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December 2012

Electronic Newsletter for Faculty Instructional Development

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Theres Apps and then theres Apps P.1 About the FID Series P.2 JanuaryCognitive OVERload P.3

aculty Resources online!

Were almost there! You can view the FID Series online. Currently, you will not need a password to view the videos. In January 2013, we will start requiring you to login using your UA NetID and password so that we can monitor how many faculty we reach n the community, on both campuses and at affiliated sites. If you want to view one of the Faculty Instructional development (FID) Series presentations online, now, please visit our website

Upcoming Events P.4

iPads in Medicine & Clinical Teaching

If you have an iPhone or some sort of smart phone, you know there are more apps than you can swipe your screen at. These days developers are inventing an app for everything. You can turn on or off the lights at your house from your seat on an airplane while waiting to take off. You can probably find out how many angels dance on the head of a pin, or get someones closest statistical prediction. Of course, there are apps for teaching and practicing medicine. Deputy Dean Kevin Moynahan, MD, and education technology expert Mike Griffith, MS, teamed up to present the seventh in our AMES\OMSE FID Series on November 29, 2012Smart Apps for Medicine & Teaching in Clinical Settings. Mr. Griffith and Dr. Moynahan introduced several apps (applications) and organized them by function, that is, distinguishing those that could be used for teaching, assessing student knowledge, for student or faculty learning, and medical practice. The presentaOMSE FID News tion included demonstrations of at least one app per category. Apps for Learning. For student learning, the presenters highlighted Notability and iAnnotate. Notability allows students to take notes and to record voice at the same time, create markers to connect the voice recording with particular points in the notes. iAnnotate can be used with many textbooks or other documents and allows the learner to take notes in line with the text, among other things. Apps for teaching. You might have heard the term Fac ulty Ins tru ctional Develo pmen t

Click to view iPads in Medicine and other FID Series seminars online now!

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AlsoFind out information about team learning , CBI and other instructional methods and the recently developed eTools (web-based tools) in use: ThinkSpace and GroupShare.

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Recent Events

December 17, 2012 Medical Problemsolving in Case Based Instruction

Presenters: CBI CoDirectorsPaul St. John, PhD, Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, UA College of Medicine; and clinician educator John Bloom, MD, co-director, CBI, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Medicine.

MES\OMSE stands for the partnership between

to create a Teaching Scholars program. The AMES group determined admission criteria and admitted 8 applicants. Participants are in the midst of preparing their medical education research projects aimed at improving not only their own teaching practice but the practice and approaches taken in their respective departments with UA College of Education and renowned researcher on learning and development, presented the seminar on connecting your teaching with the developmental curriculum. The next two seminars will introduce technology for clinical teaching and problemsolving in medical cases. For a list of topics for upcoming seminars, please visit our website! /kse/

the Academy of Medical Education Scholars (AMES) and the Office of Medical Student Education (OMSE). The College of Medicine in Tucson now has # faculty members in AMES. AMES faculty meet regularly and engage in activities designed to support the professional development of faculty. AMES

New Faculty Development Events Calendar online!

Teaching scholars are

preparing medical edu- consequences for

November 29, 2012

iPads in Medicine & Clinical Teaching
Presenters: Mike Griffith, MS, Associate Director, Biomedical Communications, UA College of Medicine; Kevin Moynahan, MD, Deputy Dean, Education, College of Medicine

student learning and has provided grants cation research projects faculty development. to supplement to improve UA COM The Teaching Scholscholarly research teaching. ars will present their when funding has projects at the medinot been renewed and recal Education Research Day sources for teacher developon June 13, 2013 at the UA ment. OMSE offers faculty College of Medicine. We will instructional development and send an announcement but, in support one-on-one for those the meanwhile, save the date! who would like to explore new approaches or implement new technologies or ideas in their teaching practice. In addition to the FID Series, AMES and OMSE collaborated We are now preparing for the next seminar in the FID series and its companion workshop. The topic In September, Dr. Luis C. Moll, Professor at the

[continued from page 1] flipping the classroom. If not, you most likely have heard of the Khan Academy on YouTube. The Academy brings the classroom to students online using an application called Doceri (see image at right). With

Try it out! Interactive Technology for Interactive Lectures

Audience response technology is becoming popular in higher education classrooms, academic conferences, and other professional settings.
Bedside Teaching & Practice. To foster effective communication with patients as well as colleagues, Draw MD is a program prepopulated with anatomical diagrams to which the student or physician can add notes, highlight features, etc.. If you were not able to attend but would like to see the presentation, you can watch it onlineclick here!

Doceri, instructors can create diagrams freehand or mark up existing materials, write text and record voice to explain the process or concepts depicted. The output is a video recorded lesson, which could be viewed at any time, uploaded online or forwarded to the learner. Skitch enables instructors to snatch images and text from the screen and create jpgs for use in presentations or other supportive materials.

Cognitive OVERLoad

n January 28, 2013, AMES\OMSE FID Seminar #8 will focus on how to make effective presentations using

If you teaching a clinical setting, you may find that using an audience response software is one way for you to monitor whether your students understand medical knowledge and issues of practice. AMES\OMSE Seminar # 5 addressed audience response softwareview it online!

PowerPoint and address cognitive load theory, better known to many of us who have endured lengthy and confusing presentations as cognitive OVERload theory. Our presenters, John Hall, PhD, Director of Biomedical Communications at the UA College of Medicine, and Jack Nolte, PhD, UA COM Tucson campus faculty will present.

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January 28, 2013 Karen spear Ellinwood

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Cognitive OVERLoad

Time: 12 pm3 pm Email: kse@medadmin.arizona.edu Phone: 5520.626.1743

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January 28, 2013
February 21, 2013

John Hall, PhD, and Jack Embracing Technology in the ClassNolte, PhD room
How am I doing? Methods for Formative and Susan Ellis, MS, EdS, and Kristi Summative Evaluation Grall, MD Bedside Teaching Strategies for the Inpatient Setting Writing Valid and Reliable Multiple Choice Questions Effective Clinical Preceptorship

TBA (February-March 2013)

TBA Chris Cunniff, MD, and Jack Nolte, PhD Paul Gordon, MD, and Tejal Parikh, MD Celia OBrien, PhD, will moderate a panel of clinical and classroom educators and professional education research staff Teaching Scholars and other faculty present their work in medical education research

P rofessional D evelopment
The AMES\OMSE FID Series presents a topic relevant to teaching, assessment and/ or medical education research from August through May each year. Please subscribe to our newsletter to get the current information on topics, presenters, and special events.

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OMSE will begin a new series for Residents as Teachers and community-based faculty beginning this spring 2013. Stay tuned!

Chris Cunniff, MD Director, Faculty Instructional Development Office of Medical Student Education UA College of Medicine
626-5173 - ccunniff@peds.arizona.edu

OMSE FID News

Office of Medical Student Education 1501 N. Campbell Avenue Tucson, AZ 85724

Karen Spear Ellinwood, PhD, JD Associate Specialist, Faculty Instructional DevelopmentTeaching Office of Medical Student Education UA College of Medicine 626.1743 - kse@email.arizona.edu

New Faculty Development Events Calendar online!

Susan Ellis, EdS Associate Specialist, Faculty Instructional Development Assessment and Evaluation Office of Medical Student Education UA College of Medicine 626-3654 - sellis@u.arizona.edu