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Educating Physicians to Navigate the Complexity and Uncertainty of Clinical Care
As standardized tools are implemented more broadly in efforts to ensure best practice and improve patient outcomes, we are calling for a renewed focus on the user of these tools—the physician who cares for patients in complex systems where uncertainty is inherent.
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Leading Innovative Change in the Assessment of Physical Therapy Students in Clinical Education in Canada
The course connected me with experts in the field of assessment and allowed me the opportunity to have one-on-one encounters with the experts. The peer consultations and large group case discussions helped me consider the important steps I would need to be successful in developing this measure
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Transforming Case-Method Teaching for Online Platforms
Professional schools have long been leaders in developing teaching cases covering a vast array of topics, from business to policy to medicine to law.
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Creating New Models for Academic Publishing – a Job to be Done?
I knew there was a “job to be done.” I began by utilizing core principles of HMI: building the right team, taking the system based approach, and adding "value added "component to it.
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Calling all Content Crackerjacks and Pedagogical Pros!
Social medicine can’t be an isolated learning module. It must be an attitude that affects the curriculum, such that when other courses talk about race, they do so in a way that’s informed by social medicine.
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The Great Divide: Bringing Educational Theory to Practice in Surgical Education
This reflection and metacognition on our experience is another principle that we will cover another time, but is vital to their learning. Here is where, as the expert, we can assess their insight and get a gauge of their progression on their learning continuum.
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What can the Humanities offer Children with Medical Complexity and Healthcare Education?
Children with medical complexity win, student learning wins, the Humanities win, and the Harvard Macy Program for Educators and Gold Foundation get much of the credit.
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The Multiple Choice Conundrum
Since we are now living in the 21st century, it is time we re-examined the limitations and virtues of the types of questions we use on exams, as we now have the computer power to be able to grade written text in a consistent manner using sophisticated rubrics.
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Active Learning Strategies – an interview with Dr. Alice Fornari
In this Harvard Macy Institute blog post, Dr. Fornari's discusses the editing process of the manual on Active Learning for the International Association of Medical Science Educators.
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Educating future educators: A teaching and learning course designed using evidenced-based educational research
In this Harvard Macy Institute blog post, Schoen W. Kruse discusses the importance of formalized teaching training for new medical educators.
