Educator's CornerAGA Committee Sponsored Session at DDW, May 5, 2010: Sponsored by: Education & Training Committee, Editorial Board for Online Education
Presentation by James B. McGee: Technology Update for the Gastroenterologist 2010 (2:15) Presentation by Ashish Atreja: How to Use Social Networking in Training Programs (2:50) Presentation by Geoffrey Braden: Smartphones, Apps, and Web Tools of the Practicing GI (4:05) Training In Small-group Educational Programs The AGA Institute along with several members participated in a training session in Chicago for conducting interactive, small-group educational programs associated with changes in physicians' behavior. These sessions were held in Chicago, in May of 2009. Ill-structured case studies can be used in this format to illustrate clinical issues while providing physicians with an effective opportunity to learn, practice, and incorporate new knowledge into their practices in a welcoming environment with their colleagues. This format also allows for peer feedback and individual self-assessment. In this video, Robert D. Fox, EdD, Professor Emeritus, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Oklahoma gives an overview describing research about how physicians learn and change their practices and how these findings and models are used in small-group, case-based, interactive CME activities. He also discuss small-group dynamics and demonstrates how to facilitate these activities to ensure that optimal levels of participant learning, feedback, and self-assessment take place. Dr. Fox's approach to narrative and engagement with the learner will be of interest to both veteran and less experienced educators. Dr. Fox Video Part 1 Dr. Fox Video Part 2 The Morton I. Grossman Lecture Cynthia Kenyon, PhD, director of the Hillblom Center for the Biology of Aging, department of biochemistry and biophysics at UCSF, delivered the AGA Foundation's Morton I. Grossman Distinguished Lectureship at DDW 2009. Her lecture is titled From Worms to Mammals: Genes and Cells That Regulate the Aging Process. In 1993, Dr. Kenyon and colleagues' discovery that a single-gene mutation could double the lifespan of C. elegans sparked an intensive study of the molecular biology of aging. These findings have now led to the discovery that an evolutionarily conserved hormone signaling system controls aging in other organisms as well, including mammals. The Morton I. Grossman Lecture was established in 1989 by a group of UCLA Center for Ulcer Research and Education (CURE) Digestive Disease Research Center investigators and alumni wishing to commemorate the contributions of CURE's founder and first director. Dr. Morton I. Grossman is considered the father of modern gastrointestinal endocrine physiology. His most important contributions lay in defining the secretory mechanisms of the stomach and pancreas and the actions of regulatory gastrointestinal peptides. The Morton I. Grossman Lecture |