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Incorporating best practices, newer principles of adult learning, and widely available technologies into your teaching can significantly improve your ability to engage and inspire students, residents, fellows, and colleagues. This special program, ranked among Harvard Medical School’s highest-rated CME courses, is a uniquely comprehensive exploration of best practices for teaching medicine at the bedside, in ambulatory settings, and in the classroom.
The 2025 curriculum helps medical educators to:
- Leverage artificial intelligence in your teaching
- Provide more effective feedback that motivates change
- Utilize active learning strategies in small and large group teaching settings
- Deliver more impactful and engaging lectures
- Characterize best practices for mentor-mentee relationships and identify opportunities to leverage mentorship opportunities to help you thrive at work
- Optimize evaluation of trainee competencies
- Improve engagement and interactivity for in-person and virtual teaching sessions
- Enhance critical thinking and self-directed learning among students
- Describe real-time strategies to address unprofessional behavior
- Identify strengths and weaknesses of various assessment tools
- Incorporate various forms of technology, including digital media and artificial intelligence, into your teaching
- Identify strategies to be an inclusive leader and lead different generations
- Create an action plan for implementing and sustaining effective change as leaders in medical education
- Identify strategies to recognize and mitigate bias
- Describe personal and organizational strategies to improve the well-being of yourself and your trainees
Case-based and hands-on learning are a hallmark of this course, with significant participant interaction and active modeling of instruction techniques. Whether you are newer to teaching or a seasoned educator and mentor, this course will give you modern tools and practices to optimize skills transfer and learner success.
Please contact the Continuing Education Programs with any questions by email at learn@hms.harvard.edu.
