The Education Innovation Institute (EII) of the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, welcomes submissions for a Medical Education Conference: "Change Processes to Transform Health Professions Education."
We are bringing together scholars, practitioners, leaders, and learners
to advance the study and practice of
change processes in health professions education
This is a companion event to the special issue of the same name led by the CMEJ. The CMEJ is inviting papers for an upcoming peer reviewed special issue on the change process in health professions education.
We are excited to announce that Dr. Gene Hall, PhD will deliver our Keynote Address. Dr. Hall, Professor Emeritus and current Research Professor at the University of Colorado-Denver, is best known for his work as lead architect, developer, and driving force behind the “Concerns Based Adoption Model” (CBAM) which centers on understanding, responding to, and facilitating organizational change at the individual level. CBAM and the related research and training programs have been tested and applied in many types of organizations including schools, business, government, and the military.
Hall, G.E. and Hord, S.M. (2020). Implementing Change: Patterns, Principles and Potholes (5th Edition). Hoboken, NJ: Pearson.
Hall, G.E. (2013). Evaluating change processes: Assessing extent of implementation (Constructs, Methods, and Implications). Journal of Educational Administration. 1(3), 264-289.
Topic areas include but are not limited to the following:
Diverse interdisciplinary and methodological approaches applying quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods welcome:
"If you don’t have a hungry mind, you shouldn’t be a leader," writes Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic in an article for Fast Company. "Leadership, as Gianpiero Petriglieri says, should be an argument with tradition, and the best way to challenge tradition is to have the curiosity to explore alternatives, which includes valuing a diversity of views, values, and opinions."
Send your 250 word abstract to Lauren Watkins by August 16th.
We will notify presenters of their abstract’s status by September 17, 2021. All abstracts will be scored based on the rubric below.
We reserve the right to choose abstracts based on multiple criteria, such as the reviews (with score), available space in the conference, and diversity of the presentations.
( /3):
clear, articulate, grammatically correct
( /4):
importance and appeal of the topic in health professions education
( /8):
strength of the research design, data collection, analysis, and conclusions for both qualitative and quantitative studies; other forms of scholarship will be judged on relevant criteria.
We reserve the right to choose abstracts based on multiple criteria, such as the reviews (with score), available space in the conference, and diversity of the presentations.
Follow this timeline to optimize your conference submission experience.
Abstracts / Proposals Due
Presenters Notified
Conference Begins
Please see the conference agenda for more details.
This Twitter conference is brought to you by @MCG_EII. Are you interested in hosting your own conference? Contact Dr. Jessica DeWitt (jessicamariedewitt@gmail.com) who can help you plan, organize, and execute Twitter conferences such as this one.
Each author will present their topic in a 10-15 Tweet thread over a 15 minute scheduled time slot followed by 15 minutes for questions and discussion over Twitter.
Presentations may involve text, links, and multi-media (images, gifs, videos, etc.).
They must be well planned and prepared. Even after the allotted time, the conversation can and often does continue.
A Presenter’s Guide with technical tips and guidance will be available for all presenters (and participants).
We designed this conference conducted on Twitter based on successful models in other disciplines and on our own conference on professional identity formation held in February (#MCGconf2021PIF). We hope you take this opportunity to share your scholarship with the international health professions education community in this new way.
We are committed to ensuring that our presenters and their audiences are treated with respect as they participate in our conference. We reserve the right to take action if we determine that any presenter or audience member is exhibiting disrespect or harassing another conference participant. Find our full 'Code of Conduct' in our Presenter’s Guide.
Thank you to our Conference Dignitaries: Dean David Hess, MD, EVP & Vice-Dean Doug Miller, MDCM, MBA
If you have any questions, please contact Lauren Watkins, Conference Administrator.
Marcel F. D’Eon, PhD, Director
mdeon@augusta.edu
Lauren Watkins, Clerkship Project Coordinator II
lawatkins@augusta.edu
