Mission

Staff members in the Office of Consultation and Research in Medical Education (OCRME) provide a broad range of services to support medical education and scholarship. These services include:

  • Research and evaluation
  • Curriculum design
  • Teacher development for faculty and residents

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Events

Skills for Educators Workshop: Fostering Growth with Feedback

Friday, February 21, 2025 8:30am to 11:30am
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Develop approaches to provide feedback that fosters learner growth and develop strategies to elicit and use feedback for your own growth. Objectives: Compare and contrast structured models for giving feedback. Identify factors that influence effectively giving, eliciting, receiving, and using feedback. Describe challenges in giving and receiving feedback. Apply feedback strategies that foster growth. Click here to register.

Skills for Educators Workshop: Medical Improv

Friday, March 7, 2025 8:30am to 11:30am
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
This highly interactive (and fun!) workshop will focus on Medical Improv which is the adaptation of improvisational theatre principles and exercises to health professions educational activities.  It has been used to enable providers to connect with patients more easily and deeply, help teams work more collaboratively and cohesively, and give educators confidence to respond creatively to a wide variety of student needs. Objectives: Describe the principles, tools, skills, and mindsets of...

Skills for Educators Workshop: Coaching for Health Professions Education

Friday, April 11, 2025 8:30am to 11:30am
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Join us to explore different models for coaching in health professions education, why coaching works, and how you can incorporate coaching practices into your teaching. Click here to register.