ASE 2022 Annual Meeting – Pre-Meeting Courses
Monday, May 2, 2022
Separate registration required https://members.apds.org/meeting/Registration
All courses will be offered for in-person attendees only.
Troubleshooting the Surgical Core Clerkship
Full Day Course
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Includes breakfast, lunch, and CME credits
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 additional to the four content areas, the course will include updates for ASE/ACS Medical Student Core Curriculum; NBME Workgroup; and, WISE MD.
Mentorship and Leadership for Surgeon Educators
Half Day Course
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
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 current leadership role.
Fundamentals of a Career in Surgical Education: Pathway to Clinician Educators (FACSE)
Half Day Course
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
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.
Item Writing Introduction for Novices (I WIN)
Half Day Course
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Description: The goals of the workshop are to provide education and application of effective assessment development with multiple choice item writing. Participants may utilize these principles to apply to development of internal institutional examinations or content for national examinations. The target audience for this session is surgical educators at the faculty or resident level and surgical education scientists.
Following this session, participants will be able to:
- Describe types of formative and summative assessment
- Differentiate between competency and outcomes-based assessment
- Differentiate between criterion and norm referenced assessment
- Determine the performance of items using psychometric parameters, including item difficulty and item discrimination
- Identify strategies by which to make decisions on content sampling
- Demonstrate types of assessment formats including binary and one best answer
- Recognize and correct types of assessment item technical flaws
- Develop assessment items with satisfactory psychometric performance
- Incorporate principles of diversity, equity and inclusion in item writing and peer review to reduce bias in item content
Following the in-person live session there will be an optional drop in virtual office hours for Q&A and advising on item development monthly until the follow up optional part 2 session. Following meeting, once participants have submitted their peer reviewed assessment items; they will receive a certificate of completion for ASE Item Writing.
Fundamentals of Teaching
Half Day Course
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
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