Skill Development Workshops
Workshop A: Creative Solutions to Optimize Your Clerkship (Location: TBD)
Debra Leizman, MD, FACP; Internal Medicine Clerkship Director; Director of Medical Student Education, University Hospitals
Erin Stewart; Internal Medicine Clerkship Coordinator, University Hospitals
Wei Xiong, MD; Assistant Dean for Clerkship Education; Neuroscience Clerkship Director, University Hospitals
Description:
Designed for new or experienced Clerkship Directors and Coordinators, this workshop will demonstrate creative ways to enhance didactics, recruit senior resident teachers to assist in the clerkship, recognize outstanding teaching, increase feedback, and streamline assessment.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will review a unique approach to teaching quality and patient safety to clerkship students.
Participants will address creative ways to recognize and support residents and faculty who teach our students well.
Participants will review effective techniques to obtain and disseminate feedback to improve accuracy of grading and prevent grade appeals.
Participants will explore the concept of QR-code based “micro-assessments” and their role in increasing timely clinical feedback.
Participants will learn to create and/or customize a micro-assessment system using Qualtrics to facilitate assessment collection.
Materials:
This is a practical, hands-on session. Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop or tablet.
Workshop B: Psychological Safety and Educational Forward Growing in Clinical Settings (Location: TBD)
Emily Steinhagen, MD; Surgery Clerkship Director; Associate Program Director for the General Surgery Residency, University Hospitals
Rob Wilson, DO; Neurology Clerkship Director; Director of Neurological Acting Interns; Physician Advisor and Chair of Physician Advisors, Cleveland Clinic
Description:
Developing insights to help trainees thrive in clinical settings who may have challenges.
Learning Objectives:
Aware of biases toward trainees
Tools and help for less advanced trainee
Tools and help for the more reserved trainee
Tools and help for trainee with professionalism
Tools for trainee with punctuality
Tools and help for the trainee with confidence
Sharing best practices
Workshop C: Practical uses of Generative AI for the medical educator (Location: TBD)
Neil Mehta, MBBS, MS; Associate Dean for Curricular Affairs and Professor of Medicine, CCLCM of CWRU; Director, Center for Technology Enhanced Knowledge and Instruction, Cleveland Clinic
Michelle Fang, CCLCM, Class of 2027
Description:
In a large group interactive session, the facilitator will provide a brief overview of large language models, demonstrate available tools for generative AI and review the differences in functionality between free and subscription versions of these tools.
They will then demonstrate applications of these tools in daily workflow, curriculum and lesson plan design, assessment, review of literature and for learning and teaching. After demonstration of each application, participants will practice the same on their laptops using a detailed handout.
The workshop will end with a large group discussion on limitations and barriers for using these tools and practical strategies for applying these appropriately in participants work.
Participants should bring fully charged laptops to the session. The handouts will be emailed to registered participants.
Learning objectives:
Provide an overview of how Large Language Models work
Explore tools for generating text and images in response to prompts
Summarize features of free and subscription based tools
Apply these tools to the following areas
Efficiency and quality in daily workflows
Curriculum and Assessment
Research
Teaching and learning
List limitations of these tools and strategies to address these
Workshop D: Unlocking Learning: Digital Escape Rooms in Medical Education (Location: TBD)
Daniel Salcedo, MD, MHPE, Director of Simulation and Educational Technologies, School of Medicine
Description:
Dive into the world of digital escape rooms, an innovative approach in medical education that brings both excitement and deep learning beyond the conventional classroom. While traditional escape rooms present logistical challenges—such as resource-intensive planning, the necessity for small group interactions, potential for mishaps, the need for specialized design knowledge, and scant evidence of educational effectiveness—Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine breaks these barriers with its newly unveiled Zubizarreta Immersive Learning Suite (ZILS).
The ZILS revolutionizes learning by crafting immersive, interactive environments that streamline the setup of escape room activities, enabling scalability and diverse educational applications. This hands-on workshop not only introduces participants to the world of digital escape rooms but also lays the foundational knowledge needed to design impactful educational experiences within the medical field.
Learning objectives:
Explore and Enjoy: Navigate the ZILS environment in an engaging, stress-free way.
Experience Firsthand: Participate in a non-medical digital escape room designed with ZILS technology.
Dissect and Learn: Analyze the components that captivate and educate learners in escape room settings.
Create and Innovate: Design a theoretical digital escape room using an effective, educator-friendly template.
Workshop E: Using Aquifer Resources to Enhance Teaching and Learning (Location: TBD)
Amy Wilson-Delfosse, PhD; Associate Dean for Curriculum, University Program, School of Medicine
Michelle Dietz, MD, Geriatrics Clerkship Director
Description:
Aquifer is a non-profit, mission-driven organization that is dedicated to providing high quality virtual teaching and learning resources to support health professions education. All content is rigorously created, peer-reviewed, and maintained by the Aquifer Educator’s Consortium, a national group of over 300 health professions educators who specialize in all of the clinical and many of the basic sciences disciplines encountered in a medical education program. This workshop will introduce attendees to Aquifer resources available to teachers and learners in the MD program and will consider best practices for use of these virtual tools. For optimal participation in the workshop, attendees should be sure they can sign-in to the CWRU MD program account at Aquifer.org. Anyone not able to login should contact Jennifer Lennon at jml32@case.edu and she will arrange access.
Learning objectives:
Articulate Aquifer's mission as a non-profit organization and list the virtual teaching and learning resources available to support health professions education.
Navigate the Aquifer platform, examine its content areas, and assess its various features to enhance teaching and learning in the MD program.
Formulate strategies for applying Aquifer's virtual resources within your teaching.
Collaborate with peers and reflect on experiences and ideas for using Aquifer in your teaching.
Construct a preliminary plan for incorporating Aquifer resources into your teaching practice.
Questions about the Education Retreat 2024? Please contact us at somretreat@case.edu