YES! is year-long series of bi-monthly workshops on Fridays from 12:00pm to 1:00pm, for everyone involved in teaching our students and trainees. The sessions are designed for YSM educators, from novice to expert, with up-to-date, practical ways to engage and inspire learners in lab, workshop, clinical, and classroom settings.
In this session the instructor will teach and role model six teaching strategies that are evidence-based and that will enhance your skills at noon conference teaching or any sort of teaching.
Associated Clinician Educator Milestone:
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.
Associated Clinician Educator Milestone:
Be a B.O.S.S. at written feedback! Written feedback serves as the basis of an evaluation record whether you are a student, trainee, or faculty. Join us to learn a structured approach to make your written feedback specific, actionable, and learner-centered.
Associated Clinician Educator Milestone:
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!
Associated Clinician Educator Milestone:
It is crucial to recognize and mitigate sources of bias that can creep into our assessment systems. This session will focus on some origins for biases and will explore methods to assure best practices.
Associated Clinician Educator Milestones:
Tips for writing during early career development – and beyond. You are not alone in coming to the realization that writing is hard work. Don’t believe anyone who says otherwise, but also don’t let it dissuade you from giving it a shot. You may not know it, and someone early in his or her career may not believe it, but the fact is that someone wants to read your work, and there is a home for it out there. Only one thing is for certain: if you don’t get started and give it a real try, then your work will never be published. Writing is hard work, but it is also a skill you can learn and one that gets better with practice and time. In this session I will try to persuade you that there are steps you can take to make the process more efficient, more hopeful, more likely to succeed, and, if nothing else, more bearable.
Associated Clinician Educator Milestone:
How to carve our teaching time in the middle of a busy clinic setting? Learn these effective on-the-fly teaching strategies to help you and your learners both feel productive.
Associated Clinician Educator Milestones:
This interactive session is designed to help those looking to expand their educational scholarship to areas other than curriculum development. We will have an interactive session reviewing other scholarship types including examples produced at Yale and beyond. Participants will leave the session with abstracts and links to scholarship types discussed.
Associated ACGME Clinician Educator Milestones:
It’s not always practical or desirable to use PowerPoint for a teaching session. The magic of chalk talks lies in its dynamism and flexibility. This session will review the essentials for giving new life and purpose to your white board/chalk talk presentations.
Associated Clinician Educator Milestone:
The clinical work environment can be challenged by disruptive patients, power differentials, and harrassment and/or mistreatment by colleagues or supervisors. Learn how to use your professional voice to support learners and promote psychological safety.
Associated Clinician Educator Milestones:
This session will establish context as to why it is necessary to differentiate jobs from careers, propose a rubric to classify and triage job versus career needs, and offer specific, behaviorally-focused action plans to make more time available for career development. Topics for which action plans are offered include calendar management, explicit prioritization of important but non-urgent tasks, more effective email use, and mitigating electronic distractors. The need to say no to particular asks and opportunities will also be covered. While applicable to faculty at all stages, the session is likely most impactful for those in early and mid-careers.
Associated ACGME Clinician Educator Milestones:
- UP 1: Universal Pillar 1: Reflective practice and commitment to personal growth
- UP 2: Universal Pillar 2: Well-being of learners and colleagues
- UP 4: Universal Pillar 4: Commitment to professional responsibilities