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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 21st annual IME Online Conference in 2024, we will provide a forum for sharing innovative ideas and educational innovations.
This year, the IME Conference will continue to be a 100% online event. This format supports our goal of expanding the global network of innovative health care educators. An online conference eliminates travel expenses and accommodates any travel restrictions.
Join us online from anywhere in the world!
The IME 2024 Online Experience
We are building on our successful 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.
2024 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Holly J. Humphrey, MD, MACP
President of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation
“Why Exemplary Clinical Learning Environments Matter Now More than Ever”
Dr. Holly J. Humphrey, President of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, the only national foundation dedicated to the solely to improving the education of health professionals, will explore historical and contemporary forces which shape our clinical learning environments. She will address the opportunities that exist to ensure that our learners benefit from innovations in health professions education scholarship, the transformational potential of interprofessional team collaboration, and why it is necessary to elevate medical education scholarship as central to the future of the profession.
Holly J. Humphrey, MD, MACP, became the eighth president of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation in July 2018. Previously, she served for 15 years as the Ralph W. Gerard Professor in Medicine and Dean for Medical Education at The University of Chicago. Dr. Humphrey earned her MD degree with honors from The University of Chicago and as a member of Alpha Omega Alpha honor society. Following an internal medicine residency, pulmonary and critical care fellowship, and Chief Residency, all in the department of medicine at The University of Chicago, she served for 14 years as Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program, which provided the foundation for her medical education career. Her signature programs in medical education have focused on diversity and inclusion, mentoring, and professional identity formation. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, a Master of the American College of Physicians, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London). Crain’s Chicago Business featured her as one of their “Women to Watch,” and Modern Healthcare celebrated her as their Excellence in Governance honoree for work as an outstanding healthcare board member. The NorthShore University HealthSystem created the Holly J. Humphrey Medical Education Fund with a one-million-dollar gift to The University of Chicago. Her teaching honors include selection as a favorite faculty teacher by graduating University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine students more than 25 times.
Conference Highlights
Interactive Skill-Building Workshop topics include:
- Planning Interviews and Focus Groups for Health Professions Research
- Using Memes in Medical Education: Can We Make Students’ Learning More Creative & Fun?
- Non-Violent Communication in Our Workspaces and Our Lives
- Simulation-Based Education: Innovations in Virtual Reality, Cardiac Critical Care, and Error Disclosure
- Be the Change You Wish to See: Fostering a Healthy Program Culture Through Emotional Intelligence
- Raising the Bar: Scaffolding Undergraduate Students to Conduct Qualitative Research
- Professionalism: What Happens After the Lapse?
Many presenters have taken the opportunity to share new or innovative student support services (i.e., psychosocial, academic, health, etc.), innovative usage of educational methods and technologies (i.e., distance learning, online and hybrid delivery, virtual classroom management, immersive learning, simulation, FOAMed, etc.), and projects that support interdisciplinary health care education. We are all excited to learn from each other – what has worked and what has not.
Access to the event website before, during, and after the live conference to view hundreds of interesting projects and to connect and network with other medical educators will be available only to registrants. Don’t miss out!