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IAMSE Fall 2016 WAS Session 2 Highlights

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In case you missed yesterday’s Webcast Audio Seminar (WAS) Session, here are the highlights of this session:

Self-directed learning in your curriculum—getting from theory to practice.
Sandrijn Vanschaik, MD, PhD
University of California San Francisco (UCSF)

Douglas Larsen, M.D.
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

William Cutrer, M.D.
Vanderbilt University

  • Physicians and health care professionals need life-long learning skills because of rapidly expanding medical knowledge
  • Self-regulated learning that links (goals/plans) to (actions/monitoring) to (assessment/reflection) in a circular fashion is the most optimal learning framework for taking the novice practitioner to expert
  • Student goal setting needs to be in an appropriate timeframe and a collaborative discussion between student and faculty
  • The Master Adaptive Learner develops life-long learning skills that can applied to learning now, the immediate future, and much later
  • Critical thinking and reflection are necessary at each of the steps in the process of self-regulated learning
  • Coaching from mentors/teachers/peers accentuates the success of self-regulated learning

For more information on the next sessions or to register, please click here.

IAMSE Web Audio Seminar Series “The Breadth and Depth of Standardized Patients in the Teaching and Assessment of Clinical Skills”

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The Breadth and Depth of Standardized Patients in the Teaching and Assessment of Clinical Skills
Presenters: Carrie Bohnert, Heidi Lane, and Gayle Gliva-McConvey
September 29, 12 PM ET

Over the past five decades Standardized Patient methodology has evolved from its roots in teaching and assessing proficiency in communicating with patients., Standardized Patients (SPS) now perform a variety of roles in medical and non-medical education from undergraduate learning to licensure examinations to continuing education.  In this presentation, we will use a non-traditional definition of Standardized Patients (SPs):  “individuals who are trained to perform in a role in a standardized and repeatable way where presentation varies based only on learner performance.  SPs are used for teaching and assessment of learners in a broad range of skills in simulated environments.  SPs are trained to facilitate learning, provide feedback and evaluate learner performance.”

Three institutions (Eastern Virginia Medical School, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and the University of Louisville) are represented in this presentation. Discussions will encompass the traditional and evidence-based ways SPs are integrated into medical curriculums for teaching and assessing clinical skills, and widening the lens to include teaching and assessment of skills that are historically taught by clinicians, as a solution for clinical teaching when clinician time is challenging. We will also present innovative uses of the SP methodology to challenge our audience’s imagination.

For more information and to register for the Fall 2016 Audio Seminar Series, please click here.

#IAMSE17 – Plenary Highlight: Eric Mazur

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The 21st Annual IAMSE Meeting is just around the corner, and we would like you to get to know some of our keynote speakers! We have four plenary speakers this year, and we hope you enjoy their presentations.

Eric Mazur: Confessions of a Converted Lecturer [Harvard University]

I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material. Who was to blame? The students? The material? I will explain how I came to the agonizing conclusion that the culprit was neither of these. It was my teaching that caused students to fail! I will show how I have adjusted my approach to teaching and how it has improved my students’ performance significantly

For more information on Dr. Mazur, please click here.

Be sure to Save the Date for the 2017 IAMSE Meeting! The Meeting will be held in Burlington, Vermont on June 10-13, 2017.

We hope to see you there!

IAMSE Exhibiting at PNEG Meeting

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The 2016 Professional Nurse Educators Group (PNEG) Annual Conference will be taking place in Columbus, Ohio from October 21-23. The IAMSE booth will be present at the conference to exhibit, so if you plan on attending this meeting, do not forget to swing by and say hello!

Click here for more information on the PNEG conference.

IAMSE Fall 2016 WAS Session 1 Highlights

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In case you missed yesterday’s Webcast Audio Seminar (WAS) Session with Laurel Gorman, here are the highlights of her talk:

Use of preclinical High Fidelity Medical Simulations (HFMS) to promote the integration of basic and clinical sciences
Laurel Gorman, PhD
University of Central Florida

  • High fidelity medical simulators (HFMS) are sophisticated, life-like computerized manikins that can be used with clinical case scenarios to help students learn and integrate basic science concepts
  • Using HFMS can address accreditation standards focused on active learning
  • Evidence exists (references provided) that using HFMS improves short and long-term learning
  • HFMS can be used in the pre-clinical years as long as the cases are tailored (scaffolds) to the appropriate learning level of the student
  • Case scenarios used with HFMS must be constructed by a team of clinicians and basic scientists
  • Debriefing exercises should also be conducted by these teams and tailored to the learning appropriate level of the student and scheduled for at least the same length of time as the learning exercise. The debriefing exercise is an essential part of the learning experience.

For more information on the next sessions or to register, please click here.

Paula Smith – Board of Directors

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I greatly value being an active member of IAMSE, and have enjoyed many an inspiring discussion with colleagues from across the globe at conferences and committee meetings. The IAMSE community permits genuine networking opportunities, and a real sense of kindred spirits amongst its membership. The annual conference provides opportunities to learn directly from others about current best practice in education and, together with the webinar series and IAMSE publications, gives plenty of new ideas to introduce into my own institution.

IAMSE Web Audio Seminar Series “Entrustment decision making in EPA-based curricula”

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Entrustment decision making in EPA-based curricula
Presenter: Olle ten Cate
September 22, 12 PM ET

Assessment of clinical competence is an ongoing topic of debate among medical educators. Competency-based medical education intends to train and assess residents and students who meet predefined standards. The quest for psychometrically valid assessments, i.e. sound measurement of trainee competencies, to provide sufficient certainty to the public that all those who complete undergraduate medical education are ready for residency, and all those who complete graduate medical education are ready for unsupervised practice, has not yet yielded a gold standard for evaluation.

A new concept in workplace training and assessment is Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs), units of professional practice that learners may execute without supervision once they have satisfactorily demonstrated to possess the relevant competence in postgraduate specialty training, or indirect supervision in undergraduate medical education.

EPA-based curricula with entrustment decisions provide a conceptual change in perspective on both the standards for competence and their evaluation among trainees.

This presentation will focus on entrustable professional activities for curriculum development and assessment, the concept of entrustment as part of assessment and entrustability scales that use levels of supervision as anchor points. The connection with milestones will be highlighted. While EPA-based assessment is new and there is yet limited experience with EPA-based curricula, there are a number of arguments to guide a development in that direction.

For more information and to register for the Fall 2016 Audio Seminar Series, please click here.

IAMSE Web Audio Seminar Series “Self-directed learning in your curriculum – getting from theory to practice”

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Self-directed learning in your curriculum—getting from theory to practice
Presenter: Sandrijin van Schaik, Douglas Larsen, and William Cutrer
September 15, 12 PM ET

In today’s health care arena with rapidly expanding knowledge, yesterday’s best practice may be obsolete tomorrow. This creates an imperative for physicians to be life-long learners. As students progress through medical education their learning will need to be increasingly self-directed and develop the necessary skills to diagnose and address their own learning gaps. Despite the growing recognition that such skills can and should be taught, this is not yet a consistently integrated component of medical school curriculum.  In this webinar, we will first define terminology and explain theoretical frameworks that guide our understanding of self-directed, life-long learning; including metacognition, self-regulation, informed self-assessment and the newer framework of master adaptive learning. We will then provide a brief literature review of strategies employed to help students develop the relevant skills, including the use of reflection, learning plans, portfolios and coaches. We will discuss challenges encountered when applying theoretical frameworks to practical strategies and areas of ambiguity in which more research is needed. We will end with some practical suggestions based on the literature and our own experiences.

For more information and to register for the Fall 2016 Audio Seminar Series, please click here.

#IAMSE17 Plenary Speaker Highlight: Jimmie Leppink

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The 21st Annual IAMSE Meeting is just around the corner, and we would like you to get to know some of our keynote speakers! We have four plenary speakers this year, and we hope you enjoy their presentations.

Jimmie Leppink: Managing the load on a learner’s mind: a cognitive load theory perspective [Maastricht University]

Throughout their curriculum, learners in domains like medicine encounter situations in which they must deal with a heavy information-processing load or working memory load. Cognitive load theory was developed for this kind of situation. In cognitive load theory, learning is the gradual development of cognitive schemas. As our schemas of a particular content or procedure become more elaborate, the intrinsic cognitive load on our working memory when dealing with that kind of content or procedure decreases. Simultaneously, when dealing with that content or procedure, cognitive processes that do not contribute to learning constitute an extraneous cognitive load on our working memory. The more extraneous cognitive load, the fewer resources we have available for dealing with the intrinsic cognitive load. Given that successfully dealing with intrinsic cognitive load results in learning, cognitive load theory dictates that education should be designed such that extraneous cognitive load is minimized and learners are stimulated to optimally allocate their resources to dealing with the intrinsic cognitive load. This plenary will focus on evidence-based cognitive load effects that have a variety of implications for how to design instruction and assessment.

For more information on Dr. Leppink, please click here.

Be sure to Save the Date for the 2017 IAMSE Meeting! The Meeting will be held in Burlington, Vermont on June 10-13, 2017.

IAMSE Web Audio Seminar Series “Use of preclinical High Fidelity Medical Simulations (HFMS) to promote the integration of basic and clinical sciences in undergraduate medical education”

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Use of preclinical High Fidelity Medical Simulations (HFMS) to promote the integration of basic and clinical sciences in undergraduate medical education
Presenter: Laurel Gorman
September 8, 12 PM ET

This session will discuss how to implement and effectively integrate pharmacology and physiology with other essential foundational and clinical sciences using preclinical high fidelity medical simulations carefully scaffolded to keep cognitive domain levels appropriate to the novice medical student’s abilities.  While the medical educational literature is replete with proposed curricular models designed to integrate critical foundational sciences like physiology and pharmacology with clinical sciences, gaps exist on the best pedagogy and procedures to maximize conceptual integration and learner encapsulation at the instructor and sessional level.   We will review our research evaluating the effectiveness of various techniques used to teach pharmacology within preclinical simulations, and share models and implemental procedures that best support active learning and reflection on error to maximize the impact to learners.  Further, we hope to promote a dialogue with other medical educators on how to utilize medical simulation pedagogy to support horizontal and vertical integration of the foundational basic and clinical sciences.

For more information and to register for the Fall 2016 Audio Seminar Series, please click here.

#IAMSE17 Plenary Speaker Highlight: Jeffrey D. Karpicke

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The 21st Annual IAMSE Meeting is just around the corner, and we would like you to get to know some of our keynote speakers! We have four plenary speakers this year, and we hope you enjoy their presentations.

Jeffrey D. Karpicke: Retrieval-Based Learning: Active Retrieval Promotes Meaningful Learning [Purdue University]

Recent advances in the cognitive science of learning have important implications for instructional practices at all levels of education. For example, cognitive research has identified one strategy that promotes complex learning called retrieval practice: Practicing actively reconstructing one’s knowledge while studying has potent effects on long-term learning. Yet when students monitor and regulate their own learning, they often choose to engage in inferior strategies like repetitive reading, and the ultimate consequence is poor learning. This talk provides an overview of our research program on retrieval-based learning. In recent work, we have extended retrieval practice to meaningful learning of complex educational materials, converted existing classroom activities into retrieval-based activities, and developed new computer-based learning methods for implementing retrieval-based learning. Incorporating retrieval practice into educational activities is a powerful way to enhance learning.

For more information on Dr. Karpicke, please click here.

Be sure to Save the Date for the 2017 IAMSE Meeting! The Meeting will be held in Burlington, Vermont on June 10-13, 2017.

 

#IAMSE17 – Call for Focus Sessions Reminder: Deadline September 1

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The deadline for the 2017 Call for Focus Sessions is quickly drawing near. As a reminder, proposals are to be submitted in the format requested through the online proposal submission site. Submission deadline is September 1, 2016. Session proposal acceptance notifications will be returned by November 15.

Please note that the call for Poster/Oral Abstracts will be sent in the coming weeks. Please contact Brandi Hinkle at Brandi@iamse.org for any questions about this call.