Personal and Institutional Enhancement Seminar (PIES)

The primary goal of PIES is to foster and sustain a collegial community of lifelong learners capable of meeting the present and future challenges of academic medicine. The onsite session is also offered and customized per department’s needs.

• National Board of Medical Examiners Item Writing Workshop Handouts
• Promoting Academic Community of Excellence in Active Learning Strategies
• Turning Your Teaching and Clinical Work into Scholarship
• Publishing Your Quality Improvement Patient Safety Work
• Teaching Across Generations-Understanding and Leveraging Generational Diversity
• Avoiding & Healing Burnout
• Using Milestones to Realize the Promise of Competency-based Education to Achieve Better Health System Outcomes
• Competency-based Medical Education (CBME): Assessment Systems, Milestones and Group Process/Judgment
  • Action Plan Blueprint
• How to pursue scholarship through your Daily Academic Work (PPT)
• Fundamentals of Teaching
• Summer Teaching Workshop for Faculty: Summer Teaching Practicum (STeP): Presented by Bev Delidow, PhD
  • Setting expectations and delivery style (setting tone, setting objectives, communicating effectively)
  • Structuring lectures and teaching material on a framework of objectives/important concepts (leading students through material, developing 'story')
  • Pointing exam questions at learning objectives/important concepts (creating assessments congruent with expectations)
  • Objectives of workshop:
    • Awareness of the strengths and opportunities for improvement in their presentation skills.
    • Apply principles of effective presentations to their instructional work.
    • Develop a logical structure for their own teaching sample and be able to apply that to other work.
    • Identify the learning objectives for a sample teaching session.
    • Determine whether their teaching sample accurately covers their stated objectives and develop a plan to address incongruence if it exists.
    • Determine whether their exam questions accurately assess their stated objectives and develop a plan to address any incongruence if it exists

PIES Archive

If you would like to suggest a workshop on a specific topic, contact Darshana Shah at shah@marshall.edu