Teaching Academy Newsletter

Announcements

Congratulations to the 2019 Frymoyer Scholars Program Recipients

Through the Frymoyer Scholars Program, the John W. and Nan P. Frymoyer Fund for Medical Education supports physicians and nurses who are actively engaged in teaching University of Vermont medical and nursing students and who embody the best qualities of the clinician teacher. The program is an investment in outstanding medical education and promotes teaching that emphasizes the art of patient care. To learn more, click here.

  • Rebecca Bell, MD, MPH; Thomas Delaney, PhD; Richard "Mort" Wasserman, MD
    Firearm Injury Prevention Screening and Counseling

Development and assessment of innovative active learning modules to increase knowledge and confidence of health care providers in screening and counseling patients and their families on firearm safe storage and firearm injury prevention.  

  • Bronwyn Bryant, MD
    Validating Entrustable Professional Activity-Based Assessment to Determine On-Call Competency in Pathology Residents

This proposal aims to implement and validate EPA-based assessments to help train pathology residents in their common On-Call duties.  EPA-based assessments are a step towards competency-based training, providing opportunities for true graduated responsibilities for pathology residents, as well as training in providing timely and individual care to their patients. 

  •  Fuyuki Hirashima, MD; Rebecca Wilson, RN; Nicholas Bedrin, MD; Serena Murphy, MD; Stephen Ranney, MD
    Establishing UVMMC as a Training Institute & Center of Excellence for Cardiac Surgery Unit Advance Life Support

Cardiac surgical unit advanced life support (CSU-ALS) expands upon and tailors the American Heart Association’s Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) algorithms to provide best practice resuscitation specifically for arrest in post cardiac surgery patients. Our goal is to train our staff to be CSU-ALS certified and to eventually become a training center for other hospitals across the Northeast.

  • Rebecca Nagle, MSN, APRN; Christina Harlow, DNP, FNP-BC, APRN; Leah Pryor; Emily Clairmont; Jana Lichtenfeld, MD, FAAP
    Integrative Nutrition Teaching Kitchen and Inter-professional Community Service Learning Curriculum

This learning opportunity is designed to provide inter-professional learning opportunities for graduate nursing students and enhance the students’ future patient care, ultimately impacting patient outcomes.  It will provide students with a connection to food and health, addressing the barriers for patients and families in healthy eating for prevention of disease and provide the students with inter-professional community service learning opportunities.  

  • Iris Toedt-Pingel, MD; Kaitlin Ostrander, MD; Stephen Berns, MD
    TalkVermontPEDS: Creating an Interprofessional Pediatric Advanced Communication Course

This project will create an innovative pediatric version of the TalkVermont advanced communication skills program. The evidence-based and nationally renowned VitalTalk program, on which TalkVermont andTalkVermontPEDS are founded, trains providers in a method that is culturally sensitive, interprofessional, and oriented around patient values using engaging, hands-on teaching methods. The goal is to improve outcomes for seriously ill pediatric patients and their families as well as to increase provider satisfaction and well-being.

The Teaching Academy Welcomed Dr. Veronica Catanese for a LCME Kick-Off Celebration Grand Rounds

Catanese LCME

 On Thursday, May 2 and Friday, May 3, the Larner College of Medicine hosted Veronica Catanese, MD, MBA for a kick-off to the LCME accreditation process. The Teaching Academy held a lively Medical Education Grand Rounds session on Friday, May 3 to help inform the LCOM community about the purpose, structures, and function of the LCME process.

 

 

 

DID YOU KNOW? Faculty Development Video Series for Medical Educators


The Teaching Academy has a Faculty Development Video Series for Medical Educators. Improve your teaching with this series of short videos on essential topics for medical educators. This resource features Teaching Academy members and was directed by Laurie Leclair, MD while she served as a Faculty Associate of the Teaching Academy last year. The videos are free and open for anyone to view and there is CME credit available! For more details about the video series and how to obtain CME credit, visit http://www.med.uvm.edu/teachingacademy/resources/devleopment.

 

SAVE THE DATES

Essentials of Teaching and Assessment

Friday, September 13, 2019; Davis Center
A one-day, intensive course to introduce participants to the pedagogy, strategies, and resources for effective teaching and assessment. This event is open to all UVM College of Medicine faculty. This course is designed especially for faculty, residents, fellows, graduate students, and postdocs who are new to teaching. Details and registration coming this summer.

NEGEA 2020 Annual Conference

Thursday, April 30-Saturday, May 2, 2020 
The Robert Larner MD College of Medicine will host the 2020 NEGEA Annual Conference. Mark your calendars now!

 

Questions about The Teaching Academy?
Please contact: teaching.academy@med.uvm.edu

 

New Publications to Note

 

Can you spot a predatory journal?  Use this tool: https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/librarian_pubs/40/

 

Ensuring the Quality of Multiple-Choice Tests: An Algorithm to Facilitate Decision Making for Difficult Questions
Dory V, Allan K, Birnbaum L, Lubarsky S, Pickering J, Young M. Ensuring the Quality of Multiple-Choice Tests: An Algorithm to Facilitate Decision Making for Difficult Questions Academic Medicine: doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000002627 

Hit the Ground Running: Engaging Early-Career Medical Educators in Scholarly Activity

Wang F, Stankiewicz C, Bennett N, Myers J. Hit the Ground Running: Engaging Early-Career Medical Educators in Scholarly Activity. Academic Medicine. 16 Apr 2019. DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000002761

Supporting medical students’ values about social accountability

Ross S, Couzos S. Supporting medical students’ values about social accountability.  Medical Education. https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.13857

Entrustable professional activities in health care education: a scoping review 

Shorey S, Ching Lau T,  Siew Ting Lau L, Ang E. Entrustable professional activities in health care education: a scoping review. Medical Education. https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.13879

Narrative medicine as a medical education tool: A systematic review

Milota MM, van Thiel GJMW, van Delden JJM. Narrative medicine as a medical education tool: A systematic review. Medical Teacher. 14 Apr 2019. DOI: 10.1080/0142159X.2019.1584274

Collecting Validity Evidence: A Hands-on Workshop for Medical Education Assessment Instruments

Paul C, Ryan M, Beck Dallaghan G, Jirasevijinda T, Quigley P. Collecting Validity Evidence: A Hands-on Workshop for Medical Education Assessment Instruments. MedEdPORTAL. 12 Apr 2019. DOI: 10.15766/mep_2374-8265.10817

Peer to Peer observation: real‐world faculty development

Shapiro N, Janjigian M, Schaye V, Hauck K, Becker D, Lusk P, Dembitzer A. Peer to Peer observation: real‐world faculty development. Medical Education. 15 April 2019. https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.13865

AMA Journal of Ethics
Advanced Cardiopulmonary Care Ethics, May 2019, Volume 21, Number 5. https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/home

“You Want Me to Assess What?”: Faculty Perceptions of Assessing Residents From Outside Their Specialty

Burm S, Sebok-Syer S, Lingard L, VanHooren T, Chahine S, Goldszmidt M, Watling C. “You Want Me to Assess What?”: Faculty Perceptions of Assessing Residents From Outside Their Specialty. Academic Medicine. 23 April 2019. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000002771

“All the ward’s a stage”: a qualitative study of the experience of direct observation of handoffs

Huth K, Schwartz S, Li SA, Weiser N, Mahant S, Landrigan C, Spector N, Starmer A, West D, Coffey M, Bismilla Z. “All the ward’s a stage”: a qualitative study of the experience of direct observation of handoffs . Advances in Health Sciences Education. May 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10459-018-9867-5

Regional/National Call for Proposals

 

Call for Content

Submissions are being accepted for Course Proposals, Research Abstracts, and SimVentors for IMSH on January 18-22, 2020. For details visit the Society for Simulation in Healthcare website. Submission deadline: June 12, 2019.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Teaching Academy in the News

  • Transitioning to Clerkships: Class of 2021 Takes on Next Level of Training
    April 12, 2019 by User Not Found
    After 18 months of active-learning in the classroom, primary care offices around Vermont, and clinical skills sessions in the Clinical Simulation Laboratory at the University of Vermont, the UVM Larner College of Medicine Class of 2021 was excited, if not a bit nervous, to start working more regularly and directly with patients and physicians in clinical settings. This week, as many students in the class started to round out their first clinical rotation, we touched base with them to hear about their expectations, challenges, successes, and takeaways from this next step in their medical education.
  • Larner Education Team, Med Students Present at 2019 AAMC NEGEA Conference
    April 5, 2019 by Jennifer Nachbur
    Several members of the Larner College of Medicine Teaching Academy staff, Active Learning office and Office of Medical Student Education, as well as medical students from the Social Justice Coalition, are attending and presenting at the 2019 Association of American Medical Colleges Northeast Group on Educational Affairs (NEGEA) conference. The event, which is taking place at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, runs through April 6.

May 2019

 2019 Mud Season Education Retreat 

Thank you to everyone who made the 2019 Mud Season Education Retreat such a successful event! 

Mud Season Guide

T. Lahey keynote Keynote Session "How Should We Prepare Students to Fight Clinically Impactful Injustice?"
Tim Lahey, MD 

 Poster sessionPoster Session with authors present 

 

Kaminsky breakoutBreakout Session: "Preparation of Active Learning Materials: Less is More"
David Kaminsky, MD 

 

 

Upcoming Events

 

Research Consultation Drop In Hours
 

Tuesday, May 28; 1:00 - 3:00 PM; Teaching Academy Suite
Research consultation with Alison Howe, MS, Director of Education Program Outcome Analysis, and Leigh Ann Holterman, PhD, Director of Curricular Evaluation and Assessment