Medical Course
Teaching Physiology On-The-Fly: A Faculty Development Program for Clinical Teachers 2020
Location: MDI Biological Laboratory (travel information)
A hands-on comparative physiology-based faculty development program aimed to equip clinician educators with the confidence and ability to integrate physiology and mechanistic thinking into their daily clinical teaching and medical decision making. Participants will conduct actual comparative physiology experiments using aquatic species, designed to enhance understanding of basic physiologic principles in humans. These experiences will be used as a springboard to create teaching scripts that participants can employ in clinical practice. The goal is for participants to develop a renewed confidence in, and take home tangible products for incorporating physiology into clinical teaching.
Target Audience
Educators in Hospital Medicine, General Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and any other physicians who are interested in incorporating physiology based teaching into clinical practice
Faculty development will be integrated throughout the course in order to enhance participants’ ability to translate new knowledge into effective teaching.
23 Continuing Medical Education Credits Available!
Tuition
$4,000. Tuition includes on-campus double occupancy dormitory housing, meals, parking, wi-fi. Single occupancy housing is available for an additional fee.
Partners
Course Directors
Shoshana J. Herzig, M.D., M.P.H.Director of Hospital Medicine Research, Hospitalist Physician; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical SchoolDepartment of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Daniel Ricotta, M.D.Hospitalist Physician, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical SchoolBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research
Tara Scribner, M.D.Larner College of Medicine at the University of VermontThe University of Vermont
Mark Zeidel, M.D.Herman Ludwig Blumgart Professor of MedicineBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Goals
- To inspire clinician educators to teach physiology and incorporate mechanistic thinking into their clinical decision making.
- To give clinician educators the time and the space to re-familiarize themselves with basic concepts of physiology applicable to internal medicine using hands on comparative physiology experiments.
- To give clinician educators durable tools and resources so that they are able to locate and review the physiology and mechanisms of disease processes in their ongoing clinical and teaching roles.
| Time | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 7 | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | |
| 8 | Hands-On Physiology Experiments | Presentation Prep | Hands-On Physiology Experiments | Presentation Prep | Teaching Scripts | |
| 9 | Presentations | |||||
| 10 | Presentations | |||||
| 11 | Teaching Scripts | Evals/Closing Session | ||||
| 12 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | |
| 1 | Experiment Wrap-Up | Physiology Primer | Experiment Wrap-Up | Teaching Scripts | ||
| 2 | Faculty Office Hours | Outdoor Activity | Faculty Office Hours | Outdoor Activity | ||
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| 5 | Physiology Primer | Physiology Primer | ||||
| 6 | Dinner | Dinner | Dinner | Dinner | Lobster bake | |
| 7 | Opening Session* | |||||
| 8 | Master Clinician | |||||
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All course attendees reside in on-campus housing. Double occupancy housing is included in the tuition cost. Bathrooms are shared, same gender assignments. All housing units have free access wifi and parking.
Single occupancy rooms are available for an additional fee. Family housing is not available on campus.
Should a participant decide to stay off-campus, tuition can be reduced by a nominal amount. Local ground transportation is not provided.
Birch Hall Spruce Hall Emery Dorm
