The Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) annual conference is now established as the key meeting for all involved in medical and healthcare professions education including teachers, educationists, researchers, administrators and students. The conference provides an opportunity to network with others with similar interests, to hear and discuss the views of acknowledged experts, to take part in workshops and courses and to present your own work through a short communication or poster.

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Charlene M. Dewey, M.D., M.Ed., FACP, co-director, Center for Professional Health, visits CPEP in Denver to launch the CPH prescribing course. Vanderbilt’s Center for Professional Health (CPH) launches new relationship with CPEP. The Center for Personalized Education for Physicians (CPEP) implemented CPH’s CME Professional Development Program: “Prescribing Controlled Drugs: Critical Issues and Common Pitfalls”© course in Denver, CO on July 20-23, 2015.  

Joey Barnett, Ph.D., Assistant Dean of Physician Researcher Training and Luke R. Finck, EdD, MOC, Assistant Director, Office of Medical Student Research  welcome their new faculty Dr. Mark de Caestecker and Dr. Jeremy Warner. To read more about the new faculty members click here.

Charlene M. Dewey, M.D., M.Ed., FACP and William Swiggart, M.S., MHSP, from The Center for Professional Health collaborated with the Vanderbilt School of Nursing to launch the first ever Proper Prescribing Course for Advanced Nurse Practitioners. The teaching faculty include: Caroline Cone, MSN, APRN, BC, Elizabeth Morse, DNP, FNP-BC, MPH, Chance Allen, MSN, APN, LMSW, PMHNP-BC, and Ginger Manley, MSN, APRN, PHCNS-BC. The team launched the three-day professional development program on June 23-26, 2015 in the Center for Professional Health.

 

Every other year, the Shapiro Institute Center for Education associated with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, along with the Association for American Medical Colleges hold the Millennium Conference that addresses a key issue facing the medical education community. Medical schools from across the county submit proposals to participate in the conference.  A team from Vanderbilt including Kim Lomis MD, Kim Dahlman PhD, Lourdes Estrada PhD, John McPherson MD, and Bill Cutrer MD, MEd was selected to participate.

On May 19, 2015, educators at Vanderbilt participated in a SGEA debriefing to share information, tips and lessons learned from the AAMC-SGEA annual meeting held in April 2015. Please click on the link to view slides from the session. SGEA Debriefing Slides

Dr. Neil Osheroff chaired the “Fifth International Conference of Biochemistry Course Directors,” which was held May 3-7 in Santa Fe, NM. The conference had 101 attendees from Schools of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Dentistry in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean. At the meeting he presented a plenary talk on the “Integration of Basic Sciences into the Clerkship Years” by Neil Osheroff, Lourdes Estrada, and William B.