Teaching Academy Newsletter

Announcements

WRITER’S WORKSHOP MEETS AT A NEW TIME!

The monthly Writer’s Workshop now meets on the first Monday of the month at noon. The next meeting is Monday, November 6 at noon in The Teaching Academy Resource Room 130F. Bring scholarly work on education topics in any stage of development – manuscripts, conference proposals, research proposals, etc. Submit to Randi-Lynn.Crowther@med.uvm.edu

REGISTRATION IS OPEN

AAMC Medical Education Research Certificate (MERC) Workshop “Formulating Research Questions and Designing Studies,” Judy A. Shea, PhD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Friday, December 8; 1:15 – 4:15 PM; MedEd 300 
Please register by November 1. Use this link to complete a registration form.
A minimum enrollment of 8 participants is required, the maximum enrollment is 25. 
For more information about the MERC program visit: https://www.aamc.org/members/gea/merc/

CALL FOR EDUCATION TOPIC POSTERS - Snow Season Education Retreat, January 11 – 12, 2018

This is an open invitation to submit a poster about your educational work, innovation, or research. We are seeking poster submissions (whether current or past work) for the 2018 Snow Season Education Retreat. This will be an opportunity for UVM LCOM educators to share ideas and to collaborate across departments. We are particularly interested in work related to the education of professionals across the continuum of learners. We will consider posters you have presented at previous venues, other than Teaching Academy events. 

The poster session is Thursday evening, January 11, with additional poster viewing time on Friday morning. The deadline for poster abstract submission is November 15, 2017. To submit an abstract, please use the poster abstract submission form, and submit to teaching.academy@med.uvm.edu.  In addition, authors may elect to receive peer review and feedback on their poster(s).

SAVE THE DATE!  

Registration for the Snow Season Education Retreat will be announced soon! Please save the date for January 11 – 12, 2018. All events are at the Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center. Thursday evening includes, reception, poster session, and dinner with induction of new Teaching Academy members and recognition of teaching and education awards. Friday is an all-day education retreat which will feature workshops, networking, and keynote speaker, Susan Skochelak, MD, MPH, Group Vice President, Medical Education, American Medical Association. This event is open to all faculty and CME credit will be available. 


Questions about The Teaching Academy?
Please contact Teaching Academy Coordinator, Randi-Lynn.Crowther@med.uvm.edu 

Research News

Bivona Creates an Open-Source Mouse Wheel

March 9, 2022 by Michelle Bookless

Like many inventions, the LOST-Wheel was born out of necessity and, jokes Bivona, out of spite. In his final years as a Cellular, Molecular, and Biomedical Sciences graduate student, Bivona worked on a grant-funded project in the laboratory of UVM Larner College of Medicine Professor of Medicine Matthew Poynter, Ph.D. The project, says Poynter, aims to determine the contribution of skeletal muscle contractile muscle cells (myocytes) to local and systemic inflammation and the potential benefits of exercise to diminish overexuberant or protracted inflammation. The work relies heavily on the study of mouse models after they exercise either on rodent treadmills (yes, they make treadmills for rodents) or on small circular machines commonly called mouse wheels.

JJ Bivona, Ph.D., sits at a desk in his lab holding his invention - the LOST Wheel. A computer screen behind him displays a rendering of the invention.

Faint whirring and clicking noises emit from the 3D printer on the counter behind University of Vermont (UVM) postdoctoral fellow J.J. Bivona, Ph.D.’22, as it moves purposefully from side-to-side and up-and-down. The layers of molten plastic carefully deposited by the initial passes of the machine don’t look like much yet, but the computer monitor on Bivona’s desk hints at the appearance of the finished product. As Bivona moves his computer mouse, a teal object that looks like a small, plastic satellite dish spins on the screen—allowing him to see the object in multiple dimensions and from every angle. The object is a key component of Bivona’s recent invention—a 3D-printable open-source mouse wheel he calls the Lockable Open-Source Training (LOST) Wheel.

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October 2017

Upcoming Events
Research Consultation Drop-In Hours

Friday, October 13, 9:00 – 11:00 AM; and Tuesday, October 24, 1:00 – 3:00 PM; Larner Learning Commons, Teaching Academy, Room 130

The Teaching Academy hosts drop-in hours for research consultation, with Alison Howe, M.S., Director of Education Program Outcome Analysis, and Leigh Ann Holterman, M.A., Director of Curricular Evaluation and Assessment. Drop in hours occur the second Friday of the month from 9 – 11 am, and the fourth Tuesday of the month from 1 – 3 pm. First come, first served.

Mentoring Groups

Monday, October 16, 2017, 4:15 – 5:15 PM; HSRF 200
Leadership, led by Lewis First, MD, and Bridget Marroquin, MD
Closed group.

Monday, October 23, 2017, 12:00 – 1:00 PM; MedEd 204
RPT, led by Charles Irvin, PhD, and Sarah McCarthy, PhD
This month’s topic will be “Deciding when you are ready for promotion”.
Open to all faculty.

Tuesday, October 24, 5:00 – 6:00 PM; HSRF 200
Teaching for Active Learning, led by Stephen Everse, PhD, and Charlotte Reback, MD
This month’s topic will focus on TBL.
Open to all, no RSVP required.

Thursday, October 26, 12 – 1 PM; MedEd 203
Educational Scholarship, led by Katie Huggett, PhD, Cate Nicholas, MS, PA, EdD, and Elise Everett, MD
This month’s topic will be Program Evaluation as Research, and there will be time for open discussion and consultation.
Please RSVP for lunch: teaching.academy@med.uvm.edu

Medical Education Grand Rounds

Friday, October 27, 2017, 12:00 – 1:00 PM; Reardon Classroom, MedEd 300
“Identifying Best Instructional Practices: Promoting Self-Reflection for Enhancing Efficient and Effective Learning,” Norma S. Saks, EdD, Assistant Dean for Educational Programs and Director, Cognitive Skills Program, Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Please RSVP for lunch: teaching.academy@med.uvm.edu