Harvard Principles of Medical Education: Maximizing Your Teaching Skills 2025 -March Edition

Teaching Foundations and Learning Science

• Effective Teaching: Setting the Stage
• Teaching in the 21st Century: Leveraging the Science of Learning
• Skills and Strategies to Improve Small Group Teaching
• Teaching Professionalism in 2025: Strategies for the Frontline
• Clinical Bedside Teaching: Effective Techniques and Overcoming Barriers
• Defining, Teaching, and Assessing Critical Thinking and Clinical Reasoning
• Strategies to Reduce Implicit Bias

AI, Emerging Technologies and Modern Medical Education

• Teaching in the Brave New World: Medical Education in the World of AI and Emerging Technologies
• The Pearls and Pitfalls of AI in Medical Education
• Using new technologies thoughtfully in teaching and learner development
• Understanding the opportunities and limitations of AI in education
• Applying modern tools while preserving clinical judgment and educational quality

Feedback, Assessment and Learner Development

• Feedback: Making it Powerful, Effective, and Efficient
• Assessment of Learning: Determining Competence
• Practical strategies for evaluating learner performance
• Improving communication between teachers and learners
• Supporting meaningful progress through structured feedback
• Creating learning environments that encourage growth and improvement

Mentorship, Burnout Prevention and Faculty Development

• Mentorship for the Future: Mentoring to Combat Burnout and Attrition
• Supporting trainees through mentorship, coaching, and professional guidance
• Recognizing challenges that contribute to burnout and attrition
• Strengthening the teacher-learner relationship
• Building supportive educational environments
• Promoting trainee well-being and educator well-being

Lecture Design and Learner Engagement

• Designing and Delivering More Effective Lectures
• Techniques for better learner engagement
• Improving structure, clarity, and educational impact
• Making lectures more interactive and memorable
• Adapting teaching style to different learning environments
• Helping learners retain and apply key concepts

Curriculum Design, Change Leadership and Coaching

• Curriculum Design: Best Practices for Creation, Implementation and Evaluation
• Leading Effective Change in Medical Education
• Coaching for Success: Supporting Trainee Well-Being and Your Own
• Taking It All Home: Embedding New Skills in Daily Practice
• Designing educational programs that are practical, measurable, and learner-centered
• Applying course concepts to real academic and clinical teaching roles

This course is best suited for physicians, clinical faculty, medical educators, program directors, residents, fellows, and healthcare professionals involved in teaching or learner supervision.

Topics include effective teaching, learning science, small group teaching, bedside teaching, professionalism, clinical reasoning, implicit bias, AI in medical education, feedback, assessment, mentorship, lecture design, curriculum design, coaching, and trainee well-being.

Yes. The course focuses on practical strategies that can be used in clinical teaching, academic education, lectures, bedside rounds, mentorship, feedback, and assessment.

No. CME points and certificates are not included with this course.

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