Name
Part 2 Integration in Action: Strategies to promote cognitive integration and negotiate implementation.
Date & Time
Saturday, June 13, 2020, 12:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Amy Wilson-Delfosse Ann Poznanski
Description

This full-day workshop will consist of two separate but linked workshops. Registrants may choose to sign up for one or both. The morning session (Part 1) will introduce tools that can promote cognitive integration and immerse participants in their design. Attendees who completed the 2018 IAMSE workshop Integrate Now may wish to only register for the afternoon session (Part 2), which will focus on how to negotiate and implement integration tools.  

Objectives:

  • To enhance participants' skills in designing and effectively implementing novel methods for cognitive and curricular integration of basic science and clinical medicine at their home institution. 

 Workshop description: This workshop will be presented in two parts. The morning session (3 hours) will focus on the collaborative development of teaching and learning tools to promote cognitive integration. The session will begin with an interactive group discussion to identify key barriers to designing instruction to promote cognitive integration and transfer. Following a brief review of the literature on concept-based learning and knowledge organization, the remainder of the first session will guide participants through hands-on activities to collaboratively develop concept-based integrated illness scripts, mechanism of disease maps, and application exercises designed to facilitate learners' cognitive integration and clinical decision-making for common clinical conditions. During the second session (3 hours), participants will use published models for curricular integration and negotiation frameworks derived from the business literature to explore common barriers encountered with key stakeholders in promoting and implementing cognitive integration methods within institutional curricula. Using these frameworks, simulated conversations with key institutional stakeholders and their own curricular challenges as a model, participants will work through and share realistic solutions to advance conversations at their home institution. Worked examples from the speakers' institutional experiences will be provided. Throughout both sessions, participants will have the opportunity to work collaboratively with their peers from other institutions to facilitate creative and shared problem-solving.