Types of Educational Scholarship and Developing a Question

This session will review the diversity of approaches to medical education scholarship and how to create a good research question in medical education. Participants will have the opportunity to practice creating research questions to align with different research approaches.

Learning Objectives:

• Review types of medical education scholarship and examples of these types.
• Discuss frameworks for creating a research question.
• Practice developing a research question.

Survey Methods: How to Get High Quality Data

This session is designed to help people execute effective surveys by empathizing with survey respondents, writing clear questions, and identifying common patterns in problematic survey responses. It will cover these topics: 1) Should I do a survey? 2) How should I design & deliver my survey? 3) What questions should I ask? and 4) How do I start analyzing my data?

Learning Objectives:

• List key factors in survey design that help achieve high-quality responses and a high response rate.
• Identify common mistakes in question writing that undermine data quality.

Qualitative Methods: How to Analyze Open-Ended Survey Questions 

We often gather qualitative data in our surveys, and then wonder "how can I systematically analyze these questions"? In this session, we will explore analytic approaches to qualitative survey data, consider how to themes and/or counts will answer your research questions, and discuss how to apply to your research study. Bring your surveys and medical education ideas as we delve into how to address qualitative survey questions!

Learning Objectives:
By the end of this session, you will be able to:

• Discuss preliminary analytic considerations
• Describe common analytic approaches to qualitative analysis
• Compare and contrast content and thematic analysis approaches for survey questions
• Practice doing content or thematic analysis 

Creativity and Learning

In decades past, researchers looked for the underlying traits that made a more creative person.  More recently, research has examined strategies that increase creative output.  This talk presents research on harnessing creativity to support the learning of complex concepts, for example, in statistics.  The talk will describe four design principles for developing tasks that support creativity in the service of learning.

Please join us for our in-person February seminar with Daniel Schwartz, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, presenting on Creativity and Learning. Come reconnect with the SHAPES community and learn from this dynamic and engaging leader in the field of Education. 

LKSC, Roth Way Garage and Stock Farm Garage, indicated by the blue circle on this map, offer free parking after 4pm. There is handicap parking in the lot near LKSC. To get directors in Google Maps enter:

• Roth Way Garage - 355 Roth Way, Stanford, CA 94304
• Stock Farm Garage - 360 Oak Rd, Stanford, CA 94304

Best Practices in Competency-Based Assessment

We will cover the key components of competency-based medical education and assessment using EPAs and a programmatic approach.

Learning Objectives

• Describe the core components of competency-based medical education. 
• Define entrustable professional activities. 
• Consider ways to implement best practices in programmatic assessment within your own context.

Feedback in Medical Education

In this session, we will define feedback and describe its role in the educational alliance between teacher and learner. There will be an opportunity to practice using evidence-based feedback frameworks. We will also discuss strategies for feedback challenges.

Learning Objectives

• Define feedback and discuss its importance in the clinical learning environment.
• Describe evidence-based feedback frameworks.
• Discuss strategies for challenging feedback.

Dissemination Strategies in Medical Education

The session will be interactive to address questions commonly asked about dissemination. They include: How do academics successfully disseminate their products? How do you choose the right platform to disseminate educational scholarship? How come some are very successful and others are not? What resources are needed? How do you determine authorship?

Learning Objective
By the end of this session participants will be able to:

• Reflect on their own interests and behaviors to plan for dissemination.
• Explain how to plan for dissemination, make choices and optimize for success. 

Bedside Teaching: Enhancing Your Clinical Teaching… While Preserving Efficiency

Clinical teaching has multiple benefits, not only for learners, but also for patients and the educators themselves. Teaching evaluations are often used towards promotion packages. And teaching is a source of professional fulfillment for many of us. However, our busy clinical loads often make this feel like an uphill battle. This session will help you make small adjustments to your teaching style with big results, even when it's busy!

Learning Objective
By the end of this session participants will be able to:

• Reflect on why we (should) teach at the bedside (and why we don’t)
• Review examples of really efficient teaching modalities you could implement right away
• Practice one of these skills here, among friends and colleagues
• Explore one new bedside teaching resource