Name
Focus Session: Promoting Well-Being and Resilience in Historically Underserved Students
Presentation Track(s)
DEI, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Description

Creating a motivationally-supportive learning environment can increase medical students' well-being and resilience, especially in students with diverse identities. Participants will learn pedagogical techniques that can be immediately implemented to foster more supportive learning environments.

Learning Objectives Include:
1. Faculty and administrators will be able to explain how the learning environment connects with student well-being outcomes. More specifically, participants will be able to identify how cultivating a growth mindset in students, helping students identify the purpose and relevance of the course material, and fostering a sense of belonging all promote positive outcomes in students, especially those students from historically marginalized backgrounds.

2. Faculty and administrators will be able to explain how student perceptions of their instructors’ learning mindsets connect to student well-being.

3. Participants will also learn ways to extend their pedagogical toolbox for creating and sustaining a more supportive learning environment. The emphasis is placed on pedagogical changes and not curricular changes, so that faculty can be empowered to begin including these pedagogical practices without structural changes to their curriculum.

Date & Time
Monday, June 16, 2025, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM