This interactive workshop is designed to draw awareness to the unique struggles faced by first generation students as they navigate medical education and training and to identify strategies to support these students. First generation medical students (often defined as those who are first in their fa…

Education leaders play an important role in the transition of learners from undergraduate to graduate medical education. As recommended by the Coalition for Physician Accountability and the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine, one important step in optimizing this transition is through the deve…

Whiteboard mini lectures (WMLs) are interactive, small group didactics using the whiteboard as the primary teaching tool (also known as chalk talks). Chief residents in internal medicine routinely use WMLs to reinforce learning from patient cases, encourage clinical reasoning, and role model effecti…

This workshop is designed for GME administrators and coordinators who are interested in personal professional development opportunities or considering TAGME certification as an avenue of professional development. This workshop will also contain pertinent information for certified administrators who…

Medical students taught by peer-teachers score equivocally or better on written and clinical skills assessments compared head-to-head against faculty-taught students. These results may stem from stronger relationships between near-peers, as evidenced by student ratings and more positive evaluations.…

Engaging trainees in scholarly work during residency is challenging due to limited time, varying skills, and inconsistent mentorship. Our user-friendly tool, "SWIM", a practical, simplified framework, guides residents to envision, conduct, and complete time-limited, focused scholarly projects. Res…

Understanding the impact of health equity on patient care and then putting it into practice can be challenging. We present three programs (university and community based) that have incorporated experiential learning into their curriculum to understand health equity issues such as food insecurity fro…

AAMC established entrustable professional activities (EPAs) as a framework of 13 activities all medical students should be able to perform upon entering residency, though large-scale implementation and use of EPAs for advancement remains uncommon..At our institution, we developed a student-driven EP…

Chief residents are integral to coaching, teaching and assessing residents. Many will be asked to take part in the clinical competency committee (CCC). Contributions include being part of direct observation, performing assessments, and giving perspectives. Members of the ACGME Internal Medicine Mile…

Active learning transpires, engaging participants and making the educational process fun again. Workshops and posters are a mainstay at professional society meetings - workshops for faculty development and posters to disseminate scholarship. The intention is for problem solving, sharing/adopting new…

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Various disparate approaches to clerkship grading have developed during recent years. In our workshop, we will discuss the evidence-based pros and cons of pass-fail versus tiered grading and available assessment tools. Participants will be divided into subgroups to compare their institution's clerks…

Resident well-being is such a hot topic lately! With much of our focus on ensuring residents have the resources they need to stay well, many program administrators seem to set their own professional health aside. Attendees of this session will learn how to create a Program Administrator Wellness Sub…

Laura Vanderkam is the author of multiple time management and productivity books including "168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think." Her work encourages reframing how we think about time and work-life integration by viewing our lives in one-week segments. This workshop introduces participants…

Although an increasing number of academic physicians are interested in and encouraged to pursue medical education research, training on how to achieve success in this endeavor remains limited. Presented by members of the AAIM Medical Education Research Committee (MERC), this workshop will provide re…

Medical educators use rater-mediated assessments to measure learner performance daily (e.g., end-of-rotation evaluations, simulation, mini-CEX). While Cronbach's alpha and inter-rater reliability are often used to ascertain reliability of assessment instruments, these reliability indices fail to cap…

There are many transitions throughout the continuum of medical education. The most prominent is from UME to GME. UME educators are tasked with preparing an entrusted student and ensuring that the student successfully transitions to a new physician in GME. Through the years, program directors have re…

This workshop addresses how to select applicants (and not who to select). The workshop draws on best practices recommended from the business literature and well known readily-accessible, recommended AAMC resources . These recommendations form the foundational framework in describing our own process…

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become more challenging for residents to develop close relationships within work and become a cohesive family. Some of these struggles include social distancing, personal or professional stressors, multiple workrooms, virtual education, and normalization of p…

ECG interpretation is integral to many facets of medical care but challenging to teach. Few ECG teaching studies have looked at the benefits of small group teaching with interactive student involvement using a combination of technology-based learning and small group specialist facilitation. This int…