Today's meeting highlighted upcoming deadlines including: AAMC, AEA, and JAMA. They are listed below:
Feb 22, AAMC RIME
Mar 01, JAMA Education Articles
Mar 21, AAMC Small Group
Mar 21, AAMC Workshops
Mar 14, AEA All Areas
Upcoming Professional Meetings include:
March 23-28 American Educational Research Association NYC
April 9 American Psychological Association - Soc Instrustrial and Org Psychol SF
April 27-30 WGEA Asilomar
Oct/Nov 31-5 Association of Americ Med Colleges San Antonio, TX
Nov 5-8 American Evaluation Association Denver, CO
There were a large number of acceptances (posters, oral presentations, and panels) concerning the upcoming WGEA conference in Asilomar. They will be listed on the blog in the next couple of weeks.
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Yohko Murakami (left) presented the Stanford University Minority Medical Alliance Conference Survey to the group. The group provided constructive feedback in a timely manner. The survey was revised based on the input and deployed.]]>
As presented by James Priest (left), the focus of this week's session was on a study of rounds. The study will be conducted at Stanford and the University of Washington.
Neil, Jen, and David presented their mini-workshop for the Association of American Medical Colleges' presentation. It is titled, Empowerment Evaluation: A Collaborative Model for Evaluating Medical School Curriculum and Enaging Accreditation Standards.
Maria, from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, spoke today.
Dr. Candler (left) was our first Journal Club speaker of the year. The Medical Education Research and Evaluation Group, meets every Thursday from 10:15 to 11:45. However, they set the last Thursday of the month aside from 12-1 for guest speakers.
Dr. Clarence Braddock, Associate Dean of Medical Education (right), welcomed our guest and set the presentation's tone.
Dr. Chris Candler, the editor of the AAMC's online journal, will be speaking in the School of Medicine on September 21, 2007. The topic will be: "What is Education Scholarship and How Should it Be Evaluated?"
Dr. Nevins requested feedback on his plans to submit a series of MedEdPORTAL submissions at our September 6, 2007 research and evaluation meeting. He provided an LCD presentation concerning his planned submissions. In the process, his presentation became transformed into a group review and critique. It was engaging and productive.
Heather's focus is on Graduate Medical Education. She is from Stanford University Hospital. She provided a thought-provoking presentation, based on a survey of house staff.
Sylvia Bereknyei presented her preliminary findings concerning four checklists used in training standardized patients (Standardized Interpreter, Standardized Patient, Observer, and the validation checklist). They showed high internal consistency using Cronbach's alpha, scales ranging from 0.77 to 0.94.]]>
Dr. Elizabeth Stuart presented her standardized patient exercise in Pediatrics. It is relatively unique because it also relies on student/peer assessment. The focus on the patient's perspective was also unusual and important. The discussion was lively and helpful. Suggestions were made concerning how best to draft initial insights, mine the existing data for additional findings, and plan for future studies. Contact Dr. Stuart for more information and details about the study.]]>