Announcements 

Welcome New Associate Member!

Amelia Winter, MD, Resident, Department of Medicine

Congratulations!

Lewis First, MD, MS, Teaching Academy Distinguished Educator and Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics will be honored with the 2024 Clifford G. Grulee Award during the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition in Orlando, Florida, September 27–October 2, 2024.

Bei Zhang, MD, PhD, MLS (ASCP), Teaching Academy Distinguished Educator and Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, was selected to join the New England Network on Faculty Affairs (NENFA) Steering Committee. She conducted a workshop “Teachers' Self-Assessments: The Road Less Traveled” at the annual AMEE conference in Basel, Switzerland.

Katie Huggett, PhD, Teaching Academy Director and Distinguished Educator  also presented a workshop “Pathways into Medical Education: The Role of Faculty Development Communities and Mentoring Programs in Building a Career as Healthcare Educators” at the annual AMEE conference.

Medical Education Grand Rounds "Unscripting Yourself: The Role of Improv in Medical Education"
Friday, October 25; 12-1pm; Med Ed 300

Jeremiah Dickerson, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Residency Program Director

Zeina Salame, PhD, MS, MA
Assistant Professor of Theatre

Improvisation has been shown to improve communication capacities, teamwork, tolerance of uncertainty, attentive observation, empathy, well-being, and creativity – skills and values that are important to cultivate in learners across all fields of medicine.  In this workshop, the tenets of improv will be explored and applied interactively, so that participants can experience some ‘unscripting’ and reflect how improv techniques can be effectively brought into the clinical and teaching spaces. *Due to the interactive nature of this session, there will be no Zoom option. RSVP to teaching.academy@med.uvm.edu

SAVE THE DATE: 10^th Anniversary Teaching Academy Luncheon: Thursday, April 3

The Teaching Academy is excited to celebrate 10 years in 2025. We are buttoning up details but please hold the mid-day time for this celebration.

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

Negative Life Events and Emotional Symptoms From Ages 2 to 30 Years
Copeland WE, Keen R, Tong G, Shanahan L. Negative Life Events and Emotional Symptoms From Ages 2 to 30 Years. JAMA Netw Open. 2024;7(8):e2429448. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.29448

Identifying Population-Level and Within-Hospital Disparities in Surgical Care
de Jager E, Osman SY, Sheu C, Moberg E, Ye J, Liu Y, Cohen ME, Burstin HR, Hoyt DB, Schoenfeld AJ, Haider AH, Ko CY, Maggard-Gibbons MA, Weissman JS, Britt LD. Identifying Population-Level and Within-Hospital Disparities in Surgical Care. J Am Coll Surg. 2024 Sep 1;239(3):223-233. doi: 10.1097/XCS.0000000000001113

Changing the approach in supporting and advancing underrepresented in medicine (UIM)medical students
Knight A, Kind T, Dixon G, McKnight N, Rideout M. Changing the approach in supporting and advancing underrepresented in medicine (UIM)medical students. MedEdPORTAL.2024;20:11438. https://doi.org/10.15766/mep_2374-8265.11438

Exploring Medical Student Experiences With Direct Observation During the Pediatric Clerkship
Alex CP, Fromme HB, Greenberg L, Ryan MS, Gustafson S, Neeley MK, Nunez S, Rideout ME, VanNostrand J, Orlov NM. Exploring Medical Student Experiences With Direct Observation During the Pediatric Clerkship. Acad Med. 2024 Sep 1;99(9):997-1006. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000005747

What Are the Challenges Ahead for Training the Present and Next-Generation Microscopists in the Life Sciences (a.k.a. Structural Cell Biologists)?,
Braet F, Taatjes D. What Are the Challenges Ahead for Training the Present and Next-Generation Microscopists in the Life Sciences (a.k.a. Structural Cell Biologists)?, Microscopy Today, Volume 32, Issue 5, September 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/mictod/qaae067

Recommendations to address and research systemic bias in assessment: perspectives from directors of research in medical education
Chen F, O'Brien CL, Blanco MA, Huggett KN, Jeffe DB, Pusic MV, Brenner JM. Recommendations to address and research systemic bias in assessment: perspectives from directors of research in medical education. Med Educ Online. 2024 Dec 31;29(1):2396166. doi: 10.1080/10872981.2024.2396166

Acknowledging and Addressing Microaggressions: A Virtual Experiential Learning Approach for Faculty
Essakow J, Edwell A, Smith E, Daya S. Acknowledging and Addressing Microaggressions: A Virtual Experiential Learning Approach for Faculty. MedEdPORTAL. 2024;20:11436. https://doi.org/10.15766/mep_2374-8265.11436

October 2024

2025 Snow Season Education Retreat: Call for Abstracts

Are you interested in sharing your educational work and building your academic education credentials (whether you are starting from scratch or have done a lot…or anywhere in between)?

This is an open invitation to submit a poster about your educational work, innovation, or research at a receptive and welcoming event.  We are seeking poster submissions (whether current or recently presented work) for the 2025 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.

Categories:

Innovations: Descriptions of innovations in teaching, assessment, educational administration.

Research: Studies on topics related to health professions education. All approaches to inquiry (e.g., qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods, systematic review) are welcome.

Quality Improvement: Examples of CQI approaches applied to health professions education.

We will consider posters you have presented at previous venues, other than Teaching Academy events.

The Snow Season Education Retreat will be held on Thursday, January 16 and Friday, January 17, 2025.  If your abstract is selected, you will be expected to attend the Poster Session on Friday, January 17, 2025, in-person at the Davis Center. If you request a peer-review for your poster, you must be present during the Snow Season Poster Session.

The deadline for poster abstract submission is November 4, 2024. The Submission form is available online. Abstract must be no more than 300 words. Please submit your poster proposal to Teaching.Academy@med.uvm.edu. 

Contact Amanda Broder, Conference and Member Event Coordinator (Amanda.Broder@med.uvm.edu) with questions.

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