iMedEd Release Notes 7.19.19

Annual Faculty and Resident Training Launch The “Faculty and Resident Training on SOM Learning Objectives & Key Policies”, a training module administered through the UC Learning Center annually, will launch this week for AY 2019-20 to all faculty, residents and staff who must attest to reviewing its contents. This annual training module contains: The School Read More…

iMedEd Release Notes 6.21.19

Resources for Presenting and Teaching The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has a collection of resources for speakers/presenters at AAMC meetings. These resources focus on planning and designing a session, developing a presentation, and delivering a presentation. Included are videos, checklists and downloadable guides that could be applicable for preparing presentations at any conference Read More…

iMedEd Release Notes 5.3.19

AAMC MedEdPORTAL Indexed for MEDLINE in PubMed On March 1, 2019, the AAMC announced that MedEdPORTAL, the Journal of Teaching and Learning Resources, is officially indexed by MEDLINE beginning with Volume 14 (2018). Publications in MedEdPORTAL are high-quality, peer-reviewed, complete teaching or learning modules. MEDLINE indexing now enables broad sharing and dissemination of these educational Read More…

iMedEd Release Notes 4.12.19

UCI Joins the AMA Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium UCI School of Medicine has been honored as one of five medical schools to join the AMA Accelerating Change in Medical Education (ACE) Consortium this year. This consortium began as an initial cohort of 11 medical schools in 2013 with the launch of the “Accelerating Read More…

iMedEd Release Notes 3.25.19

Key Issues in Teaching and Learning  Each year, the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) surveys the higher education community and identifies the key issues in teaching and learning to help educators and leaders plan and manage annual activities. The key issues identified for 2019 can be found in the infographic here. This list continues to serve Read More…

iMedEd Release Notes 3.1.19

Med AIJam Winners Announced Since 2012, the School of Medicine has partnered with the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) to host an inter-professional student-to-student competition to develop mobile health apps called the MedAppJam. For the 2019 event, SOM and ICS partnered with the Center for Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostic Medicine (CAIDM) Read More…

iMedEd Release Notes 2.22.19

UCI Qualtrics (Online Survey Tool) for Free to UCI Users Qualtrics is a powerful, online survey tool. Its features enable robust data collection and analysis in an easy-to-use web-based interface. UCI has acquired an enterprise license for Qualtrics so that this tool can be available to all UCI faculty, staff and students free of charge. Read More…

iMedEd Release Notes 2.8.19

UCI SOM In the News and Announcements from the Division of Educational Technology UCI School of Medicine MakerSpace to launch on Feb. 13 What is a makerspace? “Makerspaces are collaborative spaces where people gather to get creative with DIY projects, invent new ones and share ideas” (oedb.org). Our makerspace, which was created in collaboration with the Read More…

iMedEd Release Notes 1.18.19

AAMC Curriculum Dashboard Resource Continuous quality improvement (CQI) initiatives are necessary both to the medical school curriculum and to maintaining accreditation. Curriculum dashboards are an effective and efficient way to support CQI efforts and identify opportunities to improve a medical education program. However, understanding what data to include in a dashboard, how to manage that Read More…