A Private Universe (20 minutes) This video brings into sharp focus the dilemma facing all educators: Why don't even the brightest students truly grasp basic science concepts? Interviews are held with high school students and Ivy League graduates asking them to explain what causes the seasons and the phases of the moon. Even the brightest students in the class have false ideas based on enduring misconceptions that traditional instructional methods cannot overcome. Produced by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. 1987. This link http://www.learner.org/vod/login.html?pid=9 will take

Learning from Teaching is a means of awarding AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ to faculty members engaged in teaching, supervising, precepting, or evaluating medical students and residents. The AMA Council for Medical Education has approved the awarding of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for such activities. Both the AMA and ACCME have established definitions of Learning from Teaching as a means to acknowledge what most academic medical centers have known for a long time — faculty members learn from their hours of preparation for encounters with learners in UME and GME. Guidelines for Learning from

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The Distinguished Alumni Award recognizes alumni who have made an outstanding commitment to the health and welfare of their patients and their community, as well as for humanitarian activities (community setting) or who have made outstanding contributions to medicine and distinguished service to mankind (academic/research medicine). The Alumni Achievement Award recognizes significant career contributions through clinical service, research, education, public or professional service and/or administrative leadership (no longer than 15 years following graduation) of his/her career. Award selection

This Five Microskills / One Minute Preceptor Online Faculty Development Workshop is a five-step model of clinical teaching that utilizes simple, discrete teaching behaviors or "microskills." Objectives: By the end of this online workshop, you will be able to: List the 5 Microskills in the One Minute Preceptor Model for One on One teaching Explain how each step enhances student learning Apply the 5 Microskills to a scenario you might encounter while teaching in your practice Activities: Read "A Five-Step ‘Microskills’ Model of Clinical Teaching” . Review the summary document . Complete the

The Professional Development Laboratory (PDL) is a suite of eight fully functional patient examination rooms surrounding a secure central observation room. Faculty observe students in standardized and real patient encounters from the observation room using audiovisual equipment and one-way glass. The PDL is used throughout the curriculum (undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education) for teaching and assessment. The PDL at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine was the first such facility. It was based on a single observed room Dr. Howard S. Barrows developed at the

The Teach-Back Method Teach-back is a way to confirm that you have explained to the patient what they need to know in a manner that the patient understands. Patient Teachback [pdf] Supplemental Links Handout and Video

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Now Accepting Nominations for the 2026 Distinguished Alumni Awards Submission Deadline: Friday, September 5, 2025 Overall Eligibility Any alumnus/alumna of SIU SOM Sitting members of the Board of Governors are ineligible See below for the descriptions and selection factors for each of the three Distinguished Alumni awards prior to nominating. Nomination Process Nominations may be submitted by any alumnus/alumna, faculty or friend of the school Self nominations will not be accepted Nominations will only be accepted by submitting the webform below IMPORTANT: We strongly recommend first reviewing