Thread by @TChanMD

Thank you to Dr. @RobAnders1 for inviting me to present to Dr. Sarita Verma (@ddsv3) and @TheNOSM at one of their faculty retreats. They asked me to speak about a few things, but I will be tweeting my keynote which focuses on:

The Future of #MedEd*

*As seen by @TChanMD

As many of you know, I am here on Twitter. So I started my talk by inviting the @TheNOSM crew to engage with me online to talk more after my talk. The convo doesn't have to stop when I log off of WebEx...@Twitter is the ultimate #DigitalCorridor for those in #MedEd & #MedTwitter.

My intellectual & financial conflicts of interest pertaining to this talk are:
@PSIFoundation who gave me $ to study #SoMe for Education and Knowledge Translation.

@ALiEMteam honorarium to teach/administer for @ALiEMfac

@McMasterU for their patronge of @MacPFD

Pics=@unsplash

And I begin my talk with thinking about what it means to be a futurist.

Thanks to @felixankel for introducing me to the term, and @profseanpark for getting me to learn more about this.

And when I first started... Let's be honest, I did what many of us do... I hit @Wikipedia :D

What I read: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associati…

I learned that the Assoc of Professional Futurists (@profuturists) has described a framework for engaging in futurist work. (Next tweet for more)

These are the 6 steps of being a futurist per @profuturists
1. Framing
2. Scanning <-- I focused on this today
3. Futuring
4. Visioning
5. Designing
6. Adapting

(In slide, I started from bottom to build up to the top!)

And so I focused in on some of the SCANNING I have done to spot some future trends in #MedEd.

Here are 5 trends I see... Many of them based on work that I have seen or done more recently.

#1
The Digital Transformation of #MedEd (can no longer be ignored).

(Seriously. I spend more time on @Zoom @Webex @SlackHQ and @Twitter now than ever before.)

As #MedEd folks, this has been prompted by the pandemic, but has helped us to shift into changing our practice both clinically and educationally.

We've see Virtual Patient Care or Telemedicine emerge as part of our practice in many specialties. #MedEd=Digital Learning & Teaming

Are we ready for the realities of #MedEd in VPC?

Here's some webinars that @MacPFD created to give #FOAMed to help our faculty learn about this.

Also, @keentoride and the @machealth_ team has created a module to help prime faculty for this new task! Check it out at machealth.ca! Thanks to @McMasterFamMed for sponsoring this great initiative.

But we also have to think about Digital Learning. Are we hitting all of the channels that people use? Are we effectively translating what we used to do into the new reality?

For the team I have @MacPFD we have tried to meet the end-user needs of our learners... which is @MacHealthSci Faculty. Check out our work at macpfd.ca

If you're curious about what we're up to for #FacDev, you can definitely join in the fun. We have loads of events that are upcoming that you can pick from - just go to our website and hit the "Event Calendar" in the top nav bar. #AllAreWelcome

And... #ICYMI (in case you missed it), we record and remaster some of our video content. We also create direct-to-@YouTube content that we release directly there. (You know, like @Disney or @Netflix do sometimes!)

Check here FIRST if you're looking for #FacDev content!

Also, for #audiophiles in our midst, we have also launched a new podcast (@MacPFD Spark) to deliver #FacDev content to your earbuds.

Hear it:
Web: macpfd.ca/podcast

@soundcloud:
soundcloud.com/macpfd

@ApplePodcasts: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/mac…

And we also have to think about how best to help our digital teams work better in academia.

We have a digital corridor via @SlackHQ for @MacPFD that helped us develop dozens of new resources for faculty quickly with very few meetings.

We can have better teaming by using digital means to connect our teams/operations. Have:
Watercooler Convos Online
Share info
Exchange ideas
Celebrate Successes
...Send emojis! 🔥😍🤣🤔😄🤪🧐💥🌈💧🍁

Read more about this:
1) jgme.org/doi/full/10.43…
2) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

#2:
Growth orientation must be folded into in every aspect of our #HigherEd organizations.

In #MedEd we preach #GrowthMindset (thanks Dr. Carol Dweck), but is it hardwired into our faculty hearts/minds (via #FacDev) and our systems (via #educational QI)? Suggested books:

Learners:
amazon.ca/Thanks-Feedbac…

Teachers:
amazon.ca/Mindset-Update…

&

amazon.ca/Immunity-Chang…

I asked the faculty participating...
What's YOUR next development plan?

Challenge: Take a moment and think about your own (subtweet this tweet and commit to it!)

For #MedEd leaders:
- Is yours a LEARNING ORGANIZATION?
- Is your school/system DELIBERATELY DEVELOPMENTAL?

Books to explore:
1) Hess - Learn or Die
amazon.ca/Learn-Die-Lead…
2) Kegan & Lahey - Everyone Culture
amazon.ca/Everyone-Cultu…
3) Bock - Work Rules!
amazon.ca/Work-Rules-Ins…

(P.S. if you're a busy person and find books TL;DR for you? Also check out @HarvardBiz or other blogs for quick snappers the do work!

e.g. gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/15/07/…

hbr.org/2001/11/the-re…

hbr.org/2016/10/the-ke…

Our @MacPFD team is hard at work (under the leadership of our Postdoc Fellow @YusufYilmazPhD) working on a new model for fostering development within people and orgs.

Watch this space (and @MacPFD or macpfd.ca) for more info on this.

#3
Social Connection & Networks will be an expectation of how we interface with the world.

#COVID19 has shown us that old models of information exchange and dissemination are no longer the norm. Printing presses and journal articles are being superceded by tweets and @tiktok_us

Whereas before we had traditional hierarchical formats dependent on live in-person experiences (e.g. like @BonKu and @johnmaeda discuss in @DesignLabPod about traditional academia and #MedEd being like Disneyland in its business model, Listen here: stitcher.com/podcast/design…).

Going forward though... #HigherEd will look more like what we do NOW for #CME.

It will need to be more:
Networked (e.g. personal learning networks)
Non-hierarchical
Open (viva la #FOAMed)

This also means we will need to think about how to better serve our communities by bringing them into our systems and thinking. Recently interviewed @LyndonGeorge1 and @MVerhovsek about this for @MacPFD podcast.

We MUST shift as the world swirls.
#CommunityEngagement #Advocacy

We also must connect virtual communities of practice to build capacity WITHIN our groups.

Examples:
@IFEM2
WhatsApp
@MacEmerg faculty using to connect with others across country (e.g. @CAEP_Docs)
@ALiEMFac
(aliem.com/faculty-incuba…)
#MedTwitter

Read: jgme.org/doi/pdf/10.430…

Also contribute back by engaging in best practices of sharing. Consider whether you can contribute back to the world by making your content #FOAMed.

At
@MacPFD
we are trying to do this.
Let's stop the siloing and start the sharing.

#SharingisCaring
cambridge.org/core/journals/…

My predilection towards #FOAMed pre-dates my work in traditional academia. Before @MacPFD, I apprenticed under @M_Lin @ALiEMteam. (Learn more about ALiEM: )

Here I got to run the MEdiC series for five years with a fine team. aliem.com/medic

We've got DOZENS of PDFs with common #MedEd problems... and 5 free PDF/iTunes books covering so many common problems for clinician and classroom teachers.

Cases: aliem.com/medic
Books: aliem.com/library

(Also, check out Education Theory Made Practical series)

#4
Entrepreneurial & intraprenurial efforts will be needed to foster innovation & sustainability.

@spartoviMD @SarrahML @profseanpark are teaching me about how health tech & innovation need to be a new pillar in health professionals academia. (Yes, engineers doing it better)

Forgot to add this to my slides, but I'll add it now... We've recently conducting a scoping review (led by @nishqy and with team members like @slamchop1 @SarrahML and
@AylC1989) to explore the intersection of #MedEd & Innovation.

Bottomline: Need more!
link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Health Tech is here to stay. Lots of industry getting in on this. But we have experience, wisdom, and insights that they will need to build better innovations. We must start to see this as a scholarly pursuit - similar to research, education, leadership!

e.g. @med_innovators

#5
Agility in change will be a differentiator for #MedEd and #HigherEd Institutions.

As the old adage goes:
"The only constant in life is change."

Many of us do quality improvements at home!
e.g. My dad can do wonderful things with duct tape and his willpower. :D

And there is an increasing interest (esp during and after #COVID19) to see health systems QI as a true academic discipline, which can be promotable, valued, and important in the health professions & academy.

@HowardOvens @chartierlucas @DrShawnQI @shawnkdowling @Brian_M_Wong

But do we really do this in #MedEd? Do we invest in those to get the training to engage in continuous quality improvement?

Or do we wait for accreditors to audit our practices and then RESPOND?

The @CIHR_IRSC Knowledge-to-Action cycle is a great framework to understand the gap between theory and practice.

Books (like Ed Theory Made Practical in aliem.com/library) can get you to knowledge.

BUT does it change your practice?

Figure from: cmaj.ca/content/181/3-…

The @MacCEprog is a response to that need. We train "educational engineers" who solve problems and improve our #MedEd systems. First of @Royal_College AFC programs in this specialty in Canada.

More: sites.google.com/medportal.ca/c…

@USaskMedDean @robwoodsuofs fostering second program.

So... my little journey to reflect on trends in #MedEd futures... here i the summary.

Thank you for reading to the end of a very long #medthread.