How to Avoid Death By Powerpoint Presentation slides have long been the primary modality by which faculty have communicated with their audiences while delivering didactic content. However, though this modality is so widely used, it is often not used effectively to engage with learners. David Phillips, author of the book “How to Avoid Death By Read More…

Try Think-Pair-Share for Active Learning Since Summer 2015, we have had the Poll Everywhere audience response system here at the School of Medicine for use by faculty in their teaching. When implementing audience response, consider a “Think-Pair-Share” approach to support active learning for your students. “Think-Pair-Share” can be characterized by the following steps: 1. A Read More…

AAMC Digital Literacy Toolkit for Educators and Learners The role of social media in the lives of physicians, patients and healthcare delivery is growing rapidly. It is important that all those involved in the care of patients understand the benefits and challenges of using social media as a tool for communication. In 2013, the AAMC’s Read More…

iMedEd Faculty Development Workshop Series The next series of iMedEd faculty development workshops have been scheduled. To sign up for any of the workshops below, visit: iMedEd Workshop Sign-up. Google Glass in Medical Education This workshop will describe specific examples of the use of Glass in medical education at UC Irvine and describe the benefits/challenges Read More…

Congratulations to the Class of 2016! #match2016 #firstLiveStream Friday, March 18th was Match Day, which occurs each year on the third Friday of March. It is the day when the results of the National Resident Matching Program are announced and graduating medical students find out which residency program they will be heading to in July. New Read More…

Official Launch of the FLAME Initiative FLAME, which stands for “Five-minute Lectures Accelerating Medical Education”, is a novel educational project with broad goals of creating free, easily accessible, five-minute presentations covering every important aspect of graduate medical education, all made available on www.flame.rocks. FLAME was born from a need that Jon Steller, MD, PGY3, Department Read More…

Create a Blog or Website Hosted by UCI Sites@UCI is a service offered by the UCI Office of Information Technology that enables faculty, staff and graduate students to create a blog or simple website for free of charge. Websites are created using WordPress, one of the most popular blogging/content management systems, through a user-friendly, web-based Read More…

Innovations in Medical Education Conference hosted by USC UC Irvine School of Medicine is once again having a strong representation at the Innovations in Medical Education Conference hosted by the Keck School of Medicine at USC. Faculty, fellows, residents and medical students are sharing their work on topics ranging from high-tech medical devices, flipped classroom Read More…

Observations as an MS25 Over a two-year period, Dr. Jeff Suchard, Associate Dean of Basic Science Education and Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology, courageously revisited the academics of medical school as an “MS25” by attending all first- and second-year lectures alongside our students. He thoughtfully observed and peer-reviewed the content, instructional approaches Read More…