In October 2017, the Alliance for Clinical Education became the moderator for the #MedEdChat on Twitter. The chat occurs Thursday nights at 9:00 PM Eastern/NYC. Join the weekly chats using your Twitter account and search for #MedEdChat!
Some helpful pointers for participating in a Twitter chat are available on this infographic.
If you have an idea for a topic you would like discussed, please contact our executive director at alliance4clined@gmail.com.
2017-12-14: Using Examinations to Encourage Learning
2017-12-07: Residents as Teachers: How Well Do We Prepare Them to Teach?
2017-11-30: Using Social Media to Teach on Clerkships
2017-11-16: What’s Better – Solo or Group Studying?
2017-11-09: What Do You Do with Tweets from Conferences?
2017-11-02: To Meet or Not to Meet (in an Era of Social Media)
2017-10-26: Apps for Medical Education
2017-10-19: Incorporating Basic Sciences into Clinical Clerkships
2017-10-05: Faculty Development Across Geographic Sites
2018-12-13: New Year’s 2025! What Are the Needs of the Medical Educator?
2018-12-06: Fostering a Mindset of Lifelong Learning
2018-11-29: Navigating Crucial Conversations with Patients: How Are We Training Residents and Students?
2018-11-15: Open Wide: Integrating Oral Health into Medical School Curricula
2018-11-08: Mixed Messages or Miscommunication? Relationship between Assessor’s WBA Scores and Written Comments
2018-10-25: Realizing the Promise of Big Data: Learning Analytics in Competency-Based Medical Education
2018-10-18: Curating Your Medical Education Reading
2018-10-11: Evidence-based Approaches Fostering Wellness
2018-10-04: How Do We Teach Community Engagement to Medical Students?
2018-09-27: Beyond the Boards: Focusing Student Assessment on Knowledge, Skills & Attitudes of Future Physicians
2018-09-13: Evaluation of Faculty by Students
2018-09-06: How Do We Develop the Master Adaptive Learner?
2018-08-30: What Does It Mean to Successfully Develop Faculty?
2018-08-23: External Forces Influencing Medical Education: What Are They & Should We Respond?
2018-08-16: What Basic Clinical Skills Do Medical Students Need Upon Graduation?
2018-08-09: Medical Schools Are From Mars; Residencies Are From Venus
2018-08-02: Addressing Generational Differences in Medical Education
2018-05-31: The July Effect: Fact or Fiction?
2018-05-24: Meaningful Incorporation of Interprofessional Education
2018-05-17: How Important Is Scholarship in Medical Education?
2018-05-10: Tools & Strategies for Promoting Learner Development across Generations of Learners
2018-05-03: Does Medicine Overemphasize IQ?
2018-04-26: Choosing When to Advise, Mentor, or Coach
2018-04-19: Making Decisions about Students with Disabilities
2018-03-29: What Is the Purpose of Medical School?
2018-03-15: Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset: How Do We Encourage Growth Mindset?
2018-03-08: A Circuitous Route: Forces that Shape One’s Identity as a Medical Educator
2018-03-01: Creative Ways to Teach Diversity
2018-02-22: What’s in Your Toolkit as a Medical Education Scholar?
2018-02-15: Can the Senior Year Be Flexible and Educationally Meaningful?
2018-02-08: Managing Depression & Preventing Suicide Among Medical Students
2018-02-01: Teaching Ethics in Clinical Medical Education
2018-01-25: Flexible Paths to Complete Medical School
2018-01-18: Entrustment of Skills on Clinical Clerkships
2018-01-11: Criterion- versus Norm-referenced Examinations
2018-01-04: Teaching Socioeconomic Determinants of Health in Clinical Settings
2019-12-19: Effects of Curricular Integration on Faculty Identity and Institutional Roles
2019-12-12: UME to GME Transition: Who’s Responsible?
2019-12-05: Making the Invisible Visible: The Inclusion of Context in Medical Education Research
2019-11-21: Strategies to Explore Careers in Medical Education
2019-11-14: Academic Writing for 2030
2019-10-31: Frights of Medical Education: How Do Medical Educators Ghost Bust?
2019-10-24: Faculty Development 2025
2019-10-17: A Taxonomy of Teachers to Guide Faculty Development Efforts
2019-10-10: To Fit or Not to Fit? Is Socialization in the Medical Profession Undermining Diversity?
2019-10-03: Challenge of Social Justice/Community Service in Medical Education
2019-09-26: The Use of Coaching for Student Development and Wellness
2019-09-19: Applying the Science of Learning to Health Professions Education
2019-09-12: Clean the Refrigerator! With Limited Curricular Time, What’s Gone Sour and What’s a Staple and Fresh?
2019-09-05: Strategies for Successfully Educating Different Generations of Medical Students
2019-08-29: How Valid Are They? Use of Supplemental Resources for USMLE Board Preparation
2019-08-22: You Are a Medical Educator in 2030…
2019-08-15: Peer Mentorship Programs: What Type of Training Is Needed and What Are the Potential Benefits?
2019-08-08: Moving Beyond Honors: Pass-Fail Grading for the Clinical Years
2019-08-01: Designing a Faculty Peer Review Program
2019-05-23: The Rise of Medical Education Podcasts
2019-05-16: Achieving the Quadruple Aim: What Are Medical Educators Doing?
2019-05-09: Adventures in Observation and Feedback from the Pennsylvania ACGME Regional Course
2019-05-02: Educational Climate Inventory: Measuring Students’ Perceptions
2019-04-25: Getting to Yes! Responding to Reviewer Comments
2019-04-18: How Do Academies of Medical Educators Structurally Support Educators?
2019-04-04: Character in Medical Education: What Is It & Why Should It Matter?
2019-03-28: Bias in Testing
2019-03-14: Change Management and the Implementation of Strategic Plans
2019-03-07: Achieving Successful Promotion of Medical Educators: The Role of Educator Portfolios
2019-02-28: Finding Your People in the Digital Age
2019-02-21: Predicting Success in the Clerkships
2019-02-14: Virtual Reality in Medical Education
2019-02-07: Teaching Clinical Reasoning in the Classroom & the Clinic
2019-01-31: Should Step 1 Come after Core Clerkships?
2019-01-24: What Does Learner-Centered Graduate Medical Education Mean?
2019-01-17: Professionalism in OSCEs: Opportunities & Challenges
2019-01-03: How Do We Train Faculty to Teach in a Learner-Centered Environment?
2020-12-17: Quantity vs. Quality: The More the Better with Clinical Feedback?
2020-12-10: Being a Peer-Reviewer: Why Do It?
2020-12-03: Exploring How to Progress Diversity Scholarship in Medical Education
2020-11-12: Art in Medical Education
2020-11-05: Where Do You Go for Just-in-Time Med Ed?
2020-10-29: Virtual Residency Recruitment
2020-10-22: Balancing Patient Safety and Autonomy with Educational Missions
2020-10-15: Meeting Needs for Students with Disabilities
2020-10-01: Lessons from the Pandemic: Re-imagining Clinical Clerkships When Back to “Normal”
2020-09-24: Guiding Students as They Walk Down the Virtual Interview Trail
2020-09-17: Feedback Seeking: The Faculty Perspective
2020-09-03: Microaggressions in Medical Education
2020-08-27: Blending Virtual with Reality in Clerkships
2020-08-20: The Clerkship…Is Virtual Enough?
2020-08-13: Move Over, Bacon! It’s Time for Philosophy in Medical Education!
2020-08-06: Educating Advocates
2020-06-18: Diversity and Inclusion in Medical Education
2020-06-16/17: #MedStudentChat/#MedEdChat: Conversation about Anti-Racism in Medical Education
2020-06-11: Optimizing Resilience & Well-being for Healthcare Professions During a Pandemic
2020-06-04: Effective Evidence-based Medicine Instruction: Defining the Role of the Librarian
2020-05-28: A New Way of Looking at Competence: Educating the Next Generation Physician
2020-05-14: Feedback Seeking: The Learner Perspective
2020-05-07: Combating Pop Pedagogy
2020-04-30: Innovative Uses of Physical Learning Environments
2020-04-23: Post COVID-19 Re-Orientation Approaches and Strategies
2020-04-16: How to Stay Productive with Your Writing in the COVID-19 Era
2020-04-09: How to Select Virtual Resources for Clerkships
2020-04-02: Lessons Learned from Online Learning (Resources & Guest Host Bio)
2020-03-26: Social Distancing and Work Productivity: What Are Best Strategies?
2020-03-19: Pandemic Impact on GME
2020-03-12: Online Medical School During Health Crisis
2020-03-05: Forward Feeding in Undergraduate Medical Education
2020-02-27: How Do We Measure Effectiveness of a Leadership Curriculum
2020-02-20: ‘Unsiloing’ the Psychiatry Clerkship: What Psychiatry Content do Doctors Need to Know?
2020-02-13: Giving Feedback: The Faculty Perspective
2020-02-06: Evaluating Educational Technology
2020-01-30: Understanding the Impact of Journal Articles on Medical Education Practice (#MedEdImpact)
2020-01-23: Career Advising for the Match
2020-01-16: Faculty Development to Make It Stick
2020-01-09: Assistive Technology to Remove Barriers for Students with Disabilities
2021-12-16: How Do We Create Meaningful and Flexible Research Electives for Medical Students?
2021-12-09: Teachers Need More Than Knowledge
2021-12-02: Transition to Residency
2021-11-18: Cyberattack! What to Do When You Are Hacked
2021-11-11: Using Objective Structured Clinical Examinations
2021-11-04: Teaching Students How to Teach: Building the Next Generation of Medical Educators
2021-10-28: Virtual Meetings Post COVID
2021-10-14: Necessary Skills Required for Clinical Rotations
2021-10-07: Should Clerkships Offer Special Tracks for Those Not Interested in that Discipline?
2021-09-30: Scooped – Now What?
2021-09-23: Preparing for and Studying the Impact of Virtual Residency Interviews
2021-09-16: Challenges and Best Practices for Case-Based Learning in Preclinical Medical Education
2021-09-09: Curricular Redundancy – When to Keep and When to Cut
2021-09-02: Exploring Pass/Fail Grading Systems in the Clinical Learning Environment: Why vs Why Not?
2021-08-26: Professionalism Issues in Medical Student Education
2021-08-19: Mitigating the Impact of Bias in Assessments
2021-06-17: Valuing Scholarship by Manuscript Reviewers: A Call to Action
2021-06-10: Altmetrics: A New Way to Demonstrate Impact and Reach of Your Work
2021-06-03: Including LGBTQIA+ Content in Medical School Curriculum
2021-05-20: Adopting Meaningful CBME for MD Programs: The Real, the Gritty, and the Dream!
2021-05-13: Clinical Experiences for Pre-Clinical Students and COVID
2021-05-06: Impact of Enrollment on Clinical Training Sites
2021-04-29: Getting the Most Out of Virtual Educational Conferences
2021-04-22: Choosing Where to Apply for Residency: How Do Medical Students Learn about Programs?
2021-04-15: When a Measure Becomes a Target, It Ceases to Be a Good Measure
2021-03-25: Best Practices for Fourth Year Career Advising
2021-03-18: Social Determinants of Health and the Clerkships
2021-03-11: What Do Medical Students Need to Know about Pediatrics?
2021-03-04: Addressing Peer-Review Processes
2021-02-18: Inclusive Interviews: Strategies to Address Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
2021-02-11: Student Interest Group Faculty Advisors: How Do They Fit into Educational Leadership?
2021-02-04: Specialty “Boot Camp”: What Else Are Learners Needing Before They Leave Medical School?
2021-01-28: The Non-physical Exam: Teaching Examination Skills at a Distance
2021-01-21: Changes in Healthcare Delivery and the Need for Systems Thinking
2021-01-14: Meaningful Medical Education During and Beyond the Coronavirus Pandemic
2021-01-07: Teaching Awards in Medical Education
2022-05-12: Visual Media for the Medical Educator
2022-04-28: Pass-Fail Grading in Medical School and Beyond
2022-04-21: How Long Should Required Clinical Rotations Be?
2022-04-14: Job Characteristics that Motivate Clinician-Educators
2022-04-07: Supporting Learners through Collective Trauma
2022-03-24: Advocacy in Medical Education
2022-03-17: Put a Lid on It! Capping Applications for Residency Programs
2022-03-10: Faculty Development in a Post-COVID World
2022-03-03: Hocus POCUS! Point of Care Ultrasound for Students
2022-02-24: Community-based Experiences in Medical Education
2022-02-17: What’s Your Best Read/Listen of 2021/2022?
2022-02-10: Night Experiences for Medical Students
2022-02-03: Can Preference Signaling Mitigate the Match Frenzy?
2022-01-27: Opportunities for Students’ Self-Assessment
2022-01-20: Is It Time for Another “Flexner” Revolution?
2022-01-13: Behind the Scenes: Optimizing the Role of the Clerkship Coordinator
2022-01-06: Preparing for the Transition to Your Next Career Goal