Educational Tools for Clerkship Directors

A goal of the Consortium of Neurology Clerkship Directors is to facilitate development and sharing of educational resources to Clerkship Directors. As a result, we have gathered the following information for your use:

• Neurologic Education Abstracts from previous AAN Annual Meetings
• Education Colloquium Presentations from previous AAN Annual Meetings
• Education Programs from previous AAN Annual Meetings
• AUPN Boot Camp—Materials from the Association of University Professors of Neurology (AUPN) Boot Camp for Clerkship Directors
• Clerkship and Program Directors Conference Materials

Check back periodically for new educational tools that will be added to this page.

Education Colloquium

The purpose of Education Colloquium is to explore the teaching of neurology from a variety of viewpoints. The Colloquium is presented free of charge at the Annual Meeting and is open to all registered participants, particularly those whose lives are most closely associated with the education of students and physicians in neurology

Presentations from previous Education Colloquia are listed below.

2011—How We Learn

• How Do We Learn to Be Right — Clinical Reasoning, Diagnosis Accuracy, Avoiding Misdiagnosis
• Learning Across Our Lifetime — Constancy in the Midst of Change
• Learning — Lessons from Neuroscience and Cognitive Psychology
• Simulation-Based Formative Assessment — Creating the "Teachable Moment"

2010—International Education

• Can the AAN Help Develop Neurology in Africa - An Ethiopian Example
• Challenges and Successes of Neurology Education in India
• Neurology Education in Latin America and the World Federation of Neurology
• Neurology Training in Canada for Foreign Nationals

2009—Ethics and Education

• Case for Health Law Curriculum for Residents
• Everybody Talks About the Weather But Nobody Does Anything About It. How to Assess and Change the Environment for Teaching Ethics Today
• Is It Ethically Permissible to Teach Ethics Without a Curriculum
• When, Where, and How I Am Still Improving My Skills at Helping Students Learn
• Why Teach Ethics

2008—Lifelong Education

• The ABPN Maintenance of Certification Program For Neurologists
• New Challenges For CME
• Teaching The Next Generation

2007—Education is Not Enough

• Integrated Medical Student Education in Neurology and Psychiatry - A Modest Proposal
• Integration of Training and Practice Neurology and Psychiatry - Opportunities, Challenges, and Knowing the Boundaries
• Interdisciplinary Interactions in Neurological and Psychiatric Education at the Medical Student and Resident Level
• Neurology is not Enough

2006—Patient Education

• Education Communities About Neurologic Disease
• The Education Patient - A Patient's Perspective
• The Profession of Neurological Education
• Understanding Where Neurology Patients Get Health Information

2005—Neurologic Education in the Era of Increasing Subspecialization

• Reflections of an Accidental Generalist
• Residency and Post-Residency Education of the General Neurologist
• Training the Future Neurology Workforce

2004—The Role of the Pharmaceutical Industry in Neurologic Education

• Doctors and Drug Companies - Ethics and Evidence
• Pharmaceutical Industry Involvement in Continuing Neurological Education
• Pharmaceutical Industry Involvement in Neurologic Publications
• Pharmaceutical Industry Perspective on Education
• The Role of the Pharmaceutical Industry in Neurologic Education

2003—Teaching Evidence-Based Medicine

• Evidence-Based Practice Guidelines - A National Priority
• Getting Started on the Right Foot - Teaching EBM to Medical Students
• How to Use Evidence Based Medicine in Everyday Clinical Practice
• Teaching Evidence and Measuring Concurrence With Evidence-Based Guidelines, Using Escenario
• The Case Against Practice Parameters and Evidence-Based Guidelines
• You're a Neurologist, Do You Know How to Teach Neurology