Harvard Principles of Medical Education Maximizing Your Teaching Skills March Edition 2026

• Target Audience: medical educators and clinical faculty who want updates on instructional strategies, curriculum design, and trainee mentorship
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1. Overview

The Harvard Principles of Medical Education Maximizing Your Teaching Skills March Edition 2026 course provides a comprehensive update on modern instructional strategies and curriculum development for clinical faculty. The program focuses on leveraging the science of learning, improving bedside and small group teaching, addressing implicit bias, and navigating emerging technologies like artificial intelligence in the educational landscape.

Course Date: March 2026

Improve the effectiveness of your teaching and mentoring with best practices, new principles of adult learning, and the latest educational technology. This comprehensive exploration of medical education will help you inspire students, residents, fellows, and colleagues at the bedside, in ambulatory settings, and in the classroom.

The Techniques and Strategies That Significantly Improve Student Engagement, and Teaching and Mentoring Effectiveness

The 2026 curriculum helps medical educators to:

Leverage artificial intelligence in your teaching

Provide more effective feedback that motivates change

Utilize active learning strategies in small and large group teaching settings

Deliver more impactful and engaging lectures

Characterize best practices for mentor-mentee relationships and identify ways to leverage mentorship opportunities to help you thrive at work

Optimize evaluation of trainee competencies

Improve engagement and interactivity for in-person and virtual teaching sessions

Enhance critical thinking and self-directed learning among students

Describe real-time strategies to address unprofessional behavior

Identify strengths and weaknesses of various assessment tools

Incorporate various forms of technology, including digital media and artificial intelligence, into your teaching

Create an action plan for implementing and sustaining effective change as leaders in medical education

Identify strategies to recognize and mitigate bias

Describe personal and organizational strategies to improve the well-being of yourself and your trainees

Case-based and hands-on learning are a hallmark of this course, with significant participant interaction and active modeling of instruction techniques. Whether you are newer to teaching or a seasoned educator and mentor, this course will give you modern tools and practices to optimize skills transfer and learner success.

SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

Areas of focus in which attendees will deepen their skills include:

Interactive Lecturing

Bedside Teaching

Effective Mentoring

Impactful Feedback

Developing Curricula

Assessing Learners

Learner Engagement

Teaching Critical Thinking

Teaching and Maintaining Wellness

2. Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

Identify principles of adult learning in order to:

Assess their learners’ needs,

Design an educational intervention

Establish learner-centered learning environments

Employ venue-specific teaching skills for:

Ambulatory teaching

Bedside teaching

Large-group presentations

Small-group/case-based teaching

Recognize effective learner assessment strategies and provide effective feedback in order to set educational expectations

Foster critical thinking skills so learners may effectively use questions to promote clinical decision-making

Engage in reflective practice in order to identify effective teaching techniques

3. Target Audience

Best for medical educators and clinical faculty who want updates on instructional strategies, curriculum design, and trainee mentorship.

Who Should Participate

Medical personnel of all specialties involved in the practice of medical education, including:

Physicians

Nurse Practitioners

Physician Assistants

Nurses

Pharmacists

Psychologists

Veterinarians

Dentists

4. Topics

01 Effective Teaching Setting the Stage

02 Teaching in the 21st Century Leveraging the Science of Learning

03 Clinical Bedside Teaching Effective Techniques and Overcoming Barriers

04 Teaching Professionalism in 2025 Strategies for the Frontline

05 Defining, Teaching, and Assessing Critical Thinking and Clinical Reasoning

06 Skills and Strategies to Improve Small Group Teaching

07 Strategies to Reduce Implicit Bias

08 Teaching in the Brave New World- Medical Education in the World of AI & other Emerging Technologies

09 Designing and Delivering More Effective Lectures Techniques for Better Learner Engagement

10 Mentoring for the Future Mentoring to Combat Burnout and Attrition

11 Interprofessional Teaching From Parallel Practice to Partnership

12 Assessment of Learning Determining Competence

13 Meeting learners where they practice Bringing simulation to the clinical environment

14 Coaching for Success Supporting Trainee Well-Being and Your Own

15 Curriculum Design Best Practices for Creation, Implementation and Evaluation

16 Feedback Making it Powerful, Effective, and Efficient

17 Leading Effective Change in Medical Education

18 TANGIBLE TAKE HOME – SNAPPS Daniel Ricotta, MD

19 Tangible Take Home Series – Concept Mapping – Practice Jeremy Richards, MD

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