Upcoming Development Sessions

Beyond "Guess What I’m Thinking": Clinical Reasoning for the Medical Educator
Facilitated by Betsy Murray, MD (DOGPAH)

Working with trainees to help them synthesize the information they gather and enhance their clinical reasoning skills is one of the biggest challenges medical educators face. Many of us have forgotten the stepwise diagnostic process we used early in our careers and have trouble deconstructing what is now a practiced and nearly automatic cognitive pattern. Luckily, there is a well-developed science behind the development of clinical reasoning. In this session, we will briefly review this science and discuss concrete techniques and strategies you can use to help learners at every level develop and hone their clinical reasoning.

Manufacturers spend lots of time and money thinking about packaging because it is the forward facing aspect of their product. They could have the greatest product in the world, but it will stay on the shelves if the packaging isn't appealing and doesn't reflect the value of the product. Well, posters are the packaging of our intellectual product! We shouldn't waste all the work that went into a project by falling into the trap that posters should be in a standard template that basically result in an 8x4 foot written abstract. For those who have been to PAS before, you know that walking into a room with literally 1,000 posters, visual appeal matters. Well-designed posters can serve as magnets that pull the wanderers out of the crowd to hear about your project. I feel strongly that using an institutional template and cutting and pasting your abstract into it serves as a repellent! In this session we’ll discuss practical tips for poster design that will help you create posters people want to look at.

Google applications (forms, docs, groups, sites, and more) can help you streamline project collaboration, easily implement surveys, create simple websites to house research project information, and disseminate polished communications. In this session, Amy Gaug, the senior residency program administrator, will walk you through tricks of the trade to help you make the most of Google.

Retrospective Case Series: Navigating IRB, Stats, Research Assistants, and More
Facilitated by Jeff Louie, MD (Emergency Medicine)

We should write that up? How many times have you said this to a learner or colleague only to have the planned case report or series never come to fruition. Well, fizzle no more, because in this session you’ll learn how to navigate the process of developing case series through Epic, including what IRB forms to complete, what statistics are commonly used, and how to find a research assistant for ZERO dollars!

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If you would like to facilitate a P2P Session on a topic of your choosing, or you can recommend someone who should, please email Mike Pitt (mbpitt@umn.edu).