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Coaching for Peak Performance
MedEdPearls October 2017: How might you use talent development and academic coaching in health care education to enhance your learners' performance, reflection, and goal attainment?
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The Accidental Academic: Bridging the Gap between Town and Gown
Many academic institutions and community-based physicians have developed shared understanding and a mutual mission by meeting regularly to discuss their values and priorities. Once that respect is established, both parties can build on each other’s’ strengths.
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Retrieval-based Learning
MedEdPearls September 2017: Jeffrey Karpicke's research on retrieval-based learning emphasizes how repeated, spaced retrieval enhances memory and learning, offering insights into curriculum design, session organization, and assessment.
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How Adults Learn
MedEdPearls August 2017: How might you apply the insights from Tayler and Hamdy’s AMEE Guide 83 on adult learning theories to enhance curriculum development, teaching, and assessment in medical education?
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The Curious State of Self: Efficacy, Awareness, Disclosure and Reflection
It is an undisputed opinion that feedback is the cornerstone of performance assessment and growth. Experts have been writing about this topic for decades. If we go outside the health professions education world, the business literature also abounds in feedback; they tend to focus on performance ‘appraisal’ and why it is important to have regular conversations on this topic with their employees.
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Peer Observation
MedEdPearls July 2017: This month, we're highlighting The Peer Observation of Teaching Handbook by Newman et al. (2012) on MedEdPortal, offering valuable guidance for educators seeking reflection, formative feedback, and growth in peer observation programs.
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The Power of Why
To achieve deep understanding, they need to conceptualize how this information fits, and connects to, their greater knowledge of the subject. Once students have this deeper understanding they will remember it, be able to functionally use it, and pass it on to others. This is our ultimate goal as educators.
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High-Value and Person Centered Care Taught Through Virtual Families
It seems like American Healthcare has been in “crisis mode” since 1900s. Despite so many advances, little has changed in controlling cost and improving value and health outcomes.
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Visual Note Taking: An Extra Tool to Help with Learning
Whether it be reading text, listening to lectures or attending conferences, creating sketch-notes has become my go-to method of recording and summarizing content.
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Training Physicians to be Social Change Agents
As medical educators, it is our responsibility to nurture and develop the altruistic values that bring students into the calling of medicine. We must provide trainees with the knowledge, skills, role models and mentorship needed to develop a career founded upon their personal and professional values.