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. In-Person events may provide lunch. Please check the specific event for detials.
If you are interested in being a discussion moderator, suggesting a discussion topic, or hosting a workshop, please email medscied@bu.edu.
Boston University is committed to accessibility in our facilities, programming, and academic offerings. If you have a disability-related accommodation need or require communication access services, please contact medevent@bu.edu to discuss your needs.
Changes for this year!!! The meetings maybe zoom, in-person or hybrid depending on the program. Please check the specific event below for details. They will be on a Tuesday from 12-1pm but not necessarily the same Tuesday each month.
2026-2027 Schedule
| Tuesday September 22, 2026
Hybrid Zoom or In Person (Room R112)
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C.L.U.E- Clinical Learning Using MystEry Card Games
Traditional case discussions often rely on passive participation, limiting opportunities for learners to actively develop clinical reasoning skills. Gamification has been shown to improve clinical reasoning test performance, diagnostic accuracy, learner engagement, teamwork, and decision making under uncertainty compared with traditional approaches. Card-based games are intentionally low-technology by design, encouraging peer-to-peer social interaction. In this session, Deepthi Gunasekaran MD will share how they developed C.L.U.E, which is inspired by the popular murder mystery party game and grounded in cooperative learning theory. Using a sample C.L.U.E game, participants in this interactive workshop will experience the activity as a learner. Participants will then examine the mechanisms underlying gamification as an effective pedagogical strategy and will be introduced to a structured framework for designing low-tech educational games. Participants will work in groups to create and facilitate similar activities tailored to their teaching topics. Speaker: Deepthi Gunasekaran MD, Department of Medicine, Section of Nephrology ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| October | TBD – Coming Soon!
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| Tuesday, December 1, 2026
In-Person Only (Room L214) |
Lessens Learned from Improv Acting that Improve Teaching Skills in the Classroom
Jonathan J. Wisco, Ph.D.
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| January | TBD |
| February | TBD |
| March | TBD |
| April
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TBD
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| May 2027 | John McCahan Medical Campus Education Conference |