Harvard Principles of Medical Education: Maximizing Your Teaching Skills 2024

The 2024 curriculum helps medical educators to:

• Leverage artificial intelligence in your teaching
• Provide more effective feedback that motivates change
• Utilize active learning strategies in small and large group teaching settings
• Deliver more impactful and engaging lectures
• Characterize best practices for mentor-mentee relationships and identify opportunities to leverage mentorship opportunities to help you thrive at work
• Optimize evaluation of trainee competencies
• Improve engagement and interactivity for in-person and virtual teaching sessions
• Enhance critical thinking and self-directed learning among students
• Describe real-time strategies to address unprofessional behavior
• Identify strengths and weaknesses of various assessment tools
• Incorporate various forms of technology, including digital media and artificial intelligence, into your teaching
• Identify strategies to be an inclusive leader and lead different generations
• Create an action plan for implementing and sustaining effective change as leaders in medical education
• Identify strategies to recognize and mitigate bias
• Describe personal and organizational strategies to improve the well-being of yourself and your trainees

Case-based and hands-on learning are a hallmark of this course, with significant participant interaction and active modeling of instruction techniques. Whether you are newer to teaching or a seasoned educator and mentor, this course will give you modern tools and practices to optimize skills transfer and learner success.

SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

Areas of focus in which attendees will deepen their skills include:

• Interactive Lecturing
• Bedside Teaching
• Effective Mentoring
• Impactful Feedback
• Developing Curricula
• Assessing Learners
• Learner Engagement
• Teaching Critical Thinking
• Teaching and Maintaining Wellness

OPTIMIZED FOR REMOTE EDUCATION

The 2024 program has been enhanced for distance learning. In addition to being live streamed, all sessions will be recorded and made available to participants for online viewing for 90 days after the end of the course.

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

1. Identify principles of adult learning in order to:
   • Assess their learners’ needs
   • Design an educational intervention
   • Establish learner-centered learning environments
2. Employ venue-specific teaching skills for:
   • Ambulatory teaching
   • Bedside teaching
   • Large-group presentations
   • Small-group/case-based teaching
3. Recognize effective learner assessment strategies and provide effective feedback in order to set educational expectations
4. Foster critical thinking skills so learners may effectively use questions to promote clinical decision-making
5. Engage in reflective practice in order to identify effective teaching techniques