Grant & Research Methods Education
The AAN is committed to bringing its members the highest quality continuing medical education and professional education opportunities. The 2011 Annual Meeting will offer several programs that provide grant-writing and research methods guidance.
2011 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): John Engstrom, MD, FAAN
Participants should be able to: create a role model exercise at their own institution to improve the educational skills of neurology faculty/residents; create a departmental "useful neurology education links" list for neurology faculty and residents at their institutions; address specific challenges to maintaining a positive education environment during residency. Neurology clerkship directors should be able to design or modify the structure of a neurology clerkship and integrate the clerkship into established curricula. Neurology residency program directors should be able to integrate a program of patient quality and safety into resident training and determine if a flexible residency structure would broaden educational opportunities for residents.
1PC.001: Resident Basic Science II: Clinical Application of Neuropathology
Director(s): J. Clay Goodman MD, FAAN
Participants will be able to recognize the gross and microscopic neuropathological features of a broad range of diseases, correlate these findings with clinical features, imaging and laboratory studies, and understand rational clinical application of neuropathological principles.
2SM.004: Career Development for Clinician Educators
Director(s): Douglas 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.
2AC.001: Resident Basic Science III: 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, cerebellar motor circuits, 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, and the clinical syndromes arising from cerebellar vermal and hemispheric lesions and atrophy; and 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.
3EC.001: Education Colloquium
Director(s): Barney Stern, MD, FAAN
Participants should understand the principles of learning theory, how we learn across the lifespan, appreciate how we make diagnoses, and learn about novel educational initiatives.
3PC.004: Clinical Research Methods
Director(s): Karen Furie MD
Participants should be able to select the appropriate study design to address a particular clinical question, and understand factors that limit the interpretation of their own research and studies reported in the literature.
3EC.002: Research Coordinator Colloquium
Director(s): Petra Kaufmann, MD
Participants should learn about the implementation of multicenter clinical trials and career pathways for coordinators; and be able to discuss their needs for course offerings, and future engagement in the AAN.
4SM.002: 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.
4EC.002: NIH/NINDS Colloquium
Director(s): Walter Koroshetz MD, FAAN
Participants should understand the value and power of these new patient-centered assessment tools developed at the National Institutes of Health. The tools will be free to use and interested attendees will be able to learn how to incorporate them into their practice or research setting.
2009 Annual Meeting Seminars Available for Purchase
At the 2009 Annual Meeting, two grant writing seminars, one on clinical grant writing and another on writing career development proposals were offered. In addition, a full-day Clinical Research Methods program was available. These courses are available for purchase via Marathon Multimedia.