AME Events

December 9
AME Journal Club
Improving Trust Between Learners and Teachers in Medicine
Catherine Tobin, M.D., FASA, CHSE, Professor, Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine
MUSC College of Medicine

December 4, 2025
AME Roundtable
Rx for Growth: Micro-Coaching as Medical Educators
Sara Ritchie, M.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Co-Director of Clinical Skills for Perclerkship Curriculum
Alice Walz, M.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
MUSC College of Medicine

Recap: AME Workshop: December Save the Date December 4 | Meeting | Microsoft Teams

November 6, 2025
AME Roundtable
But Why Not (Take Your Medicine)? A quick Intro to Qualitaitve Research
Mason Walgrave, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
MUSC College of Medicine

Recap: AME Workshop: But Why Not (Take Your Medicine)? A Quick Intro to Qualitative Research November 6 | Meeting | Microsoft Teams

October 3, 2025
AME Medical Education Grand Rounds
AI in Medical Education: A 21st Century Pascal’s Wager
Adam Rodman, M.D., MPH, FACP | BIDMC General Medicine Research
Chair, Steering Group on Generative AI in the HMS (Harvard Medical School) M.D. Curriculum

Recap: AME Medical Education Grand Rounds: AI in Medical Education: A 21st Century Pascal’s Wager October 3 | Meeting | Microsoft Teams

October 2, 2025
AME Roundtable
Finding Your Balance: Thriving Across Education, Research, and Clinical Care in Academic Medicine
Ben Clyburn, M.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine
Diann Krywko, M.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine
MUSC College of Medicine

Recap: AME Workshop: Finding Your Balance - Thriving Across Education, Research, and Clinical Care in Academic Medicine October 2 | Meeting | Microsoft Teams

September 9, 2025
Pearls for Medical Educators
Laura Kasman, Ph.D.
Assoicate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Immunology
MUSC College of Medicine

Recap: AME Presents Pearls for Educators with Laura Kasman, Ph.D. September 9 | Meeting | Microsoft Teams

September 9, 2025
AME SHARE Symposium to Highlight Advances and Research in Education
MUSC College of Medicine

August 19, 2025
AME Journal Club
The Importance of Acknowledging Language in Medical Education
Andrew Alkis, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
MUSC College of Medicine

June 4, 2025
They Really are Different: Engaging the Gen Z Learner (PDF)
James R. Martindale, Ph.D., M.Ed.
Associate Professor of Medical Education
Director of Assessment
University of Virginia School of Medicine

May 29, 2025
AME Journal Club: Promoting Self-Regulated Learning in Classroom and Clinical Teaching (PDF)
Maryellen E. Gusic, M.D., Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Senior Advisor for Educational Affairs
Co-Director, Academy of Medical Educators
MUSC College of Medicine

May 6, 2025
Paging Dr. Feedback - A Guide to Helping Med Students Thrive
Patricia G. McBurney, M.D., MSCR, Emily Vara, DO, Eileen Matos, M.D., and Luke Wessler, M.D.
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine
MUSC College of Medicine

April 15, 2025
Career Paths for Educators
Donna H. Kern, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine
Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education
MUSC College of Medicine

March 18, 2025
Writing Effective USMLE Style Multiple Choice Questions
Joe B. Blumer, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Immunology
And
Paul J. McDermott, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Medicine
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Development and Wellness
Co-Director, Academy of Medical Educators

March 13, 2025
Medical Education Grand Rounds:
Finding Your Voice as an Educator: Jazz and the Art of Teaching
Paul Haidet, M.D., MPH, Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Humanities, and Public Health Sciences
Director of Medical Education Research
Penn State College of Medicine

February 20, 2025
Narrative Assessment: Strategies to Create High Quality Comments
Maryellen E. Gusic, M.D., Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Senior Advisor for Educational Affairs
Co-Director, Academy of Medical Educators
MUSC College of Medicine

February 11, 2025
AME Journal Club: The Next Era of Assessment
Maryellen E. Gusic, M.D., Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Senior Advisor for Educational Affairs
Co-Director, Academy of Medical Educators
MUSC College of Medicine

January 23, 2025
New Promotion and Tenure Guidelines for Medical Educators
Dan Lackland, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Neurology
Chair, Appointments, Promotion and Tenure Committee
MUSC College of Medicine
And
Paul J. McDermott, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Medicine
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Development and Wellness
Co-Director, Academy of Medical Educators
MUSC College of Medicine

January 7, 2025
Medical Education Grand Rounds
Teaching and Assessing Clinical Reasoning: Past, Present, and Future
Andrew S. Parsons, M.D., MPH
Assistant Professor, Medicine and Hospitalist
UVA Division of General, Geriatric, Palliative and Hospital Medicine
UVA Health 

December 16, 2024
AME Journal Club: Student Engagement
Maryellen E. Gusic, M.D., Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Senior Advisor for Educational Affairs
Co-Director, Academy of Medical Educators
MUSC College of Medicine

November 18, 2024
Promoting Growth by Using Assessment for Learning: Using Amboss to Create Formative Assessments
Joe B. Blumer, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Immunology
MUSC College of Medicine
And
Annamarie Dalton, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
MUSC College of Medicine

October 17, 2024
Maryellen E. Gusic, M.D., Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Senior Advisor for Educational Affairs
Co-Director, Academy of Medical Educators
MUSC College of Medicine

Thursday, September 26
Medical Education Grand Rounds: ADD hard return Supercharged Learning: Using Curiosity, Motivation, Mindset, and Resilience to Power Expertise Development
William B. Cutrer, M.D., MEd Professor of Pediatrics, Critical Care Medicine
Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education
Associate Vice President for Educational Affairs
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

September 17, 2024
Setting the Stage for Scholarship in the Work You do Every Day with Learners (Part 1)
Maryellen E. Gusic, M.D.
Senior Advisor for Educational Affairs
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
College of Medicine
Medical University of South Carolina

April 13, 2023
Clinical Reasoning 201: Practical Approaches to Diagnostic Dilemmas
Pranav Shah, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Medical University of South Carolina

January 12, 2023
Best Practices for Faculty Development in Medical Education
Elisabeth Schlegel, MSc, PhD, MBA, MS (HPPL), FIAMSE
Assistant Director, Faculty Development and Medical Education Research
Associate Professor, Science Education
Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

August 10, 2022
Creating Interactive Learning Modules with HP5
Paul J. McDermott, PhDProfessor, Department of Medicine
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Development and Wellness
Director, Academy of Medical Educators
MUSC College of Medicine

June 15, 2022
Fifth Annual Pearls for Medical Educators
Joe B. Blumer, Ph.D.Associate Professor
Department of Cell & Molecular Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics
and
Ashley A. Duckett, M.D.Associate Professor
Department of Medicine

February 10, 2022
Best Practices to Prevent Propagation of Bias in the Medical Curriculum
Nicholas Shungu, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
Medical University of South Carolina

December 2, 2021
"Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Terminology for Educators"
Brandon Brown, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
Assistant Dean for Preclerkship Clinical Integration
Medical University of South Carolina

November 9, 2021
"Understanding the Learning Needs of the Millennial/GenZ Generation of Medical Students"
Crystal Graff, M.D.
Resident Physician
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
University of Colorado Denver

June 3, 2021
“Pearl for Medical Educators”
Stoney A. Abercrombie, M.D., FAAFP
Campus Dean, MUSC AnMed Health Clinical Campus
Professor of Family Medicine, MUSC College of Medicine
and
Leonie L. Gordon, M.D., Ch.B.
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Faculty Development
Professor of Radiology, MUSC College of Medicine

January 21, 2021
“The Flipped Classroom: Flipping Out Over Nothing?”
Michael Lee, PhD
Associate Professor
Departments of Medical Education and Oncology
Dell Medical School
The University of Texas at Austin

December 3, 2020
“Best Practices in Giving and Receiving Feedback”
Marc Heincelman, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, and Clerkship Director, Internal Medicine
MUSC College of Medicine

Thursday, November 5 at 5 pm
“Using the Clinical Performance Evaluation (CPE) as a formative and summative assessment tool"
Angela Dempsey, MD, MPH
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Associate Dean for Curriculum, Clinical Sciences
Director, Ryan Residency Training Program
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
MUSC College of Medicine

September 24, 2020
“Teaching Requirements for Promotion and Tenure”
Daniel T. Lackland, Dr.P.H.
Professor, Department of Neurology, and Chair, Appointments, Promotion and Tenure Committee
MUSC College of Medicine
and
“Developing Your Teaching Portfolio”
Paul J. McDermott. Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Medicine, and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Faculty Development
MUSC College of Medicine

July 16, 2020
“The Learning Environment and Student Mistreatment”
Dr. Christopher Bunt
Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Professionalism, and Medical Military Advisor. Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine
MUSC College of Medicine

June 25, 2020, 5 pm
“NBME Exam Assessment: What Have We Learned from the NBME-CDIM EXPRESS Study Group?”
Virtural Session on WebEx, link will be sent via invitation
Dr. Matthew Fitz
Professor, Department of Medicine and Clerkship Director, Internal Medicine
Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine

May 13, 2020
“Pearls for Medical Educators”
Marc Heincelman, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, and Clerkship Director, Internal Medicine
MUSC College of Medicine
and
Anita Ramsetty, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Medical Director of CARES Clinic
MUSC College of Medicine

January 23, 2020
“Integrating Clinical Problem Solving into the Flex Curriculum”
Dr. Reza Manesh and Dr. Rabih GehaHosts and Creators of the Podcast: “ The Clinical Problem Solvers”

November 14, 2019
AME Workshop:
"Writing Effective Exam Questions"
Thursday, November 14, 5-6:30 pm in EL 118
Dr. Joe Blumer and Dr. Yi-Te Hsu

August 26, 2019
AME Workshop:
"Peer Observation of Teaching"
Paul McDermott, Ph.D.

June 27, 2019
AME Workshop:
“Designing and Incorporating Interactive Learning into the Undergraduate Medical Curriculum”

Thursday June 27, 5-7 pm
125 Gazes Auditorium, Strom Thurmond Bldg.

June 3, 2019
2019 AME "Pearls for Medical Educators"
Dr. Sally Self, MD, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Dr. Alexander Chessman, MD, Department of Family Medicine

February 14, 2019
"Interfacing with the Undergraduate Medical Education Community"
Eric Holmboe, MD, Senior Vice President, Milestones Development and Evaluation for ACGME