Mission

Staff members in the Office of Consultation and Research in Medical Education (OCRME) provide a broad range of services to support medical education and scholarship. These services include:

  • Research and evaluation
  • Curriculum design
  • Teacher development for faculty and residents

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Events

Skills for Educators Workshop: Debriefing for Simulation and Clinical Education

Friday, September 19, 2025 8:30am to 11:30am
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Debriefing is how we help learners make meaning out of critical experiences in simulation and clinical education. Learn how specific debriefing techniques can improve student and trainee learning and development.Objectives:To understand how debriefing and experiential learning can be applied in multiple settingsTo distinguish debriefing and other approaches to feedbackTo use a validated framework (i.e., PEARLS) for debriefingTo demonstrate effective debriefing skillsTo use DASH to assess...

Skills for Educators Workshop: Interactive Lecturing

Friday, October 17, 2025 8:30am to 11:30am
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Deliver effective, interactive presentations.Objectives:• Describe components of effective presentations.• Apply specific techniques for making presentations more interactive and memorable.

Skills for Educators Workshop: Educational Scholarship

Friday, November 21, 2025 8:30am to 11:30am
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
This session will explore how to design and conduct research related to health professions education questions and innovations.Objectives:Define educational scholarship.Formulate educational research questions.Make decisions in relation to study design/conceptual framework and implementation of educational research projects.List potential venues of dissemination/publication of medical education scholarship.