Faculty Development

MedEdMentor: The Virtual Guide to Medical Education Scholarship

Monday, June 17, 2024

12:00 PM To 1:00 PM Via Zoom

Event Description

Launched in September 2023, MedEdMentor is a complimentary online resource that acts as a virtual mentor for medical education scholars worldwide. This is evidenced by its extensive user base, with over 1,000 registered users from 43 different countries. The current version of MedEdMentor includes five primary resources: instructional lessons to acquaint users with the field, a comprehensive database of more than 250 theory summaries, the inaugural medical education-specific literature search engine, an AI-powered tool for theory suggestions, and the first chatbot dedicated to medical education. In this session, the MedEdMentor team will discuss the problem their resource aims to solve, demonstrate the functionality of their tools, and offer insights into the future developments of this innovative platform.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the challenges novices face when delving into medical education scholarship.

2. Highlight the inequities in medical education publishing.

3. Enumerate the ways MedEdMentor can aid both current and prospective scholarly projects.

4. Implement MedEdMentor’s tools to address concrete research inquiries.

Target Audience

All Faculty

Speakers:

Geoffrey V. Stetson, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Education, Director of Clinical Faculty Development University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) College of Medicine

Gregory Ow, MD

Continuing Medical Education Credits

Stay tuned for CME credit details.

This event will be Zoomed.