CME ON-DEMAND
These courses are FREE with an active Community or Joint Faculty appointment at UNR Med. Please email adamwilkinson@med.unr.edu prior to registering to receive your promo code.
UNR Med Community Faculty On-Demand
Overview
The Clinical Teaching Series focuses on how you interact with and teach future medical professionals, along with the best practices to create a positive learning environment in clinical settings. Each video in the series covers a different topic related to clinical teaching. By watching these videos, you will receive practical tips and tricks that can be instantly implemented into your teaching practices. Viewing all the videos will train you in many important topics, enhancing your skills and confidence as a clinical preceptor.
This page will be updated throughout the year to include additional videos related to clinical teaching. If you are a Renown Joint Faculty member, each video fulfills the MPP agreement requirement, which states you must complete one clinical teaching professional development session each year.
For information on upcoming clinical teaching professional developments presented by UNR Med Office for Community Faculty, please email adamwilkinson@med.unr.edu.
Registration - $30.00 for each program topic
For questions or inquiries regarding this program series, please contact adamwilkinson@med.unr.edu.
Teaching in a Busy Clinical Setting
Led by Timothy Baker MD, this training covers strategies to overcome common precepting challenges, streamline administrative tasks, and provide quick, effective feedback using the “One Minute Preceptor” method. You’ll also learn to adapt your teaching to different learner levels and enhance overall precepting efficiency.
Provides 1.00 hour of CE/CME credit
Learning Objectives
Following participation in this course, participants should be able to:
- Describe the perceived barriers to precepting
- Describe administrative practices that can improve efficiency while precepting
- Apply the principle of the “One Minute Preceptor”
- Implement strategies to adjust teaching approach based on the learner’s level of experience
- Explore additional methods to efficiently precept learners in clinical settings
Presenter
Timothy Baker, MD, Associate Professor, Internal Medicine - Vice Dean, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
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What Every Teacher Should Know About Clinical Reasoning
Kirk Bronander MD, shares research-based methods to strengthen clinical reasoning. You'll be better equipped to improve your own skills and share these insights to UNR Med students during clerkships, boosting both your teaching effectiveness and the success of future medical professionals.
Provides 1.00 hour of CE/CME credit
Learning Objectives
Following participation in this course, participants should be able to:
- Define an illness script and describe a common illness script in their everyday practice
- Identify when they are using intuitive reasoning and when analytical reasoning is being utilized to make a diagnosis
- Apply a problem representation to a clinical case and describe its utility in clinical reasoning
Presenter
Kirk Bronander, MD, Professor, Internal Medicine - Medical Director, Inpatient Internal Medicine - Inpatient Hospitalist, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
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Faculty Professionalism and Student Mistreatment
Neda Etezadi-Amoli MD and Cherie Singer PhD, discuss strategies for identifying and addressing professionalism issues, using case studies to illustrate key points. In this session, you'll gain valuable insights on creating a more supportive atmosphere for medical students you interact with.
Provides 1.00 hour of CE/CME credit
Learning Objectives
Following participation in this course, participants should be able to:
- Recognize how the institutional culture and learning environment impacts learners
- Distinguish the characteristics of a positive and negative learning environment for learners
- Identify what constitutes learner mistreatment
- Describe the reporting responsibilities and processes at UNR Med
- Identify what you can do as a faculty member to facilitate a learning environment that positively impacts the culture at UNR Med
Presenter
Cherie Singer, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Student Affairs, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
Neda Etezadi-Amoli, MD, Associate Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology/Senior Associate Dean Undergraduate Academic Affairs/Vice Chair for Education
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What to Expect from Different Levels of Learners
Timothy Baker MD, Brian Lauf DMSc, and Nicole Jacobs Ph.D. will provide valuable insights and strategies. They will teach you how to adjust your teaching methods and expectations to suit medical learners’ varying levels of knowledge and skills. Understanding these differences allows you to identify where each student in their medical learning journey, creating an appropriately challenging environment that fosters growth. This approach will better prepare future physicians to serve communities in Nevada. You will learn to recall and describe the varying knowledge levels of medical students, recognizing distinct learning objectives and differentiating clinical competencies at various educational stages. You will critically examine how to adjust lesson plans and curriculum rigor based on students’ experience levels and consider their diverse backgrounds when teaching in a clinical setting.
Provides 1.00 hour of CE/CME credit
Learning Objectives
Following participation in this course, participants should be able to:
- Describe the varying knowledge levels of medical students, clarifying what tasks they will or will not be proficient in within a medical setting
- Demonstrate comprehension by recognizing the distinct learning objectives relevant to different stages of medical education in clinical settings
- Differentiate between the clinical competencies of medical students at various educational levels
- Examine how lesson plans and curriculum rigor should be adjusted based on the experience level of the medical students
- Examine how the medical year students are in, and the student’s diverse backgrounds should be considered when teaching in a clinical setting
Presenters
Timothy Baker, MD, Associate Professor, Internal Medicine - Vice Dean, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
Brian Lauf, DMSc, Associate Professor, Family and Community Medicine/Director Physician Assistant Studies
Nicole Jacobs, Ph.D., Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Science/Associate Dean, Diversity and Inclusion