June Faculty Development: Teaching Digital/E-Professionalism-Reflections for deepening understanding of professional identity on social media

Teaching Digital/E-Professionalism:  Reflections for deepening understanding of professional identity on social media Nicholas Knowland, TUSM-Maine Track Program, M18 Ensuring the public trust in the medical profession is the reason for promoting professionalism as a key component of medical education. Therefore medical curricula place significant emphasis on the development of professional…

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May Faculty Development: The Art of Retention

The Art of Retention Karyn King TUSM-MMC, M18 It’s midnight the night before a final exam and you’re sitting in front of a pile of notes that you half-heartedly studied while watching the entire series of Friends (again) during the past four weeks of your histology course. Driven by caffeine and…

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March Faculty Development: How To Teach Quiet Learners

How To Teach Quiet Learners  Journal Club Entry by Anne Sprogell, TUSM-Maine Track Program, M18 In order to understand how to teach a quiet learner, it is first important to understand a quiet learner. Shy, quiet, or introverted learners are generally characterized by increased reflective thinking and reduced sociability. Their…

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January Faculty Development: Power Posing to Increase Presentation Quality

Power Posing to Increase Presentation Quality      Andy Biedlingmaier, Tufts M18 Student on Medical Education Elective Humans and nonhuman primates use open and expansive postures to convey power.  However, new research shows that these “high-power poses” not only communicate power, they also create it.  Therefore, high-power posing can be…

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July Faculty Development: Teaching Clinical Reasoning with the Think Aloud Technique

Teaching Clinical Reasoning with the Think Aloud Technique by Kelly M. Brooks, MD, Maine Track ‘16 “Expert clinicians frequently use automatic unconscious thinking processes as they gather and analyze clinical information to generate diagnoses. When experts use think aloud techniques, they articulate their thinking as they are reasoning and by doing so…

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