The Center for the Advancement of Medical Learning (CAML) offers a variety of opportunities for basic and clinical scientists, physician educators, attending physicians, preceptors, alumni, residents and staff who seek to prepare themselves for teaching and/or improve their teaching skills.
These include our Medical Education Grand Rounds, various Faculty Enrichment and Educational Development (FEED) workshops on site and at CWRU-affiliated sites, the medical school’s annual Education Retreat and more—all designed to join educators in collaborative environments to share ideas and approaches to educating all learners across the continuum.
Explore our upcoming events below to learn more about the types of programming we offer. Or, consider partnering with us for an on-demand workshop. Departments and divisions can also access our comprehensive list of speakers.
Upcoming Events
Medical Education Grand Rounds
Focused on innovations, controversies and emerging trends in medical education, our grand rounds series provides monthly—or more—offerings on key topics to help our teaching faculty excel in their roles to inspire, teach, and coach our students. Grand rounds are offered on the first Thursday of each month at 5:15 p.m.
December 5 -- To Be Rescheduled
“From Marginalization to Mattering: Promoting Sense of Belonging and Identity Agency”
Kimberly Gifford, MD
Description: Sense of belonging suffers when learners and other team members are marginalized by structural issues, which adversely impact learning and performance. This session will highlight strategies to mitigate structural bias and progressively deepen sense of belonging through respect, investment, and mattering. Some of those strategies are simple and can be implemented immediately by everyone, while others require more time and practice. Participants will also be encouraged to share their own strategies throughout the session. Ultimately, these strategies can enable movement from a position of marginalization to one that matters to improve patient care and education.
Biography: Kimberly Gifford, MD identifies as a coach, advocate, primary care pediatrician and nature-loving mom. As a former first-generation low-income medical student, she is committed to supporting learners from similar backgrounds and other underrepresented in medicine groups. She advocates for educational equity through changes in policies and practices as well as by developing innovative educational programs. Her current role as Director of Professional Identity Formation infuses into all of her work. Her other educational roles span the continuum of medical education from mentoring high school students interested in medicine to coaching faculty members to flourish in their careers and lives. Previously, she started a coaching program to support medical students' professional identity formation and led a national research group to study individualized education in pediatric residency. Her current grant funding includes a study to use artificial intelligence to support clinical coaching. Nationally, she is a changemaker for the Kern National Network for Flourishing in medicine and is leading a research study within the American Association of Medical Colleges Professionalism Working Group about medical students' hopes about professionalism education in the future. She envisions a future where the breadth of experiences of medical students are fully embraced from the first day of medical school and leveraged to benefit our educational environment and patients.
January 9, 2025
“Update on the Foundational Competencies”
Anastasia Rowland-Seymour, MD
--More Info Soon--
March 13, 2025
“Effective Clinical Education in Anesthesia: Managing Safety, Learning, and Risk in High-Stakes Care”
Shane Angus, CAA, MSA
--More Info Soon--
May 1, 2025
“How to Write High Quality MCQs”
Corinne Bazella, MD, FACOG
--More Info Soon--
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Faculty Enrichment and Educational Development (FEED) Series
The FEED series provides workshops and targeted training for faculty who participate in our curricular activities including IQ facilitator training, workshops on how to give effective feedback, programs on the language of assessment for learning, and discussions about creating a safe and welcoming culture of inclusion in the learning space.
The 2023-2024 FEED programs include continuing medical education (CME) credit for a variety of targeted faculty development offerings. These include courses of the following titles:
- Tuesday Seminars
- Science and Art of Medicine Integrated
- IQ Facilitators Training
- Faculty Enrichment and Educational Development (FEED) and Academy of Scholar Educators
- Interprofessional Scholars Collaboration in Teaching and Learning Program (iSCTL)
Annual Education Retreat
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine hosts an annual education retreat for medical educators, which is facilitated by the Center for Medical Education. The 2024 retreat is scheduled for May 9, 2024, 12:00 - 6:00 pm, at the HEC. Additional information will be available on the retreat’s website, coming soon.