Faculty Workshops
Faculty Development Workshops
The Academy of Distinguished Medical Educators sponsors faculty development workshops to improve the effectiveness of medical education teaching at the Pritzker School of Medicine. If you have suggestions for future faculty development workshops, please email Halina Brukner, Director of the Academy of Distinguished Medical Educators.
MSPE Workshop
This workshop gave clerkship directors a better understanding of the process of creating the MSPE, with a specific focus on the critical role that the end-of-clerkship summary plays in the crafting this important letter. (September 19, 2007)
Writing Multiple Choice Exams
Faculty members learned ten rules of thumb for writing multiple choice questions that both challenge the students and effectively test the material. The workshop touched on NBME standards for constructing written test questions. (November 3, 2006, January 18, 2007)
Improving the Effectiveness of Your Lectures
General strategies for organizing and planning lectures, keeping the audience engaged, and delivering material in an effective manner were covered in this winter workshop. (January 11, 2007)
Improve and Enhance the Use of Excel 2003
Excel 101: In this basic Excel course participants learned the fundamental principles and functions of Excel. Participants learned how to design spreadsheets, create formulas to total rows and columns, compute averages and percentages, copy and move information, and apply formatting to spreadsheets. Participants also learned concepts such as sort, filter, sum, average, merge and/or print to fit. (October 3 and October 9, 2007)
Excel 201: An intermediate level session designed to investigate Excel’s analysis tools. Participants learned several functions that can make managing and evaluating data much easier! Participants also took a look at Pivot tables and other helpful functions such as:
- Concatenate: Merging the content of two cells or more into one.
- CountA: Counting the number of cells containing data in a specified range
- CountIF: Counting the number of cells in a range that meet a specified criterion.
- If: Checking to see if a certain condition is true or false. If the condition is true, the function will do one thing, if the condition is false, the function will do something else.
(October 16 and October 25, 2007)
