ACEP21 Onsite Courses to Elevate Your Career | Career Advancement Through Teaching
View this list of onsite courses focused on career advancement through teaching
Times and locations are subject to change as COVID continues to impact the in-person meeting. Please confirm with the mobile app for the most current information.
Working as a Female in the ED: Coffee House Chat
Tuesday | 10-11 a.m.
Location: Room 253, BCEC
Faculty: Diane M. Birnbaumer, MD, FACEP; Vonzella A. Bryant, MD, FACEP; Arlene Chung, MD, FACEP; Tarlan Hedayati, MD; Starr Knight, MD
A perspective on working as a female in the emergency department.
How to Be an Effective Mentor
Tuesday | 4:30-5 p.m.
Location: Room 104, BCEC
Faculty: Arlene Chung, MD, FACEP
Great mentoring is often the key to a person’s career success. But what is great mentoring? How can we be effective mentors? How can we be great mentees? During this session, Dr. Chung will describe how to be an effective mentor and mentee.
Implicit Bias
Wednesday | 9:30-10 a.m.
Location: Room 156, BCEC
Faculty: Bernard L. Lopez, MD, FACEP
Implicit bias is real and may be affecting our teaching and mentoring more dramatically than we realize. This course will teach learners to identify implicit bias and will provide techniques to unlearn these behaviors. Ultimately, this will improve teaching and mentoring of all learners.
The Flipped Classroom
Wednesday | 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Location: Room 254, BCEC
Faculty: J. Scott Wieters, MD, FACEP
Emergency medicine education is rapidly changing. Educators are constantly striving to find ways to deliver motivational, educational material outside the traditional classroom and lecture hall and in an environment that is stimulating. The concept of “flipping the classroom” isn’t a new one in education, but renewed interest in this teaching modality has been sparked in recent years by the popularity of the Khan Academy. Dr. Wieters will discuss how the flipped classroom approach can be used in emergency medicine education and how to use videos to motivate, stimulate and educate learners. Dr. Wieters will introduce the topic and will then demonstrate how to make video screencasts for teaching. Students attending this course are requested to bring their laptop computers with them to work on their projects.
Developing Your Career Niche in Emergency Medicine
Wednesday | 4-4:30 p.m.
Location: Room 253, BCEC
Faculty: Christopher I. Doty, MD, FACEP
Developing a niche, or special area of interest, is an important part of career development in emergency medicine. Choosing a focus area allows physicians to gain special expertise in certain topics that could lead to great career benefits. Dr. Doty will discuss the importance of developing a niche in emergency medicine, how to develop it and how to use it as a career development tool for advancement.
Digital Scholarship: Connection & Discovery Through Technology
Thursday | 8-8:30 a.m.
Location: Room 104, BCEC
Faculty: Danielle Miller, MD
What is digital scholarship? This course will define digital scholarship and describe how technologies continue to redefine medical education. As the use of digital technology increases, new mediums including social media, podcasts and interactive narratives are utilized more frequently for medical education scholarship. How to best optimize digital scholarship for publication and promotion as a medical educator will be discussed.
How to Give a Killer Talk
Thursday | 9-9:30 a.m.
Location: Room 160, BCEC
Faculty: Peter M. DeBlieux, MD, FACEP
Do your learners fall asleep or pull out their phones when you lecture? Do you struggle with how to effectively present your data? Do your slides need an extreme makeover? Do you want to make your lectures more interactive? Many educators struggle to provide high-quality, effective lectures. Their impact can be limited by poor presentation style, distracting slide design, and lackluster delivery.
While drawing on available literature, this talk will explain and exemplify five key points for making lectures more interesting and keeping an audience’s attention. Come learn the ABCs of resuscitating a boring lecture!
Engaging the Distracted Learner: Supercharge Your Teaching Skills
Thursday | 9:30-10 a.m.
Location: Room 156, BCEC
Faculty: Christina Shenvi, MD, PhD, FACEP
We all struggle with engaging learners who are busy, distracted or uninterested. Whether in a lecture or on-shift, you can improve your teaching using these three, practical, theory-grounded concepts. First, understand how adult learning theory informs how you should engage your learners. Don’t expect them to be willing to learn something just because you say they should! You have to tune it into what they want to know. Second, don’t overload their cognitive bandwidth. Cognitive load theory provides a framework for how to organize and present information that will make it easiest for the learners to process and remember. Third, cognitive apprenticeship provides practical ways you can meet the learner where they are and take them to their own next level.
Innovative Education Strategies in the Virtual World
Thursday | 12-12:30 p.m.
Location: Room 205, BCEC
Faculty: Danielle Miller, MD
In their daily practice, many providers teach residents and health professions students; however, few have received formal training in education. The recent pivot to virtual learning has made teaching even more challenging. During this course you will learn essential teaching techniques for today’s learners, focusing on the virtual platform. Dr. Miller will discuss how to utilize technology, gamification, team based learning and novel virtual techniques to engage the current generation of learners.
