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Strategies for enhancing interaction during lectures & didactic sessions P.1 About the FID Series P.2 Introducing our Teaching Scholars P.3

aculty Resources online!

You can find resources online at the Faculty Instructional Development section of the Office of Medical Student Education (OMSE) website. You can view and download resources for CBI facilitators, resident teachers, preceptors, and science or clinical faculty. Find information about CBI online tools ThinkSpace and GroupShare, Team Learning, and interactive lectures, links to online modules on giving constructive feedback, assessment, engaging students, and more.

Strategies for Enhancing Interaction during Lectures & Didactic Sessions

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to happenstance.

ow many times have you given a lecture of didactic session and felt as though you could hear a pin drop

learning experience and, hopefully, promote post-session reflection for continued learning and development. Chris Cunniff, MD, and Karen Spear Ellinwood, PhD, JD, presented the fifth seminar in the AMES\OMSE FID Series on November 5, 2012 entitled, Strategies to enhance the interactive lecture. About 20 faculty attended, most from the UA College of Medicine, but we enjoyed the participation of the Colleges of Pharmacy and Nursing as well. Cunniff & Spear-Ellinwood identified several practical strategies for instructors: 1) To prepare for teaching, identify opportunities for interaction and encouraging students to think aloud and directly address the material or cases presented; 2) Implement a range of interactive
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or the sound of keyboard tapping on the various electronic devices in the audience? It is difficult to cover a vast amount of content and engage the rapt attention of your audience. Todays learners have become experts at multi-tasking, although its likely they could use some guidance in how to perform each of their multi tasks equally well. Instructors, whether in a classroom or as guest lecturers in didactic sessions or student mentors, need

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to prepare to be engaging, rather than leave it

Instructors can use a variety of strategies but the bottom line is that when we ask questions, learners realize they might need to pay attention. When we ask effective questions, we encourage learners to reflect during the OMSE FID News

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November 5, 2012 Strategies for Interactive Lectures & Didactic Sessions

Presenters: Chris Cunniff, MD, Department of Pediatrics, UA College of Medicine; Karen Spear Ellinwood, PhD, JD, Associate Specialist, Faculty Instructional Development, UA COM Office of Medical Student Education.

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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

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Teaching scholars are

preparing medical edu- consequences for

October 5, 2012
Connecting Educational Practice with the Developmental Curriculum
Presenters: Luis C. Moll, PhD, Professor, Teaching, Learning & Sociocultural Studies, UA College of Education, with clinician educator John Bloom, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and 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] exercises in any experience; 3) dont be afraid to try something new (e.g., technology, method); and 4) think about how to structure the lecture to continue engaging students throughout. Dr. Cunniff suggests using the structure at right. As for using technology to wake up the students and motivate their participation, Cunniff and Ellinwood demonstrated Poll student responses in real time. Students use cell phones to text their answers and instructors display class wide results in real time, allowing them to identify whether they need to clarify consent before moving on and to build on students knowledge. Whether its a clinical or classroom setting, instructors can vary their methods of engagement to hold the interest of their learners. Please visit our website for resources online. /kse/

Try it out! Interactive Technology for Interactive Lectures

Audience response technology is becoming popular in higher education classrooms, academic conferences, and other professional settings. There are several apps (applications) on the market and some of these are open source (where at least the basic version is free).

Everywhere, a free audience response system available online to instructors. With Poll Everywhere, instructors can ask questions and receive and display

n November 29, 2012, AMES\OMSE FID Seminar #6 will introduce a variety of technologies for teaching in clinical settings. Our presenters, Mike

Griffith, MS, Associate Director of Biomedical Communications at the UA College of Medicine, and Kevin Moynahan, MD, Deputy Dean for Education at the UA COM Tucson campus, will present several of the Top 10 apps for clinical educators and then their favorites including Socrative, with practical ideas for how to integrate the use of these technologies into your teaching and medial practice. RSVP to Karen spear Ellinwood kse@email.arizona.edu 5520.626.1743

The next time you want to monitor for understanding during a lecture, or promote deeper thinking and interactive engagement, try out these audience response technologies and tell us what you think!

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Faculty Development News Issue 02 November 2012 Chris Cunniff, MD Director, Faculty Instructional Development Office of Medical Student Education UA College of Medicine
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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

Susan Ellis, EdS

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