Series Description

Times are Changing: Evolution and Revolution in Medical Education – Strategies for Assessment of Skills, Attitudes, and Behaviors across the Health Sciences

Contemporary health science curricula have increasingly expanded beyond teaching knowledge and skills to fostering attitudes, behaviors and elements of professionalism.

The fall IAMSE seminar series addresses approaches by which these qualities and activities can be assessed in learners when they are not easily quantified by standard methods.  The presentations will address contemporary approaches to assessing entrustable professional activities, clinical skills, and non-cognitive components critical to careers in health professions such as life-long learning and professional behaviors.

Sessions will focus on using simulation to teach and assess basic science knowledge and skills, assessment of “self-directed, life-long learning”, utilization of standardized patient educators in clinical skills assessment, and effective strategies for assessing professionalism. In addition, there will be a session on “defining competency, milestones and EPAs”, further developing their relationship, and addressing the challenge associated with their assessment.  Throughout the series the audience will be invited to contribute to the discussion by sharing their experiences via telephone or our newly implemented backchannel communication leading to a stimulating and thought provoking experience that will inform current thinking on the issues.

Webinar Description

This session will discuss how to implement and effectively integrate pharmacology and physiology with other essential foundational and clinical sciences using preclinical high fidelity medical simulations carefully scaffolded to keep cognitive domain levels appropriate to the novice medical student’s abilities. While the medical educational literature is replete with proposed curricular models designed to integrate critical foundational sciences like physiology and pharmacology with clinical sciences, gaps exist on the best pedagogy and procedures to maximize conceptual integration and learner encapsulation at the instructor and sessional level. We will review our research evaluating the effectiveness of various techniques used to teach pharmacology within preclinical simulations, and share models and implemental procedures that best support active learning and reflection on error to maximize the impact to learners. Further, we hope to promote a dialogue with other medical educators on how to utilize medical simulation pedagogy to support horizontal and vertical integration of the foundational basic and clinical sciences.

Speaker

Laurel Gorman, PhD
University of Central Florida

Dr. Gorman completed a PhD in pharmacology and therapeutics with a primary focus in neuropharmacology from Louisiana State University School of Medicine, and went on to complete post-doctoral fellowships at the Weill Cornell College of Medicine and the University of Miami School of Medicine in the Miami Project for Spinal Cord Research before transitioning to a focus on medical education and pharmacology curriculum development in 2000. An experienced and passionate medical educator, Dr. Gorman also served as founding faculty developing an innovative integrated curriculum for new medical school. Currently an Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Director of preclinical pharmacology curricula for the University Of Central Florida College Of Medicine, Dr. Gorman has distinguished herself by receiving numerous national and institutional awards for excellence in both teaching and educational scholarship. She was recently inducted into the national American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Academy of Pharmacology Educators in recognition for her contributions to the innovation of pharmacology education and educational scholarship. Dr. Gorman has been an active member of IAMSE for several years presenting at several meetings and contributing to programing and reviewing for both the annual meeting and Medical Science Educator. Additionally, she has presented the results of her research on the value of using medical simulations and game-based teaching approaches at several national and international meetings, and has published her results in several peer-reviewed medical education journals.