Announcements

Medical Education Grand Rounds

Join the Teaching Academy on Friday, November 22 for "Formative Feedback: How to Avoid ‘Could Read More’ and Other Assessment Shortcuts” with Nathalie Feldman, MD and Leigh Ann Holterman, PhD, Robert Larner, MD College of Medicine, University of Vermont. 

Join us to learn about crafting effective feedback in culturally-diverse, multigenerational settings. The session will also explore how bias affects assessment. We look forward to a lively discussion!

Friday, November 22, 12-1pm, MedEd 300 (Reardon Classroom)
Lunch is provided, please RSVP to the teaching.academy@med.uvm.edu

AMA Webinar: Well-being and the clinical learning environment

The Teaching Academy will host this upcoming webinar on Monday, November 18 at 4pm in the Dean’s Large Conference Room (Given E105). Physician well-being is influenced by both organizational and individual factors. While medicine can be an extremely rewarding profession, it also can be emotionally and physically exhausting. A physician’s stress and depression can begin in medical school and worsen over time. Creating a learning environment and culture that ensures the psychological, emotional and physical well-being of medical students and residents is critical in the development of competent, caring physicians who are better able to engage with their patients and provide higher quality care. This webinar discusses national innovative efforts to prevent burnout and promote well-being throughout the physician education continuum. Please RSVP to teaching.academy@med.uvm.edu

IAMSE Poster and Oral Abstract Submissions Due December 1

The International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) is pleased to announce the call for abstracts for Oral and Poster presentations for the 24th Annual IAMSE Conference to be held at the Hilton Denver City Center in Denver, CO, USA from June 13-16, 2020. The IAMSE meeting offers opportunities for faculty development and networking, bringing together medical sciences and medical education across the continuum of healthcare education.   click hereto submit your abstract today.

SAVE THE DATES: IAMSE Winter 2020 Webcast Audio Seminar Series

Join us every Thursday in January and the first Thursday in February for the IAMSE Winter 2020 Webcast Audio Seminar Series. The theme for the Winter series is "How is Health Science Education Tackling the Opioid Epidemic?" where we will feature several speakers from across the US. The Winter IAMSE web-based seminar series will provide a comprehensive synopsis of these efforts to respond to the opioid crisis. Details coming soon.

SAVE THE DATES

2020 Induction and Award Ceremony and Snow Season Poster Session

Wednesday, January 15, 2020; 5:00 – 8:00pm; Larner College of Medicine
Please join the Teaching Academy as we welcome new members, present our annual awards for teaching and educational excellence, and enjoy a reception with colleagues during our Snow Season Poster Session with authors.

2020 Snow Season Education Retreat

Thursday, January 16, 2020; 7:30am - 4pm; Davis Center
An all-day education retreat featuring workshops on clinical teaching, social medicine, active learning, and resources for educational scholarship; networking; and a keynote session. This event is open to all UVM Larner College of Medicine faculty. *Note the change in day and venue. Details and registration will be announced this fall!

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. The NEGEA is one of four regional groups of the AAMC’s Group on Educational Affairs (GEA). Its purpose is to promote excellence in the education of medical students, residents and physicians through the professional development of medical educators. Regional meetings provide a forum for exchanging ideas, learning new strategies and developing plans that may facilitate your own work and the implementation of the NEGEA’s mission. Details and registration will be announced this fall!

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

New Publications from Teaching Academy Members

Universal Design for TBL®: Promoting Inclusion and Access for All Learners
Moore J, Searles S, Holterman LA, Simone C, Huggett K. Universal Design for TBL®: Promoting Inclusion and Access for All Learners. Medical Science Educator. 26 Oct 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-019-00827-w

Choosing Wisely in Pre-clinical Medical Education: a Direct Comparison of Active Learning Methods for Teaching Metabolic Liver Disease
Carson E, Wilcox R. Choosing Wisely in Pre-clinical Medical Education: a Direct Comparison of Active Learning Methods for Teaching Metabolic Liver Disease. Medical Science Educator. 28 Oct 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-019-00821-2

The Other Side of Medical Student Mistreatment: Teaching Cultural Competency Across the Generational Divide
Feldman N, Lewis J, Patel C, Ackerman S, Howe A, Harari D, Evans K, Adams D. The Other Side of Medical Student Mistreatment: Teaching Cultural Competency Across the Generational Divide. MedEdPORTAL. 25 Oct 2019. 10.15766/mep_2374-8265.10847

Twelve tips for teaching oncology to non-oncologists
Freed J, Hale A, Rangachari D, Ricotta D. Twelve tips for teaching oncology to non-oncologists. Medical Teacher. 30 Oct 2019. DOI: 10.1080/0142159X.2019.1682534

Sharing personal information about anatomical body donors: What first‐year medical students want to know and how it affects emotional responses to dissection
Greene SJ, Rosen L. Sharing personal information about anatomical body donors: What first‐year medical students want to know and how it affects emotional responses to dissection. Clin. Anat. 32:1019–1032, 2019.  https://doi.org/10.1002/ca.23389

New Publications to Note

Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Clinical Grading in Medical School
Low D, Pollack S, Liao Z, Maestas R, Kirven L, Eacker A, Morales L. Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Clinical Grading in Medical School. Teaching and Learning in Medicine. 29 Apr 2019. DOI: 10.1080/10401334.2019.1597724

The Relationship of Emotions and Burnout to Medical Students’ Academic Performance
Burr J, Beck Dallaghan G. The Relationship of Emotions and Burnout to Medical Students’ Academic Performance. Teaching and Learning in Medicine. 22 May 2019. DOI: 10.1080/10401334.2019.1613237

Seeing Is Believing: How Social Media Is Challenging Physician Stereotypes
Onyango J, Bowe S. Seeing Is Believing: How Social Media Is Challenging Physician Stereotypes. Journal of Graduate Medical Education. Oct 2019. https://doi.org/10.4300/JGME-D-19-00266.1

The stress paradox: how stress can be good for learning
Rudland J, Golding C, Wilkinson T. The stress paradox: how stress can be good for learning. Medical Education. 11 Sep 2019. https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.13830

Survey of Intern Year Experiences for Those Going into Interventional Radiology: Comparing Surgery, Medicine and Transitional Year Internships
Cline J, Duncan D, Molloy C, Zuberi O. Survey of Intern Year Experiences for Those Going into Interventional Radiology: Comparing Surgery, Medicine and Transitional Year Internships. Academic Radiology. Nov 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acra.2019.03.016

Finding Greater Value in the Fourth Year of Medical School: Accelerating the Transition to Residency
Pellegrini Jr V, Franks A, Englander R. Finding Greater Value in the Fourth Year of Medical School: Accelerating the Transition to Residency. Academic Medicine. 22 Oct 2019. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000003049

November 2019

Meet a Member

In this space, we will highlight the amazing work our Teaching Academy Members are doing. Thank you, Tina, for being our first featured Member!

Tina Thornton, PhD
Member

Position: IDeA Entrepreneurship (I-Trep) Program Coordinator and Assistant Professor, Division of Immunobiology, Department of Medicine, Larner College of Medicine

Year I Came to UVM: 2005

Best Teaching Moment: The I-Trep Program has received lots of positive feedback from participants in our biomedical entrepreneurship training program, and the survey instrument designed by Alison Howe has indicated that our participants have greater confidence in their own entrepreneurial ability after our summer course.  Nevertheless, I wondered at what point we would see the impact of our program on new startup formation and new healthcare innovations moving to market. In August of this year, I was thrilled to see I-Trep alumni were lead inventors of two new startups and three new technologies on the list of nominees for investment by the DRIVEN regional technology transfer hub. Not only were these scientists pursuing the commercialization path for their innovations but they were also being recognized at their home institutions as the most promising assets for healthcare innovation! 

Learn more about I-Trep-  http://med.uvm.edu/itrep/home 

Learn more about DRIVEN-  https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-grants-will-spur-innovation-under-resourced-states

Last Book Read: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari