Medical Education Workshop Series
The Medical Education Workshop Series is for faculty, learners and staff development.
August 14, 2025
Social Accountability
Euiryoung Han, MD
Hybrid: Webex Registration
In-Person Registration
Objectives:
- Reflect on the social accountability of a medical school
- Understand the meaning and values of socially accountable faculty
- Discuss the implications of socially accountable faculty for future practice and theory
September 18, 2025
Preparing a CV
October 8, 2025
Adult Learning Tehory
Anna Cianciolo, PhD
Hybrid:
Webex Registration
In-Person Registration
Objectives:
- Articulate the characteristics of adult learning.
- Describe the mechanisms of adult learning in the clinical workplace.
- Identify opportunities for facilitating adult learning in the clinical workplace.
December 10, 2025
Curriculum Development
January 15, 2026
Facilitating Group Learning
February 18, 2026
Writing MCQs
March 19, 2026
Patient Communication
Previous Workshop Sessions
View all of our previous sessions on our Youtube channel. Accompanying documents can be found here.
May 14, 2025
Designing a Research Study
Boyung Suh, PhD
Objectives:
- Write a purpose statement
- Develop research questions
- Identify research design and methods
April 3, 2025
Presentation Skills
NEW DATE April 3, 2025 - WEBEX Only
Rikeesha Phelon
Objectives:
- Understand how to use message mapping frameworks to develop talks and presentations; and
- Understand how to apply public speaking best practices focused on ideation, narration and connection.
February 26, 2025 - (Please note new date)
Clinical Performance Assessment
Debra Klamen, MD, MHPD
Objectives:
- Understand the best practices in clinical performance assessment;
- Recognize why the SP/OSCE performance assessments at SIU SOM are innovative; and
- State three reasons why clinical performance assessment is a "must" in medical education.
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January 16, 2025
Providing Narrative Feedback
Martha Hlafka, MD
Hybrid/Lincoln Conference Room
Objectives:
- Discuss the evidence of unconscious bias in narrative feedback and strategies to minimize it.
- Discuss the conditions in which formative feedback is most effective.
- Understand the importance of narrative feedback in competency-based medical education
December 11, 2024
Performing a Literature Review
Andrew Lee, PhD & Adam Roloff, MLIS
Objectives:
- Describe the importance and process of bibliographic management
- Conduct a primary literature search from a relevant database.
- Demonstrate the roles of literature review in research.
October 16, 2024
Publication and Responsible Authorship
Anna Cianciolo, PhD
Objectives:
- Navigate authorship discussions with potential co-authors.
- Describe unethical authorship practices.
- Identify the criteria for authorship of an academic article.
September 19, 2024
Understanding Patient Experience
Sarah Stout, RN, BSN and Miranda Barnes
Objectives:
- Comprehend how patient satisfaction scores and comments may affect HCOs, understand and address challenges patients may face, be aware of organizational processes regarding patient dissatisfaction.
- Define patient experience, understand the patient experience throughout the entire spectrum of the patient's visit, be knowledgeable in navigating and understanding patient's expectations.