December 2024

2024 Hall of FAME - Revisit the Year's Top Highlights

• Medical Education Day Keynote Lecture | Jean Twenge, PhD
• FAME Promotion Resources
• 14th Annual Medical Education Day Overview
• Augusta Webster Faculty Funding Opportunities
• MedEdMentor | A Resource for Education Scholarship
• Northwestern's Master of Science in Health Professions Education
• FAME Consultation Services
• AllySHIP - Standing Firm: Backlash on DEI in Healthcare | Shawn Smith, MD, FAAP
• Overcoming Resistance to New Ideas | David Schonthal, MBA

FAME Welcomed 34 New Members in 2024:

Almost FAME-ous Members

Gayane Archer, MD

Pranshu Bhardwaj, MD

Megan Garcia-Curran, MD, PhD

Constantine E Kanakis, MD MSc

Kathleen Kelly, MD, MPH

Ashlyn McRae, MD

Eesha Singh, MD

Anna Marie Pacheco Young, MD, MPH

Qian Sophia Zhang, MD, PhD

Associate Members

Jared T. Ahrendsen, MD, PhD

Taylor Bronson, MD

Carolina Carmona, PT, DPT, NCS

Jenna Ford, MD

Daniela Grimaldi, MD, PhD

Taylor Heald-Sargent, MD PhD

Melissa Kolski, PT, DPT 

Christa Nelson, PT, DPT, PhD

Matthew Smith PT, DPT, DSc

Hamza Tariq, MD

Erica R. Vormittag-Nocito, MD

Jaclyn S Weisman, PhD

FAME Members

Barina Aqil, MD

Ashley Budd, MD

Justin Drogos, PT, DPT, PhD(c)

Lucy Jager, MD

Alina Lazar, MD

Debbie Lee, MD

Defne Magnetta, MD

Michael Marcangelo, MD

Tarita Thomas MD, PhD, MBA

Krista F. Van Der Laan, DPT

Kristin Van Genderen, MD

Stephen A. VanHaerents, MD

Allan Wu, MD

** CME & CEU credit are available for FAME Education Scholarship and TIME Lecture Series in December 2024. **

Looking Forward|January Events

January 9 at 12:00pm - TIME Lecture

Topic: Cognitive Load Theory to Create PowerPoint Slides that Engage Rather Than Overwhelm

Speaker: Amanda Emke, MD, MHPE

January 15 at 12:00pm - Education Scholarship Session

Topic: Assessment of Health Equity in Education Scholarship: Expansion of Glassick's Criteria

Speakers: Robyn Bockrath, MD, MEd and Jennifer Trainor, MD

Revisiting November | Session Recordings

Education Scholarship

Design for Success:

Workshop on Workshops

Brigid Dolan, MD, MEd

TIME Lecture Series

Enhancing Your Career as a Clinician Educator: Definitions, Challenges, and Opportunities

Larrie Greenberg, MD

2025 ScholarRx Call for Innovation Grant Applications

MERIC, in partnership with ScholarRx/USMLE-Rx, is offering small grants to advance educational scholarship and innovation in health sciences education. This program supports investigators exploring teaching methods, pedagogy, curriculum development, and student assessment.

ScholarRx plans to fund 2-3 projects with budgets ranging from $5,000 to $20,000.

Click here for more information.

LOI Submission Deadline: December 13, 2024

Discount Available | SBML Educator Course

Join the Designing and Implementing Simulation-Based Mastery Learning Curricula (SBML) course from March 3–5, 2025, in Chicago, IL, hosted by Northwestern Simulation. This CME-accredited program offers hands-on training to help simulation educators develop reliable assessments, set rigorous achievement standards, and provide impactful feedback to enhance their curricula.

Register by December 31, 2024, to save 10% and elevate your teaching with expert guidance and practical experience in procedural and communication training!

Click here to learn more.

Discounted Course Registration Deadline: December 31, 2024

Register | Mentoring Across Generations Workshop

NUCATS Developing and Enhancing Mentoring Relationships series offers 90 minute workshops exclusively to faculty of all ranks and career tracks. Join Kenzie A. Cameron, PhD, MPH and Khalilah L. Gates, MD for a session on Mentoring Across Generations.

Click here to register.

Lurie Research Center – Searle Seminar Rm (1-161)

January 9, 2025 9AM - 10:30AM

GEA National Grant Award Call for Educational Research Grant Proposals

The GEA seeks to fund research projects that address important problems or questions in medical education. Proposals that foster collaboration are strongly encouraged. Multiple projects may be funded each year up to $10,000 each up to a two-year grant period.

Click here to learn more.

Pre-proposals Deadline: Jan 17, 2025

ABMS Research and Education Foundation

The ABMS REF seeks grant proposals on original research that provides insight into the process of achieving and maintaining the standards for medical specialty certification. These insights inform improvements in the structures, processes, and outcomes of certification. Grants of up to $75,000 are available.

Click here to learn more.

LOI submission Deadline - January 31, 2025

** December 2024 CME Disclosure Information **

Credit Designation Statement

The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosure Statement

Drs. Giarbaldi and Duff have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. Course director Dr. Mary McBride has disclosed ongoing financial relationships with the following entity: American Heart Association (consulting fee). FSM’s CME Leadership, Review Committee, and Staff have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. All the relevant financial relationships for this/these individual(s) have been mitigated.

Accreditation Statement

The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.