Principles of Medical Education Maximizing Your Teaching Skills

The Techniques and Strategies That Significantly Improve Student Engagement, and Teaching and Mentoring Effectiveness

Incorporating best practices, newer principles of adult learning, and widely available technologies into your teaching can significantly improve your ability to engage and inspire students, residents, fellows, and colleagues. This special program, ranked among Harvard Medical School’s highest-rated CME courses, is a uniquely comprehensive exploration of best practices for teaching medicine at the bedside, in ambulatory settings, and in the classroom.

The 2026 curriculum helps medical educators to:

• Leverage artificial intelligence in your teaching
• Provide more effective feedback that motivates change
• Utilize active learning strategies in small and large group teaching settings
• Deliver more impactful and engaging lectures
• Characterize best practices for mentor-mentee relationships and identify ways to leverage mentorship opportunities to help you thrive at work
• Optimize evaluation of trainee competencies
• Improve engagement and interactivity for in-person and virtual teaching sessions
• Enhance critical thinking and self-directed learning among students
• Describe real-time strategies to address unprofessional behavior
• Identify strengths and weaknesses of various assessment tools
• Incorporate various forms of technology, including digital media and artificial intelligence, into your teaching
• Create an action plan for implementing and sustaining effective change as leaders in medical education
• Discover personal and organizational strategies to improve the well-being of yourself and your trainees

Case-based and hands-on learning are a hallmark of this course, with significant participant interaction and active modeling of instruction techniques. Whether you are newer to teaching or a seasoned educator and mentor, this course will give you modern tools and practices to optimize skills transfer and learner success.

SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

Areas of focus in which attendees will deepen their skills include:

• Interactive Lecturing
• Bedside Teaching
• Effective Mentoring
• Impactful Feedback
• Developing Curricula
• Assessing Learners
• Learner Engagement
• Teaching Critical Thinking
• Teaching and Maintaining Wellness

ACCESS TO RECORDINGS OF ALL SESSIONS

In addition to being live streamed, all course sessions and add-on tracks will be recorded and placed in the online course video library, so that participants can view the programs for which they registered at their convenience. The video library will be available for 90 days after the conclusion of the course. All live streaming and recorded sessions and tracks are eligible for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and other relevant credits, up to the approved maximum. (Note: Evaluations must be completed within 60 days of the conclusion of the course to receive CME credit.)