The AAMC Building Better Curriculum webinar series is an opportunity for curriculum deans, leaders, administrators, teaching faculty, and staff to learn about and explore innovations in curriculum.
Proposals for future Building Better Curriculum webinars can be sent to curriculum@aamc.org with the following details:
- Presentation title
- Speakers' names, titles, institutions
- 2-3 learning objectives/goals for listeners of the presentation
- Short description of the session (150 words or less)
- Short description of the speaker(s)’ background (50 words or less each)
The AAMC is committed to providing inclusive sessions for all learners/participants. All sessions will be close-captioned. Please contact Kaitlyn at curriculum@aamc.org to request additional accommodations.
Past Events by Topic
- Curriculum Mapping, Design & Operations
- Curriculum Evaluation
- Curriculum Content, Teaching, and Assessment Approaches
- Special Edition: Clinical Teaching & Learning Remotely due to COVID-19
- Special Edition: New & Emerging Trends in Health Professions Education
Curriculum Mapping, Design & Operations
Documenting Clinical and Clerkships and Learning Objectives (June 8, 2022)
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Integration in Medical Education - Definitions and Applications (December 8, 2021)
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Increasing Efficiency and Faculty Engagement in Curriculum Mapping through Automation (November 17, 2021)
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Instructional Design Methodologies and Medical Education Curriculum (June 9, 2021)
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Curriculum Development Lessons Learned from the Newly Launched Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine (December 9, 2020)
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Identifying Opportunities and Creating Buy-in for Curriculum Mapping; FAU’s Developmental Approach to Problem-Based Learning (November 11, 2020)
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Mapping it all out: from Session to Course to EPO’s and Advancing Social Justice through Curriculum (September 9, 2020)
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Documenting Clerkship and Clinical Experience (January 8, 2020)
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UA COMP Clerkship Curriculum: How Do We Capture It & What Do We Report? (February 13, 2019)
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Curriculum Mapping: The What, Why & How (January 9, 2019)
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Curriculum Evaluation
Deconstructing Racism in Medicine through Curricular Review (December 14, 2022)
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Conducting Course Reviews for Continuous Quality Improvement (July 13, 2022)
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Using Curriculum Mapping Data to Evaluate by Cohort: Longitudinal, Vertical, Horizontal, and Cross-Section Analysis (August 11, 2021)
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One Curriculum Team’s Approach to Course Improvement Through Curriculum Management, Evaluation, and Development (May 12, 2021)
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Program Evaluation and the Integration of Curriculum Information (March 13, 2019)
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Curriculum Content, Teaching, and Assessment Approaches
Exploring Student Perspectives: The Current Landscape of Student- led Initiatives in Climate & Health Education (April 19, 2023)
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Fostering an Inclusive Environment: Increasing Course Accessibility (February 15, 2023)
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Language-Appropriate Healthcare and Medical Language Education: A call for increasing peer-reviewed educational resources to improve health equity through MedEdPORTAL (January 18, 2023)
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More Than a Checkbox: Developing Learning Objectives that Provide Meaning and Value for Medical Education Programs (September 14, 2022)
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Competency By What Design? Exploring the Claims and the Evidence of Competency-Based Education (August 17, 2022)
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Curriculum Highlight: Clinical and Diagnostic Reasoning (September 8, 2021)
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Visualizing performance data to support competency-based progression in a medical school curriculum (July 14, 2021)
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Outcomes of a Longitudinal Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Pre-clerkship Curriculum and Teaching Medical Students to Identify, Understand, and Engage in Reporting Medical Errors (May 13, 2020)
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Enhancing Integration through Team Teaching (April 8, 2020)
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The Hidden Curriculum of Compassionate Care: Can Assessment Drive Compassion? and Project Wholehearted: Promoting Humanism, Resilience, and Compassion in Medical Education (February 12, 2020)
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Integrating Community Service, Palliative Care, Wellness and Integrative Medicine into the Medical Education Curriculum and Service Learning in Curriculum (September 11, 2019)
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Discovering Value-Based Health Care (October 9, 2019)
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Teaching and Learning Extended Reality Technologies (December 11, 2019)
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Special Edition: Clinical Learning Remotely due to COVID-19
The following special editions highlight innovative and new approaches to the curriculum as schools try to respond to the pandemic and work to ensure high-quality learning experiences.
There are also a number of AAMC resources related to COVID-19, including:
- MedEdPORTAL’s collection on virtual learning
- Clinical Teaching and Learning Experiences: A Resource Collection to Support Innovations in Health Professions Education
- Collaborative Student Volunteer and Service Projects
- AAMC’s Coronavirus Resource Hub
Teaching Remotely during COVID: A Closing Celebration of our Most Viewed Resources (October 22, 2020)
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Arts and Humanities Teaching Amidst the Pandemic (October 8, 2020)
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COVID-Care (September 24, 2020)
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Remote Teaching of Pain and Opioid Use Disorder (September 10, 2020)
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From Service Projects to Formal Curricula (August 13, 2020)
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Supporting Learner and Faculty Wellness During COVID-19 (July 30, 2020)
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Teaching Patient Safety During the Pandemic (July 16, 2020)
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Teaching Anti-Racism and Health Equity Part II (July 2, 2020)
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Teaching Anti-Racism and Health Equity Part I (June 19, 2020)
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Transitioning Medical School Clerkships to Remote Learning Experiences (June 5, 2020)
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Teaching Procedures and Surgical Skills Remotely(May 22, 2020)
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Teaching Communication Skills (May 15, 2020)
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Transition to Residency (TTR) (May 8, 2020)
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Teaching COVID-19 Content (May 1, 2020)
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Telemedicine (April 24, 2020)
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Remote Standardized Patients (April 17, 2020)
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Virtual Rounds (April 13, 2020)
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Introducing iCollaborative's Resources Collection Focusing on Clinical Teaching and Learning Experiences without Physical Patient Contact (April 3, 2020)
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Special Edition: New & Emerging Trends in Health Professions Education
This virtual collaborative learning series aims to raise awareness and take a deep-dive into a topic about how our transforming health care system is shaping health professions education. To learn more about this special series, email CurricularInnovation@aamc.org.
Our special guest, Dr. George Thibault, will help to frame the new series based on his 2020 publication "The Future of Health Professions Education" describing major trends, including:
- Interprofessional education including patient collaboration;
- Longitudinal integrated clinical education;
- Social determinants of health, including social and humanistic missions, anti-racism;
- Continuum of health professions education including lifelong learning and wellbeing;
- Competency-based education (CBE), including time variable mastery learning;
- Integration of artificial intelligence and new technologies.
Artificial Intelligence in Medical Education (December 16, 2021)
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Health Care for those Impacted by Mass Incarceration: Educational Opportunities for Health Professionals (November 18, 2021)
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Virtual Symposium on Confronting Health Misinformation: Gaps and Opportunities for Health Professions Educators (October 29, 2021)
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Please email CurricularInnovation@aamc.org for an event summary document
Communicating with Patients about Health Misinformation (September 23, 2021)
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Pain and Pain Management (June 10, 2021)
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Combating Burnout in Medical Education (May 13, 2021)
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Equity in Assessment (April 8, 2021)
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Competency-Based Time-Variable Health Professions Education (March 11, 2021)
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Opening Session with Dr. George Thibault (February 11, 2021)
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Thematic Learning Sessions
Improving the Integration of Women’s Health into Medical Education: Addressing persistent disparities in clinical care and outcomes (March 8, 2023)
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Exploring the Role of Firearm Safety and Gun Violence in Health Professions Education: A Thematic Learning Session of the BBC Series (October 25, 2022)
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