The WSU College of Medicine’s Office of Educational Affairs and Office for Faculty Affairs and Continuing Professional Development are hosting an in-person Pre-Clerkship Faculty Retreat in the Medicine Building on the WSU Spokane Campus on Tuesday, August 11, 2026, from 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM. This will be a day-long experience featuring sessions designed for College of Medicine Faculty who teach first- and second-year learners in the MD Program. Learn more and register to attend here.

Do you feel your lectures might contribute to the firehose of information overload? This session offers practical strategies to make your lectures more engaging and effective. Learn how to connect with your audience, improve visuals, enhance pre-class materials, and incorporate active learning techniques to boost student participation and retention.This course was adapted by the Office for Faculty Affairs and Continuing Professional Development from a live session presented by Ted Chauvin, PhD, ...

Quality improvement (QI) and design thinking (DT) are methods for complex problem-solving that are often taught and practiced separately, with QI more commonly used in healthcare. In this session, Virginia Waldrop, MD shares how she and a colleague built an integrated "human-centered QI" curriculum for residents, drawing on Crowe and colleagues' 2022 framework for leveraging design in QI (BMJ Qual Saf). Participants will use journey mapping — a design thinking tool — to explore a shared workflow...

In this interactive 45-minute workshop we will provide an overview of the Healthcare Simulation Standards of Best Practices (HSSOBP) when using task trainers when facilitating workshops. A task trainer is defined as "A device designed to train in just the key elements of the procedure or skill being learned, such as lumbar puncture, chest tube insertion, central line insertion or part of a total system, for example, ECG simulator (Center for Immersive and Simulation Based Learning [CISL] &...

Conflict is to be expected.While members of any team share similar goals, whether that’s meeting a project deadline, serving students effectively, or keeping operations running smoothly, there are times when team members are at odds regarding how that work should be done. In fast-paced, high-pressure environments like higher education, professionals may find themselves in a high-stress conflict before they even recognize it has happened.Whether you are a supervisor, project lead, or team member,...

Feedback is essential to the development of medical trainees, as well as to the ongoing improvement of educators and medical education programs. Learners often perceive that they receive less feedback--and less USEFUL feedback--than educators believe they are giving. This FAMER (Faculty Advancing Medical Education in Residency) session is part 1 of a 2-part mini-series on feedback, focused on having effective feedback conversations. The eLearning version includes a recording of the live session ...

Health equity is inseparable from the clinical practice of medicine, but preceptors may find the breadth and depth of the topic difficult to approach in brief precepting interactions with learners. In this recorded live session, faculty will discuss frameworks and best practices for incorporating health equity pearls into clinical precepting in the inpatient and outpatient settings. By the end of the session, faculty will have developed a personal action plan to increase their comfort with teach...

This recorded session is designed for Clerkship faculty to enhance their engagement and development. The session provides a high-level overview of the evolving curriculum and assessment strategies, focusing on aspects relevant to clerkship preceptors. It also highlights best practices in clinical teaching, including adapting to current medical school practices and student needs, and reinforce awareness and response strategies for student mistreatment. This eLearning was developed based on a...

In this recorded session, the presenters cover the considerations that programs and faculty should contemplate concerning residents prescribing controlled medications. It includes the different restrictions residency programs have utilized and an example of a tiered approach allowing residents more prescribing capabilities, while trying to protect the patient, resident, faculty, and program. Faculty Advancing Medical Education in Residency (FAMER) is a series developed by WSU Graduate Medical Ed...

There are many models for inpatient rounding and ambulatory precepting. Presenting in the presence of patients (PIPP) is one model of precepting that is done in the room with patients (and sometimes family) present. PIPP has many benefits for patients, trainees, and medical educators, including increased patient engagement, and increased frequency of direct observation of learners. This recorded session highlights some of these benefits, busts common myths about PIPP, and provides a framework fo...