Faculty Advancing in Medical Education (FAME): Working With the Modern Learner 2.0: Learn Effective Strategies for Direct Observation in a Clinical Education

Chicago, IL US
June 12, 2025
Faculty Advancing in Medical Education (FAME) is a faculty development program sponsored by the Academy of Distinguished Medical Educators and the MERITS Program (Medical Education Research, Innovation, Teaching, and Scholarship). FAME supports faculty educators by providing resources and training in conceptual and practical skills for teaching and assessment.

Learn more at the FAME website!
 
Today’s medical learners bring diverse backgrounds, expectations, and learning styles that often differ significantly from previous generations of trainees. This session will explore the evolving demographics of medical students and residents, highlight key differences in how modern learners prefer to engage and communicate, and provide practical strategies for fostering a supportive and psychologically safe learning environment. Educators will leave with concrete tools to enhance teaching effectiveness and better connect with today’s learners.

Target Audience

This activity is intended for clinical faculty, program and associate program directors, course and clerkship directors, and faculty involved in teaching courses and clerkships.

Learning Objectives

After this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Compare the demographics of current medical students and trainees with those of previous generations.
  • Analyze differences in learning preferences and communication styles between current and previous generations of medical trainees.
  • Implement evidence-based strategies to foster psychologically safe and supportive learning environments.
Additional information
ACGME/ABMS Core Competencies: 
Interpersonal and Communication Skills
Professionalism
For more information, please contact:
CME Coordinator Contact Name: 
Kayla Scales, MSHI
CME Coordinator Contact Email: 
[email protected]
CME Coordinator Contact Phone: 
(773) 834-0298
Summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 Participation
Event starts: 
06/12/2025 - 12:00pm
Event ends: 
06/12/2025 - 1:00pm
Activity opens: 
06/12/2025
Activity expires: 
09/12/2025
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The University of Chicago Medicine
5841 S Maryland Ave
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Chicago, IL 60637
United States
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The University of Chicago reserves the right to cancel or postpone this conference due to unforeseen circumstances. In the unlikely event this activity must be cancelled or postponed, the registration fee will be refunded; however, the University of Chicago is not responsible for any related costs, charges, or expenses to participants, including fees assessed by airline/travel/lodging agencies.
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO FACULTY
  Isabel Malone, MD
  Assistant Professor of Medicine
  
 
 
 

Disclosure Declarations
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone in a position to control the content of an education activity to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible companies. This includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if a financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company during the past 24 months, and the content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship. Mechanisms are in place to identify and mitigate any relevant financial relationships prior to the start of the activity.

Additionally, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires Authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration at first mention and where appropriate in the content.
Physician Credit
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
 
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
Other Participant Credit
Other participants will receive a Certificate of Participation. For information on the applicability and acceptance of Certificates of Participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME, please consult your professional licensing board.
 
Please note: The credit claiming process will close three months after the activity ends. Requests to claim credit after three months may incur additional fees.
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