Center for Medical Education
August 28, 2023- 00:03So just to give a graphic of where we sit,
- 00:07of course we've got the Dean and Jessica,
- 00:09Lucy reporting to the Dean and I report to
- 00:12Jessica in the Center for Medical Education.
- 00:15We have two arms and one is the CME,
- 00:19which used to be in Yale Medicine.
- 00:21It's moved over to the medical
- 00:23school because of the importance
- 00:25of education in relationship to
- 00:28your continuing learning needs.
- 00:30And again, you can develop courses.
- 00:32You can work closely with us on the
- 00:34pedagogy to have innovative courses.
- 00:36And we have Allison Renfro,
- 00:37who's a PhD educator heading our CME.
- 00:41And again, we have a number of courses.
- 00:43We're also developing online courses.
- 00:46So it's a very rich environment
- 00:47for all of you.
- 00:48We also in the teaching and learning arm,
- 00:52we offer a number of resources that I
- 00:54wanted to just share with you because
- 00:56what we really do is we're promoting
- 00:59again this synergized and centralized
- 01:02approach to educator development,
- 01:04professional development.
- 01:05We build on what Bob Rohrbach does with
- 01:09his professional development and what Linda
- 01:12and her team build and offer through OAPD.
- 01:16We also do assessment educational technology
- 01:19programs and we really coordinate all of
- 01:23this to be available free to all of you,
- 01:27your learners,
- 01:28and they're all CME related.
- 01:30So we have centralized many of
- 01:32the resources and I'll go through
- 01:34what some of the resources will
- 01:36be available for all of you.
- 01:38I'd almost like you to take a picture
- 01:41of this with your phone because all
- 01:43your CME is located through this cloud
- 01:47learning platform and you do need to
- 01:50sign up and have a profile and it's much
- 01:52easier to just sign up now and then.
- 01:55You can also have access to all
- 01:57the courses that are CME related,
- 01:59some being online and some being in person.
- 02:03And if you have any questions,
- 02:05you're welcome to follow the QR code.
- 02:07But if you have any questions,
- 02:08you're welcome to just send me a
- 02:10text or e-mail and I'll answer it.
- 02:11And especially you might be
- 02:13interested in saying,
- 02:13Gee,
- 02:14I noticed that there are no CME
- 02:16courses in epilepsy.
- 02:18I'd love to start one or in Parkinson's.
- 02:21We're starting a new center and again
- 02:24thinking through how would you like
- 02:26to really let your research and your
- 02:29scholarship that your team are really
- 02:31providing become worldwide and really
- 02:33start globally because we could also
- 02:36be offering some online programs.
- 02:41So the center I highlight,
- 02:43I'm highlighting three of our faculty here.
- 02:47We offer educator development and again,
- 02:50that's very centralized and I'll
- 02:51go through some of the aspects.
- 02:53It's for you as an educator,
- 02:55whether you're teaching in your lab,
- 02:58whether you're teaching residents,
- 03:00medical students, fellows,
- 03:01We have a number of educator
- 03:04development programs.
- 03:05Michael Green, who you see here,
- 03:07heads our assessment programs.
- 03:09He's really looking at student
- 03:11assessment and how we can do that.
- 03:13He also does research in this area.
- 03:15So again, if there's a particular
- 03:17area and this afternoon you'll be
- 03:19hearing about the various tracks.
- 03:21But if you're on the clinician,
- 03:23educator, scholar track,
- 03:24you have the opportunity to be doing
- 03:26research and scholarship in any of
- 03:28these areas and we're there to help you.
- 03:31Educational technology.
- 03:32Gary Laden,
- 03:32he has expertise in this area to
- 03:35really think through if you're using
- 03:38technology in your learning environment
- 03:40with your primarily medical students,
- 03:42but it could be your residents.
- 03:44And John and Candela really
- 03:46heads our faculty evaluations,
- 03:48our program evaluation
- 03:50and curricular evaluation.
- 03:52So again, his that area of expertise.
- 03:54And again, at any point in time,
- 03:56you can come and consult with anyone of us.
- 04:00What we've noticed over the various years,
- 04:02we started a teaching and Learning
- 04:04Center in 2012 after our first
- 04:06educational strategic plan.
- 04:07And more recently,
- 04:08we have become the Center
- 04:10for Medical Education,
- 04:12and we include all of this.
- 04:13So it's more of a centralized
- 04:15resource for all of the faculty
- 04:17throughout all the departments,
- 04:191 area.
- 04:19And I wanted to just highlight for
- 04:21all of you is your development as
- 04:24educators and this is really important
- 04:26for all of us here at Yale because
- 04:28we're all teaching whether again as
- 04:30I say you're in the lab and you're
- 04:33doing one-on-one or you're in the
- 04:35clinic or in the hospital setting.
- 04:36We have a fellowship,
- 04:38and part of the fellowship
- 04:40is a couple of hours a week.
- 04:41You're appointed to the fellowship by
- 04:44your chair, and it's a selection process.
- 04:47We accept 14 fellows.
- 04:49So again,
- 04:49if you're wanting to sort of dip into
- 04:52the area of really understanding how
- 04:54to do scholarship in medical education,
- 04:57this would be a wonderful opportunity
- 04:59to talk with your division chief
- 05:01or your department chair and they
- 05:02could put your name forward.
- 05:04If you want to pursue it in more detail,
- 05:07in 2017,
- 05:08I started the Master of Health Science
- 05:13Medical Education Pathway and we've
- 05:16had over 20 faculty in the program.
- 05:18We have one or two residents.
- 05:20It's just one of my men.
- 05:22I come to work every day and it's like,
- 05:24oh, I love my fellowship.
- 05:25I love this master's program.
- 05:27We accept about 6 faculty into the program
- 05:30every year and it's a twoyear program.
- 05:33You have 35% protected time that
- 05:35it is required to do the research.
- 05:38But again,
- 05:38if you're wanting to be and again
- 05:40you're going to have a fabulous session
- 05:41with the faculty this afternoon on the
- 05:44CES track, If you're on that track,
- 05:46scholarship and research is required.
- 05:49Many of you will be doing
- 05:50that in the clinical area.
- 05:51But what Yale has done is expanded
- 05:54to accept that you can do research in
- 05:57education and scholarship in this area.
- 05:59And so the program focuses on,
- 06:01we have courses that we offer and
- 06:04then the scholarship in this area.
- 06:06So we also have a medical
- 06:08education discussion series.
- 06:09We've kept that online.
- 06:10We've started it during COVID
- 06:12online before it was in person,
- 06:14and the faculty find it so easy,
- 06:15they can hop on to these sessions.
- 06:18It's an hour and the first one
- 06:20that I'm going to be doing in
- 06:22the fall is on microaggressions.
- 06:24Again, thinking through as a strategy,
- 06:26if you identify a microaggression,
- 06:28how do you then as a faculty member might
- 06:31be just a bystander or an upstander?
- 06:33How do you respond to it?
- 06:34What are the strategies?
- 06:36We also have something with ChatGPT.
- 06:38We have two medical students
- 06:39have just written a paper and
- 06:41they're working with the faculty.
- 06:42So we highlight certain
- 06:44areas throughout the year.
- 06:45You're welcome to come to all of them.
- 06:47We'll make sure,
- 06:48if you want to on our mailing list,
- 06:50that you're there,
- 06:51that you're all welcome and
- 06:53they're all CME accredited.
- 06:55We also have a Yale Medical education
- 06:59series and you see this Dana Dunn,
- 07:02who's an infectious disease
- 07:04associate professor.
- 07:05She's also in our center and Dana is
- 07:08heading this new series where we again,
- 07:11they'll be online.
- 07:12They're on Fridays,
- 07:12noon to one and you can pop in
- 07:14and just do a couple of them,
- 07:16but maybe you might want to do 3 because
- 07:18we have a little mini course within them.
- 07:21So again,
- 07:21what we're really trying to provide is
- 07:24a foundation for you to be successful
- 07:26in your educator roles at Yale.
- 07:30You see also Nanani,
- 07:32who's an ophthalmologist is
- 07:34in one of the pictures also.
- 07:37So I would like you to mark your
- 07:40calendar and please plan to attend.
- 07:42Every year we have a Medical education
- 07:44day where we gather our entire
- 07:47community of educators together and
- 07:49we usually have a keynote person.
- 07:52Last year,
- 07:53it was Doctor Kevin Eva from
- 07:55University of British Columbia,
- 07:56a phenomenal researcher.
- 07:58He talked about optimizing the value
- 08:01of judgment in performance assessment
- 08:04and it was a phenomenal talk.
- 08:06We have posters, for example.
- 08:08You might be mentoring someone
- 08:10who's very interested in doing
- 08:12a poster in education.
- 08:13And this year,
- 08:14I'm very excited to say as of yesterday,
- 08:17we're going to be in person.
- 08:19So this is a a change the past
- 08:21couple of years with COVID.
- 08:22We've been doing it online and we
- 08:26have a phenomenal keynote speaker.
- 08:29Allison Wayland,
- 08:29who's head of the group on educational
- 08:32Affairs at the AA MC is joining us
- 08:34this year to really think through
- 08:37issues around medical education,
- 08:42the other area.
- 08:43And we talked, I talked a little bit
- 08:45about this in the awards this morning.
- 08:48But it is something to think about,
- 08:49because in the centre we have a large
- 08:52group who actually selects the awards.
- 08:55But you can nominate A peer,
- 08:57you can be nominated yourself.
- 08:59And the three awards that are presented,
- 09:02and it's very prestigious at commencement,
- 09:04are a Bomb Fog prize for teaching.
- 09:07And there's one for basic science
- 09:09and also clinical science.
- 09:10It's something for you to start being
- 09:12aware of as part of our community.
- 09:14And then we have a humanism award
- 09:16and then a Feinstein award.
- 09:18And these are what we actually do.
- 09:21One person will receive each of these awards,
- 09:24but many of you are nominated.
- 09:26And what we do is we send
- 09:28out a letter to you,
- 09:29your mentors and your department chairs
- 09:31that you were nominated for these awards.
- 09:34And we have the comments,
- 09:35the comments.
- 09:35Honestly, when I read them,
- 09:37I have 97 letters I'm going to be sending
- 09:39out this weekend to people who are nominated.
- 09:41They're just beautiful words to
- 09:44describe the impact that you have
- 09:46on our community of learners,
- 09:48from residents to medical students.
- 09:54So when you really think
- 09:56of what is the center,
- 09:57it is a academic home for all of you.
- 10:01As the Dean said this morning,
- 10:03we we don't want to be siloed.
- 10:05And what the Center for
- 10:06Medical Education really does,
- 10:07it brings all of you together,
- 10:08whether it's in the various
- 10:11sessions that we offer the
- 10:13fellowship or the master's program.
- 10:14We across all disciplines,
- 10:16work together to be the best
- 10:18educators that we can be.
- 10:20So thank you very much.
- 10:22Any questions at all?