Excellence in Education Week 2021
Zoom Virtual Meeting. Zoom link will be provided after registration.
Medical Education Research – Posters Selected for Oral Presentations
12:00-1:00pm
CME Credits: 1:00
Moderated by Maryellen E. Gusic, MD
View the digital posters here on UVA Box (NetBadge login required).
“Clinical reasoning remediation for the graduate medical learner in need”
–Andrew S. Parsons & Karen M. Warburton
“How stakeholders view the usefulness of narrative comments provided in EPA assessments”
–Gabrielle K. Smith, Elizabeth B. Bradley, James R. Martindale, & Maryellen E. Gusic
“Introducing the use point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) for umbilical venous catheter (UVC) placement in the NICU: Education phase”
-Rupin Kumar, Maryam Abubakar, Marcus Hook, & Santina Zanelli
Zoom Virtual Meeting. Zoom link will be provided after registration.
Medical Education Research – Posters Selected for Oral Presentations
12:00-1:00pm
CME Credits: 1:00
Moderated by Maryellen E. Gusic, MD
View the digital posters here on UVA Box (NetBadge login required).
“A silver lining to the COVID cloud: Some strengths of virtual conferences”
–Emily Salpini, Joshua Reyes, Linda A. Waggoner-Fountain, & Stephen Borowitz
“Learning without PowerPoint: A novel approach to teaching clinical psychopharmacology to Psychiatry residents”
–Keri Ann Stevenson & Jenny Lee
“Developing a multi-institution high-value care course during the early COVID-19 pandemic”
–Glenn Moulder, Ashwini Niranjan-Azadi, Maryellen E. Gusic, George Hoke, Amit Pahwa, & Andrew S. Parsons
Visit the Medical Center Hour website for registration and Zoom link information.
Medical Center Hour Virtual Lecture
Koppaka Family Foundation Lecture in the Health Humanities
12:00-1:00pm
Presented by Louise Aronson, MD, MFA
Dr. Aronson is a leading geriatrician, writer, educator, and professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. The author of the New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist Elderhood, she is a regular contributor to the New York Times and the New England Journal of Medicine among other publications. Recognition of Louise’s work includes a MacDowell fellowship, four Pushcart nominations, the American Geriatrics Society Clinician-Teacher of the Year award, and a Gold Professorship for Humanism in Medicine.
Zoom Virtual Meeting. Zoom link will be provided after registration.
From Idea to In-print: Identifying Opportunities for Educational Scholarship in Your Daily Work with Learners
4:00-5:00pm
CME Credits: 1:00
Presented by Maryellen E. Gusic, MD, Professor of Medical Education and Pediatrics and Senior Advisor for Educational Affairs
In this interactive workshop, participants interested in health sciences education will explore the use of a systematic process to design, implement, and evaluate the work they do with learners and examine key considerations in developing a plan to disseminate educational scholarship. By the end of this session, participants will be able to apply the components of a scholarly approach to design, refine, or enhance a current educational activity and outline an action plan to share one’s educational work with the broad community of educators. (1 CME credit)
About the Presenter
Dr. Maryellen E. Gusic has extensive experience in administrative leadership with a career and scholarly focus in education and professional development. She serves as the Senior Advisor for Educational Affairs in the School of Medicine and is a Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor of Medical Education and a Professor of Pediatrics. In her role, she engages in a broad variety of strategic initiatives, including leading innovative educational interventions to enhance the clinical performance assessment program and incorporate entrustable professional activities in competency-based teaching and assessment activities. A member of the inaugural cohort of the National Academy of Distinguished Educators in Pediatrics, Dr. Gusic has presented over two hundred peer-reviewed and invited professional development sessions at national and international meetings and as a visiting professor. Her peer-reviewed educational publications and presentations have focused on evaluating educational scholarship and promoting the academic advancement of faculty, measuring the impact of professional development programs and mentoring and competency-based assessment.
Zoom Virtual Meeting. Zoom link will be provided after registration.
Virtual Poster Session and Happy Hour
4:00-5:00pm
CME Credits: 1:00
Moderated by Neeral Shah, MD
View the list of poster titles/authors and the link to the digital posters here.
Grab your favorite beverage and join your colleagues for the Virtual Poster Session and Happy Hour! This event provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to connect with colleagues and discuss educational innovations and scholarly work. Participants will be able to move from breakout room to breakout room over the course of the hour to speak with abstract authors and explore a variety of research and innovation topics. Attendees are encouraged to come to the session having reviewed the posters and with questions already prepared. Attendees are also encouraged to view the poster materials on their own computer or device during the session. By the end of this educational activity, participants will be able to discuss educational scholarship and research; and describe new and ongoing scholarly innovations in the UVA School of Medicine. (1 CME credit)
Note: Be sure you have downloaded the latest Zoom update so you can take advantage of the “self-select a breakout room” feature.
Zoom Virtual Meeting. Zoom link will be provided after registration
Educational Scholarship Work-In-Progress Peer Consultation Session
12:00-1:00pm
CME Credits: 1:00
Presented by Maryellen E. Gusic, MD and Neeral Shah, MD
In this workshop, participants will work in facilitated small groups to identify strategies to address questions/challenges related to the implementation, evaluation and/or dissemination of an educational project. Each participant will have an opportunity to describe their work and present questions/challenges they are encountering for discussion. A key to making this a productive session is for participants to focus the question/challenge they have for their peer consultation. Creation of a “good” question will allow peers to provide focused input. Participants will be given instructions in advance of the session for how to prepare for their peer consultations. By the end of this session, participants will be able to: incorporate and provide peer feedback to advance scholarly work in education. (1 CME credit)
About the Presenters
Dr. Gusic has extensive experience in administrative leadership with a career and scholarly focus in education and professional development. She serves as the Senior Advisor for Educational Affairs in the School of Medicine and is a Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor of Medical Education and a Professor of Pediatrics. In her role, she engages in a broad variety of strategic initiatives, including leading innovative educational interventions to enhance the clinical performance assessment program and incorporate entrustable professional activities in competency-based teaching and assessment activities. A member of the inaugural cohort of the National Academy of Distinguished Educators in Pediatrics, Dr. Gusic has presented over two hundred peer-reviewed and invited professional development sessions at national and international meetings and as a visiting professor. Her peer-reviewed educational publications and presentations have focused on evaluating educational scholarship and promoting the academic advancement of faculty, measuring the impact of professional development programs and mentoring and competency-based assessment.
Dr. Shah is an Associate Professor of Medicine (GI / Transplant Hepatology) and is a Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor of Medical Education. He arrived at the University of Virginia to complete a transplant hepatology fellowship and stayed on faculty starting in 2009. He originally served on the task force for the creation of the organ system-based NxGen curriculum in 2010. He is currently involved in the UME curriculum as the GI system leader, a member of the curriculum committee, and as the co-chair of the pre-clerkship leadership committee. He is involved in the GME as the GI fellowship program director and as an advisor to internal medicine residents. Finally, he is involved with CME as the course director for the annual, regional UVA GI/Hepatology course. He is a Harvard Macy Institute Health Educator alumnus and is interested in the use of technology in medical education and student engagement.
Zoom Virtual Meeting. Zoom link will be provided after registration.
Medical Education Grand Rounds
Evidence-informed teaching and learning principles: Applying theory and research to educational practice
12:00-1:00pm
CME Credits: 1:00
Presented by Anthony R. Artino, Jr., PhD, Professor and Associate Dean for Evaluation and Educational Research George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences
As medical educators, we carefully construct our instructional strategies around our goals for student learning and our understanding of “what works” from a teaching and learning perspective. Unfortunately, this understanding often arises mostly from the ways in which we were taught. Although this approach may be successful, its effectiveness is based more on luck than evidence. In contrast, instruction that is grounded in theory and research can be systematically tested, and incrementally improved, thereby allowing us to refine both our understanding of how people think and learn and our execution of specific teaching strategies. Evidence-informed education is based on the underlying mechanisms of human cognition, motivation, and emotion; these principles provide insights into why and under what circumstances certain teaching and learning strategies work, while others do not. In this presentation, we will discuss several key principles from the education and psychology literature—principles that are informed by both theory and research. This session is not about how to teach, per se, because all teaching is context-bound, and our range of contexts is wide. Instead, we will discuss a set of generalizable teaching and learning principles that can be adapted and adjusted by the inventive teacher to fit a variety of medical education contexts.
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
Discuss several cognitive psychology principles that can positively influence learning; Identify individual differences, beyond cognition and “learning styles,” that strongly influence learning and performance; Discuss self-conscious emotions and their powerful effects on learning and performance in clinical settings; and Describe the limitations of the phrase “assessment drives learning.” (1 CME credit)
About the Presenter
Anthony Artino is a tenured Professor in the Department of Health, Human Function, and Rehabilitation Sciences at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS). He received his PhD in educational psychology from the University of Connecticut and, prior to joining SMHS in the spring of 2020, served as Professor and Deputy Director for the Center of Health Professions Education at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. In his current role at SMHS, Dr. Artino teaches graduate courses, conducts research, mentors students and junior faculty, and provides administrative leadership in evaluation and educational research.
As a researcher, he has been the principal or associate investigator on several extramurally funded research projects. His most highly cited works are a blend of research and education articles on topics ranging from analyzing and interpreting survey data, understanding academic motivation and self-regulated learning among medical students and practicing physicians, measuring long-term physician outcomes, and developing surveys for educational research. Dr. Artino is deputy editor for the Journal of Graduate Medical Education, assistant editor for Academic Medicine, and associate editor for Perspectives on Medical Education. He is also a Fellow of the Association for Medical Education in Europe and the Aerospace Medical Association. Dr. Artino has published and presented around the globe on topics ranging from self-regulated learning and assessment to scholarly dissemination and the responsible conduct of research.
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Medical Education Research, Publication, and Career Development Q&A
1:00-2:00pm
Presented by Anthony R. Artino, Jr., PhD, Professor and Associate Dean for Evaluation and Educational Research George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences
About the Presenter
Anthony Artino is a tenured Professor in the Department of Health, Human Function, and Rehabilitation Sciences at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS). He received his PhD in educational psychology from the University of Connecticut and, prior to joining SMHS in the spring of 2020, served as Professor and Deputy Director for the Center of Health Professions Education at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. In his current role at SMHS, Dr. Artino teaches graduate courses, conducts research, mentors students and junior faculty, and provides administrative leadership in evaluation and educational research.
As a researcher, he has been the principal or associate investigator on several extramurally funded research projects. His most highly cited works are a blend of research and education articles on topics ranging from analyzing and interpreting survey data, understanding academic motivation and self-regulated learning among medical students and practicing physicians, measuring long-term physician outcomes, and developing surveys for educational research. Dr. Artino is deputy editor for the Journal of Graduate Medical Education, assistant editor for Academic Medicine, and associate editor for Perspectives on Medical Education. He is also a Fellow of the Association for Medical Education in Europe and the Aerospace Medical Association. Dr. Artino has published and presented around the globe on topics ranging from self-regulated learning and assessment to scholarly dissemination and the responsible conduct of research.