Health Professions Educator (HPE) Sessions

Continuing Medical Education (CME) Credit Instructions

  • Category 1 CME credit will be offered for this presentation. AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ has been approved for this enduring material from July 1, 2023 to July 1, 2024.
  • To receive Category 1 CME credit for videos viewed, complete the full CME Evaluation Form linked above the video. *Note: You will be required to answer two content questions covered during the video on this session evaluation.
  • *Archived videos are no longer eligible for CME. (CME bylaws state no CME for enduring materials over 1 year old)

Health Professions Educator Series

This series addresses the needs of early-mid career educators who teach our health professionals throughout Carilion Clinic, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, and/or Radford University Carilion.  Content being covered includes the best practices in teaching, educational theory, program planning and assessment, enhancing teaching with technology, and educational research.

Below are videos from our HPE series.  Each video will include presentation objectives and the PowerPoint that was presented at the session.  We encourage real-time attendance if at all possible, but recognize the value of alternative options for when it isn’t.

Health Professions Educator Series Video Index

November 2023: Accessibility & Inclusion in Teaching Across the Medical Education Continuum by Vianne Greek, MBA, CPWA and David Halpin, PhD

September 2023: Peer Evaluation to Enhance Teaching by Shari Whicker, EdD, MEd and Jennifer Cleveland, PharmD, BCPS, MBA

July 2023: Open Access Journals, Subvention Funding, OA Policy, and Public Access Compliance facilitated by David Musick, PhD; Panelists: Kiri DeBose, MLIS, Rachel Miles, MS, and Roberto Silva, MA

May 2023: Psychological Safety in the Learning Environment from both a UME and GME Perspective: Maybe not what you think! by Aubrey Knight, MD and Chad DeMott, MD

March 2023: UME to GME Transitions: How Can We Improve the Process by Arthur Ollendorff, MD

January 2023: Taking Daily Teaching and Practice and Turning It into Research/Scholarship by Serkan Toy, PhD, MEd

December 2022: Testing is Teaching by Andrew Binks, PhD and Emily Holt Foerst, PhD

*Archived Videos: No CME credit for archived videos

Accessibility & Inclusion in Teaching Across the Medical Education Continuum
November 13, 2023

Presenters:

  • Vianne Greek, MBA, CPWA*, Director of Digital Initiatives for Medical Education, VTCSOM
  • David Halpin, PhD, Instructional Designer & Trainer, Center for Innovative Teaching & Learning, RUC

*IAAP Certified Professional in Web Accessibility

Objectives:
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • List and compare the three categories of disabilities
  • Define the terms accessibility, accommodation, diversity, and inclusion
  • Employ two strategies for creating content that reflect your learners’ unique identities and experiences

Session Resources:

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Peer Observation to Enhance Teaching
September 25, 2023

Presenters:

  • Shari Whicker, EdD, MEd, Assistant Dean, Faculty Development, VTCSOM; Senior Director, Office of Continuing Professional Development, Carilion Clinic; Director, Teaching Excellence Academy for Collaborative Healthcare (TEACH); Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, VTCSOM
  • Jennifer Cleveland, PharmD, BCPS, MBA, Assistant Professor, Department of Basic Science Education, VTCSOM

Objectives:
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Articulate the benefits of teaching observation
  • Describe what teaching observation is and is not
  • Participate in the teaching observation process

Session Resources:

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Open Access Journals, Subvention Funding, OA Policy, and Public Access Compliance
July 24, 2023

Facilitator:

  • David Musick, PhD, Senior Dean, Faculty Affairs, VTCSOM

Panelists:

  • Kiri DeBose, MLIS, Director, Health Sciences Libraries; Head, Veterinary Medicine Library & Liaison to Animal Sciences; University Libraries, Virginia Tech; Associate Professor, VMCVM, Virginia Tech
  • Rachel Miles, MLS, Research Impact Coordinator, University Libraries, Virginia Tech
  • Roberto Silva, MA, Head, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Health Sciences & Technology Library, University Libraries, Virginia Tech

Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Judge the value of Open Access and its benefits
  • Locate, evaluate, and select Open Access Journals for publication of their work
  • Identify funding options for Article Processing Charges for publishing in certain OA journals
  • Summarize Virginia Tech’s Open Access Policy (Policy on Intellectual Property 13000)
  • Summarize the specific requirements of VTCSOM when seeking support for article processing charges from the VT library subvention fund
  • Prepare closed-access (subscription) manuscripts for deposit in the institutional repository, VTechWorks
  • Explain preliminary access requirements for peer reviewed publications of forthcoming federal agency public access mandates
  • Distinguish between Open Access and Public Access

Session Resources

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Psychological Safety in the Learning Environment from both a UME and GME Perspective: Maybe not what you think!
May 22, 2023

Presenters:

  • Aubrey Knight, MD, Senior Dean, Student Affairs; Professor, Internal Medicine and Family & Community Medicine, VTCSOM/ Carilion Clinic
  • Chad DeMott, MD, Associate Director, Residency Program; Clerkship Director; Associate Professor; Internal Medicine, Carilion Clinic/ VTCSOM

Objectives:
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Define and identify elements of psychological safety
  • Describe the mission and importance of the Learning Environment and Advocacy Committee (LEAC) at VTCSOM
  • Design teaching sessions within their own environments which exemplify the principles of psychological safety

Session Resources:

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UME to GME Transitions: How Can We Improve the Process?
March 20, 2023

Presenter:

  • Arthur Ollendorff, MD, Designated Institutional Official, Carilion Clinic; Associate Dean, Graduate Medical Education and Professor, Department of Health Systems & Implementation Science and Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, VTCSOM

Objectives:
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Acknowledge the importance of the UME to GME transition
  • Understand the goals and status of what OB/GYN and other specialties are doing to ease the transition
  • Identify one thing they can do to help the transition to residency for medical students.

Session Resources

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Taking Daily Teaching and Practice and Turning It into Research/Scholarship: Unlocking the scholarly potentials in teaching
January 30, 2023

Presenter:

  • Serkan Toy, PhD, MEd, Assistant Professor, Department of Basic Science Education, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine

Objectives:
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Formulate a researchable educational problem
  • Discuss design options for scholarly projects
  • Develop a methodical research plan

Session Resources:

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Testing is Teaching
December 5, 2022

Presenters:

  • Andrew Binks, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Basic Science Education, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
  • Emily Holt Foerst, PhD, Assistant Dean for Student Affairs; Director, Academic Counseling & Enrichment Services​; Assistant Professor, Department of Basic Science Education​, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine

Objectives:
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Describe the potential positive impact of metacognition on learning behaviors
  • Describe barriers to implementing self-reflection in medical education
  • Determine how barriers to developing self-reflective processes can be overcome
  • Identify ways to incorporate learner self-reflection into development of curriculum, assessment and faculty

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Archived Sessions

*No CME credit for archived videos (CME bylaws state no CME for enduring materials over 1 year old.)

Archived HPE Sessions from 2021-2022

Archived HPE Sessions from 2019-2020

Archived HPE Sessions from 2017-2018

Archived HPE Sessions from 2015-2016

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