Mastering the Skills of the Modern Medical Educator Optional Add-On Tracks

Add up to two of the following three optional focused tracks to your Principles of Medical Education registration to tailor your education to your current and future professional needs. All three tracks will be recorded and will be available to registrants to view (and re-view) at their convenience for 90 days after the program. 

Track 1: Taking Your Teaching to the Next Level

Thursday Afternoon, March 26, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

This highly interactive and hands-on skills building session will equip the modern educator with tools to be an A+ teacher in 2026. This session will provide you up-to-date techniques to improve your teaching effectiveness in the classroom and at the bedside. You will learn:

  • Strategies to improve the performance of your students and advance your own critical thinking
  • Tangible tips to create an elegant slide presentation without hours of tinkering and frustration
  • How to give feedback using the advocacy inquiry approach
  • To apply the seven tips for elevating whiteboard mini-lectures to: develop a focused whiteboard topic to enhance learner retention; design whiteboard graphics grounded in cognitive theory of multimedia learning; and apply public speaking best practices to sustain attention and motivate learners

This track includes the following sessions:

  • Using Advocacy Inquiry to Improve Difficult Conversations with Learners
  • Strategies to Elevate Whiteboard Mini-Lectures
  • Power Up Your PowerPoint to Improve Your Lectures

Of Special Note:

  • To optimize the value of this program for each participant, registration is limited to 50.
  • To be assured a place in this program, early registration is strongly advised.

 

Track 2: Leadership Skills for Today’s Health Professions Educator

Thursday Afternoon, March 26, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Are you an educational leader or want to be one? If so this track is for you! Through a series of highly interactive, live, virtual workshops, you will learn and develop the leadership skills needed to thrive as a health professions educational leader in 2026.  This program is designed for physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals who are in leadership roles, taking on leadership roles, or aspiring to be leaders. This track provides practical strategies you can apply immediately to increase your efficiency and productivity at work, strengthen your influence, and advance your career.

You will learn:

  • Self-awareness and self-management
  • How to navigate an intentional and successful career path in academic medicine
  • Identify your authentic leadership style and  harness it effectively
  • Manage your time and priorities to stay both clinically and academically productive
  • Create leadership roles that are meaningful, rewarding, and aligned with your goals
  • Maintain healthier balance between work, teaching, and personal commitments
  • Apply principles of inclusive, transparent, and collaborative leadership
  • Lead across professions and generations within complex learning environments
  • Use communication and influence to advance initiatives and lead change

This track includes the following sessions:

  • Defining Leadership in Healthcare Education
  • Transforming Self Insight into Authentic Leadership
  • Personal and Professional Development in Academic Medicine
  • Enhanced Efficiency and Productivity Through Better Time Management
  • Leading By Example: Leadership Behaviors that Shape the Learning Environment
  • Connecting with and to your Cadre: Practical Skills to Lead Across Professions and Generations

Of Special Note:

  • To optimize the value of this program for each participant, registration is limited to 50.
  • To be assured a place in this program, early registration is strongly advised.

     

Track 3: AI in Medical Education: A Teacher’s Guide to Preserving Thinking in This New Era

Friday, March 27, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm 

Join us for an immersive, hands-on, forward-looking session designed specifically to equip you with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to integrate artificial intelligence into your daily life as an educator. Through engaging hands-on sessions where you will work alongside the faculty, you will learn and practice utilizing a variety of AI tools in real time. You will learn AI-assisted clinical case and multiple-choice question creation, advanced prompting strategies, and exciting technologies like avatars and AI scribes that will make you more efficient and effective as an educator. 

In addition to hands-on skill building sessions, this course will also critically explore the implications of AI on our professional identity as educators, the teacher-learner interaction, and critical thinking and clinical reasoning.  We will discuss challenges and opportunities and the impact of AI on health professions education in 2026.

Whether you are new to AI or looking to deepen your expertise, this course offers a balanced mix of foundational knowledge and advanced application. Highlights include AI uses for coaching and feedback, the pearls and pitfalls of AI use for clinical reasoning,  and a learner’s-eye view of AI in 2026. With perspectives from experienced educators, technologists, and learners alike, you’ll leave prepared to deploy AI tools within your institution and lead and innovate in this rapidly evolving educational landscape. Don’t miss this opportunity to future-proof your teaching while staying grounded in the values that define us as health professions educators. 

This track includes the following sessions:

  • Setting the Stage: Overview of Current Tools and How and Why to Use Them
  • Hands on Prompting Workshop for Health Professions Educators: Part I
  • AI Innovations in Assessment, Feedback, and Coaching
  • Medical Education in the Age of AI: The Future is Now and  Where do We Go from Here
  • Real-World Use Case:
    • Reading and Writing Recommendation Letters in the Age of AI
    • How I Use AI for Faculty Feedback
    • ChatGPT Fails Physiology
    • A Hands-on View from the Learner
    • How AI Has Changed EMS Education
  • Hands-on Prompting Workshop for Health Professions Educators: Part II

Of Special Note:

  • To optimize the value of this program for each participant, registration is limited to 50.
  • To be assured a place in this program, early registration is strongly advised.

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