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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.
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Collaborating with Students to Build Interprofessional Learning Opportunities
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.
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Teaching and Training for Transplant Professionals
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.
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The Pied Piper of Medical Education
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.
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Achieving Cultural Competency: an interview with Dr. Annie Daniel
In this Harvard Macy Institute blog post, reaching cultural competency while teaching abroad is discussed.
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Medical School in Three Years?
Three-year medical education is neither a new nor a radical idea. Many medical schools in the 1970’s offered accelerated pathways. Studies from the 1970’s have shown that graduates of 3-year programs are equally competent compared to residents trained in traditional 4-year schools.