COURSESESME – Essential Skills in Medical Education (Offered and accredited by AMEE)Facilitators: Stewart Mennin and Teri McCarty (University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, USA)Sessions: Saturday 9.00am-5.00pm; Sunday 9.00am-12.30pm; Monday 12.15-1.15pm; Tuesday 12.15-1.15pm; Wednesday 4.00-6.00pm)Venue: All sessions take place at Hyatt Regency Hotel (and not at GCRME as previously indicated)Cost: $850 (includes optional post-course report)The ESME Course provides an introduction to the basic competencies required of the medical and healthcare professions teacher: the Skilled Educational Planner, the Effective Teacher and the Informed Assessor/Evaluator. Through a series of short presentations and small group work, this highly interactive course looks at how people learn and the range of teaching, learning and assessment methods and opportunities available to the teacher. It also examines how the teaching, learning and assessment can be organized in the curriculum. After completing the course, participants will have acquired a vocabulary and a framework for understanding essential concepts in these three areas and familiarity with the principles for their practical implementation. Post-course report: Participants may choose to submit, within six months of completion of the course, a short report describing the application of the ESME competencies in their own teaching practice, leading to award of the ESME Certificate in Medical Education. ESTEME – Essential Skills in Technology Enhanced Medical Education (Offered and accredited by AMEE)Facilitators: Barry Issenberg, Ross Scalese, Jorge Ruiz (Gordon Center for Research in Medical Education, Miami, USA) and David Cook (Mayo Clinic, Minnesota, USA)Sessions: Saturday 9.00am-5.00pm; Monday 12.15-1.15pm; Tuesday 12.15-1.15pm; Wednesday 4.00-6.00pm)Venue: Saturday: Gordon Center for Research in Medical Education; Monday-Wednesday: Hyatt Regency HotelCost: $750 (includes optional post-course report)The ESTEME course introduces participants to essential principles and methods for selecting and using technology to enhance medical education. It aims at giving participants a basic understanding and initial skills to help them select, develop, and integrate appropriate technologies in their curricula. The course will provide opportunities for hands-on use of the various technologies. Such technologies include online multimedia tutorials; high-fidelity virtual patient applications that ask learners to diagnose and manage simulated patients; and immersive, individual and team-based simulations designed around lifelike mannequins. It is the intention of this course to encourage participants to consider how the technology can best serve their educational needs rather than to focus on the technology itself. The course is aimed at participants who have little or no experience in choosing or utilizing educational technology in medical education. Post-course report: After the conference participants are invited to write a curricular plan on how they will adopt and/or develop, implement and evaluate a new educational technology at their local institution. Approval of the plan within 6 months leads to the award of the ESTEME Certificate. FAME – Fundamentals of Assessment in Medical Education (Offered and accredited by NBME/FAIMER)Facilitators: NBME and FAIMER faculty, and other international contributorsSessions: Saturday 9.00am-5.00pm; Sunday 9.00am-12.30pm; Monday 12.15-1.15pm; Tuesday 12.15-1.15pm; Wednesday 4.00-6.00pm)Venue: All sessions take place at Hyatt Regency Hotel (and not at GCRME as previously indicated)
The FAME course is directed to those with responsibility for assessing undergraduate medical students, graduate trainees and practicing doctors, and introduces participants to areas such as the assessment of knowledge and reasoning, assessment of skills, assessment of workplace performance and assessment of programs. Topics covered include test design, test material development, standard setting and scoring, analysis and reporting. Post-course report: Following the course, participants have the option of preparing a short report describing the implementation of their learning during the course to a specific issue in their home institution, which may lead to the award of a FAME Certificate of Achievement. Further information is available from the FAME website: www.famecourse.org |
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