Harvard Principles of Medical Education: Maximizing Your Teaching Skills 2024 -October EditionÂ
Harvard Principles of Medical Education
OCTOBER 23 – 25, 2024
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
​Harvard Principles of Medical Education
1. Identify principles of adult learning in order to:
Assess their learners’ needs
Design an educational intervention
Establish student-centered learning environments
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2. Employ venue-specific teaching skills for:
Ambulatory teaching
Bedside teaching
Large-group presentations
Small group/case-based teaching
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3. Recognize effective learner assessment strategies and provide effective feedback in order to set educational expectations
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4. Foster critical thinking skills so learners may effectively use questions to promote clinical decision making
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5. Engage in reflective practice in order to identify effective teaching techniques
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Medical personnel of all specialties involved in the practice of medical education, including:
Physicians
Nurse Practitioners
Physician Assistants
Nurses
Pharmacists
Psychologists
Veterinarians
Dentists
This program delves more deeply into the educator’s skills development as a teacher, a content creator, and an institutional leader. Choose between the following focused tracks to tailor your education to your current and future professional needs:
TRACK 1:Â SUCCESSFUL CAREER DEVELOPMENT FOR THE CLINICIAN-EDUCATOR
Through a series of highly interactive workshops, you will explore the skills educators need to climb an institution’s promotion ladder and succeed in a career in academic medicine. You will learn strategies to:
- Build an educational niche and navigate a successful career path
- Spearhead educational innovations and attain greater visibility for your work
- Becoming an educational change agent
- Identify your personal leadership style
- Manage your time in order to stay clinically and academically productive
This track includes the following sessions:
- Academic Career Advancement: Strategies for Personal and Professional Growth
- Helping You Help Yourself: Advocating and Negotiating
- Enhanced Efficiency and Productivity through Better Time Management
- Key Leadership Skills for the Successful Medical Educator
Of Special Note:
- To optimize the value of this program for each participant, registration is limited to 50.
- To be assured a place in this program, early registration is strongly advised.
TRACK 2: TAKING YOUR TEACHING TO THE NEXT LEVEL
This highly interactive and hands-on skills building session will equip the modern educator with tools to be an A+ teacher in 2025. This session will provide you up-to-date techniques to improve your teaching effectiveness in the classroom and at the bedside. You will learn:
- Strategies to improve the performance of your students and advance your own critical thinking
- Tangible tips to create an elegant slide presentation without hours of tinkering and frustration
- Strategies to enhance interactivity of online learning, including all the tips and tricks that Zoom has to offer
- How to give feedback using the advocacy inquiry approach
- Principles of effective twitter messages and infographic/visual abstract design
- Key tools within infographic-making software, such as Canva
This track includes the following sessions:
- Using Advocacy Inquiry to Improve Difficult Conversations with Learners
- Power Up Your PowerPoint to Improve Your Lectures
- Creating Infographics and Visual Abstracts for Your Teaching Workshop
- Best Practices for Teaching on Zoom
Of Special Note:
- To optimize the value of this program for each participant, registration is limited to 50.
- To be assured a place in this program, early registration is strongly advised.




