What does the future of medical education look like? Join Dr. Teresa Chan in an interactive digital workshop to think through what the near future of medical education might look like.

Objectives:
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- identify some hard and soft trends in the future of medical education;
- name one area of interest they'd like to explore;
- find an accountability buddy to set a goal for their own future development.

Almost everything we do in teaching and assessing health professionals involves adding to and subtracting from their opportunities. Dr. Ellaway will use augmentation as a lens to consider the practices and philosophies of health professions education, and she will explore the different kinds of learning entities that are created as a result.

Drs. Binks and Weinstein will share their perspectives, providing examples of how medical education changed abruptly with the COVID-19 pandemic, emphasizing what changes may have some lasting benefit.

What is the role of distance learning in health care education? How does online learning impact the development of professional skills? Can new technologies make health care education faster, less expensive, and more accessible to a diverse population of future health professionals, without sacrificing quality and connection? This session will address those questions and more, presenting innovative strategies for humanizing online learning, building community, and providing support for learners in a hybrid health education program. Rooted in current evidence on best practices in online and hybrid teaching and learning, this session will explore challenges and reveal opportunities for leveraging technology to promote diversity, professional development, leadership, and resilience in today’s students. 

This session explores the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the health professional learning space as it transitioned from in-person to online and/or hybrid interactions between teachers and learners. The panel of presenters, representing a diverse set of institutions, disciplines, faculty, and student perspectives, will share their experiences and lessons learned during the past year to inform teaching and learning best practices in PBL, basic science, and clinical instruction. Some of the outcomes may be surprising and will highlight how we’ve evolved as educators and students.