Name
Lightning Talks
Date & Time
Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Abstracts

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