IAMSE 2010 - Preparing Faculty for the Millennial Generation

Plenary - “Preparing Faculty for the Millennial Generation”

Does this sound familiar? Only weeks into their first year of medical school, our students are doing what comes naturally – setting up their own freewheeling blog about their courses, rating their professors online, Twittering about their lectures and lecturers, and sharing proprietary online course content with friends across the globe. Meanwhile faculty are worried that their PowerPoint slides will be stolen off the school’s curriculum website, while at the same time attendance at lectures is falling to less than one-third of the class.

The Millennial Generation or those born beginning in the eighties, grew up with the web and are armored with free and easy-to-use personal social networking technologies. They bring both new expectations and new risks to school. Rather than stifle students' creative use of social media and networking and scare away faculty, there are ways to use web technology safely and effectively. Already there are examples of faculty using blogs, wikis, and adaptive virtual patients to extend and replace traditional methods. Just as Web 2.0 tools like YouTube and Facebook enable millennials to share self-generated content and create their own online experiences, these new technologies can be leveraged to make learning more participatory and individualized. What some may see as a threat to the status quo can be a catalyst for a learner-centric curricular change.


This session, which will be presented by J.B. McGee of the University of Pittsburgh, is just one of the many topics to be addressed at the upcoming IAMSE Meeting in New Orleans July 10-13, 2010.

If you would like to see further session details and conference information, please visit the website at http://iamseconference.org

Early Bird Registration ends May 15th!

Last Chance to Submit - IAMSE 2010 Meeting

FINAL REMINDER! - Abstract Submission Deadline - April 1, 2010


14th Annual IAMSE Conference to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. from July 10-13, 2010.

This event will explore issues in the teaching and learning of sciences fundamental to practice in all health professions. The International Association of Medical Science Educator’s Annual Association meeting provides medical science educators a place to meet colleagues from around the world and to receive an intense faculty development experience. The number of participants will be limited to 400, so please visit the conference website and register in time. The deadline for early registration is May 15, 2010.

If you have difficulties with the abstract submission process, please contact us at brent@iamse.org

Both the registration form and abstract submission form can be found online at www.iamseconference.org .

2010 IAMSE Meeting - Abstract Deadline EXTENDED 4/1/2010

We are pleased to announce that abstract submissions and registrations are now be accepted for the for the 14th Annual IAMSE Conference to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. from July 10-13, 2010.

This event will explore issues in the teaching and learning of sciences fundamental to practice in all health professions. The International Association of Medical Science Educator’s Annual Association meeting provides medical science educators a place to meet colleagues from around the world and to receive an intense faculty development experience. The number of participants will be limited to 400, so please visit the conference website and register in time. The deadline for early registration is May 15, 2010.


The link to the hotel reservations is also included on the meeting website. We hope you will also consider submitting an abstract for presentation as a poster or electronic demonstration. Posters and E-demos will be grouped by common special themes and will be presented in our popular poster discussion session format, in which all interested attendees, including poster authors, meet to discuss common themes and key points of the posters.

Submission deadline is April 1, 2010

If you have difficulties with the abstract submission process, please contact us at brent@iamse.org

Both the registration form and abstract submission form can be found online at www.iamseconference.org .

Looking forward to seeing you in New Orleans!

Susan J. Pasquale, PhD, MT-BC, NMT,
2010 IAMSE Program Chair

2010 IAMSE Meeting: Abstract Submission / Registration Update

We are pleased to announce that abstract submissions and registrations are now be accepted for the for the 14th Annual IAMSE Conference to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. from July 10-13, 2010. This event will explore issues in the teaching and learning of sciences fundamental to practice in all health professions.

The International Association of Medical Science Educator’s Annual Association meeting provides medical science educators a place to meet colleagues from around the world and to receive an intense faculty development experience.

The number of participants will be limited to 400, so please visit the conference website and register in time. The deadline for early registration is May 15, 2009. The link to the hotel reservations is also included on the meeting website.

We hope you will also consider submitting an abstract for presentation as a poster or electronic demonstration. Posters and E-demos will be grouped by common special themes and will be presented in our popular poster discussion session format, in which all interested attendees, including poster authors, meet to discuss common themes and key points of the posters. Submission deadline is March 15, 2010.

If you have difficulties with the abstract submission process, please contact us at brent@iamse.org .


Both the registration form and abstract submission form can be found online at www.iamseconference.org .


Looking forward to seeing you in New Orleans!


Susan J. Pasquale, PhD, MT-BC, NMT, 2010 IAMSE Program Chair

2010 IAMSE Call for Abstracts Now Open!

We are pleased to announce that abstract submission is now available for the 14th Annual IAMSE Conference to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. from July 10-13, 2010. This event will explore issues in the teaching and learning of sciences fundamental to practice in all health professions. The IAMSE Annual Association meeting provides medical science educators a place to meet colleagues from around the world and to receive an intense faculty development experience.

The number of participants will be limited to 400, so please visit the conference website and register in time. The deadline for early registration is May 15, 2009.

We hope you will also consider submitting an abstract for presentation as a poster or electronic demonstration. Posters and E-demos will be grouped by common special themes and will be presented in our popular poster discussion session format, in which all interested attendees, including poster authors, meet to discuss common themes and key points of the posters. Submission deadline is March 15, 2010.

If you have difficulties with the abstract submission process, please contact us at brent@iamse.org .

The abstract submission form can be found online at www.iamseconference.org .

Looking forward to seeing you in New Orleans!

Susan J. Pasquale, PhD, MT-BC, NMT, 2010 IAMSE Program Chair

Call for Abstracts - 2010 Focus Sessions

The International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) is pleased to announce the Call for Concurrent Focus Session Proposals for the 14th Annual IAMSE Conference to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA from July 10-13, 2010. All proposals must be submitted in the format requested in the attached proposal submission form. Submission deadline is November 23, 2009. The call for poster and electronic demonstration abstracts will be sent in January. Please submit to julie@iamse.org

This conference will explore issues in the teaching and learning of sciences fundamental to practice in all health professions. The IAMSE annual meeting provides medical science educators a place to meet colleagues from around the world and to receive an intense faculty development experience.

Looking forward to seeing you in New Orleans!

Susan J. Pasquale, PhD, MT-BC, NMT
University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA
2010 IAMSE Program Chair

Download Abstract Submission Form

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The 14th Annual Meeting of IAMSE will be July 9-13, 2010. The meeting will be hosted by Tulane University in the beautiful city of New Orleans. Bookmark the website http://iamseconference.org or subscribe to this blog feed for continual updates.

We hope to see you there!