Grant & Research Methods Education
The AAN is committed to bringing its members the highest quality continuing medical education and professional education opportunities. The 2012 Annual Meeting will offer several programs that provide grant-writing and research methods guidance.
2012 Annual Meeting Education Grant and Research Methods Programs
1AC.001: Resident Basic Science I: Neuropathology
Director(s): J. Clay Goodman, MD, FAAN
Participants should be able to understand cellular and gross neuropathology in relationship to neurological disease mechanisms, diagnosis, progression, and imaging.
1EP.001: Clerkship and Program Directors Conference: Practical Innovations in Neurologic Education
Director(s): Daniel L. Menkes, MD, FAAN
Participants should have a better understanding of evidence-based teaching methodology and be able to tailor these lessons to their own institutions, and of ACGME milestones in their current state as well as what is planned for the future.
1PC.001: Resident Basic Science II: Functional Neuroanatomy
Director(s): Jose Biller, MD, FAAN, FACP, FAHA
Participants should be able to: appreciate the main components of, and interrelationship of the cerebral cortex, basal ganglia nuclei, visual pathways and ocular motor systems, and spinal cord; recognize the clinical syndromes associated with cerebral cortex lesions and atrophy, pallidal, putamen, and caudate lesions and atrophy; recognize the clinical syndromes related to lesions of the visual pathways and ocular motor systems, and the clinical syndromes due to instrinsic and extrinsic spinal cord disorders including those affecting the arterial and venous blood supply of the spinal cord.
2SM.004: Clinical Grant Writing
Director(s): Steven Greenberg, MD, PhD, FAAN
Participants should be able to understand the key strategies and pitfalls in developing and writing a successful clinical grant proposal.
2AC.001: Resident Basic Science III: Neuropharmcology
Director(s): James W.M. Owens, MD, PhD
Participants should be more familiar with basic pharmacological concepts relevant to the clinical practice of neurology as well as an approach to medication selection for patients with epilepsy, movement disorders, and psychiatric conditions based upon an understanding of pharmacological mechanisms of action.
3EC.001: Education Colloquium “Simulation and Neurology Education”
Director(s): Barney Stern, MD, FAAN
Participants should learn about the evolving field of education simulation and how neurologists may benefit from this. Simulation is becoming an increasingly important aspect of procedural disciplines, but there are tremendous opportunities within primarily cognitive disciplines to benefit from increasingly sophisticated simulation educational experiences. The colloquium will explore several aspects of education simulation and hopefully excite the participants to get involved in this field.
3EC.004: Research Coordinator Colloquium
Director(s): Petra Kaufmann, MD
Participants should be familiar with regulatory issues specific to clinical trials in neurology, how to use social marketing strategies to improve recruitment and retention in clinical trials, and best practices in managing investigator-initiated and industry-sponsored clinical trials in neurological disorders and stroke.
3SM.002: Career Development for Clinician Educators
Director(s): Douglas J. Gelb, MD, PhD, FAAN
Participants should understand which activities and responsibilities in an academic neurology department are most likely to be productive for career development as a clinician educator; how to negotiate for those assignments and for the resources necessary to fulfill them; and how to document their accomplishments and productivity.
4EC.001: NIH and the Practice of Neurology: What’s New? What’s Next?
Director(s): Walter Koroshetz MD, FAAN
Participants should have a greater understanding of how recent clinical trials might impact practice and provide input to NIH and AAN leadership on important issues in neurology that are ripe for research.