OEI News
Stay up to date on the latest news and stories from the Office of Educational Improvement.
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Recap: Webinar with David Hotchkiss
Thank you to all who joined us on Wednesday, January 10, for a presentation and discussion on the basics of artificial intelligence and its implications for health sciences education.
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Meet Our New Team Members
Welcome to our new Office of Educational Improvement team members.
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OEI Educator Leadership Certificate Applications Open
The Office of Educational Improvement is pleased to announce that applications are being accepted for the 2024 Educator Leadership Certificate program.
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OEI Teaching Toolbox: Faculty Quick Guides
The Office of Educational Improvement’s Teaching Toolbox offers a selection of resources to support our teaching faculty, including resources to support faculty learning. Please refer to the Teaching Toolbox for a variety of Faculty Quick Guides on topics relevant to health sciences education.
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Active Learning Clinics
The Office of Educational Improvement has created a new Active Learning Clinic (ALC). The goal of this clinic is to support educators in implementing active learning into their respective learning environments.
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HIPAA Zoom and Brightspace
The Ed Tech team has taken some questions on the differences between HIPAA compliant Zoom and the regular Zoom license.
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Instructional Design: Creating Effective Learning Experiences
One very enjoyable part of being an instructional designer is building relationships and rapport with course directors. Listening to their wants, needs, and pain points of current and future iterations of their course helps in creating a course that supports the learner.
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Virtual Reality at 91ɫƵ: A Bench to Bedside Experience
The Office of Educational Improvement (OEI) loves to collaborate with our ambitious and creative 91ɫƵ faculty. OEI is working to bring virtual reality (VR) to the education mission at 91ɫƵ.
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Interprofessional Education in 91ɫƵ School of Medicine: Gratitude and Hope for the Future
During October and November, 91ɫƵ students will participate in workshops helping them to hone their skills in the essentials of interprofessional care: communication, values and ethics, professional roles and responsibilities, and teamwork.
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Virtual Reality in Health Sciences Education
With the increasing drive to provide clinical learning experiences, and the inherent difficulties in doing so, simulation has gained momentum as a method of delivering experiential learning.
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OEI Teaching Toolbox: LCME Spotlight
The Office of Educational Improvement’s Teaching Toolbox offers a selection of resources to support our teaching faculty, including resources to support our medical school’s LCME accreditation.
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OEI Teaching Toolbox: The Feedback Loop
The Office of Educational Improvement’s Teaching Toolbox offers a selection of resources to support our teaching faculty, including resources to support the feedback process in education. These resources include peer-reviewed articles related to giving and receiving feedback.
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OEI Teaching Toolbox: Competency-Based Medical Education
The Office of Educational Improvement’s Teaching Toolbox offers a selection of resources to support our teaching faculty, including resources to support competency-based medical education. These resources are provided to help our educational faculty and staff understand competencies and entrustable professional activities, or EPAs.
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OEI Teaching Toolbox: Distance Learning
The Office of Educational Improvement’s Teaching Toolbox offers a selection of resources to support our teaching faculty, including variety of resources to support distance learning. These resources are provided to help our educational faculty and staff navigate current approaches to teaching and learning during the pandemic.
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Medical Education Conferences 2021-2022
View the list of 2011 and 2022 conference dates you might be interested in attending or submitting a scholarly abstract to in the next year.
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Residency Match 2021: SOAP
Students will receive a notice regarding whether they MATCH on Monday, March 15, 2021 at 10:00 am (CT). For students who don’t match, the Department of Academic Affairs supports their participation in SOAP (the Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program), which many of you know as the “Scramble.”
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Residency Match 2021: The Ranking Process
To secure a residency position, residency applicants must participate in a matching service. Most of these services use a computer algorithm to match applicants’ preferences for residency positions with programs’ preferences for applicants.