Educator Programs & Events

This session will focus on introducing new platforms and demonstrating skills to engage learners using the latest technology available to medical educators.

Session Type: Advanced (“2.0” content)

Associated ACGME Clinician Educator Milestone/s:

• UP 1: Universal Pillars 1: Reflective practice and commitment to personal growth

• ETP 1: Educational Theory and Practice 1: Teaching and facilitating learning
• ETP 10: Educational Theory and Practice 1: Learning environment

Improvisational theater is a type of unscripted live theater. The skills, principles, and exercises of improvisational theater have been utilized to improve communication, teamwork, and cognition within healthcare, often referred to as medical improv. This session will review key improv skills, principles, and a framework for developing a medical improv curriculum, and discuss theories as to why medical improv may be effective as a pedagogy. Discussions will center on how attendees may consider bringing aspects of medical improv skills, principles, and exercises into their teaching toolkits.

Associated Clinician Educator Milestone:

• ETP 1 – Educational Theory and Practice 1: Teaching and Facilitated Learning

In this session, we will explore how artificial intelligence tools are rapidly transforming trainee and curriculum assessment in medical education. AI tools integrated into curricular and workplace settings have the potential to enhance learning through efficient, timely, and continuous competency-based assessment. These tools can also be used for improving curriculum oversight.

Session Type: Advanced (“2.0” content)

Associated ACGME Clinician Educator Milestone/s:

• ETP 1: Educational Theory and Practice 1: Teaching and facilitating learning
• ETP 3: Educational Theory and Practice 3: Learning assessment
• ETP 4: Educational Theory and Practice 4: Feedback
• ETP 5: Educational Theory and Practice 5: Performance improvement and remediation
• ETP 6: Educational Theory and Practice 6: Programmatic evaluation

Target Audience
- Specialties - Cardiovascular Disease, Internal Medicine
- Professions - Non-Physician, Nurse, PA, Physician, Student

Overview
Cardiovascular disease continues to be the leading cause of death in our society as well as a significant source of morbidity. Health care costs associated with cardiovascular diseases are among the highest. More than ever a strong partnership with our associates in primary care is critical to provide state of the art, streamlined and comprehensive cardiac care. This activity was designed to provide essential updates on frequently encountered topics in cardiology and encourage networking during the event with an emphasis on communication and working relationships with those providers on the front line.

Objectives
- Discuss core cardiovascular conditions
- Explain appropriate use of cardiovascular testing and therapies
- Identify recent advances in cardiovascular procedures and therapies

Please see our conference website for registration details.

High-quality abstracts increase the likelihood of a submission being reviewed rather than summarily rejected and of a published work being eventually discovered and reaching its intended audience. A solid abstract is the entryway to presenting at a conference or publishing in a journal. Abstracts can be enhanced by incorporating a dozen proven strategies described in this session.

Session Type: Practical Application Workshop

Associated ACGME Clinician Educator Milestone:

• ETP 9: Educational Theory and Practice 9: Medical Education Scholarship

This talk will offer practical, easy-to-follow tips for creating and using audio-based podcasts to support your specific curricular needs. We will cover both the technical and creative basics, with the goal of showing it can be much easier than it “sounds”—no prior experience necessary. We will also explore various ways to integrate podcasting into your teaching.

Associated Clinician Educator Milestone:

• ETP 1 – Educational Theory and Practice 1: Teaching and Facilitated Learning

Target Audience

Specialties - Cardiovascular Disease

Overview

The Yale Women’s Heart Symposium is a one-day, multidisciplinary program delivering evidence-based updates in cardiovascular care for women. National experts will translate emerging research and new guidelines into practical strategies across outpatient, interventional, surgical, and critical care—addressing sex-specific presentations and underrecognized conditions. Designed for clinicians in all practice settings, the symposium features concise lectures, case discussions, and expert panels to help close care gaps and improve outcomes for women with cardiovascular disease.

Educational sessions will cover topics across the continuum of cardiovascular care, including coronary and valvular disease, heart failure, electrophysiology, cardio-oncology, peripheral vascular disease, and structural heart interventions. The program is ideal for cardiologists, internists, primary care physicians, surgeons, advanced practice providers, and allied health professionals.

Objectives

1. Differentiate traditional and non-traditional cardiovascular risk factors in women across the lifespan.
2. Apply sex-specific considerations to the evaluation and management of ischemic heart disease, including INOCA and SCAD.
3. Evaluate strategies for complex coronary artery disease in women, including calcium modification, acute myocardial infarction/cardiogenic shock, and high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention.
4. Optimize heart failure care in women, including during pregnancy and in cases of cardiac amyloidosis.
5. Integrate 2024–2025 guideline updates and emerging evidence in cardio-oncology, electrophysiology, and structural heart disease into clinical practice.
6. Implement at least two strategies to improve inclusive research and increase women’s representation in cardiovascular clinical trials.

Please visit our conference website for registration details.

Clinical reasoning is a core skill in every field of health professions education. Teaching clinical reasoning can be challenging, however, as educators try to balance classroom and clinical demands across different types of learners. In this session, Dr. Wijesekera will provide attendees key frameworks and tools for optimizing the clinical reasoning educational experience of their learners.

Session Type: Advanced (“2.0” content)

Associated ACGME Clinician Educator Milestones:

• EPT1: Educational Theory and Practice 1: Teaching and Facilitating Learning
• EPT5: Educational Theory and Practice 5: Performance Improvement and Remediation
• EPT8: Educational Theory and Practice 8: Science of Learning

Target Audience

Specialties - Oncology

Overview

This meeting will recap the major takeaways from ASH through a program designed for hematologists involved in the treatment of patients with blood cancer.

Objectives

1. Describe the current treatment options and updates in various lymphoma, multiple myeloma, leukemia, and myeloid malignancies.
2. Discuss the development and outcomes of clinical research trials, cellular therapies, and transplant options for hematological malignancies and assess their relevance to patient care
3. Assess the emerging role of immunotherapy, targeted therapies, cellular therapies and antibodies in hematological malignancies
4. Review updates in classical hematology, including bleeding disorders and thrombosis

Registration

Registration is complimentary; however, we require you to register to account for seating and meals.

If you have any questions, please contact the Center for Continuing Medical Education at cme@yale.edu.

Goal setting is part of the mastery learning cycle. Learn how to spell out specific ends and means goals for your setting and how to collaborate with learners to get the most out of every educational block.

Session Type: Repeat Offering (Session content similar to 2024-25 session. Best suited for those new to the material or who may benefit from a refresher.)

Associated ACGME Clinician Educator Milestones:

• ETP 3: Educational Theory and Practice 3: Learner Assessment
• ETP 5: Educational Theory and Practice 5: Performance Improvement and Remediation
• ETP 11: Educational Theory and Practice 11: Curriculum

Target Audience

Specialties - Internal Medicine

Overview

This half-day CME program equips primary care providers with practical, evidence-based strategies to recognize, diagnose, and manage common neurological conditions. Expert Yale faculty will deliver a dynamic curriculum featuring didactic lectures, case-based presentations, and interactive discussions. Topics include peripheral neuropathy, EMG/NCS in primary care, cognitive impairment, Parkinson’s disease, tremor, and advances in migraine care, with a keynote lecture on new developments in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.

With a focus on closing knowledge and practice gaps, the symposium will provide clinicians with updated diagnostic methods, therapeutic options, and best practices for timely referrals—ultimately enhancing patient outcomes across the region.

Objectives

1. Apply diagnostic approaches and treatment strategies for peripheral neuropathies (autoimmune and hereditary), including the role of electro diagnostic testing.
2. Evaluate recent advances in the diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease
3. Differentiate and manage common neurological presentations, including mild cognitive impairment, tremor, and gait imbalance.
4. Discuss emerging therapies for migraine management
5. Determine appropriate pathways for urgent and non-urgent referrals to general neurology and subspecialties, and recognize common neurologic symptoms and diagnoses encountered in daily practice.

Please visit our conference website for full conference details and registration.

There is more to medical simulation than talking mannequins and high-tech equipment. In this session, we will discuss the educational theory behind medical simulation and how to incorporate principles of simulation scenario design and simulation debriefing into other educational modalities.

Associated Clinician Educator Milestone:

• ETP 1 – Educational Theory and Practice 1: Teaching and Facilitated Learning

Capture your work efficiently so that your poster can in turn capture would-be viewers. A poster is not a distilled article; a poster is an expanded abstract. If the distinction appears too subtle, you may benefit from learning about this and other overlooked truisms in creating an effective poster. Medicine and the health sciences are team sports: let your poster help you make contact!

Session Type: Practical Application Workshop

Associated ACGME Clinician Educator Milestone:

• ETP 9: Educational Theory and Practice 9: Medical Education Scholarship