COMP is thrilled to bring the Winter School back to in-person!
Calgary Marriott Downtown Hotel, AB
January 29 – February 1, 2025
Background
Join us January 29 – February 1,2025 in Calgary Alberta for dynamic, interactive programming designed to foster interprofessional collaborative relationships and embrace new knowledge, while advancing continuing education and professional development goals.
The theme Embracing change in modernizing education across radiation medicine will provide an opportunity for medical physicists and their radiation therapy, radiation oncology and dosimetry colleagues to consider how emerging technologies and innovations may impact education training programs.
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Keynote: Changing and Unchanging Medical Education
In some ways, medical education is in a state of constant flux and change, yet in other ways medical education today is not so different from the way it looked a century ago. We have embraced problem-based learning, OSCEs, digital technologies, and competency based medical education, yet we still focus on apprenticeships, vocation, and high stakes exams. In this keynote presentation, Dr. Ellaway will explore the paradox that medical educators can be simultaneously obsessed with quality improvement and innovation and yet act in ways that resist change and embrace inertia. She will consider different theories of change and what they can tell us, along with emerging (and perhaps troubling) concepts of precision medical education and professional resistance. A constant theme in the presentation will be the question “how much is enough?”. How much change, how much stability, how much innovation, and how much stewardship is enough? Although these questions cannot be answered in any absolute way, the exploration of medical education as something that is simultaneously in a permanent state of change and in a permanent state of inertia will be illuminating!
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Organizing Committee
We are grateful for the dedicated planning committee volunteers (co-chaired by Sarah Quirk, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Harvard Medical School and Michael Roumeliotis, Johns Hopkins Medicine) in the medical physics, radiation therapy, radiation oncology and patient communities for putting together this Winter School.
