Pre-Conference Workshops will be held on Tuesday, April 26, in-person only.

Full Day (8:00 am - 5:00 pm)

Residency Advising Strategies to Maximize Student Match Success

This interactive workshop presented by the Council on Residency Placement (CORP), will examine and present best practices on the transition from undergraduate to graduate medical education (GME) focusing on the residency selection and matching participation processes. The target audience is osteopathic medical school student advisors, academic affairs, deans and faculty, administrators, program directors, program coordinators and others that interact and advise students in the residency selection and matching process. It is designed to facilitate a robust discussion around how to best advise students to succeed in the residency matches, identify tools and resources to make the transition successful, discuss national data and trends on enhancing match success, and the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the residency recruitment and selection process.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe best practices and recommendations on advising students and matching to residences 
• Modify student advising programs and residency interview and selections processes to ensure the best fit matches possible
• Articulate recommendations for students and residencies

Morning (9:00 am - 12:00 pm)

Learning Analytics Across the Spectrum of Medical Education 

This workshop provides an educational introduction to the broad field of learning analytics (LA) and an overview of LA in medical education and serves as a platform for those researching and using LA to present their work to others and encourage cross-institutional research. Attendees’ understanding of LA, and attendees’ ability to use and assess LA through the development of LA-specific research skills and opportunities will be improved. 

Learning Objectives: 

• Attendees will be able to apply the concepts of learning analytics to their medical education program 
• Attendees will demonstrate potential use cases for learning analytics based on case scenarios 

Afternoon (1:00 pm - 5:00 pm)

Developing Learning Mindsets in OME: Faculty Development to Support URiM Students

AACOM has partnered with motivation science experts at Motivate Lab to:

1. establish standardized metrics of burn-out, resilience, and well-being, and
2. create scalable training opportunities designed to mitigate the causes and effects of burn-out.

These faculty development training opportunities are based on a Motivating Learners Course designed to support higher education faculty to create more motivationally-supportive learning climates by leveraging motivational principles of growth mindset, perceptions of purpose and relevance, and a sense of belonging. These three constructs are significantly associated to burnout (e.g., retention), resilience (e.g., persistence), and well-being (e.g., motivation, belonging. Emerging data from state-wide implementations of the Motivate Lab course (MLC) indicate that course participants benefit in terms of learning and being more willing to implement mindset-supportive practices.

This workshop will help AACOM gain a better understanding of the underlying issues related to burnout and inform the development of success metrics (e.g., instances of burnout, well-being, resilience) customized for our COMs and their students. It will also give you some great ideas for bringing these principles to your own institution. Come help us create and share.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the characteristics of the learning environment most closely associated with burnout.
• Develop COM-appropriate measures of student and faculty well-being.