May 2008
May 8
Medical Education Journal Club, 12:00, LH 415
May 9
Graduation 2008 Congratulations!
May 23
Deadline for GIVME
Grant submissions
June 2
CORE
Conversations, 12:00, LH 306A
June 3
MedEd
Grand Rounds, 12:00, LH 208
Kimberly Lomis, MD received a national "Outstanding Teacher Award" from the Association for Surgical
Education. Congratulations! [more]
The Center for Experiential Learning (CELA) Program in Human Simulation "gives med students feel for life in
the patient care trenches." [read story]
Dan Beauchamp, Chairman of Surgical Sciences is pleased to announce a new annual faculty teaching award in the
Section of Surgical Sciences that was recently endowed at the level of $1 million by a former VUMC surgical resident and retired General Surgeon,
Eustace H. Winn, Jr., M.D. The award is named the "Robert S. McCleery Master Teacher Award in Surgical
Resident Education" and will be awarded at the end of each academic year with the recognition ceremony and lectureship to be held
every June. This year's speaker for the
first award ceremony will be our own nationally renowned surgical educator, Dr. John Tarpley.
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Welcome MedEd Matters monthly eBulletin was created with you mind! I hope
that it will help build connections between faculty, staff and students working in medical education at Vanderbilt and beyond. The
Office for Teaching & Learning in Medicine (OTLM) has experienced extensive growth since launching in 2005 and we are extremely fortunate to work with
such a great medical faculty and student body. If you would like more information about anything in this newsletter please visit our website or call 936-8555. Hopefully, we will soon be reporting
your Medical Education events, ideas and successes.
John Shatzer,
Ph.D., Director of OTLM & CELA
Introducing CORE
Conversations The Center for Outcomes Research in Education (CORE) has
launched a monthly "Conversations" series to discuss Medical Education Research. This is an "open agenda" forum where you can both receive and
contribute: input about new ideas, suggestions for research designs, advice about statistical techniques, overviews of quantitative and qualitative
research methods, advice about outcomes and their measurement, comments on drafts of manuscripts, suggestions for journals, and resources for
additional learning about research in medical education. Participants will drive the agenda for each session. Emil R Petrusa, PhD, Professor and
Director of CORE will facilitate. You can RSVP, suggest a topic or request time at the CORE website.
The Academy for Excellence in
Teaching At the start of 2008, over 40 members of the Academy sequestered
themselves for a day of Strategic Planning. Guest speaker Charlene Dewey shared her perspectives and chronicled a 10-year period of activities by
Baylor's educators and administrators as they built a stronger educational atmosphere. The Academy welcomed six new members Ban Allos, Joey
Barnett, Larry Churchill, Charlene Dewey, Kevin Johnson, and Cathy Pettepher. Wide-ranging, lively discussions and breakout sessions explored the
strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for educators at VUSM. Our obvious challenge both as a collective and as individual educators in our varied
teaching niches is to strive to strengthen and advocate for improvements in the educational environment. For more information about the Academy
as well as information about membership, members in the news, upcoming activities, please visit the Academy website.
GIVME Grant Request for
Proposals Great Ideas in Vanderbilt Medical Education (GIVME) Grant
proposals are now being accepted. Do you have an idea for a curricular innovation, educational research project, or teaching/learning workshop? Apply
now for the funding to turn your great idea into reality through the GIVME Grant program. Proposals accepted online, maximum 3 pages. Revised deadline is
May 23.
MedEd Resource Notes Are you looking for medical education tools, resources, innovations or techniques? Each month we
will include a short resource note in this news bulletin and we are working to build a MedEd informational blog at VUSM. You can
see examples of similar blogs for MedEd Resources and MedEd Evaluation Research. Do you have a specialty in medical
education at VUSM and have an interest in becoming a MedEd resource contributor or blogger? Let us know!
If you have
announcements, resources or updates for MedEd Matters eBulletin - or would like to be a MedEd Matters blog resource contributor - please contact
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2008 SGEA Conference in Nashville = SUCCESS!
Thank you to everyone who helped make it
happen!
The AAMC
Southern Group on Educational Affairs (SGEA) Annual Conference was
held April 3-5 in Nashville, TN and included approximately 200 participants from all over the southern region, 70 educational and research sessions,
and 30 presentations from Vanderbilt faculty, staff and students. [R-L: VUSM Assoc. Prof. and Conference Program Chair Charlene Dewey,
MD, MEd discusses MedEd Portal with AAMC representative Robby
Reynolds and VUSM Asst Prof. Sally Santen, MD]
The conference focus was "Medical Education: Balancing Learning Strategies &
Technologies." The program highlighted technological innovations at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Featured speakers included
VUSM Biomedical Informatics Chair Daniel Masys, MD and Dean Steven Gabbe, MD. [VUSM Asst Prof Josh Denny, MD spoke on technology in health care]
OTLM and the Office of Undergraduate Medical Education at Vanderbilt hosted
the 2008 SGEA conference which was a collaborative effort between Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Meharry Medical College and the University
of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine. [Piotr Pilarski, 1st year VUSM medical student presented a poster on podcasting in
pre-clinical courses - a project he completed with Alan Johnstone, Cathleen Pettepher, Ph.D. and Neil Osheroff, Ph.D.]
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