Creating a successful teaching intervention - be it a one-time teaching session, teaching in the clinical setting, or creating an entire curriculum - requires intentional planning. This recorded FAMER session highlights strategies on how to approach designing a teaching intervention, taking into account the outcomes that the teacher wants to achieve, the learners, and the various ways of delivering teaching content.Faculty Advancing Medical Education in Residency (FAMER) is a series developed by...

Graduate Medical Education programs are required by governing bodies like ACGME to involve trainees in research or scholarship. Discovery and dissemination of new knowledge is foundational to the advancement of the medical field. WSU and Providence is sponsoring our second annual Research Symposium as a venue for residents to disseminate their scholarly work. This plenary session is aimed to inspire junior trainees, as well as faculty and physicians, to engage in scholarly activity in the future...

Mentoring residents in longitudinal projects such as quality improvement or medical education projects can be difficult given the multiple competing demands of residency training. Common challenges in managing these projects include jumping to solutions before adequately understanding the problem, selecting an adequately narrow project scope, managing the project over time while retaining momentum, and engaging residents with varying degrees of interest and commitment. This FAMER session will in...

This session will review the process of coaching and how it is utilized at WSU-IM. It will provide a basic framework for how to approach a coaching session and review common issues learners struggle with in addition to more challenging issues related to insight and professionalism.WSU Graduate Medical Education programs and the Office for Faculty Affairs and Continuing Professional Development design and deliver up-to-date content in medical education topics for practitioners working with reside...

According to the American Board of Internal Medicine, 8-15% of residents have areas of significant difficulty requiring remediation. Getting an accurate “diagnosis” of why a learner is not meeting expectations is the first step to helping them improve. Diagnosing the learner in need can be challenging in that individuals often have deficits in more than one competency. Additionally, residents with different competency deficits can sometimes present with a similar set of observable behaviors (ex:...

Bedside procedure education requires an intentional approach by the educator to ensure patient safety and grow learner's skills. We will discuss how to diagnose, support, and build your learner's bedside procedure skills adaptable to any inpatient or outpatient procedure.WSU Graduate Medical Education programs and the Office of Faculty Affairs and Continuing Professional Development design and deliver up-to-date content in medical education topics for practitioners working with residents. The ai...

Teaching medical professionalism is a fundamental component of medical education, but many programs lag behind in explicitly supporting professional identity formation. The transformation from lay person to "acting, feeling and being a doctor" is different for each trainee and dissonance in the identity of the learner and the perceived identity of the profession can lead to frustration and isolation. This session hopes to introduce the idea of professional identity formation, explore the process...

This 1-hour recording of a previously-delivered Faculty Advancing Medical Education in Residency (FAMER) session, led by Dr. Radha Nandagopal, dove into the whys and hows of the Educator Portfolio, a tool to help bring visibility to your work and to help you on your road to career advancement. Dr. Nandagopal discussed how to identify experiences you should be including in your portfolio, and discussed ways you can plan to keep your own portfolio updated, beyond the "every 7 years frantic se...

This 1-hour recording of a previously-delivered Faculty Advancing Medical Education in Residency (FAMER) session, led by Dr. Sonam Kiwalkar and Dr. Basil George Verghese, aims to equip clinicians with practical strategies for incorporating Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) into their daily practice and teaching. Participants will learn to define EBM, understand its core principles, and navigate the challenges of teaching EBM in a fast-paced clinical environment through case-based scenarios in b...

WSU and the WSU Health Sciences Library offer a wealth of resources to support the work of WSU-affiliated clinicians and medical educators. This 1-hour recording of a previously-delivered Faculty Advancing Medical Education in Residency (FAMER) session is led by WSU medical librarian Suzanne Fricke. It provides an introductory tour of the tools and resources that you can access through WSU library to advance evidence-based clinical, education, and scholarship endeavors.