Medical Education Learning Specialists (MELS)
This SIG creates a community of learning specialists who offer academic support to medical students, residents, and other health professionals. This SIG supports professional development by providing opportunities for collaboration on scholarly activities as well as sharing best practices and resources. Anyone interested in discussing issues related to academic support is welcome.
Chair: Mary Ann Grandinetta, MS
SUNY Upstate Medical University Alan and Marlene Norton College of Medicine
GrandinM@upstate.edu
Medical Education and Instructional Computing (MEdIC)
This SIG offers a space where technology and education specialists can come together to talk about the overlap between technology and education and envision the best way to serve medical education together. This SIG is open to those with a wide array of backgrounds including data informatics, research analysts, assessment specialists, educational technologists, instructional designers, system administrators, etc.
Chairs: Laurie Gelles, PhD
Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont
laurie.gelles@med.uvm.edu
June Chan, MBBS
Weill Cornell Medicine
juc9063@med.cornell.edu
Librarians in Medical Education (LiME)
This SIG serves those teaching information literacy skills to students, residents, and faculty. Anyone interested in how knowledge of using the medical literature and information literacy plays a role in medical education is welcome.
Chair: Jenny Pierce
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
jenny.pierce@temple.edu
Directors of Clinical Skills (DOCS)
This SIG builds a cohesive and productive international consortium of educators who direct, teach, or administer clinical skills courses for medical students. This SIG aims to promote scholarship, establish best practices, and encourage the exchange of ideas across the continuum of clinical skills education.
Chair: Molly Cohen-Osher, MD, MMedEd
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
mcoheno@bu.edu
Health Humanities as Teaching and Learning Strategy
This SIG explores the ways in which the arts and humanities, as both formal and informal aspects of medical education, can inform health care, in terms of physician-patient relationships, cultural competencies, and physician well-being. As a true community of practice, this SIG shares resources specific to the health humanities to ensure all participants can begin to build a resource library of their own.
Chairs: Alice Fornari, EdD, MS
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
afornari@northwell.edu
Delphine Taylor, MD
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
dst4@cumc.columbia.edu
UME Accreditation and CQI
This SIG focuses specific attention on the people and processes necessary for effective oversight of LCME accreditation requirements and continuous quality improvement (CQI) activities within the UME program. This SIG aims to bring together a network of professionals to foster relationships, promote scholarship, and develop best practices related to accreditation and CQI efforts.
Chairs: Tanya Biscardi, MS
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo
biscardi@buffalo.edu
Sabrina Nunez, PhD
Yale School of Medicine
sabrina.nunez@yale.edu
Health Equity Alliance for Learning (HEAL)
This SIG aims to create a community of practice for educators engaged in peer support, mentoring, and scholarship related to health equity. This SIG brings together faculty working in anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion to support each other, share ideas, collaborate, and advance best practices.
Chairs: Hetty Cunningham, MD
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
hc451@cumc.columbia.edu
Jean-Marie Alves-Bradford, MD
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
ja658@cumc.columbia.edu