8th Annual Medical & Bioscience Education Day Conference / SIMEC X

Deadline: July 18th

This year’s Education Day theme is The Power of Education as an Agent of Transformation and Change. Medical education not only imparts skills and knowledge to students, but also impacts the health and well-being of communities. This year’s conference embraces education’s potential to transform lives and communities. We aim to elevate and promote the value of education by spotlighting the ways it builds bridges between people, generations, and ideas.

Suggested topics include approaches to:

• Bridging cultural and educational norms

• Supporting learners and faculty in uncertain times

• Building the future of health professions education
  

Some potential questions to explore include:

• What role can health professions educators play in promoting the value of education?

• What does it mean to be a transformative educator in today’s climate?

• What traditional elements of medical education should we evolve?

Workshops related to broader medical education topics are also welcome. We especially encourage interactive sessions that provide participants with specific skills, frameworks, or tools they can directly apply in their teaching and mentoring practice.

Deadline: July 15th

Abstract Submission Format

Abstract submissions should not exceed 400 words, not including title, authors, institutional affiliations and references. Please include the following information in your submission:

• Title: Provide an informative session title

• Author(s): Authors and institutions 

• Purpose: What problems or issues have you addressed? What was your research question?

• Methods (approach, innovation, or intervention): What did you do?

• Setting/Participants: Where and with whom was the study conducted?

• Results/Outcomes: What did you learn? 

• Significance: What implications do these lessons hold, both for now and for future efforts or study?

Only for current SHAPES Honor Scholars
Deadline is July 31st at 11:59pm

For current SHAPES Honor Scholars, if you're interested in presenting your scholarly medical education project at the 8th Annual Medical & Bioscience Education Day Conference / SIMEC X, abstract submissions are due by Thursday, July 31st at 11:59 PM.

This in-person conference will take place on Saturday, October 25th at LKSC, Berg Hall. Once abstracts are submitted, our team will review them and notify you by mid-August if your project has been accepted for presentation.

As a reminder, to complete the SHAPES Honor Scholars Certificate Program, you must present your project either at the Education Day Conference or during the final SHAPES session in June.

We look forward to seeing your submissions! Please email Claire Medina with any questions (cemedina@stanford.edu).