Join a growing community of learners, teachers, scholars, and leaders working together to promote change through innovation in health professions education. Our goal is to move education in the health professions toward a higher level of excellence and wellbeing. At the 18th annual IME Online Conference in 2021, our goal is to provide a welcoming forum for sharing innovative ideas and educational innovations. It will be the perfect place to share and learn more about the inventive changes that were made on the fly by academic medical institutions in response to the crises of 2020-21.

This year, the IME Conference will be a 100% online event. This decision was made in consideration of pandemic travel restrictions as well as 2020-21 budget restrictions faced by many educators. The online format eliminates travel expenses and accommodates any travel restrictions. Join us online from anywhere in the world!

The IME 2021 Online Experience

We are building on our successful online conference in 2021 to present an exciting and stimulating program using both Zoom live streaming and pre-recorded video. There twenty-one interactive conference workshops designed to enhance participant skills related to teaching, leadership, educational scholarship, professional development, and promotion of wellbeing. Multiple topical oral presentation sessions, a variety of synchronous and asynchronous poster sessions, and hosted networking events provide opportunities for dissemination of participant scholarly work, live question and answer discussions, and networking in a collaborative atmosphere.

2021 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
TBD

David A. Acosta, MD

Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, AAMC

“Breaking the Silence in Uncertain Times: Addressing Racism in Medical Education”

David A. Acosta, MD, provides strategic vision and leadership for the AAMC’s diversity and inclusion activities across the medical education community, and leads the association’s Diversity Policy and Programs unit.

Conference Highlights

Interactive Skill-Building Workshop topics include:

Integrating Cultural Humility into Patient Care: Self-Reflection to Respectful Partnership
Designing a Virtual OSCE
Building Tweetorials – An Opportunity to Bring the Classroom to Social Media
Zooming into the Future: How to Adapt Common Educational Tools for a Virtual Learning Platform
Developing a 21st Century Mindset in Medical Education – Lessons from Dr. Seuss
Guided Discovery Learning: Utilizing Large Group Case-Based Health Professions Education Virtually

Many presenters have also taken the opportunity to share the inventive changes they made on the fly in response to the crises of 2020. We are all excited to learn from each other – what has worked, what has not, and how we have all been changed by these experiences.