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MedEdWorld Webinars – an exciting opportunity to engage online with an internationally acclaimed expert
Following a successful series of webinars, MedEdWorld is pleased to announce the schedule for September to December 2012.
Internationally acclaimed experts will present on a variety of education topics in the upcoming autumn webinar series.
The webinars offer teachers, trainers, curriculum developers, researchers and anyone with an interest in medical education, the
chance to join experts and likeminded colleagues from around the globe in a live one hour discussion on a key education topic.
Webinars can make an important contribution to staff development programmes and recorded webinars from previous series can
be accessed through MedEdWorld membership.
AMEE and MedEdWorld individual members and institutional members can join webinars free of charge.
MedEdWorld registered users and non-members are welcome to join webinars for £25 per webinar.
Please register at least 24 hours in advance to take part. To register visit www.amee.org and
select ‘MedEdWorld’ from the left hand menu or visit www.mededworld.org.
WEDnEsDAy 26 sEPTEMbEr
1300 & 1700 UK/BST
How to design and facilitate focus groups for
medical educational program development,
evaluation and research
Lee Manchul & Jane Tipping, University of Toronto, Canada
Focus groups are well-recognized as an effective strategy for collecting
qualitative data in a variety of educational settings. They are invaluable
in providing educators with insights as to the thinking and motivation
of potential learners. They answer questions that surveys cannot
address such as: “Why do people think the way they do?” “What
attracts people to some events and not others?” “What are we doing
that is or is not effective?” This interactive, iterative practical webinar
is designed to assist participants in developing the fundamental skills
necessary for designing and conducting effective focus groups for
educational program design, evaluation and research.
TUEsDAy 2 OCTObEr
0900 & 1600 TBC UK/BST
Identifying and applying theoretical paradigms
to educational research
Klara Bolander Laksov, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Participants will be introduced to the notion of different paradigms
and how they influence research questions and design of research in
medical education. Participants will get experience of the differences
between the paradigms by reviewing alternative research designs
based on one case. In doing so, the differences between the paradigms
will become more apparent.
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Webinars: September – December 2012
THURSDAY 18 OCTOBER
0900 & 1600 UK/BST
Case presentations: learning, identity development
and communities of practice
Andrew Grant, Institute of Medical Education, Cardiff University
Cardiff, UK
In this webinar participants will look at the learning content of
clinical case presentations. We will use transcripts from learning
encounters. These will be unpacked using Vygotsky’s theory of
scaffolded learning and the situated learning theory of Lave &
Wenger. The target audience for this webinar is clinical teachers
and teaching leaders.
TUESDAY 30 OCTOBER
0900 & 1600 UK/GMT
Ms Curiosity and Doctor Cat – a dramatic romance
Raquel Correia, 6th year medical student at the University of Lisbon
School of Medicine, Portugal
“Like so many other couples, Ms Curiosity and Doctor Cat met at the
college library. He was a junior resident having an allergic response
to dust, she was a young medical student studying asthma...”
A medical student overview on the importance of developing
curiosity during medical school years, as a crucial skill on the
improvement of doctors drive for continuing medical education
throughout different life and professional stages. A recognition
that being curious everyday, keeps memory from going away.
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nOVEMbEr (date to be confirmed)
Using theory in medical education research
Renée Stalmeijer Maastricht University, Netherlands
This webinar will introduce participants to sociological, educational
psycho-logical and socio-cultural theories relevant to medical
education research and demonstrate how they can be used in
designing research. The webinar is aimed at participants who
are planning to do research in the field of medical education,
but have little or no experience with conducting research in the
field. This webinar is especially recommended to RESME course
participants.
TUEsDAy 20 nOVEMbEr
1300 & 1700 UK/GMT
An introduction to generalizability theory and its
application to common medical education problems
André F De Champlain, Medical Council of Canada, Canada
Reliability is a key psychometric property that needs to be assessed
with all examinations. That is, to what extent are my test scores
reproducible or consistent across situations e.g., across time?
Performance assessments pose additional challenges in that
multiple sources of variance can contribute measurement error and
detract from the reliability of scores or decisions. Generalizability
theory provides a useful framework to partition these sources of
error and properly estimate reliability
The aim of this webinar is to provide an overview of generalizability
theory models and related key concepts. This webinar will be
supplemented with several illustrative practical examples.
TUEsDAy 27 nOVEMbEr
1700 UK/GMT
science in Medical Education: More than
transmitting facts!
Aviad Haramati, Georgetown University School of Medicine, USA
With the discovery of new scientific information increasing
exponentially each year, medical science educators are faced with the
challenge of determining how best to educate students in the health
professions in science and how the learning can progress throughout
the continuum of medical education. In this webinar, Dr Haramati
will share his perspectives on what the competencies and outcomes
regarding science should be and how to improve the learning of
science by creating an appropriate climate that encourages inquiry
and curiosity. He will also advocate a new role for faculty who teach
science, which is to participate in the professional development of
students through educational interventions that improve professional
behaviours.
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THUrsDAy 6 DECEMbEr
1400 & 1700 UK/GMT
The small Group Experience: strategies to improve
your performance as facilitator
Carol F Capello & Joseph Murray Weill Cornell Medical College,
New York, USA
This reflective webinar will discuss practical approaches to
managing various types of small groups in the medical education
curriculum. Educators will gain confidence in dealing with stresses
particular to this teaching modality after learning strategies for
assessing group dynamics, addressing problematic behaviours,
anticipating a group’s stages of development to help the group
perform effectively, and giving formative feedback on longitudinal
assessment.
WEDnEsDAy 12 DECEMbEr
1300 & 1600 UK/GMT
Effective use of E-portfolios in faculty development
programs
Abbas Ghavam-Rassoul, Shirley Lee, and Helen Batty, Department
of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada
Portfolio use and supporting reflections of learners
is a challenging undertaking in health practitioner
education. Participants will leave this session with
an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of different
electronic platforms, the utility of reflection support meetings and
the use of guidelines for assessment of portfolios.
Spring 2013 webinar series
Scheduled webinars are noted below. Others will be added in the final
programme to be published December 2012.
TUEsDAy 12 MArCH 1300 & 1700 UK/GMT
21st Century Curriculum Planning: Fostering Expertise through
Experiential Learning and Feedback
Sharon Krackov, New York, USA and Henry Pohl, Albany Medical College, USA
THUrsDAy 28 MArCH (provisional) 1300 & 1700 UK/GMT
Transform your Classroom into Active Learning: Team-based
Learning from A-Z
Dean Parmelee, Wright State University Boonshoft, School of Medicine, USA
WEDnEsDAy 10 APrIL 1600 UK/BST
An Introduction to Competency-based Outcomes Education
Jason R Frank, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, University of
Ottawa, Canada
THUrsDAy 24 APrIL (provisional) 1300 & 1700 UK/BST
Effective Faculty Leadership in Organisational Change
Elza Mylona, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, USA
DATEs AnD TIMEs TO bE COnFIrMED
Measurement and Improvement of the OsCE: recognition and
remediation of station Level Problems. Mini-series of two
webinars drawn from AMEE pre-conference workshop.
Richard Fuller and Godfrey Pell, School of Medicine University of Leeds, UK
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