Investing in the Future: A Medical Education Primer

Thursday, September 23, 2021, 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM


An educational seminar geared towards educating Pediatric Clinicians on best practices in integrating, teaching, assessing, and providing feedback to learners into their practices and hospital settings.

1. Identify the cultural, social, and economic factors that shape the key behavioral and motivational characteristics that define people from each generation.
2. Highlight the challenges to teaching and learning related to these characteristic differences and discuss strategies to overcome them.
3. Implement teaching strategies to empower all trainees and faculty to take better care of patients/improve quality of care
4. List at least 3 types of workplace-based assessment (WBA)
5. Discuss the role of WBA within a system assessment
6. Describe factors within one's environment that facilitate or hinder direct observation of learners
7. Compare and contrast strategies to reduce the impact of bias on WBA, both individually and within systems of assesment
8. Define the difficulties in providing effective feedback
9. Outline what can make feedback more effective
10. Apply the concept of learning culture
11. Describe efficient ways for working with trainees in a busy practice
12. Assess the skill-set and education needs of the trainees
13. Communicate effective feed-back to trainees in the clinical setting
14. Describe 6 strategies educators and learners can use to facilitate long-term learning
15. Generate ideas about how to apply these strategies in their medical education roles

This Conference is FREE to members of the Lurie Children’s Medical Staff. Please click here to register.

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations must be made in writing to [email protected].

The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation Statement

The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 4.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Special Needs
The Feinberg School of Medicine fully intends to comply with the legal requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act.  If any participant of this conference is in need of accommodation, please indicate those needs on the registration form or submit a written request to [email protected] at least one month prior to the conference date.

Questions? Contact Christine Brindle, phone: 312.227.0269, email: [email protected] or visit: https://www.luriechildrens.org.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (4.00 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (4.00 hours)