Primarily Education-Focused Sessions and Resources 

Hold the Dates – IAMSE Spring Webinar Series (Innovations in Assessment)

Series Overview:
Innovations in health care education require the simultaneous development of creative new approaches to student assessment.  This IAMSE webcast seminar series will explore these issues and provide several examples of how schools are evolving with assessment approaches.

For more information about this webinar series including session overviews please go to: http://iamse.org/development/2014/was_2014_spring.htm

Login Information:
Log in to the webinar from wherever you are! Login information (posted the day before each session) can be found in the Professional Development course located in Blackboard.

Enrollment instructions for the Professional Development course are located at http://tinyurl.com/profdevenroll.

IAMSE Webinar Series Schedule:

February 27th (11:00 AM)
•    To Protect the Public by Providing the Means to Assess Competencies for Osteopathic Medicine and Related health Care Professions
•    Presented by: Bruce P. Bates and Melanie V. Nelson

March 6th (11:00 AM)
•    Individual Learning Assessment Approaches
•    Presented by: Daniel M. Clinchot

March 13th (11:00 AM)
•    Pivio: A New Records Management and Life-Long Learning Tool for the Medical Community
•    Presented by: Mary Drescher Halicki and Angelique Johnson

March 20th (11:00 AM)
•    Assessment Review: Learning From Mistakes
•    Presented by: Bobbe Baggio

March 27th (11:00 AM)
•    ACGME “Milestones”
•    Presented by: William Iobst

Professional Sessions

Biostats Club at Preventive Medicine

Date: February 12, 2014
Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Location: 66 N. Pauline (Doctor’s Office Building), Room 400 (4th Floor Classroom)

Session Overview:
Please join us for “Trustworthy statistical computing II: Specific examples using R” presented by Fridtjof Thomas, PhD, Associate Professor Biostatistics, UTHSC Department of Preventive Medicine.

Abstract:
In a broad sense statistical computing is trustworthy when the derivations of solutions are understandable and the results are reproducible.  Besides hardware and software related problems, a troublesome issue is the “human factor” but good programming habits can guard against some human-introduced errors.  This presentation focuses on the statistical programming language R and we will look into several aspects typically encountered during a standard statistical analysis:

• RStudio as user interface to R
• Computing values for customized tables that minimize the need for cutting and pasting
• Extendibility of R (example: archiving computations)
• Make all your tests statistically significant by overriding the build-in functions in R (VERY *bad* but can easily be done)!

Timing Your Tenure Clock (Webinar offered by Academic Coaching and Writing)

Date: February 13, 2014
Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Session Overview:
In this webinar, presented by Moira Killoran, you will learn strategies to:

•    Develop a big picture plan and a task-specific weekly plan
•    Place yourself at the center of the plan
•    Prioritize your sacred writing time
•    Choose technologies to actualize your plan

Register for the webinar at http://tinyurl.com/tenureclock

Biomedical Informatics Group (BIG) Meeting

Date: February 28, 2014
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Location: 910 Madison, Room 502

Presenter: Grady Wade, Ph.D. (Clinical Research Informaticist – Children’s Foundation Research Institute and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital)
Topic: Pediatric Research Database, a clinically rich, de-identified database for hypothesis generation and cohort discovery

Session Overview:
Secondary use of large, open datasets provides researchers with an opportunity to address high impact questions and evaluate rare diseases. Utilization of local electronic medical records (EMR) to populate these research datasets is both an efficient use of available information and can also help researchers to assess effectiveness of local standards of care. To assist researchers in gaining access to large amounts of high quality clinical data for the purposes of research, our unit developed the Pediatric Research Database (PRD), a de-identified database designed around secondary use of a data-rich source, our EMR.

To reserve your lunch, email Debra Jackson: djackso9@uthsc.edu by Monday, February 24, 2014.

Questions? email Teresa Waters: twaters@uthsc.edu

Conferences

International Association of Medical Science Educators (Annual Conference)

Dates: June 7-10, 2014
Location: Nashville, TN

Conference Overview:
The IAMSE meeting offers opportunities for faculty development and networking bringing together medical sciences and medical education across the continuum of health care education. Plenary topics for the 2014 meeting will include the use of simulation in medical education, giving effective and meaningful feedback, interprofessional education and the promotion of active learning in the classroom.

For additional details or to register please visit: www.iamseconference.org

Additional Resources

2014: The Year of Active Learning at UTHSC
•    To access a variety of active learning resources visit https://academic.uthsc.edu/faculty/2014.php

UTHSC’s Faculty Resource Center
•    View schedule of upcoming professional development opportunities and read our latest blog posts at https://uthsctlc.wordpress.com/