{"id":113774,"date":"2023-06-01T13:25:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T17:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/?p=113774"},"modified":"2023-06-02T09:57:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T13:57:37","slug":"18th-annual-john-mccahan-medical-campus-education-conference-celebrates-educational-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2023\/06\/01\/18th-annual-john-mccahan-medical-campus-education-conference-celebrates-educational-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"18th Annual John McCahan Medical Campus Education Conference Celebrates Educational Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"

In her opening remarks for the 18th<\/sup> Annual John McCahan Medical Campus Education Conference on May 24, Medical Campus Provost and Dean Karen Antman<\/a>, MD, told attendees that the event \u201chas become a real celebration of educational scholarship.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur 3,000 Medical Campus learners are expected to master vast amounts of information, and therefore, we need to do everything we can to facilitate their learning,\u201d she said. \u201cThe primary mission of a university is education. The goal is evidence-based pedagogy, just like we have evidence-based science and evidence-based medicine, we should have evidence-based pedagogy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Named in honor of John McCahan, MD, who served for 30 years as Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine associate dean for academic affairs and two years as interim medical school dean, the two-day conference was a mix of speakers, workshops, networking, a poster session and awards.<\/p>\n

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Keynote Speaker Linda Hyman, PhD, director of education at the Marine Biological Laboratory<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cGo big, or stay home,\u201d was the message from Linda Hyman<\/a>, PhD, director of education at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, who delivered the keynote address. Hyman urged her in-person and online audience to think big and embrace challenge and change as components of a journey of lifelong learning.<\/p>\n

\u201cThink bold. Do not be afraid to fail\u2026Science in not just about learning a technique, but to really do adventurous science,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Hyman fell in love with research as an undergraduate but wanted scientists to go beyond the bench and become mentors, educating others about their chosen field.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re a graduate student, mentor an undergraduate; if you\u2019re an undergraduate, mentor a high school student. Give a talk at your alma mater. Spread the word,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Hailing from New York City, Hyman\u2019s own journey in academia \u2013 from student to biomedical researcher to educator to administrator \u2013 took her from upstate New York to Minnesota for undergraduate work, and to local universities Brandeis and Tufts for her PhD and postdoc. She was an associate professor at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, took an academic\/administrative position as vice provost of health science at Montana State University, while also serving as an assistant dean at University of Washington School of Medicine and director of a five-state medical education program. Hyman returned to Boston as associate provost for Graduate Medical Sciences before moving on to become the Burroughs Wellcome director of education at the MBL. Hyman also served in national leadership roles in medical education at the Association of American Medical Colleges and National Science Foundation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe diversity (of locations) was great, and it really embraces the principle of lifelong learning,\u201d said Hyman, who said she was constantly reinventing herself. \u201cBeing challenged is invigorating, so change is good.\u201d<\/p>\n

She urged her audience to listen to both sides, take the time to learn, to advocate for and act on behalf of a cause.<\/p>\n

The first day of the two-day education conference included virtual vendor sessions on products like the learning management system Blackboard Learn, resource list manager Leganto, and the health education platform Osmosis.<\/p>\n

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Vendors explaining their products to students, faculty and staff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Following her keynote address on Day Two, Hyman joined Mary Harris, MSM, in leading a workshop on effective communication between research scientists and evaluators exploring the interplay between research and evaluation.<\/p>\n

There were four other workshops:<\/p>\n