July Faculty Development Tip

MITE Monthly Tip The Objective Structured Teaching Exercise (OSTE): Tips for Faculty Development Corinn Martineau, PharmD, BCACP, CDOE It is clear that faculty development is important to enhance clinical teaching skills, however there are few objective measures of the impact of faculty development on these skills. An Objective Structured Teaching…

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June Faculty Development Tip

Pronoun Visibility in Health Professions Education Brandy Brown, LCSW Program Manager, The Gender Clinic The Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital   Learning Objectives: Understand the value of creating inclusive norms, by sharing pronouns, in medical education settings. Identify ways to professionally share pronouns in a medical education setting. Sharing pronouns in…

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May Faculty Development Tip-Finding Joy in Work After Hitting a Wall

Finding joy in work after hitting a wall Elizabeth Eisenhardt, MD Healthcare providers have been experiencing an emotional and exhausting process as they work to navigate the Covid-19 pandemic. The challenges and hardships from this pandemic stretched most humans to the end of their coping capabilities. Many health care workers…

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April Faculty Development Tip: The Education of Psychiatry – Caring for Patients Experiencing Homelessness

The Education of Psychiatry – Caring for Patients Experiencing Homelessness Malia E. Haddock, MS, PMHNP-BC Although trainees incidentally care for patients experiencing homelessness throughout residency and beyond, intentional didactic and clinical experiences with homelessness create unique opportunities to increase interest, confidence and ability among resident psychiatrists in the care of…

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March Faculty Development Tip-The Prebrief: More than just an Orientation

February Monthly Faculty Development Tip Shelly Chipman, RN The Prebrief: More than just an Orientation Our passion and responsibility as educators is to facilitate the acquisition of knowledge and/or skills upon our students. Traditionally, this has been a rather passive process, where faculty provide information and learners absorb by listening…

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January Faculty Development Tip-Creating a Culture of Psychological Safety as Medical Educators

Creating a Culture of Psychological Safety as Medical Educators Jillian Gregory, DO As the COVID-19 pandemic has led to changes in medical infrastructure in the US, many new medical teams, often with medical student and resident learners, have formed in varying capacities to help mitigate the influx of patients.  Many…

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November Faculty Development Tip: Tips on Clinical Teaching and Precepting Using Telehealth

MITE Tip November, 2020 Tips on clinical teaching and precepting using telehealth Ruth Frydman, M.D. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S., there has been an abrupt and substantial shift to providing health care through telehealth. Staff, learners, and patients have been learning to adjust to using…

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October 2020 Faculty Development Tip: How to construct good multiple-choice test questions

MITE Monthly Tip October 2020 Eric Brown, MD How to construct good multiple-choice test questions: Assessment, or testing, is an important aspect of medical teaching and learning. When done well, testing helps learners meet curricular goals while communicating what the teacher views as important. Multiple choice questions (MCQ) remain a…

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September 2020 Faculty Development Tip: Improving Education Skills in Virtual Small Group Learning

MITE Monthly Tip – Improving Education Skills in Virtual Small Group Learning Thomas Q. Reynolds, DO Medical education experts have been studying the effects of both virtual learning and small group learning for many years.  Evidence suggests that virtual learning is as effective as traditional learning across multiple different types…

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