Harvard Principles of Medical Education: Maximizing Your Teaching Skills 2024 -October Edition

This program delves more deeply into the educator’s skills development as a teacher, a content creator, and an institutional leader. Choose between the following focused tracks to tailor your education to your current and future professional needs:

TRACK 1: SUCCESSFUL CAREER DEVELOPMENT FOR THE CLINICIAN-EDUCATOR

Through a series of highly interactive workshops, you will explore the skills educators need to climb an institution’s promotion ladder and succeed in a career in academic medicine. You will learn strategies to:

• Build an educational niche and navigate a successful career path
• Spearhead educational innovations and attain greater visibility for your work
• Becoming an educational change agent
• Identify your personal leadership style
• Manage your time in order to stay clinically and academically productive

This track includes the following sessions:

• Academic Career Advancement: Strategies for Personal and Professional Growth
• Helping You Help Yourself: Advocating and Negotiating
• Enhanced Efficiency and Productivity through Better Time Management
• Key Leadership Skills for the Successful Medical Educator

Of Special Note:

• To optimize the value of this program for each participant, registration is limited to 50.
• To be assured a place in this program, early registration is strongly advised.

TRACK 2: TAKING YOUR TEACHING TO THE NEXT LEVEL

This highly interactive and hands-on skills building session will equip the modern educator with tools to be an A+ teacher in 2025. This session will provide you up-to-date techniques to improve your teaching effectiveness in the classroom and at the bedside. You will learn:

• Strategies to improve the performance of your students and advance your own critical thinking
• Tangible tips to create an elegant slide presentation without hours of tinkering and frustration
• Strategies to enhance interactivity of online learning, including all the tips and tricks that Zoom has to offer
• How to give feedback using the advocacy inquiry approach
• Principles of effective twitter messages and infographic/visual abstract design
• Key tools within infographic-making software, such as Canva

This track includes the following sessions:

• Using Advocacy Inquiry to Improve Difficult Conversations with Learners
• Power Up Your PowerPoint to Improve Your Lectures
• Creating Infographics and Visual Abstracts for Your Teaching Workshop
• Best Practices for Teaching on Zoom

Of Special Note:

• To optimize the value of this program for each participant, registration is limited to 50.
• To be assured a place in this program, early registration is strongly advised.