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Van Eck chats the ‘promise and peril of AI’ in debut episode of UND’s Health In Action podcast

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The Health In Action podcast from the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences Dean’s Office is now live! In our debut episode, SMHS Dean Dr. Marjorie Jenkins talks with the School’s Associate Dean for Teaching & Learning, Richard Van Eck. In his role as chair of the School’s Artificial Intelligence Committee (AIC), Van Eck […]

TLAS presents ‘Ready, Set, Go? Getting Started with AI’ with Rick Van Eck on Nov. 19

Categories: Education

Everyone is welcome to attend the next Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship (TLAS) event “Ready, Set, Go? Getting Started with AI” with Dr. Richard Van Eck, associate dean for teaching and learning, to be held virtually from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 19. Join on Zoom. In our October session, attendees learned about the SMHS […]

TLAS to offer faculty development on AI in healthcare

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Please join us for the next Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship (TLAS) next virtual faculty development event, “Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare,” on April 17 at 12:30 p.m. (Central). The presentation will be streamed live on Zoom and recorded. The potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to transform every aspect of our world is becoming increasingly evident. […]

UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences designated as an AMA Innovation Site

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The UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) has been designated by the American Medical Association (AMA) as an Innovation Site for its project entitled “Badging for Competency-Based Medical Education while Promoting Transition and Equity and Diversity.” The work grows out of the School’s membership in the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education (ChangeMedEd) […]

Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship team launches SMHS Media Recording Studio

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The UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences TLAS Media Recording Studio is now ready for use! A group of faculty, staff, and SMHS leadership have been working for more than a year to create a technology space where faculty and staff can create high-quality media to support their teaching. The idea for the space grew […]

Teleteaching telehealth

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A new elective in telehealth at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences has faculty reimagining how they teach medicine to students at a distance. “I really think this is the direction medicine is going, and I think all of us are going to have to have some experience with it,” mused Dr. Suzanne […]

Faculty development: Building online interactive simulations and tutorials with SimTutor Feb. 11

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The SMHS has purchased a limited number of licenses for SimTutor, a tool for building online tutorials and simulations quickly. With SimTutor, you can easily take images, video, and audio and integrate them with text, questions, and interactive objects to share with your learners online. Join Richard Van Eck, Ph.D., associate dean for Teaching and […]

Faculty development: The 1-minute preceptor and other strategies for busy clinical educators

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Join the Teaching, Learning and Scholarship team at noon on Thursday, Dec. 17 for the next Evidence-Based Faculty Development Session: “The 1-minute preceptor and other strategies for busy clinical educators.” Presenters: Dr. Marc Basson, Senior Associate Dean for Medicine and Research Dr. Richard Van Eck, Associate Dean for Teaching & Learning Time has always been one […]

Incoming class for inaugural TLAS Teaching Academy announced

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The Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship (TLAS) unit in Education Resources is pleased to announce the inaugural class of the TLAS Teaching Academy. The Teaching Academy is a joint program of the SMHS Office of Education & Faculty Affairs (OEFA) and TLAS. It is being launched as a pilot program in 2020. The ten members of this year’s Teaching Academy program, representing seven different SMHS […]

From the (Associate) Dean

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Health care is constantly changing, which in turn requires health care education to continually evolve. The UND SMHS has a long history of such innovation: problem-based learning, team-based learning, online learning, interprofessional education, simulation, membership in the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education, and the establishment of an initiative in virtual health care education and […]