Pre-Meeting Courses
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Title: Troubleshooting Your Clerkship
Date: Monday, April 22, 2024
Time: 7:00 AM – 4:30 PM (CME credits, breakfast and lunch included)
Description:
This pre-meeting course is an annual venue for new and continuing surgery Clerkship Directors and Coordinators to teach and learn all aspects of the surgery core clerkship in undergraduate medical education. This one-day program will include panel discussion, half-hour topic areas with discussion, and three 15-minute updates after lunch. The four content areas will be:
- Preparing the students for clerkship
- The virtual world of clerkships education
- The clerkship environment
- Student and Clerkship Director support (accommodations, student support, and wellness)
Between sessions there will be smaller sessions giving updates relevant to Clerkship Directors and Coordinators. In addition to the four content areas, the course will include updates for ASE/ACS Medical Student Core Curriculum; NBME Workgroup; and WISE MD.
Title: Mentorship and Leadership for Surgeon Leaders Through Simulation
Date: Monday, April 22, 2024
Time: 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM (includes lunch)
Description:
Methods
Simulation is an effective method to teach leadership and mentorship skills through experiential learning and deliberate practice. This course will present important leadership, mentorship and coaching concepts and corresponding skills using a combination of didactic content and simulation-based activities. Skills to be practiced in the simulated environment include mentorship, coaching, communication, and conflict management in difficult situations, and managing emotional intelligence. Learners will practice and respond to simulated scenarios in a safe but challenging environment designed to manage their own emotions while interacting with a trainee or staff member under various clinical circumstances. Participants will evaluate aspects of team performance to differentiate effective and ineffective methods in relation to leadership, mentorship, and coaching.
Conclusion
Leadership, mentorship, and coaching skills are essential to the surgeon and can be both learned and practiced in a small group setting using simulation. Becoming an effective leader will enhance teaching ability and communication with staff and patients. Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to apply these skills to their daily workflow regardless of their current leadership role.
Title: Fundamentals of a Career in Surgical Education (FACSE): Pathway to Clinician Educator
Date: Monday, April 22, 2024
Time: 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM (includes lunch)
Description:
This course is designed to give the participants the fundamentals to get started in an academic career in surgical education. Designed to meet the career needs of all levels from residents to junior faculty, this course will offer tangible strategies and lessons learned from leaders in Surgical Education. This course will define an academic surgery educator (job description), describing the necessary educational skills to obtain, overcoming challenges, developing tools to promote skills, and achieving academic productivity. The course will highlight the various opportunities and resources available to develop an academic career in surgical education. Working groups will be used to facilitate discussion and development of a teaching portfolio.
Course Features:
Pathways to Clinician Educator Leadership –
- Expert panel
- Overcoming setbacks/failure
- Case-based presentations from course participants
Academic Productivity –
- Explain the fundamentals of educational research
- Discuss ways to get support for educational research
- List credible publication/venues for educational projects/presentations
- Describe strategies for scholarly productivity
- Identify institutional and national resources to support educational research
Teaching Portfolio –
- Prepare a teaching portfolio
- Discuss the usefulness of a teaching portfolio for professional development
- Integrate the aims of a teaching portfolio with personal academic goals and needs
- Describe the tenets used for academic promotion
- Illustrate the type of activities and credentials needed to fill in each of the tenets
- Recognize available resources to build up a CV and a personal statement of education
- Working groups to help participants develop their teaching portfolio. Course participants with portfolios may submit prior to the course for directed review by ASE leadership. Contact ASE office for information.
Title: Fundamentals of Teaching
Date: Monday, April 22, 2024
Time: 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM (includes lunch)
Description:
This highly interactive half-day pre-meeting course uses a case-based approach to the fundamentals of teaching. It is designed for those taking on a new teaching role or who would like to enhance their abilities as a clinical teacher. The session will cover teaching in the operating room, giving feedback, and using simulation. Participants will leave with new skills, knowledge, and energy they can apply to their learners.
Objectives:
- Apply scaffolding to a surgical procedure
- Employ goal setting for a clinical encounter
- Contrast reinforcing and redirecting feedback
Title: Vice Chair of Education Career Development
Date: Monday, April 22, 2024
Time: 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Description:
Within Departments of Surgery around the country, the addition of a Vice Chair of Education (VCE) to the leadership team is becoming increasingly necessary and common. Yet, the role of the VCE within that Department is somewhat nebulous, owing in part to its novelty as a position as well as the individual needs of the department and programs that it supports. This workshop was designed with the current VCE, aspiring VCEs, and program leadership in mind, such that all categories of educators may benefit from its content. This workshop will aim to create context for the role of VCE, provide attendees with fodder for creation of a job description, supply tools to navigate relationships unique to the position, and discuss strategies for career development into and within the role, among others.
Objectives:
- To prepare new and current VCEs for their role within the educational leadership of a Department of Surgery.
- To provide attendees with concrete skills and strategies to navigate relationships unique to the role of a VCE.
- To facilitate the sharing of experiences between educational leaders.
- To provide non-VCE attendees with opportunities to understand the role in terms of career and department development.