Live Workshops

The Center for Faculty Excellence offers the following workshops for department meetings, grand rounds, or retreats:

Note: Many of these workshops can be modified for virtual delivery if needed.

To schedule a workshop, please contact the Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE) at cfe [at] gwu [dot] edu (cfe[at]gwu[dot]edu)

Teaching on the Fly: Teaching strategies that promote powerful case-based learning experiences when time is limited
Shaping Learning on Your Service or Shift: Teaching strategies to enhance learning across the entire service/shift and in between
Feedback that Sticks: Techniques for giving feedback and helping those receiving it
Being a Good Reflector & Encouraging Reflection in Others: Strategies for motivating, developing and assessing reflection
Promoting Learning in Small Groups: Techniques for effectively facilitating and maximizing learning in small groups
Designing Effective Didactics: Instructional design strategies to maximize learning and retention of lectures and small group sessions
Effective Mentoring: Strategies for cultivating an effective mentor-mentee relationship
Remediation of Struggling Learners: Strategies for identifying learning issues and remediating learners having difficulty
Maximizing Case-Based Learning: Strategies for effectively using cases to foster learning
Deliberate Direct Observation & Assessment: Minimizing barriers and maximizing assessment reliability
Creating an Environment of Psychological Safety: Strategies for fostering a climate in which people are comfortable expressing themselves and sharing concerns
Best Practices for Scientific Presentations: Best practices for presenting scientific work (e.g. conferences, journal club, grand rounds), including practice presenting and peer/expert feedback
Digital Communication Best Practices: How to get the most out of your digital communications (email, text, slack, MS Teams, etc), and how to develop team/department norms and expectations around communication
Foundational Assessment of Clinical Learners: this workshop is a stepwise approach to conducting direct observation, how multiple feedback on student performance gets consolidated and incorporated into the overall clerkship grade, and factors that lead to low-quality assessments and strategies to overcome them. This workshop is for clinical faculty, fellows, residents, or anyone teaching in the clinical learning environment responsible for assessing and evaluating students.
Fostering a Psychologically Safe Clinical Learning Environment- Psychological safety in the learning environment is a shared belief that the educator-learner relationship is safe for interpersonal risk-taking, which creates a sense of confidence that the educator will not embarrass, reject, or punish the learner due to mutual respect and trust. This workshop aims to help educators (the leaders of learning teams) foster psychologically safe environments for all SMHS learners.
Lies, damned lies, and surveys: Designing better surveys for education and research. Principles of survey design to help educators design and develop better surveys.
Behind the scenes: Your paper, from submission to publication. Inside the peer-review process, with principles and strategies for anyone who is trying to publish in medical and health profession education (or publish more generally in the peer-reviewed literature)
Advancing health professions education science: How will you play the game? This grand rounds-type talk is about unethical research practices and how we can do better.
Did I do the right thing? Questionable research practices in health professions education. A review of ethical (and unethical) research practices, including several real-world scenarios to stimulate discussion.
Do I need a Mentor? Tips on structuring mentoring sessions
Managing your career: Writing your personal mission, goals & objectives
Presenting at Conferences & forming academic collaborations/networking
Graceful Self-Promotion
Facing the Blank page: How to get started with your writing project
Conceptual frameworks: Grounding your arguments in the literature
Using Reference Manager Endnote/RefWorks
Interrupting Coloniality: Generating Scholarship Organically
Join the Micro-Resistance against Microaggressions
Teaching tools for the Busy Clinician-Educator
Physician Bias & Cultural Humility
Using AI to boost your medical education research

If you do not see a workshop listed on a topic you think would benefit your group, please cfe [at] gwu [dot] edu (contact the CFE). We are happy to work with you to develop something that will address your needs.

Self-Paced Online Modules

Some of the live workshops have been developed and are available as online resources. The following are self-paced courses for faculty development:

Educational Technology Workshops

Educational Technology workshops are also available for department meetings, grand rounds, or retreats. Topics include, but are not limited to audience quizzing and polling with PollEverywhere or Panopto, using web conferencing tools (Zoom, Blackboard Collaborate, WebEx), or recording and editing presentations.

To schedule a technology workshop, please contact the cfe [at] gwu [dot] edu (CFE). Also, check out the Educational Technology page for more training and resources.