BIDMC Academy Professional Development Seminars
Our 2024-2025 Virtual Events
The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) Academy supports the educational development of the BIDMC community in numerous ways, including professional development seminars. Learn about our upcoming virtual events below.
September 2024
Annual Fall Retreat
Friday, September 13, 2024
1:00 – 4:00 pm
Leventhal Conference Center (in-person session)
BIDMC Academy Celebrates Women in Medicine and Science
Featuring: Kerri Palamara McGrath, MD
Monday, September 23, 2024
12:00 – 1:00 pm, via Zoom
Watch for more programming to be announced soon.
2024
January 18, 2024 – Writing for the Busy Clinician
January 26, 2024 – Advancing your Academic Resolutions
February 12, 2024 – Effectively Managing a National Meeting
March 19, 2024 – Can Office 365 Make your (Professional) Life Easier?
March 29, 2024 – Unlocking Learning: Simulation Escape Room for Educators
April 25, 2024 – Crafting Compelling Recommendations: A Guide to Writing Effective Recommendation Letters
May 8, 2024 - BI Academy Health Equity Innovation Group presents: The Why and When of Ethics Consulting
May 10, 2024 - BI Academy Health Equity Innovation Group presents: Shaping Inclusive Academia: A Workshop on Applying Disability and Anti-Ableism Perspectives to Academic Practice
May 13, 2024 - BI Academy Health Equity Innovation Group presents: Words Matter: Cross Cultural Negotiations in Clinical Ethics
June 4, 2024 - Building Bridges Session with 2024 Tosteson Visiting Professor: Conduct Unbecoming: A Professional Case Discussion
June 9, 2024 – Annual Simulation Symposium at BIDMC with LHMC
2023
January 13, 2023 – Advancing your Academic Resolutions
January 25, 2023 – Everything you need to know about Infographics
February 14, 2023 – Walking and Chewing Gum at the Same Time – Strategies for Effective Procedural Teaching
February 27, 2023 – Develop your CORE2 for Career Flourishing
March 22, 2023 – Extended Reality (XR) in Medical Education: Future or Fad?
April 10, 2023 – Designing your Career: Turning your Vision Board into Reality
May 9, 2023 – Trauma Informed Resident Advising
May 17, 2023 - BI Academy Health Equity Innovation Group presents: Findings and Recommendations from the Boston Overdose Linkage to Treatment Study (BOLTS)
June 7, 2023 Building Bridges Session with 2023 Tosteson Visiting Professor: Bedside Teaching from Theory to Practice
June 9, 2023 – Inaugural Simulation Symposium with BIDMC/LHMC
September 13, 2023 – BIDMC Academy Celebrates Women in Medicine & Science Month: A Career in Hospital Medicine, Research and Faculty Development: How Mentorship Guided my Career
September 15, 2023 – BIDMC Academy Annual Fall Retreat: Medicine meets Machine: The Evolution of Medical Education in the AI Era
October 19, 2023 – Pro Con Debate: Large Language Models will Improve Physicians’ Diagnostic Reasoning
October 23, 2023 – 7 Tips to Elevate Whiteboard Lectures
November 8, 2023 – Feedback that Transforms: Empowering Learners for Growth
November 20, 2023 – Routine Prerounding with Patients: Worthwhile or Waste of Time?
December 12, 2023 – BIDMC Academy Wellness Innovation Group presents: Success from Failures
December 21, 2023 – Curriculum Development: Transforming your Teaching Experiences Using Theoretical Framework
2022
January 21, 2022 - Advancing your Academic Resolutions
January 28, 2022 - What can Jerry Seinfeld Teach us about Publishing as a Clinician
February 15, 2022 - Peer Support Program at BIDMC: How to Utilize this Resource and Incorporate Mini-Skills into your Daily Practice
February 18, 2022 - Make it Count Twice! Translating your Medical Education into Scholarship
March 9, 2022 - Virtual Reality in Medical Education: Already at your Fingertips
March 31, 2022 - Bedside Biomarkers: Best Practices for Teaching Evidence Based Physical Diagnosis
April 5, 2022 - BI Academy Health Equity Innovation Group presents: Increasing the Rigot of Equity Analyses: An Application to Mental Health Care
April 29, 2022 – Sharing Good Judgment: How to Engage in Meaningful Feedback Conversations with learners Using Advocacy Inquiry
May 11, 2022 - BI Academy Sexual Advocacy Innovation Group presents: A Journey through the Ages of LGBTQIA+: Rights, Policies and Impacts on Healthcare
May 25, 2022 – BI Academy Ethics Innovation Group presents: An Ethical Approach to Limited Resources in the Healthcare Setting: Lessons Learned and Strategies for Future Planning
June 8, 2022 – Building Bridges Session with 2022 Tosteson Visiting Professor: Physician Workforce Shortages: The Impact of the Great Retirement
September 23, 2022 – BIDMC Academy Annual Fall Retreat – Building Community through Interprofessional Education
September 29, 2022 – BIDMC Academy Celebrates Women in Medicine & Science Month: Diagnostic Discontinuity: Implications for Learning and Teamwork
October 13, 2022 – Introduction to Design Thinking
October 25, 2022 – PowerUp your PowerPoint
November 3, 2022 – Inaugural Bootcamp for Clinical Teachers
November 7, 2022 – CARE Coaching Training Session
November 9, 2022 – The Building Blocks for Your Career: Transitions to Becoming Faculty
December 15, 2022 – Peer Observation of In-Person and Virtual Teaching
2021
January 12, 2021 - Advancing your Academic Resolutions
January 20, 2021 - Where are you from? How macroaggressions manifest in clinical care and what we can do about it
February 10, 2021 - Power Up your PowerPoint
January/February 2021 - The Racist Patient: Patient Bias and Discrimination against Clinicians
March 11, 2021 – Practical Advice: Managing work and family
March 23, 2021 – How to Captivate Readers and Change the World: Writing for a Lay Audience
March 30, 2021 – Effective Delegation
April 21, 2021 – Integrating Advocacy into our Careers
April 28, 2021 – Inclusivity in Medicine – an LGBTQ+ Perspective
May 11, 2021 – Hospital Ethics in a Multi-Cultural World
May 20, 2021 – The Biased Patient: Taking Action on Harmful Bias and Discrimination Against Clinicians
September 15, 2021 – Women in Medicine & Science Month – Intersectionality – Advancing the Careers of Women of Color in Medicine
October 1, 2021 – Annual Fall Retreat – From Circle Time to Grand Rounds: Rituals, Routines, and Procedures that Foster a Safe Learning Environment in Healthcare Education
October 25, 2021 – Navigating Well-being in the Midst of a Pandemic
November 4, 2021 – 7 Tips for Elevating Whiteboard Mini Lectures
November 17, 2021 – What all Faculty Need to know about HMS Curriculum
December 2, 2021 – PowerUp your PowerPoint
2019 - 2020
December 16, 2020 - Demystifying Event Disclosure for Medical Educators
November 30, 2020 - Being an Agent of Structural Change: Reflections of Medical Students on the Frontlines
October 21, 2020 - Time Management and Productivity: Learn to Boost Your Academic Super Powers
October 8, 2020 - Virtual Recruitment: Strategies to boost effectiveness and confidence in virtual interviewing
September 23, 2020 – Women in Medicine & Science Month - Providing Diversity and Inclusion in Medicine and the Health Professions: The Experience of Physicians with Disabilities
September 18, 2020 Annual Fall Retreat Wrap-Up - Communicating Your Message (& Mission) with Visuals
September 17, 2020 Annual Fall Retreat Workshop 2 – It’s the Message, Not the Media: Podcasting, Video and Beyond
September 15, 2020 Annual Fall Retreat Workshop 1– The Art of the Tweetorial: Practical Tips to Reach your Community
September 14, 2020 Annual Fall Retreat – Virtual Communities: Amplifying Your Message through Twitter, Visuals, Podcasting and Beyond
July 21, 2020 Telehealth and Equity: Challenges and Emerging Solutions
June 9, 2020 BIDMC Academy/UME/GME Joint Session – Transforming Clinical Training in the Era of COVID-19
May 5, 2020 Health Equity in the COVID-19 Response: A Discussion to Connect Across Departments at BIDMC
April 29, 2020 Joint Session with Boston Children’s Hospital – Unconscious Bias: Its Effect on Clinical Learning and Teaching
March 26, 2020 #BIDCHAT – Addressing Healthcare Provider Wellness During a Pandemic
March 4, 2020 PowerUp Your PowerPoint
March 3, 2020 Trauma Informed Physical Exam
February 21, 2020 Stand and Deliver – A Pitch for Any Occasion (part 3)
February 14, 2020 Structuring your Pitch – A Pitch for Any Occasion (part 2)
February 10, 2020 Leading Change in Medical Education
February 7, 2020 Audience Centered Speaking – A Pitch for Any Occasion (part 1)
January 14, 2020, #BIDCHAT: How should residency programs incorporate #MedTwitter: A trainee’s perspective
January 6, 2020, Advancing your Academic Resolutions
December 19, 2019, Towards Collective Competence: Interprofessional Education as a Strategy to Address Tribalism
December 10, 2019, Making the Most of your First Year: Strategies for Academic Success during the Trainee-to Faculty Transition
November 21, 2019, Power Up your PowerPoint
October 29, 2019, #BIDCHAT Session – Engendering Diversity in Medicine
October 11, 2019, One Strategy to Confront Tribalism: Using Games to Develop Adaptive Multidisciplinary Teams
September 30, 2019, Women in Medicine - #HeForShe: Recruiting Men in the Fight for Gender Equity
September 29, 2019, #BIDCHAT Session - #HeForShe: Recruiting Men in the Fight for Gender Equity
September 27, 2019, Annual Fall Retreat, Confronting the Tribal Culture of Medicine
June 7, 2019, Simulation Grand Rounds, Helping without Harming: Managing Hot Negotiations across Departments, Dr. Jenny Rudolph
June 4, 1029, Tosteson Visiting Professor, Dr. Alison Whelan, Building Bridges Session – Advancing as a Medical Educator: Pathways to Leadership
May 29, 2019, Spotlight on Simulation Education Series: Navigating the Minefield of Simulation for Assessment
May 14, 2019, #MedTwitter 101: Social Media as a Venue for Teaching
April 30, 2019, How to Run a Focus Group
April 9, 2019, Spotlight on Simulation Education Series: A Peek Behind the Glass: How the Experts Create, Run and Integrate Technology into a Simulation Session
March 5, 2019, Curating Your Online Professional Presence
February 26, 2019, Conference Commando
February 15, 2019, Spotlight on Simulation Education Series: The Anatomy of the Debrief: Exploring the Thought Process of Learner Behavior
February 8, 2019, From Monotony to Motivation: Effective Presentation of Epidemiological Data
January 22, 2019, Mission Impossible: Finding Opportunities to Publish as a Busy Clinician
January 15, 2019, Spotlight Series: Not a Dying Art: Teaching the Hypothesis-Driven Physical Exam
January 10, 2019, Holiday Celebration: Advancing your Academic Resolutions
2017 - 2018
December 12, 2018, Spotlight on Simulation Education Series (#1)
November 27, 2018, O Say Can you CME? O Say Can you CME? Practical Tips for Enhancing Your Career by Teaching and Directing CME
November 6, 2018, Power Up your PowerPoint
November 1, 2018, Night at the Museum
October 31, 2018, Habits of a Systems Thinker
October 9, 2018, How to Write you HMS CV Narrative
October 5, 2018, Annual Kick-Off (Faculty Wellness)
June 5, 2018, Tosteson Visiting Professor, Dr. Arno Kumagai
May 29, 2018, SIMplifying the SIMulation Experience: Back to Basics
May 8, 2018, How to Give a TED Talk
May 4, 2018, Uncovering and Owning the Hidden Curriculum: Improving the Learning Environment
April 24, 2018, Supporting Faculty Wellness through Sharing: Strategies for Work-Life Integration
April 3, 2018, The Learning Environment at BIDMC: What Works, What Doesn’t, What’s Next?
February 27, 2018, Effective Strategies in the Face of Conflict
February 9, 2018, Body Language for Teaching
January 18, 2018, The M&M’s of Teaching
November 29, 2017, Resident-as-Teacher Series: Intraoperative/ICU Bedside Teaching
November 13, 2017, Interprofessional Education
October 19 & 23, 2017, PCE/POM Teaching Physical Exam
October 6, 2017 – Annual Kick-Off (Active Learners)
June 6, 2017 – Tosteson Visiting Professor, Dr. Clarence Braddock
May 31, 2017 – Designing a Teaching Session that is Engaging, Interactive and Fun
May 18, 2017 - Teaching and Learning in Consultative Medicine – Raising the Education Bar
April 27, 2017 – Collective Discovery: Harnessing the Power of the Arts in Teaching Medicine
April 13, 2017 – Dr. Anders Ericsson Discusses Expertise and Deliberate Practice
March 16, 2017 Making A Concept Video
February 2, 2017 Educational Statistics
January 12, 2017 - Teaching Procedural Skills
2015 - 2016
December 8, 2016 - Team-Based Learning
November 21, 2016 - Active Learning
October 19, 2016 - The One-Room Schoolhouse: Turn a Teaching Challenge into an Unqualified Success
October 7, 2016 Annual Kick-Off - Unlocking the Door to Advancement: Scholarship is the Key
June 9, 2016 - Tosteson Visiting Professor, Dr. Steven Weinberger
May 9, 2016 - How to Talk Like TED
April 8, 2016 - Why Do It Alone? A Case for Co-Teaching
March 29, 2016 - Ambulatory Teaching: Fitting it All In
February 18, 2016 - Gamification: Using Games to Engage Learners
January 12, 2016 - Active Learning and the Flipped Classroom
December 18, 2015 - Defining Your Niche in Medical Education
November 12, 2015 - PoP - Peek or Present - Exploring Medical Education Technology
October 15, 2015 - SUPER VISION: Seeing Your Way to Becoming an Excellent Clinical Supervisor
October 2, 2015 - Annual Kick-Off (Feedback) Tuesday, June 2, 2015 - Tosteson Visiting Professor, Dr. Catherine Lucey
Thursday, May 21, 2015 - The Art of Asking Questions
Monday, April 6, 2015- Teaching Technology v2.0
Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - Curriculum Development
Friday, January 9, 2015 - Feedback in Action at the Bedside
2013 - 2014
Thursday, December 18, 2014 - Negotiating Power Struggles
Thursday, November 20, 2014 - Stone Award Winners
Friday, November 14, 2014 - Junior Faculty Leadership Course
Tuesday, October 21, 2014 - iMedEd
Friday, September 19, 2014 - Annual Kick-Off
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Tosteson Visiting Professor Dr. Ronald Harden
Monday, May 5, 2014, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. Teaching Value-Added Care
Friday, April 11, 2014, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Flipping the Classroom
Wednesday, March 12, 2014, 4:15 - 5:30 p.m. Harnessing the Power of the Arts in Teaching Medicine (HMS Inter-Hospital Collaborative)
Friday, March 7, 2014, 7:30 - 9:00 a.m. How People Learn & How We Can Learn Better (HMS Academy Medical Grand Rounds)
Tuesday, March 4, 2014, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Designing a Teaching Session
Monday, February 24, 2014, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Essential Communication Skills
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Stone Award Winners
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - 4:15 - 5:30 p.m. BIDMC/MGH Inter-hospital Collaborative at HMS Academy
Friday, December 13, 2013 - 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Teaching at the Bedside
Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Teaching Professionalism in the Digital Age
Wednesday, October 30, 2013 - 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Assessing Learners and Helping Them Grow
Friday, September 20, 2013 - 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Annual Kick-Off
Tuesday, June 4, 2013 - 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Tosteson Visiting Medical Education Professor Thomas Viggiano, MD, MEd
Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Education Works in Progress
Monday, May 20, 2013 - 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Clerkship Grades: Is "Satisfactory" the Kiss of Death?
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Engaging Learners in Small Group Discussions
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. The Art of Mentoring: Making the Most of Your Role as Mentor and Mentee
Monday, March 25, 2013, 12:00 - 1:30p.m. Maximizing Learner Development: Using Feedback to Effect Change
Wednesday, March 20, 2013, 4:00 - 6:00p.m. BIDMC-Cambridge Health Alliance Inter-hospital Collaborative at the HMS Academy
Monday, March 11, 2013, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. Addressing Unprofessional Behavior in Graduate Medical Education
Friday, February 15, 2013, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Pathways to Publication in Medical Education: Turning Your Teaching into Scholarship
Wednesday, January 16, 2013, 4:15-5:30p.m. BIDMC-MGH Inter-hospital Collaborative at the HMS Academy
Tuesday, January 15, 2013, 4:15-5:30p.m. What Else Can Go Wrong? Strategies for Handling Challenges during a Discussion Session
Wednesday, January 9, 2013, 4:00-5:30p.m. HMS Academy: Medical Education Grand Rounds: Setting Expectations for the Learner: You Only Have One Chance to Make a First Impression
2011 - 2012
Monday, December 17, 2012, 4:15-5:15p.m. Education Works In Progress
Tuesday, December 11, 2012, 12:00-1:30p.m. Practical Tips for Writing Effective Learner Evaluations
Friday, December 7, 2012, 7:30-9:00a.m. HMS Academy: Medical Education Grand Rounds: Academic Promotion for Teaching and Educational Leadership at HMS--The Other New Pathway
Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 2:00-5:00p.m. HMS Academy: Transforming Lectures: Strategies for Interactive Large Group Teaching
Friday, November 9, 2012, 10:15-3:30p.m. Junior Faculty Leadership Course
Tuesday, October 23. 2012, 12:00-6:00p.m. HMS Academy: Medical Education Day
Tuesday, October 16, 2012, 4:00-5:30p.m. A Workshop on Leading a Workshop
Friday, September 21, 2012, 1:00-4:15p.m. Annual Kick-Off: Teaching Innovation Challenge
Monday, June 18, 2012, 4:00-5:15p.m. Negotiating Authorship: Reaching Agreement, Avoiding Dispute
Tuesday, June 5, 2012, 12:00-1:30p.m. Being a Leader in Medical Education
Monday, May 21, 2012, 4:00-5:30p.m. How to Teach Patient Communication Skills to Trainees
Monday, May 15, 2012, 8:00-9:30a.m. Education Works-in-Progress
Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 4:00-6:00p.m. Inter-hospital Collaborative: Interdisciplinary Communications
Thursday, March 22, 2012, 4:00-5:30p.m. Education Works-in-Progress
Thursday, March 1, 2012, 4:00-5:30p.m. Interactive Large Group Teaching Techniques
Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 4:00-5:30p.m. Giving Feedback to the Difficult Learner
Tuesday, January 31, 2012, 4:00-5:15p.m. Digital Professionalism or It's 5p.m. Do You Know What Your Students Are Tweeting?
Friday, January 13, 2012, 12:45-1:45p.m. Navigating Educational Change: From Optimal Design to Maximal Success
Thursday, January 12, 2012, 3:30-5:30p.m. Development of Simulation Teaching Skills
Monday, December 19, 2011, 4:00-5:30p.m. Education Works-in-Progress
Friday, December 9, 2011, 8:00-9:30a.m. Cost-Consciousness in the Training Environment: The Buck Stops Here
Friday, December 2, 2011, 7:30-9:00a.m. HMS Grand Rounds: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Medical Education, and the Spirit of Skepticism
Friday, November 18, 2011, 8:00a.m.-1:45p.m. Strategies that Work for Successful Mentoring
Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 4:00-6:00 p.m. Interhospital Collaborative: Hidden Curriculum at HMS presented by BIDMC and CHB Academies
Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 4:00-5:00 p.m. Assessment of Trainees and Medical Students
Tuesday, October 25, 2011, 12:00-5:30 p.m. HMS Academy: Medical Education Day
Friday, October 21, 2011, 12:00-1:30 p.m. Work and Life: Balance or See Saw?
Thursday, October 20, 2011, 8:00-9:00 a.m. Sherman Auditorium, Thurman Lecture on Humanism in Medicine: The Gift of Respect
Friday, October 14, 2011, 1:30-5:00 p.m. Developing Your Career as a Clinician Educator
Friday, October, 7, 2011, 7:30-9:00 a.m. HMS Academy Grand Rounds: Interdisciplinary
Friday, September 23, 2011, 2:00-4:00 p.m. Kick-Off Meeting: Moving Beyond Your Teaching Comfort Zone
Thursday, June 23, 2011, 4:30-6:00 p.m. Discussion with Visiting Professor Molly Cooke, MD
Monday, May 2, 2011, 4:30-6:00 p.m. Fostering Critical Thinking Skills
Monday, April 25, 2011, 4:30-6:00 p.m. Education Works-in-Progress
Thursday, March 31, 2011, 4:30-6:30 p.m. Effective Discussion Leadership using Harvard Business School Teaching Strategies
Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 4:30-6:00 p.m. Strategies for Effective Bedside Teaching
Monday, January 31, 2011, 4:30-6:00 p.m. Designing a Teaching Session: The Who, What, How, and Why
Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 4:00-6:00 p.m. Inter-hospital Collaborative: BIDMC
Thursday, January 13, 2011, 4:00-6:00 p.m. Introduction to Tutorial for Prospective Tutors