The ICRE Blog

The submission deadline for ICRE 2012 is fast approaching.  Submit your proposal online before March 9 and join our dynamic team of educators inOttawa, Canada, from October 18 – 20. Proposals must be no more than 260 words.

Remember, for the first time, ICRE 2012 abstracts will be published in The Journal of Graduate Medical Education.

Submit today!

A list of resources that other program directors are finding beneficial is available on the ICRE Blog Program Director page. Recommendations to date include

• a recent research article exploring simulation in surgical education,
• resources to assist in faculty development,
• a safety competencies curriculum on the go,
• and much more.

Share a resource and you can be entered to win a program survey from a CanMEDS Clinician Educator or free registration to ICRE 2012. Anything that has helped you do your job – recent research, practical manuals, websites – is welcome.

Recommendations must be submitted to icre@royalcollege.ca by March 10 to be eligible for the prize draw.

Key Literature in Medical Education (KeyLIME) is a free, bi-weekly podcast produced by the Royal College.  Articles that are important, innovative or will impact your educational practice are discussed. 

In episode 2: Linda lets us know how well they achieve their objectives in “To the point: Medical education reviews – providing feedback” by Bienstock et al, from the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Continue Reading »

For the first time, ICRE 2012 abstracts will be published in The Journal of Graduate Medical Education.

Share your innovations with medical educators worldwide. Submit an abstract of no more than 260 words and help shape ICRE’s dynamic learning environment.

The deadline for submissions is March 9, 2012.

Click here to learn more.

The call for PGME award submissions is now open. These awards recognize the leadership and work of program directors and residents nationwide.

Nominate a colleague for the Program Director of the Year Award, and a deserving resident for the Resident Leadership Award.

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Thinking about attending ICRE? Here are 10 reasons to start getting excited for the world’s only international forum devoted to promoting excellence in residency education.

1.       Milestones in residency education: This year’s theme is Milestones in Residency Education: Competencies, Controversies and Challenges. Competency frameworks are becoming increasingly common in medical education, and ICRE attendees will explore not only milestones’ theoretical implications but also practical assessment methods to improve how you evaluate performance.

2.      A practical, provocative, larger-than ever program: ICRE 2012 will feature three plenary lectures, a unique plenary panel, more than 50 workshops and more than 150 paper and poster presentations. Topics include assessment, teaching and learning, competency-based medical education, simulation, resident duty hours and much more.  

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The deadline to submit ICRE workshop proposals is January 30, 2012. Don’t miss your chance to present the latest medical education practices, discoveries and innovations to colleagues from around the world.

 All submissions must be submitted electronically. Click here to learn more.

ICRE recently spoke with Dr. Linda Probyn, an ICRE 2011 What Works finalist and Radiology program director at the University of Toronto, on the pilot project, “Auditing a CanMEDS tool: Closing the teaching and learning loop”. Dr. Probyn developed the audit with Dr. Karen Finlay from McMaster University.

What was the impetus behind this pilot?

The audit was implemented to assess residents’ understanding of how the CanMEDS Roles were being evaluated in a Radiology OSCE performed in June 2011. The OSCE was intended to evaluate the following roles:

• Health Advocate (through a radiation safety station);
• Communicator (through a dictation station);
• Manager (through an on-call scenario regarding chief resident duties)
• Manager (through a case triaging and protocoling station); and

Given the increasingly requirements around incorporating CanMEDS Roles into resident teaching and evaluation, we wanted to see if our residents understood how these roles are integrated into our specialty-specific requirements and how they are subsequently evaluated.

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Challenged to stay up-to-date with Med Ed literature?

Key Literature in Medical Education (KeyLIME) is a free, bi-weekly podcast produced by the Royal College.  Articles that are important, innovative or will impact your educational practice are discussed.  In each episode our hosts discuss, in about 10 minutes, the key points of a medical education article. 

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Submit an abstract of no more than 260 words and help shape ICRE’s dynamic and interactive learning environment. Resident submissions are welcome.

The abstract deadline is March 9, 2012.

Click here to learn more.