MEDICA EDUCATION CONFERENCE :SAVE THE DATE FOR 2024!

The Department of Medical Education at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California invites you to participate in our 21st annual Innovations in Medical Education (IME) Online Conference on Thursday and Friday, February 15-16, 2024. This conference will continue to be a 100% online event in 2024. This decision was made with the goal of expanding the global network of innovative health care educators by making attendance at our conference more available to all interested participants. The online format eliminates travel expenses and accommodates any travel restrictions.

Since 2003, the IME Conference has brought together a growing community of learners, teachers, scholars, and leaders working together to promote change through innovation in health professions education. Our goal is to move education in the health professions toward a higher level of excellence and wellbeing by providing a forum for sharing innovative ideas and educational innovations.

We will provide many innovative online networking opportunities. Formal sessions will include a keynote address, workshops, oral presentations of educational innovations and cool ideas, and a variety of synchronous poster presentations. Everything will be happening in now-familiar digital environments. All sessions will be recorded and available for at least three months for on-demand review by those registered for the conference.

Conference Highlights for Participants
Discuss, assess, and report on educational innovations and research in health professions education.
Present a Cool Idea or Innovation (for example, share an inventive change you have made on the fly in response to the crises of 2020).
Earn a conference certificate by completing a series of interactive MedEd workshops focused on educational principles and essential teaching skills.
Network with colleagues around the world.
Conference Goals
Provide a forum for sharing innovative ideas and educational innovations related to teaching and learning, leading, mentoring, and wellbeing within health professions education.
Build and enhance participant skills related to teaching, leadership, professional development, promotion of wellbeing, and educational scholarship.
Build a network of health professions educators interested in promoting educational excellence and wellbeing in academic medicine and health professions education.
Conference Outcome Objectives
By the end of the conference, participants will be better able to:

Utilize evidence-based principles of teaching, leading, mentoring, and educational scholarship in their work within health professions’ education.
Incorporate techniques for enhancing the learning environment and wellbeing for all participants within their educational setting.
Enhance the teaching and assessment of their learners in relation to the six ACGME Core Competencies by adapting the cool ideas and innovations learned about at IME.
Incorporate cool ideas and innovations into the development of curricula and teaching at all levels of health professions’ education.