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: Teaching Clinical Reasoning

Friday, May 16, 2025 8:30am to 11:30am
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
This session will focus on strategies and tools for assessing and teaching learners clinical/diagnostic reasoning. Objectives: Describe how clinical reasoning evolves and the model of "Dual Processing Reasoning." Analyze and assess diagnostic reasoning of learners. Give specific feedback to improve diagnostic reasoning of learners. Click here to register.

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.

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.