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Premier Education 2017: Promoting Critical Thinking in Learners

Learn tips on how to integrate and assess student’s critical thinking skills in the classroom, clinic, and research environments.

Aug 16, 2017

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The Good and Bad of Fast Brain Thinking

Understanding the Impact of Our Unconscious Biases Health care providers are specifically trained to make high stakes decisions in fast-paced, life and death situations. Every day, we rely on a host of past experiences and “our gut” to make important decisions. But sometimes these skills and behaviors can lead to unintended consequences for us as […]

Jun 6, 2017

The Good and Bad of Fast Brain Thinking

Legal Implications for Teaching

The legal responsibilities and guidelines for teachers can sometimes seem overwhelming. This enlightening development seminar provides you with an easily digestible and understandable look at the legal roads that responsible educators must travel. Participants are asked ethical questions and given scenarios that can often be found in educational environments, resulting in emergent problem-solving techniques in […]

Dec 21, 2016

Developing Strategies for Teaching in the Health Profession

To develop better education strategies, you have to reflect on both yourself and your methods of teaching. Breaking down your own expertise in the field and putting yourself on the same level as your students is the first step in focusing on a learner’s needs. “Being a good teacher is not being an expert at […]

Dec 12, 2016

Teaching Tips: A Classic Collection

You may have a storied career as an educator, teaching for decades with a mountain of accolades across your shoulders. Or, you may be about to enter your first classroom in the role of a teacher. Regardless of whether you are one, the other, or something in between, these teaching tips have helped countless educators […]

Nov 22, 2016

Clinical Teaching Guidebook- Free iBook

This is a very valuable teaching guidebook written for rural preceptors who may not be able to attend workshops. It is available for free for iOS users through the iBook Store. Get the Clinical Teaching Guidebook from the iBook Store.

Nov 22, 2016

Premier Education 2016: Your Connection to Navigating Change

Discover a variety of examples on how to integrate change into your teaching style.

Aug 24, 2016

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Blackboard Buffet: A Variety of Tools for Learner-Centered Courses

Learners can achieve more through the effective use of Blackboard, UNMC’s learning management system. Blackboard offers tools for self-reflection, collaboration, and communication — letting you create engaging assignments, develop authentic evaluations, and help students to share and create knowledge. A successful Blackboard course plays an integral role in student’s success when students have the right tools for […]

Jun 9, 2016

On the Bookshelf: Must-Reads for Educators

Conducting Research in Health Professions Education: From Idea to Publication This free eBook from Academic Medicine provides over 40 one-page primers on topics related to medical education research. The literature explores every stage of research from developing research questions, finding secondary data sources, and working in collaborations, to defining response rate, writing revisions, and promoting your […]

Mar 13, 2016

Connecting the Dots in Health Care Roles: Learning with the EHR

In an already crowded curriculum, how can you incorporate tools to help students develop new skills and enhance classic methods of teaching? Think meaningful integration with electronic health records! By watching this session, you’ll see how the OneChart EDU training environment can be integrated into pre-existing curriculum. With its use, students will be able to […]

Feb 11, 2016