The Center for Leadership and Innovation in Medical Education (CLIME) is excited to offer a Clinical Teaching Certificate. This Certificate Program is designed to help teachers maximize learning in the clinical environment. Faculty who teach students, residents, or fellows alongside providing clinical care will benefit from this program. Faculty who teach clinical skills outside of their own clinical practice will also benefit. Certificate requirements include attendance of six live, online sessions and completion of six online modules with additional independent learning activities. Certificates can be earned by completing the requirements over a single year or over multiple years.
This certificate program is currently open to educators affiliated with UW School of Medicine (WWAMI) who work with students, residents, and fellows.
CLIME Clinical Teaching Certificate: 2021-2022 Executive Summary
Check out the Huddle article about our program!
Program Details
By completing the certificate program requirements, participants will:
- Maximize a positive learning climate in their individual clinical teaching settings.
- Use techniques to optimize delivery of a educational content.
- Teach effectively and efficiently in the course of clinical care.
- Provide accurate skills assessment and high yield feedback to learners.
Certificate Program Mission
- Strengthen the clinical teaching skills of all faculty who interact with learners (students, residents, and fellows).
- Foster a shared mental model of excellent teaching.
- Increase professional satisfaction of faculty working to grow as teachers.
- Highlight the efforts of faculty working to grow as teachers.
- Offer an institution-wide, standardized, durable curriculum available to all faculty.
Certificate Structure and Time Commitment
- 6 two – hour live virtual sessions offered over the course of a academic year. These live sessions will be repeated annually.
- 6 online modules with self-study activities using TalentLMS.
- Attendance of all six live sessions and completion of self-study online modules is required to earn the certificate. This can be completed over multiple years.
- Rolling registration throughout the year. You may sign up at any time but you will need to attend a live session before completing the linked module to receive the certificate.
- 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. If you would like to claim credit please email Amanda Garza agarza16@uw.edu
2023-2024 Clinical Teaching Certificate Schedule
All sessions are from 9:00am-11:00am (PT)
Session 1: Learning Climate
October 10, 2023, 9am-11am (PST)
Core Faculty Lead: 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 which positively impact the learning climate.
Session 2: Understanding and Retention
November 3, 2023, 9am-11am (PST)
Core Faculty Lead: Laura Goodell, MD, Co-Lead: Katie Lowe, MD
1. Collaborate with learners to create shared learning goals.
2. Engage learners in active learning.
3. Use techniques which maximize understanding and retention: emphasize take-home points, use effective visual cues.
Session 3: Teaching Efficiently
January 19, 2024, 9am-11am (PT)
Core Faculty Lead: 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.
Session 4: Teaching in the Presence of Patients
February 6, 2024 9am-11am (PT)
Core Faculty Lead: Renata Thronson, 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.
Session 5: Feedback
March 12, 2024, 9am-11am (PT)
Core Faculty Lead: Kate Michaelsen, MD, MASc, Co-Lead: Liz 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.
Session 6: Assessment
May 10, 2024, 9am-11am (PT)
Core Faculty Lead: Alan Yang, MD, Co-Leads: 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.
CLINICAL TEACHING CERTIFICATE SESSION RESOURCES
Resources used in the Clinical Teaching Certificate Workshops