AOE Quarterly Meeting

March 6, 2012

Agenda

• Update on AOE Events• Advocacy for Educators in the Policy

Realm – GME Funding • Warren Newton- SOM Strategic Plan

and other Updates• Community Conversation with Frank Wilson Visiting Professor Tom Inui, MD

AOE Membership Selection

• March 15 evening meeting• 28 new member applications • 33 renewals• Committee: Heather Walker, Ellen Roberts,

Kathleen Rao, John Perry, Tricia White, Kurt Gilliland, Howard Reisner, Antony Viera, Peadar Noone, Julie Byerley, Beat Steiner

AOE April Faculty Development EventsVisiting Professor Rita Charon, MD, PhD

• Thursday April 12, 3:30Workshop on Narrative

Writing in Medical Education

• Friday April 13, 12:00AOE Educational Grand

Rounds on Narrative Writing

• Friday April 13, 3:00 pmWorkshop on Writing

Narrative Evaluations of Students

• Thanks so much to the Curriculum Work Group, Barry Saunders, Sue Estroff, and Terry Holt for their work in securing this speaker!

• More details to follow

AOE Educational Scholarship Work Group

• Is peer review the sine qua non?

• Other outlets– MedEdPORTAL– Social media outlets– Self-published texts or

blogs

• What about leadership in educational activities?

• How are faculty promoted based on educational scholarship?

• How best to document scholarship beyond publications

• Scholarship vs excellence in teaching

AOE Educational Scholarship Work Group

Draft Goals• Provide input to SOM to

create more clear criteria for faculty on education pathway

• Promote and enhance implementation of scholarly activity within AOE and SOM

• Felt AOE members most interested in how to “do” educational scholarship• Evaluate educational

interventions, programs, or ideas

• How to disseminate How to design (and get

funding)

AOE May Faculty Development Events

• May 16-17 - Educational Scholarship• Visiting Professor Ruth-Marie E. Fincher, MD,

Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Medicine at Georgia Health Sciences University

• Workshop in the late afternoon May 16• Banquet in the Evening of May 16 • Workshop and Noon Session on May 17• Individual appointments available – Contact Vickie

Ideas for Rhee Fincher Visit

• Works in progress small groups session

• Individual appointments

• Overview of educational scholarship

• Walking through the promotions process as an educator

• Building a teaching portfolio

• Publishing in MedEdPORTAL

AOE Awards Committee Work

• AOE Awards Committee is soon to recommend a faculty member to be considered for the Craven Medical Alumni Teaching Professorship

• AOE Awards Committee call for annual award nominations soon to be made – Be on the look out and plan to nominate!

• Peadar Noone, Chair

AOE Travel Grants

• Yearly travel funds for AOE Members to attend an educational conference

• Each award will cover travel expenses/registration associated with the meeting up to $1800.

• Email Edward Kernick, kernick@med.unc.edu with a short paragraph (by March 15th 2012) describing how your attendance at the meeting could benefit your education efforts and improve medical education here at UNC School of Medicine

• Awardees will be required to deliver a brief presentation during an AOE quarterly meeting summarizing educational enhancements/strategies discussed at the conference

• Preference will be given to faculty members that are presenting their educational scholarship

AOE Policy/Advocacy Work Group

• An opportunity to begin the work– If you would like to participate on an AOE Task Force to

discuss how to advocate for GME Funding please contact Julie, Beat, Vickie, or Clark Denniston

Warren Newton

Community ConversationTom Inui, MD

Professionalism

Thank you for your participation

in AOE.