Educators’ Collaborative Lunch
The Department of Medical Sciences & Education is pleased to host monthly one-hour meetings for BUMC educators to share and exchange ideas for best practices in pedagogy for graduate biomedical education over lunch.
If you are interested in being a discussion moderator, suggesting a discussion topic, or hosting a workshop, please email Elaine Lee at ellee@bu.edu.
All meetings are typically held on the third Tuesday of the month from 12:00-12:50 pm.
2023-2024 Schedule
September 19, 2023 | Building and Improving a Medical Education Program to Achieve Long Term Complex Learning
Priya Garg, Molly Cohen-Osher Objectives:
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October 17, 2023
Case Vignettes (Kerberos) |
VisualDx
VisualDx is an award-winning clinical decision support system used in 100+ medical programs, helping to enhance problem-based learning and medical decision-making skills. VisualDx helps students learn differential diagnoses with variations in drug interactions and presentations, which helps them develop skills to provide care that is reflective, inclusive, and equitable. This session will help educators learn how they can integrate VisualDx into their curriculum. CME can be earned with every search. VisualDx is licensed by the Alumni Medical Library. |
November 21, 2023 | Leveraging BUMC IT Resources & Services for Success
Kathleen Swenson, Lucy Milne, Jana Mulkern, Scott Amico, David King, Jack Wolfe, Ryan Turcotte Gear up for spring with BUMC IT resources to boost student learning and educators’ success! Genetic Counseling will show how they leveraged the Godley Digital Media Studio to create educational video and podcast content. BUMC IT EdMedia and EdTech will review resources, tools, and support available to meet your educational and instructional technology, and training needs in and out of the classroom. Come build your Educator’s Toolkit! Leave with tips and action items to enhance your teaching experience. |
December 19, 2023
Virtual |
PubMed 2.0
This session will provide an overview on how to conduct Advanced Searches in PubMed. PubMed has undergone significant revisions since 2020 (so much so that it is now informally referred to as PubMed 2.0 in the Library Science community) making this session relevant even for experienced users. Topics such as Automatic Term Mapping, Bracketing and the NLM’s Automated Indexing program will be discussed. This session will be held virtually so that participants may follow along on their own computers. |
January 16, 2024
Hybrid: |
Medical Educators Count Too: Lengthening the Table in Faculty Development So There is Space for Medical Educators
Sonia Ananthakrishnan, Craig Noronha, Juhee McDougal This interactive workshop will focus on the design of educator-specific faculty development in academic institutions. The medical educator milestones serve as a foundation to define specific educational skills for all levels of educators and for all institutions’ needs from which a longitudinal faculty development program can be created. Workshop attendees will create an educational specific faculty development-planning document specific for their section and institution. |
February 20, 2024 | McGraw Hill |
March 19, 2024 | |
April 16, 2024 | |
May 22-23, 2024 | 19th Annual McCahan Medical Campus Education Conference |