APPLIED MEDICAL EDUCATION FOR THE TEACHER AND TRAINER
As a medical educator, you use what you know to help your students develop into successful professionals. The path is not always smooth and easy. You work in complex systems that are sometimes beyond your control. You try to collaborate with partners and colleagues as you implement learning environments and experiences. You adapt to the unique and changing needs of patients, students, and preceptors. You assess knowledge and skills and provide feedback to improve performance. All of these challenges depend on your knowledge and skills, but they also depend on your ability to apply those skills to make decisions and take action in constantly changing, complex situations.
In this course, you apply what you learn to turn these and your other challenges into opportunities. You will be guided through Adaptive Action Experiments where you use your new skills and knowledge to find innovative solutions to the problems you face today and prepare for problems you cannot predict in the future.The course is delivered over 8 weeks and has 4 modules:
- Working at the edge of uncertainty
- Working better together
- Finding the fix that fits
- Making the good better
The content for each module is structured to highlight challenges associated with translating specific skills from the ESME foundation course into practice, and encourages participants to work on overcoming these. Participation in ESME / ESMEonline is not a prerequisite although those looking for a foundational course in teaching skills should consider studying this first.
Faculty & Coaches
Dr. Stewart Mennin began his professional work doing research in reproductive neuroendocrinology and teaching human anatomy at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. He later focused on medical education and became co-director of New Mexico's community-oriented, problem-based Primary Care Curriculum, an innovative parallel curriculum track at the School of Medicine. He was director of the office of Program Evaluation, Education and Research and the office of Teacher and Educational Development for the School of Medicine. He developed the Medical Education Scholars Program at the School of Medicine.
He serves as a member of the advisory board of Medical Science Educator, the Journal of the International Association of Medical Science Educators and the advisory board for post-graduate study in medical education at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD. He has been on the editorial boards of Medical Education, Medical Teacher, Advances in Health Science Education and the Clinical Anatomist. He was consultant to the Ministries of Health in Brazil and in the Republic of Kazakhstan and external advisor to the Plexus Institute's education grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He was the external evaluator, consultant, and teacher at the Foundation for the Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER) in the US, India, South Africa, and Brazil. He was co-director of the Masters in Health Professions Education with the School of Health Education (SHE) at Maastricht University in the Netherlands and at the Escola Superior de Ciencas da Saude in Brasilia, Brazil.
Professor Mennin has published widely, served as an invited consultant and teacher at more than 100 medical schools and health institutions worldwide. He is the developer and author of the Essential Skills in Medical Education and the Leadership in Medical Education Courses for the International Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE). In 2017, Dr. Mennin was given the AMEE Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in medical education.
He is a Consulting Associate at the Human Systems Dynamics Institute and adjunct professor in the Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Dr. Mennin is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology and former Assistant Dean for Educational Development and Research at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.
Mary Nations helps organizations and the people in them become more adaptable and effective in changing environments. After beginning her career as a statistician, working within the massive upheaval of two mergers inspired her to become a lifelong student of change. Fifteen years later, she has studied and practiced organizational development, coaching, diversity leadership, and adult learning. Human Systems Dynamics has become foundational to her consulting and coaching work since she first met Dr. Eoyang in 2005. She has worked across sectors for a variety of organizations big and small. Within the Human Systems Dynamics Institute, Mary has served as teaching associate, content developer, praxis partner and Network Board member, and has edited several books in the field.
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