Program Objectives
By the end of the 2-year program, participants will be able to:
- Describe basic and advanced principles and strategies for clinical teaching, including:
- Creating an effective learning climate
- Teaching effectively and efficiently on the fly
- Giving effective feedback
- Developing plans for working with struggling learners
- Creating faculty development opportunities for teaching skills
- Disseminating teaching skills training through national workshops
- Demonstrate effective use of these strategies and principles in their own clinical teaching
- Develop and implement teaching innovations in their own clinical practice
- Share teaching innovations and ideas with their program cohort through web-based and onsite discussion
- Establish relationships with other educators nationally
- Implement clinical teaching for others at their home institution
Program Content
- Anchored each year at the national Pediatric Hospital Medicine (PHM) or Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) conference
- Blended learning model that includes face-to-face learning at two sequential half-day pre-conference workshops, as well as quarterly assignments via the APEX online learning platform, participation in elective workshops, and clinical teaching observations by a local expert mentor.
- Year 1 Content:
- The Learning Environment
- Effective Clinical Teaching
- Giving Feedback
- Year 2 Content:
- Working with Learners in Difficulty
- Building a Career in Medical Education
- Teaching Scholarship: Cohort Workshop Development
Interval Curriculum
- Online platform for sharing reflections, participating in facilitated discussions, and completing quarterly assignments
- Two (2) onsite direct observations of teaching by a local mentor, as well as reflection and feedback after observations
- If needed, APEX Steering Committee will assist participants with limited resources in finding appropriate mentors (inter-departmental or inter-institutional)
Elective Curriculum
- Three (3) education-focused elective workshops selected from approved tracks at national conferences, including PHM, PAS, COMSEP, APPD, and others
- APEX Steering Committee will review and designate qualifying workshops at other national meetings; however, adequate opportunities are available to complete all 3 electives in Year 1 of either the PHM or PAS conference