Harvard Principles of Medical Education: Maximizing Your Teaching Skills 2024 -October Edition
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:
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Assess their learners’ needs
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Design an educational intervention
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Establish student-centered learning environments
2. Employ venue-specific teaching skills for:
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Ambulatory teaching
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Bedside teaching
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Large-group presentations
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Small group/case-based teaching
3. Recognize effective learner assessment strategies and provide effective feedback in order to set educational expectations
4. Foster critical thinking skills so learners may effectively use questions to promote clinical decision making
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:
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Physicians
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Nurse Practitioners
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Physician Assistants
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Nurses
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Pharmacists
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Psychologists
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Veterinarians
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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: 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.