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Special Events: Office of Medical Education Faculty Development Program

Summer Seminar 2009 Series:

Plan now to attend the one-hour seminars on selected hot topics in medical education.Click here for the Summer Seminars schedule. No registration is needed.

Spring 2009 Faculty Development Workshops:

• Using Copyrighted Materials in Medical Education,was Monday, 4/06/09, 1-2:30 p.m., 1105, with Alumni Medical Library Staff. If you missed it, the workshop will be given during the John McCahan Medical Campus Education Day on June 22, 2009. The workshop staff gives faculty a clearer understanding of copyright along with hands-on instruction on how to find and properly use copyrighted materials in Medical Education.
• Giving an Interactive Lecture, was Monday, 5/04/09, 1:30-3:00 p.m., L211, with Gail March, Ph.D. A teaching strategies workshop that provides methods to promote two-way communication between the lecturer and the students to enhance learning. If you would like a copy of the self-directed workbook, please contact Gail March at gmarch@bu.edu.

Fall 2008 Workshops:

• Teaching Evidence-Based Medicine Workshop: was December 8, 2008, 2-4pm, in the Alumni Medical Library Computer Lab. If you missed it, please contact David Flynn to schedule an individual session on EBM at dflynn@bu.edu or 617-638-4271. Also, the workshop handouts are available in the Faculty Portal on the Alumni Medical Library website.
• Mentoring Medical Students Workshop: December 11, 2008, 12-2pm, L211, Registration
• Interactive Lecture Workshop: December 12, 2008, 10-12pm, L211. Registration
• Ongoing CourseInfo Small Group Teaching Strategy Tour: available 24/7 for BUSM faculty. Contact Gail March to sign up for access to the self-directed online workshops. If you are already a participant, go to CourseInfo, Ongoing Courses, OME Faculty Development Program, and login.

Request a Workshop for your Department:

Contact Gail March or call (617)414-7440 for more information about scheduling a workshop for your department or customizing a workshop based on your department’s instructional needs.

• “TurningPoint Automatic Response System (ARS) Workshop” was August 30, 2007. Marilyn Hertling from TurningPoint demonstrated the Response Cards and the interactive slides and Gail March, Ph.D. from the Office of Medical Education talked about the best practices for using TurningPoint ARS in your classes. For more information and to see the workshop video, click TurningPoint ARS.
• “A Virtual Lecture Workshop:“ Many faculty are now having their lectures video recorded and then distributed online either through CourseInfo or on websites of school departments or professional organizations. The purpose of this interactive workshop is to provide the BUSM faculty & staff with the presentation tips needed to present an effective lecture that will be video recorded and distributed electronically.
• “What’s in Your MCQ?” A Multiple-Choice-Question Test Construction Workshop. Participants write and improve their multiple-choice questions using the NBME format in an interactive workshop.
• PowerPoint Days!!!. The three workshops are PowerPoint and CourseInfo, Best Practices, and Advanced Techniques. Click on the link for more information and future tba workshop dates.
• “My Class/My Research — Library Resources Workshop” is designed for BUSM faculty and staff who are interested in learning about the library resources including newly acquired resources to support their classroom teaching and their research topics. Advanced library workshops on searching the databases available from the Alumni Medical Library (e.g.,MEDLINE/OVID and PubMed). If you would like to schedule a library workshop for your department, please contact The Reference Desk (617) 638-4228, refquest@medlib.bu.edu.
• “The 50-Minute Lecture: Best Practices for Planning, Presenting and Evaluating“ was an interactive workshop targeted to anyone revising an existing lecture or any new faculty writing a new lecture. To receive a copy of the self-study workbook, contact Gail March or call (617)414-7440, and to see the PowerPoint slides, click Developing a 50-minute Lecture.
• “Targeting Learning Objectives for Faculty“ is an interactive workshop about writing clear and concise learning objectives for your classes, syllabus and the Curriculum Database .
• “To Lecture or Not? Implementing Team-Based Learning Workshop“ is an interactive workshop about the basics of the teaching method called Team-Based Learning. Students are placed in teams and actively learn by applying course concepts to team exercises.