April 2023

Abstract proposal submissions are now open for the 13th Annual Medical Education Day.

Proposals will be reviewed by the Medical Education Day Committee and decisions will be communicated in July. For any questions, please contact fame@northwestern.edu. 

Abstracts must be submitted by June 5, 2023 for consideration. 

CME & CEU credit are available for all events in April 2023 and AllySHIP in May 2023.

Works in Progress - Working Session

The May 17, 2023 Education Scholarship session will be a works in progress session for health professions scholarly work. This opportunity will provide time to connect with other health professions educators and for speakers to receive feedback on their current projects. The FAME Scholarship Mentors will be present at the session and available to provide feedback.

If you are interested in presenting at this session, please contact FAME@northwestern.edu.

Special Sessions of Faculty Development Workshop and TIME

FAME is excited to welcome Brian Garibaldi, MD to Feinberg for a special faculty development workshop and TIME lecture on May 23, 2023. The workshop will cover Teaching the Physical Exam and take place in McGaw 1-401 at 2:00pm. The lecture - The Importance of the Physical Exam - will take place at 4:00pm in Simpson Querrey Auditorium.

"In an era where time is scarce and technology seems to dominate..., we are in danger of neglecting the value of the physical examination...[In Paley, et al.] the single modality contributing most to diagnosis was history [and] some 61% of diagnoses were made by history and examination, without recourse to laboratory tests or imaging...The presence of a physical examination makes a positive contribution to clinical care, its absence compromises patient safety...New curricula for physical examination should be developed and focus on maneuvers or signs with best supporting evidence of value..." 

Brian Garibaldi & Andrew Elder. J R Coll Physicians Erdinb, 2021. 

Stigmatizing Language Module

FAME is excited to announce a new, upcoming module on the topic of Stigmatizing Language created by Almost FAME-ous member Asantewaa Ture, MD in collaboration with FAME member Brigid Dolan, MD and the Feinberg Instructional Design team. This new module will be uploaded soon to the FAME website and CME credit will be available.

From the NU IRB Office: How do you modify an exempt study?

You don't! Exempt human participant research is a specific subset of research that does not require ongoing IRB oversight. Research can qualify for an exemption if it poses no more than minimal risk and the IRB determines that all of the research procedures fit within one or more of the exemption categories in the federal IRB regulations. Modifications do not need to be submitted for exempt studies so long as the research remains at minimal risk and stays within the boundaries of the determined exemption categories. If substantial changes are being considered and there are questions about whether IRB review is needed, contact the IRB Office or create a new IRB submission with the proposed changes. Find more IRB Office news and announcements.

* From the Office of Research March 2023 newsletter -  TRANSFORMING RESEARCH: News for the NU research community

2023 AAMC Nurturing Experiences for Tomorrow's Community Leaders (NEXT) Grant

Application Form

Deadline April 3, 2023

For more information about this grant, visit this link.

Picker Gold Graduate Medical Education (GME) Challenge Grant Program

Grant Application Site

Deadline April 10, 2023

Eligibility Details can be found here.

13th Annual Medical Education Day

Abstract Submission Form

Deadline June 5, 2023

For more information about Med Ed Day, visit this link.