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Exploring the science, practice, and business of medicine.
Exploring the science, practice, and business of medicine.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Faculty who have a passion for building IPE are aware of these challenges but will also quickly tell you how rewarding addressing these challenges can be! Simply put, designing IPE will be one of the most exhausting, rewarding, and all-consuming innovations you can do as an educator.
The single most life changing event in this fellowship for me was becoming aware of Harvard Macy’s courses. One of my predecessor medical education fellows has just come back from one of the courses. Her eyes were glowing.
One does not have to go far at AAMC to see the reach of Liz and HMI within the medical education community – and by that I mean I literally cannot walk from one session to the next without running into a Macy colleague eager to share their latest project or innovation.
In this Harvard Macy Institute blog post, reaching cultural competency while teaching abroad is discussed.