Workshop Descriptions

Participants will learn how to provide frequent formative feedback to learners that motivates and encourages performance improvement. The session will be interactive with opportunity to discuss challenges and best practice for these often difficult conversations. Put your coaching hats on! 

Designed for both experienced specialty advisors and people interested in learning about becoming a specialty advisor for medical students, this workshop will share both local and national resources for career advising as well as discuss best practices for advising medical students, both one-on-one and in small group settings.

This is a practical, hands-on session. Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop or tablet.

Objectives

• Describe the four phases of the Master Adaptive Learner framework

• Recognize common learner, faculty, and system barriers to adaptive learning

• Apply coaching questions and teaching strategies that support planning, learning, assessing, and adjusting.

• Identify one actionable charge to foster adaptive learning in their own educational setting.

Compassion • Authenticity • Respect • Experience

This interactive workshop introduces CARE, a patient-centered simulation framework that centers the human experience of care alongside clinical performance. Participants will explore how CARE provides a shared language for designing, facilitating, and debriefing simulations that honor the patient’s voice while developing technically skilled, reflective clinicians.

A key focus of the session is the intentional integration of the patient voice through the use of Simulated Participants (SPs). Attendees will examine practical strategies for incorporating SPs into simulation and leveraging their unique perspective to provide feedback during the encounter and in debriefing, strengthening patient-centered learning and reflection.

This workshop will provide a practical introduction to the use of ChatGPT in medical education, with an emphasis on foundational concepts, prompt design, and applied teaching strategies. The session begins with a brief overview of ChatGPT’s role in medical education, followed by an interactive paired activity in which participants match key artificial intelligence terms to strengthen shared vocabulary and conceptual understanding. 

Participants will then be introduced to the 3 C Model for effective prompt writing, providing a simple framework for constructing purposeful, educationally aligned prompts. The second half of the session centers on interactive case studies and use of NotebookLM as well as Gemini for image creation. The workshop concludes with a brief discussion focused on implementation, participant feedback, and practical considerations for integrating these tools into teaching and learning environments.

This session will introduce participants to virtual escape rooms and other immersive learning experiences in medical education. After a brief overview of educational escape rooms and the Immersive Learning Suite, participants will divide into two groups that will rotate through two activities. One activity will take place in the Immersive Learning Suite, where participants will experience demonstrations of existing escape rooms and explore the learner perspective. The second activity will guide participants through the creative process of designing an educational escape room. Participants will then reconvene to review an escape room development workbook outlining the design process and practical tips for creating immersive learning activities. The session will conclude with time for participants to begin identifying a session, an overarching theme, and learning objectives for an immersive learning experience they plan to develop.

This workshop will explore evidence-informed and experience-driven best practices in physician assistant (PA) clinical precepting from the perspective of clinical education leadership. As clinical training environments grow increasingly complex, preceptors play a critical role in shaping not only clinical competence, but professional identity, clinical reasoning, and patient-centered care.

Drawing from program-level oversight and longitudinal coaching models, this session will examine structured onboarding, expectation setting, progressive autonomy, high-impact feedback, early learner support strategies, and alignment with competency-based outcomes. Emphasis will be placed on practical frameworks that strengthen preceptor effectiveness while maintaining clinical productivity and educational rigor.