CLINICAL TEACHING CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

Download 2025-2026 Schedule

Program Overview

The CLIME Clinical Teaching Certificate Program is designed to strengthen teaching skills, foster a shared mental model of excellent teaching, and increase professional satisfaction for faculty who teach in the clinical setting.

All faculty who teach are encouraged to register, whether they are new to teaching or have decades of experience. Past participants have taught in diverse settings, including the operating room, emergency department, hospital wards, and outpatient clinics across many specialties.

At a glance:

Six interactive workshops held October–May (90 minutes each, live on Zoom), with six online modules.
Rolling Registration
Practical teaching tools you can apply immediately in clinical environments
A community of educators across the WWAMI region
Recognition of completion with a CLIME-issued certificate

All UW Affiliated Faculty Welcome!

2025-2026 Clinical Teaching Certificate Schedule

Topic	Speaker	Objectives	Date/Time
Learning Climate	Addie McClintock, MD	1. Recognize the importance of the learning climate in optimizing trainee learning, sense of belonging, and well-being. 2. Use continual, deliberate self-reflection to improve the learning climate. 3. Identify and employ actions, words, and behaviors that positively impact the learning climate	October 7, 2025 9:00am- 11:00am (PT) 8:00am – 10:00am (AKT) 10:00am – 12:00pm (MT)
Understanding & Retention	Laure Goodell, MD	1. Collaborate with learners to create shared learning goals. 2. Engage learners in active learning. 3. Use techniques that maximize understanding and retention: emphasize take-home points, and use effective visual cues.	Thursday, November 6, 2025 9:00am- 11:00am (PT) 8:00am – 10:00am (AKT) 10:00am – 12:00pm (MT)
Teaching Efficiently	Somnath Mookherjee, MD	1. Orient the learner to the clinical environment; set expectations. 2. Prepare the learner for their role in patient encounters. 3. Identify teaching opportunities in the flow of the workday.	Tuesday, January 20, 2026 9:00am- 11:00am (PT) 8:00am – 10:00am (AKT) 10:00am – 12:00pm (MT)
Teaching in the Presence of Patients	Kathleen Raskob, MD	1. Balance patient-centeredness and learner autonomy during clinical teaching. 2. Maximize learning of communication skills, physical tasks, and clinical reasoning in the presence of patients. 3. Interrupt bias in clinical teaching encounters.	Friday, February 20, 2026 9:00am- 11:00am (PT) 8:00am – 10:00am (AKT) 10:00am – 12:00pm (MT)
Feedback	Katherine Michaelsen, MD, MASc Elizabeth Schackmann, MD	1. Collaborate with learners to create shared learning goals. 2. Emphasize coaching and a growth mindset. 3. Effectively use constructive and reinforcing feedback.	Tuesday, March 24, 2026 9:00am- 11:00am (PT) 8:00am – 10:00am (AKT) 10:00am – 12:00pm (MT)
Assessment	Alan Yang, MD Tomoko Sairenji, MD Jeanne Cawse-Lucas, MD	1. Use competency-based frameworks to assess learners. 2. Recognize and correct biased language in assessment. 3. Write accurate assessments that reflect the competency of learners.	Friday, May 8, 2026 9:00am- 11:00am (PT) 8:00am – 10:00am (AKT) 10:00am – 12:00pm (MT)

Resource Hub: Recordings, Materials, Tools

Clinical Teaching Certificate Resource Hub
Access past session recordings, workshop materials, and key resources from the Clinical Teaching Certificate Program in one convenient location.

Whether you’re catching up on missed sessions or revisiting materials to strengthen your teaching skills, this hub provides easy access to everything you need to support your growth as a clinical educator.

Visit the Clinical Teaching Certificate Session Resources Hub for materials and session details.

Program Overview & Time Commitment

This certificate includes 6 live sessions and 6 asynchronous modules, completed over one or more years.

Six two-hour live virtual sessions offered throughout the academic year (October – May). These sessions will be repeated annually.
Six online modules with self-study activities available through TalentLMS.
Attendance at all six live sessions and completion of the online self-study modules are required to earn the certificate. This can be completed over multiple years. *Please note that CME is accredited annually, so if you would like to claim CME, it must be claimed within the year you attended, as it does not roll over.
Rolling registration is available throughout the year. You may sign up at any time, but you must attend a live session before completing the linked module to receive the certificate. (Watching recordings is allowed for up to two sessions in cases of scheduling conflicts or emergencies)

CME Credits and Accreditation Info

The University of Washington School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Washington School of Medicine designates this other activity for a maximum of 18 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

*This activity includes 2 hours of live content and 1-hour online learning component. To receive your credit, completion of all components must be done.

Please create a CloudCME account before the sessions to streamline the CME claiming process, as we use text attendance

Already Completed the Clinical Teaching Certificate?

Take the next step with our Advanced Clinical Teaching Certificate (2.0)

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What is it?

The CLIME Advanced Clinical Teaching Certificate Program is for graduates of the Clinical Teaching Certificate Program. The Advanced Certificate provides further training and practice with challenging topics and difficult clinical teaching scenarios.

What to Expect

The Advanced Certificate sessions are also offered online with six live sessions and feature more interaction and discussion in smaller groups. The Advanced Certificate can be completed over multiple years, but we recommend completing it in one year, if possible

Accreditation with Commendation: The University of Washington School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation: The University of Washington School of Medicine designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.