed and become better, so that together, we can better serve a broader and wider community of educators.
 APBSEA is also actively engaging in medical education research. Currently, our two areas of interest are biomedical sciences graduate education and teaching evaluation of educators. We would like to reach out and welcome anyone from IAMSE who wishes to collaborate or get involved. In doing so, we hope to reciprocate the goodwill and friendship that IAMSE has so warmly extended to us.

What other things are you up to? Research, articles, teaching, etc?
As the Deputy Education Director for Physiology at the National University of Singapore, I help to shape Physiology education in various disciplines in different ways. I teach medical, dental, life sciences and graduate students. I mentor students under various initiatives and am involved in organising medical education rounds as well as an Associate at the Centre for Medical Education (CenMED). Research-wise, I run a laboratory on paediatric solid tumors and mentor students at different levels and from various disciplines and institutions who are keen on having a taste of biomedical research. I am affiliated to the National University Cancer Institute, Singapore; and a Joint Scientist at the KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, where we are focused on finding new drugs, new mutations and new approaches for better evaluation, monitoring and treatment of disease.

I am also the Assistant Dean of Students (at NUS). So while I have two biological kids, I also have 38,000 non-biological ones here at the university. The role of Assistant Dean has really helped to synergize my passion for education with broader university policies. Leveraging on my medical school experiences, I seek to explore how those experiences may potentially benefit the wider NUS community and vice versa.

Education is my hobby. Fathering is my career. So I work really hard for my ‘career’ as a father by playing tennis, going on runs and hiking with my kids. I love the performing arts and am a big fan of theatre. In another universe, I could have been a full-time theatre practitioner. In many ways, theatre is relevant to education and I am glad to live my dream in both. My faith as a Christian helps to multiply my time and energy for the purpose that I live for. 

Anything else that you would like to add?
In the spirit of what IAMSE meeting has role-modeled for us, if anyone is coming to this part of the world, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me for a drink. Good wine drives learning!

Tips for Getting the Most From Your Member Profile

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Did you know that you can update your contact information and add a picture to your IAMSE Membership Profile? If you would like to update your information, you can do so by logging in to the IAMSE’s Member’s Only section of the website here.
 
Once logged in, click “My Profile” at the top of the page. From here, you can upload a picture to your profile by clicking on the current picture shown and also make any necessary changes to your membership profile, such as adding your address, phone number, or university. If you don’t remember your password, you can use the “Forgot your password?” link under the login boxes.
 
If you have any questions about updating your membership profile please let us know by emailing support@iamse.org.