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Faculty Development Workshops
To register for a Faculty Development Workshop, contact Jeanne Aycox, or call 721-4569.
If you would like to schedule a Faculty Development Workshop for your department faculty, contact Jeanne Aycox, or Chris White, MD, .
Concept
Mapping
Struggling to figure out how your students incorporate new
knowledge? Looking for a way to plan or evaluate a program or course? Trying
to organize and/or integrate your new lecture? Consider learning about
concept mapping, the use of schematic diagrams to describe an idea,
knowledge area, or other cognitive concept. This brief introduction will
provide an overview, some hands-on conceptual development, and educational
strategies that can be used in any content area.
- What's the Question?
- Study Design
- Collecting the Data: Sampling and Measurement
- Qualitative Research Basics
Join us for a 4-session series presenting an overview of fundamental educational research methods. We will help you, over the course of the series, understand the basics of developing a research project you could conduct in an area of medical education that interests you. We also will provide ongoing consultation for those who complete the course and implement their research project. We encourage you to attend all the workshops. However, faculty who choose to take an individual workshop also are welcome.
Educator's PortfolioLearn how to construct and update an Educator’s Portfolio to document your educational skills and development. The Portfolio supports Promotion and Tenure and helps you organize the educational aspects of your career.
Enhancing
Your Teaching Using Digital Photography:
The Essentials for Medical Educators
This workshop is designed for the faculty member who wants
to learn about digital photography but has limited experience. Digital
pictures are a great way to enhance your teaching repertoire. A digital
camera can readily capture clinical photographs, tables, or figures for
texts, radiographs, or other clinical information. Digital images can be
used for presentations, web-based applications, written examinations, or to
enhance student education.
Examples of all these applications will be
presented. Attendees will learn the basics about taking pictures, uploading
images to the computer, enhancing picture quality, and preparing images for
use in PowerPoint or Internet-based applications. (Please note: this session
will be limited to the first 10 respondents due to limited computer
availability.)
Are you interested in how to make your evaluations of junior medical students more accurate and objective? This workshop will introduce you to various strategies for evaluating learners in the clinical setting.
Giving
Feedback
One of the most dreaded exercises in all of
education, giving feedback is nonetheless an essential component of teaching
and learning. Learn the tips and techniques of effective feedback and
practice your skills in a safe learning environment.
Many of us were never taught how to teach. We have learned to lecture based on what we observe in others and what we find personally appealing. This one-hour session teaches fundamental lecture techniques and gives ideas on how to make your lecture more appealing to your audience. There is always room to improve no matter how many years you’ve been teaching.
Interpretation
of Test Analysis (NBME and Internal)
When you receive your test analysis or the
results of a NBME examination, do you understand how to interpret the data?
This session will help you understand how to use the information to develop
better examinations and interpret the result of standardized examinations.
Designed to answer, or at least discuss, some difficult questions in this challenging curricular area. What is Cultural competency, what are some common strategies for teaching it, and how do we assess competence. Several teaching and measurement strategies will be presented as possible options with group discussion of strengths and weaknesses of each approach.
Learners
with Learning Problems
What are the different types of learning
difficulties our students face? What special challenges do these students
experience in medical school? What can you do as faculty to increase the
likelihood of their success in your class? Learn more about various learning
problems and how you can effectively address them in your courses.
This session will acquaint new faculty with various campus services available to them to help them enhance their teaching skills and their academic careers. Several speakers will discuss their respective departments and the services they can provide to interested faculty. All new faculty are encouraged to attend. Lunch will be provided. Please call Jeanne at 1-4569 to order your lunch.
PowerPoint
for Beginners
You don’t have to be a computer guru to
make your educational presentations more attractive with PowerPoint. This
hands-on workshop will help novices learn the basics of PowerPoint. Meet us
in the library and learn to use PowerPoint 2000 in one easy lesson! Minimal
computer skills are needed. Familiarity with Windows is helpful. Limited to
19 faculty per session.
This workshop is designed especially for faculty who are considering "going up" for promotion in the next cycle (2003-2004), but is also germane for faculty who may "go up" in the next several years. It will include how the promotion and tenure process works, the timeline, and the role you and others play in the process. It is time to start preparing NOW
Small
Group
Learning
Why and when should you consider small group teaching? How
do you effectively lead a small group? What if no one talks? What if someone
talks all the time? What kinds of small group experiences increase student
learning? This session highlights core elements of small group teaching.
Stress
Management
Overwhelmed? Living with stress is an unavoidable aspect
of the practice of medicine and working in an academic setting. Learn
practical ways to reduce the impact that stress has on your work
productivity, including relaxation skills, assertiveness, making choices,
and saying no.
Ever wonder why you teach a certain way? Why some students don’t respond to your style of teaching? Most of us teach based on our own style of learning. This session includes a quick assessment of your personal learning style and a discussion of how and why you might want to add some alternatives to your teaching methods. Do the terms convergent, divergent, accommodator, and assimilator sound familiar? Which are you? Come take the Kolb Learning Style Inventory and discover your style.
Time
Management
Too much to do? Too little time? Seems to be
the problem that we all have today. Take an hour and learn some key
strategies for getting the most done in the least time, setting priorities
and doing first things first. An hour well invested!
Using
SPSS to Run Basic Statistics
This series of three, hands-on, interactive classes combines basic SPSS
skills with basic statistics. Nothing fancy, very direct teaching to learn
some fundamental skills and strategies in each area. If you have limited
background in data analysis, this could be for you.
Writing for PublicationSession 1–Overview of SPSS: Setting up Your Data
This session provides the first steps in using SPSS including naming variables and labels, types of data, handling missing values, coding variables, saving data and output. Measures of central tendency and variance will be used to demonstrate these SPSS elements.Session 2
Using sample data, we will review assumptions of parametric data, running Frequencies, and Chi-Square analysis.Session 3
Correlations and comparison of means via t-tests will be the topics. Participants will be able to conduct these two fundamental analyses, change the look of standard output, and save and retrieve data by the end of this session.
Having trouble getting your research published? This workshop will give you a brief overview of the publishing process, the structure and components of a research report, and some style tips to improve your prose. We will critique some examples for practice, time permitting.
Writing
Multiple Choice Test Questions
This session should be helpful for all
faculty who are expected to write multiple choice exam questions. High
quality questions assess knowledge and students' ability to apply it,
thereby fostering learning.