Virtual Forum Schedule

Note that sessions are listed in EDT by default. To change the time zone, please click [Change Time Zone] at the bottom of the schedule. 

Schedule is subject to change.

Wednesday, October 22, 2025
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM (EDT)
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
 
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM (EDT)
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
 
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM (EDT)
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
 
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM (EDT)
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM
 
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM (EDT)
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM
 
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM (EDT)
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
 
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (EDT)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Room 1: AI & Technology
Moderator: Julie Galliart

  1. Developing a Medical Student-Led Mini-Medical School to Increase Health Literacy in Older Adults
  2. Leading with Purpose: Evaluating a Holistic Faculty Development Program for Professional Growth and Organizational Leadership
  3. Pathways to Healthcare: Developing Future Health Professionals through Interprofessional Mentorship and Reflective Practice
  4. Towards Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Creating Targeted Faculty Development to Support Advancing the Undergraduate Medical Education Curriculum

Room 2: Career & Professional Development
Moderator: Amy Gyorkos

  1. A Peer Navigator Program to Strengthen Faculty Belonging and Cultural Integration
  2. A Qualitative Analysis of How Peer Mentoring Shapes the Career Aspirations of Senior Medical Students
  3. From Learner to Scholar: Advancing Medical Student Research and Scholarship with MERAS (Medical Education Research and Scholarship Program)
  4. Innovations to Advance Pathway and Bridge Programs To Medicine

Room 3: Curriculum & Assessment
Moderator: Amany Hassan

  1. Introducing Precision Medicine into an Undergraduate Medical Curriculum: An Interactive Lecture and Case-Based Learning Activity
  2. Upholding Our PROMISE: Exploring Underrepresented in Medicine (UIM) Pediatric Residents’ Perspectives on Support for Belonging, Well-Being, and Professional Goals
  3. Using an MCI Simulation to Evaluate UME Learners
  4. Using Simulation to Reinforce Anatomy and Physiology

Room 4: Curriculum & Assessment
Moderator: Oke-oghene Philomena Akpoveso

  1. Exploring the Convergence of Student Expectations, Facilitator Characteristics, and Constructivist Ideals in Problem-Based Learning
  2. From Exploration to Empowerment: Designing and Assessing Healthcare Pathways for High School Students
  3. Student Engagement and Performance with Formative Assessments in Preclinical Medical Education
  4. Teaching Abdominal Sonography Using Fourth-Year Medical Student Teaching Assistants

Room 5: Curriculum & Assessment
Moderator: Amin Shah

  1. Creating a Student Engagement Leaderboard to Enhance Pre-Clerkship Curricular Engagement
  2. Empowering Future Clinicians: Peer-Led Collaboration in Pre-Clerkship Learning
  3. Failing Forward: A Brief Health Literacy Curriculum Improves Pre-Clinical Communication Skills
  4. Interprofessional Learning Through a Book Club
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM (EDT)
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
 
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM (EDT)
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Room 6: AI & Technology
Moderator: Brian Clubb

  1. Adapting Faculty Needs into AI Chatbots
  2. Designing a Simulation Lab for the 21st Century
  3. PA Student Use of Large Language Models to Support Learning: A Phenomenological Study
  4. Using Artificial Intelligence to Enhance Screening and Selection of Medical School Applicants

Room 7: Career & Professional Development
Moderator: Sreenidhi Prakash

  1. Behind the Mirror: Health Students React to Their Own Biases?
  2. Improving Accessibility in Medical Education Materials through a Faculty Development Initiative
  3. LEAD+: Cultivating Authentic Physician Leaders for Sustainable Careers in Medicine
  4. Teaching with a Digital Sidekick: AI Avatars for Faculty Feedback Training

Room 8: Curriculum & Assessment
Moderator: Andrea-Nicaise Bikay

  1. Incentivized Self-Assessment Quizzes Improve Prework Completion and Exam Scores in a Flipped Classroom Curriculum
  2. Using Student Schedule Data to Update the Post-Clerkship Phase Curriculum
  3. Teaching the Importance of Lifestyle Factors and Nutrition via Pharmacology and Pathology Courses to Medical Students

Room 9: Curriculum & Assessment
Moderator: Ann Peiffer

  1. Development of an Integrated Climate Change Curriculum
  2. Medical Student Perspectives on Chronic Pain and Opioid Prescribing: Addressing Curricular Gaps through Longitudinal Assessment
  3. The Influence of Pre-Medical Anatomy Coursework on Medical School Anatomy Performance: A Comparative Analysis
  4. The Fundamental Role of the Arts and Humanities In Medical Education (FRAHME)
Time Zone: (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) [Change Time Zone]
Thursday, October 23, 2025
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM (EDT)
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
 
8:45 AM - 9:00 AM (EDT)
8:45 AM - 9:00 AM
 
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EDT)
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Room 1: AI & Technology
Moderator: Demidmaa Tuvdendorj

  1. A Phenomenological Study on How Medical Students Experience Agency When Using AI in Clinical Learning
  2. Academic Integrity in a Global Learning Space: Educator and Student Reflections on Generative Artificial Intelligence
  3. Becoming Visible Online: A Qualitative Study of How Students Shape Their Digital Identity While Learning with Artificial Intelligence
  4. What Do We Fear?: A Qualitative Exploration of Medical Educators’ Perceptions of AI in Assessment

Room 2: AI & Technology
Moderator: Manuel Hernandez

  1. Daily SPARK: Enhancing Biochemistry Learning Through Comic-Inspired Microlearning
  2. Designing Together in the Age of AI: Student and Faculty Reflections on Co-Creating Learning with AI Assistants
  3. Global Classrooms, Local Voices: Faculty Perspectives on Teaching Diverse Learners Online
  4. Qualitative Cross-Sectional Study on How AI Alters Peer Collaboration in Health Professions Education

Room 3: Career & Professional Development
Moderator: Emily Green

  1. Bridging Clinical Care and Community: Introducing Social Prescribing into Undergraduate Medical Training
  2. Phenomenological Inquiry into How Learners Internalize the Idea of “Global Citizenship” Through Medical Education
  3. Narrative Inquiry on Educators’ Experiences of Professional Growth Through Peer Reflection Communities
  4. Career Pitstop for Senior Doctors - Engaging and Retaining Experienced Doctors in the Workforce

Room 4: Curriculum & Assessment
Moderator: Aaryan Patel

  1. A Friend or a Foe: Can Instruction Promote Domestic/International Diverse Students’ Well-Being in Medical Education?
  2. Call for a Globalized Health Professions Curriculum: Perspectives of Medical Students Aspiring to Pursue a Career Abroad
  3. I Belong Here Too: How International Medical Students Experience Inclusion in the Curriculum
  4. Teaching Global Health Locally: Faculty Reflections from Low-Resource Medical Schools

Room 5: Curriculum & Assessment
Moderator: Katerina Venderova

  1. Medical Students’ Experiences With Self-Assessment and Personal Goal Setting in Competency-Based Medical Education Curriculum
  2. Narrative Inquiry into Student Experiences of Assessment Fairness Across Diverse Cultural Contexts
  3. Phenomenological Study on How Learners Make Sense of Their Role in Co-Designing Educational Content
  4. Towards Inclusive Medical Education: A Qualitative Investigation on Medical Students Engagement with Gender Inclusive Care
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM (EDT)
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
 
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (EDT)
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
 
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM (EDT)
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
 
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (EDT)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Room 6: AI & Technology
Moderator: Amy Stone

  1. Exploring AI as a Formative Feedback and Assessment Tool in Bad News Delivery Standardized Patient Encounters
  2. Pathology in the Loop - Using NotebookLM to Develop an Integrated PBL Curriculum
  3. Remediation Reinvented: Harnessing AI to Personalize Clinical Year Recovery for PA Students
  4. Enhancing Standardized Patient Script Accuracy Through AI-Assisted Review Using ChatGPT

Room 7: Career & Professional Development
Moderator: Amelie Oshikoya

  1. Designing a Human-Centered Future: A Global Vision for Faculty Development
  2. Evidence-Based Academic Presentations: A Development and Evaluation Tool for Medical Educators
  3. Exploring the Potential of a Community Garden in Medical Education: A Qualitative Study
  4. Stress, Empathy, and Academic Metrics: Predictors of NBME Surgery Shelf Exam Performance in Medical Students

Room 8: Curriculum & Assessment
Moderator: Michaela Jansen

  1. Click, Analyze, Care: A Hands-On Big Data Course for Health Professionals
  2. Enhancing Predictions of Competency Exam Performance through Learning Analytics in Medical Education
  3. Inclusive Curriculum and Assessment Approaches in Graduate Anatomy Education
  4. Near-Peer Teaching to Integrate Medical Imaging into the Medical School Curriculum

Room 9: Curriculum & Assessment
Moderator: Josie Suser

  1. CASPer Situational Judgement Test Score as a Predictor of Success
  2. Evaluating the Effect of the Problem-Based Learning Instructional Methodology on Dispositional Learning of the Students: A Mixed-Method Study
  3. Outcomes from Focus Group Discussion: Developing Guidelines for Crafting High-Impact Preparation Materials for Flipped Classroom Sessions
  4. Training Medical Students to be Health Care Advocates: Finding the Voice to Make a Change
Time Zone: (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) [Change Time Zone]
Friday, October 24, 2025
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM (EDT)
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
 
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM (EDT)
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
 
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM (EDT)
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Room 1: AI & Technology
Moderator: Sarah Kazemeini

  1. AI Agent Security: Safeguarding Healthcare Education and Patient Outcomes
  2. AI SimChat: A New Frontier in Bridging the Preclinical-Clinical Gap in Medical Education
  3. Deploying a Systems-Based Approach to Scaling AI Projects Across a Health Professions School
  4. From Disease-To-Symptoms To Symptoms-To-Diagnosis: An AI App For Cognitive Flexibility In Deductive And Inductive Clinical Reasoning In Medical Education

Room 2: Career & Professional Development
Moderator: Namrata Chhabra

  1. From Classroom to Career: What Influences Specialty Choices among Medical Students in The Gambia? An Expectancy-Value Theory Perspective from an LMIC
  2. Implementing Structured Mentorship in Under-Resourced Undergraduate Medical Education
  3. Storytelling as a Strategy to Promote Faculty Professional Development and Wellbeing
  4. Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks: How Experienced Faculty Learn at Work for New Education and Leadership Roles

Room 3: Curriculum & Assessment
Moderator: Kirsten Ludwig

  1. Anatomy Puzzle: Can You Escape the Laboratory?
  2. Clinical Anatomy Simulation Exercise (CASE) Sessions: A Hands-On Simulation Connecting Anatomy and Procedural Skills
  3. Impact of Team-Based Learning on Medical Students’ Metacognition
  4. The Competitive Competitor: A Pilot Study Exploring Self-Regulated Learning Across a UK–China Medical Education Context

Room 4: Curriculum & Assessment
Moderator: Sung Rhee

  1. Hybrid Physical Examination Training: Integrating Structured Peer Feedback with Standardized Patient Encounters
  2. One Minute to Speak: A Novel Approach to Evaluating Communication in Pre-Clerkship Anatomy
  3. Pump Up The Jam: A Cardiac Simulation Combining Hip Hop and Murmurs for Preclinical Medical Learners
  4. Resident Peer Support Program: Because Not Every Emergency Is Medical

Room 5: Curriculum & Assessment
Moderator: John Weinstein

  1. A Comparison of Cadaver Anatomy Tutoring to Virtual Reality Anatomy Tutoring
  2. Exploring Feedback as Empowerment: A Narrative Analysis of Learner Reactions to Developmental Assessment Comments
  3. Lessons Learned from Sim-Based Education
  4. Med School Dad Jokes: A Novel Approach to Enhancing Student-Faculty Engagement through Humor in Medical Education
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM (EDT)
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM
 
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM (EDT)
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM
 
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM (EDT)
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
 
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (EDT)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Room 6: AI & Technology
Moderator: Sandra Haudek

  1. Chart Smarter, Not Harder: Introducing AI Scribes in Preclinical Education
  2. Constructing Knowledge in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Comparative Study Between AI and Medical Student Performance in Case-Based Learning for Basic Sciences
  3. Feasibility of Foundational Science Probe Integration Using Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Case-Based Medical Education
  4. Preparing Students to Incorporate Artificial Intelligence Into Clinical Decision Making

Room 7: Career & Professional Development
Moderator: Sherli Koshy-Chenthittayil

  1. Collaborative Faculty Development: Advancing Educational Scholarship Across a Multi-Campus Medical School
  2. Empowering Medical Students: The Resilience-Revamping JumpStart Program
  3. Integrated Faculty Development: Evaluation of a Rural Regional Campus Program

Room 8: Curriculum & Assessment
Moderator: Joshua Costin

  1. Facilitating Clinical Transitions in a Multi-Campus Medical School Through a Two-Day Bootcamp
  2. Flipping the Script: How Team-Based Learning Boosts Medical Student Success - A Case Study
  3. Preparing Incoming Undergraduate Medical Students via a Virtual Pre-Matriculation Course
  4. Standardized Patients, Subjective Scores: Exploring OSCE Evaluation Variability in a Distributed Campus Model

Room 9: Curriculum & Assessment
Moderator: Leila Amiri

  1. Analysis of Students’ Metacognition During Examinations: Implications of Real-Time Processing
  2. Enhancing Early Student Success with the MedReady Checkup: Predictive Insights for Medical Foundations and Beyond
  3. It Is Just Too Much!: Unmasking the Hidden or Unhidden Workload for the Flipped Classroom
  4. Weaving the Fabric Together: Integration of Foundational Science Thread Content into Third-Year Clerkships
1:00 PM - 1:15 PM (EDT)
1:00 PM - 1:15 PM
 
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM (EDT)
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
 
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM (EDT)
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM
 
Time Zone: (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) [Change Time Zone]