The Extended Conference Models: Practical Ways to Manage Professional Development Virtually, is organized by Stanford University (School of Medicine, Center for Continuing Medical Education) and EviMed for the Americas in English and Spanish. It is part of the “CME Live” event, organized by Stanford University.

The workshop will be offered online during a month, and will have an important amount of interaction, as well as videoconferences especially developed for this professional training workshop by experts who are mentors in the specialty.

Practical activities with a pedagogical design based on clinical simulations and tests with self-assessment contents will be included, along with live round tables and teachers’ tutoring in discussion forums that promote a collaborative learning approach based on reasoning and reflection, not only individually, but also in groups.

Thanks to the flexibility of the online activity, participants can access the course at any time, from anywhere and discuss different issues with their colleagues in the region and experts.

Duration: August 13 – September 09, 2020

Expected Work Load: 16 study hours.

Expected Commitment: A minimum of 4 hours a week, on a free schedule, managed by the participant.

 

We wish you all the success!

The Teaching Team

The course will be offered in English via Internet, and will have an important amount of interaction as well as materials especially developed for this continuing education proposal.

Academic progress will be measured weekly, with a new module starting every Thursday, guided by a central theme that will regulate the reflections of the week. It includes lectures by experts, exchange spaces, deliverable assignments, live round tables with experts, and the exchange of ideas in the Forum with teachers and colleagues.

Course Dates: August 13 – September 09.

Upon finishing the course, students will be able to access the studying materials for six months. Additionally, after two months there will be a follow-up and closing.

Why should I take this workshop?:

Do you have difficulties regarding the active participation of medical doctors and other health professionals in this new world of virtual events? You don't know how to migrate in-person events to a virtual format? Learn a new way of implementing your virtual events with the creators of the extended event model.

This model uses technology to extend the scope of the activities with a multilingual audience, to involve big audiences in a dialogue supported by automated processes, and to improve educational design through active and sequential learning, in order to generate an impact in the clinical practice. The model considers the different interested parties: event attendees, scientific societies and different academic institutions, event organizers and business sponsors, among others.

Learn by doing, step by step, in an extended workshop that will show you how to implement this model in your institution.

COORDINATORS

Alvaro Margolis MD MSc FIAHSI

Alvaro Margolis MD MSc FIAHSI, is an internist from Uruguay with a Master's degree in Biomedical Informatics from the University of Utah. He has held academic positions at the Schools of Medicine and Engineering, University of the Republic, Uruguay. He was Vice President of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and President of the Global Alliance for Medical Education (GAME). He is Associate Editor of Applied Clinical Informatics, Founding member of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics and President & CEO of EviMed, the company where the concept of Extended Congress was designed and first implemented.

John Parboosingh MBChB, BSc, FRCOG, FRCSC

John Parboosingh MBChB, BSc, FRCOG, FRCSC, a graduate of Edinburgh University, Scotland,  is Professor Emeritus, in Medical Education and Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. His CV covers 40 years of professional experience and scholarly activities reflected in over 100 peer reviewed papers and chapters in textbooks. John was appointed Associate Dean, CME at University of Calgary in 1989 and then in 1998 Director of Professional Development and Maintenance of Certification at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He was elected President, Society of Academic CME (SACME) 1999-2000. John has focused the final stage of his career on exploring innovative educational models that enhance learner engagement and lead to continuous practice improvement.

Ruth Adewuya, MD

Ruth Adewuya is the Associate Director of Education Development for Continuing Medical Education, where she is responsible for strategic planning and delivery of professional development courses, workshops, and initiatives. Previously, she worked as the Director of Learning and Development for the American College of Chest Physicians and served as the clinical lead for curriculum design and program development. Dr. Adewuya has extensive experience in the development, deployment, and facilitation of clinical medical education for healthcare providers as well pharmaceutical and medical device industry groups. She is an expert at incorporating new learning tools and strategies for adult education and working with key opinion leaders. Dr. Adewuya has leveraged her pharmacy and medical training into a proficiency across a variety of therapeutic areas coupled with educational design processes including needs assessment development, educational/performance gap identification, development of learning objects that ensure medical education programming is targeting the "right" audience in the "right" learning environment.

Mila Kostic, CHCP, FACEHP

Strategic Advisor at the Stanford Center for Continuing Medical Education at Stanford Medicine. Prior to joining Stanford, Ms. Kostic was the Director of Continuing Medical Education, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania 2002-2019, and Co-Director of Interprofessional Continuing Education at Penn Medicine 2016-2019. She led the Penn CME/IPCE program in achieving significant growth and improvements in quality and diversity of its educational interventions, as well as funding, size and scope. Under her leadership Penn CME became known nationally and internationally for innovation in online education, early adoption and development of performance improvement educational initiatives and collaborative projects that moved into competency-based curricular programming. Ms. Kostic has established SACME’s Virtual Journal Club (VJC) in 2014 and still enjoys leading and facilitating this initiative broadly recognized as one of the most successful programs of the Society. She was the Chair of the Program Committee 2012-2015 and the Vice-Chair of the Program for CPD World Congress 2016. She currently serves as the Chair of the Capacity Building for the Scholarship Committee and has co-facilitated SACME’s Community of Practice for Using Social Learning Principles in CME/CPD. She serves as a peer reviewer for several professional journals and review panels for research in education and has contributed publications and numerous presentations in the field of CME and CPD.

Wednesday August 19, 1:00 - 2:30 pm ET: 90-minute Webinar about extended events.

• Alvaro Margolis will talk about meaningful social exchange in large audiences supported by automated processes.
• John Parboosingh will talk about social learning and communities of practices in the social environment.
• Ruth Adewuya will share the Stanford experiences in pivoting to online.
• The panel will discuss how the extended event model could have been applied in these specific situations, and others to be shared by the participants during the Webinar.

10 BASIC ONLINE BEHAVIOUR RULES

1. Never forget that the person reading the message is a human being, with feelings that can be hurt.
2. Adhere to the same standards of behavior online that you follow in real life.
3. Writing everything in capital letters is considered shouting, and it also makes reading more difficult.
4. Respect other people's time and bandwidth.
5. Make yourself look good online.
6. Share your knowledge with the community.
7. Help maintain the debates in a healthy and educational environment.
8. Respect third-parties; forming a group against someone is wrong.
9. Don't abuse your power.
10. Be forgiving of other people's mistakes.

Taken from: SHEA, Virginia. NETiquette. Albion Books, 1994.