Join a growing community of learners, teachers, scholars, and leaders united 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 20th annual IME Online Conference in 2023, we will provide a 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 by academic medical institutions during and in the aftermath of the crises of 2020-21.

This year, the IME Conference will again be a 100% online event. This decision was made with the goal of expanding the global network of innovative health care educators by making attendance at our conference more available to all interested participants. The online format eliminates travel expenses and accommodates any travel restrictions.

Join us online from anywhere in the world!

The IME 2023 Online Experience

We are building on our successful 2020 and 2021 online conference experience to present another exciting and stimulating program using both Zoom live streaming and pre-recorded video. The twenty-one interactive conference workshops are designed to enhance participant skills related to teaching, mentoring/coaching, research, leadership, professional development, wellbeing, social justice, and use of technology. Multiple topical oral presentation sessions, a variety of synchronous and asynchronous poster sessions, and hosted networking events will provide opportunities for dissemination of participant scholarly work, live question and answer discussions, and networking in a collaborative atmosphere.

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2023 KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Julie G. Nyquist, PhD

Professor, Department of Medical Education, Keck School of Medicine of USC; Director, Master of Academic Medicine Program; Chair, Innovations in Medical Education Conference, 2014-2023

“Thriving as a Medical Educator”

Dr. Nyquist continues to love her work after 45 years in medical education. She is grateful for the meaningful work we all do every day and hopes to inspire you towards a similar long and successful career. In this interactive session, Dr. Nyquist will discuss the types of opportunities for work within medical education, and challenges each participant to embrace their current work while being open to the myriad of possibilities for “What’s next?” She will then review of the tasks of managing a successful career. Finally, she hopes to remind us about how we can use the acronym PERMA to help us thrive in our work life: Positive emotions, Engagement, authentic Relationships, Meaning, and Achievement.

Julie G. Nyquist, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Medical Education within the Keck School of Medicine (KSOM) of USC. She directs the Master of Academic Medicine (MACM) program, Chairs the department’s annual Innovations in Medical Education Conference for (2014-present), and developed a flexible elective to help 4th year medical students transition to residency. Dr. Nyquist joined the faculty in 1981, served as program evaluator for the Medical Student curriculum (1981-2014) and co-chaired the school’s Competency-Based Education initiative (2010-2017). Within KSOM she has served on most of the curriculum committees and was a member of the central Education Committee for the school for 20 years (1993-2013). Within the MACM program she is on the teaching team for multiple courses focusing on the four key roles of faculty: teacher, leader, scholar and mentor. Dr. Nyquist has developed and led over 1000 workshops and presentations on topics related to leadership, teaching, evaluation, cultural competence, career development, and the 21st Century mindset, to a variety of health care professions’ faculty members. In conjunction with her USC position she was also Director of Medical Education at a regional medical center in Bakersfield, California for 8 years (1993-2001). She has been the author or co-author on 14 federally funded education-related grants. Dr. Nyquist received her doctorate in Educational Psychology from Michigan State University.

Conference Highlights

Interactive Skill-Building Workshop topics include:

The Best Possible Self: Advancing a Dispositional Optimistic Mindset
Where Wellbeing and DEI Meet – Moving the Culture Forward Together
Time Management for Medical Educators – The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful
Overcoming Imposter Phenomenon: A Faculty Development Workshop
Podcasting for Health Professionals Education
From Cool Idea to Scholarly Project
Transforming Organizational Culture Toward Wellbeing: How You Can Be Part of the Solution

Many presenters have also taken the opportunity to share outcomes of the inventive educational changes they made on the fly in response to the crises of 2020-21, including learner/faculty wellbeing and social justice, diversity/equity/inclusion initiatives. 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.

Session recordings, handouts, slides, and posters will be available only to registrants after the conference. Don’t miss out!