Social media use by healthcare providers offers many potential benefits including the ability to advocate for topics they care about, advertise their practice, and educate the public.

Social media also has potential professionalism pitfalls and educators must be aware of how their social media presence may be impacting those they work with, including the impact on learners.

Click to access the GW Social Media Professionalism module.

Psychological safety in the learning environment is a shared belief that the educator-learner relationship is safe for interpersonal risk-taking which creates a sense of confidence that the educator will not embarrass, reject, or punish the learner due to mutual respect and trust. 

The purpose of this module is to help educators (the leaders of learning teams) foster psychologically safe environments for all SMHS learners. 

Click to access the Fostering Psychological Safety module.

This self-paced module is the first part of a two-course training. It covers a stepwise approach to conducting direct observation, how multiple feedback on student performance gets consolidated and incorporated into the overall clerkship grade, and factors that lead to low-quality assessments and strategies to overcome them.

This online course is for clinical faculty, fellows, residents, or anyone teaching in the clinical learning environment responsible for assessing and evaluating students. 

Click to access the Part 1 Assessment of Clinical Learners - The Basics module.

This self-paced module is a guide for preparing and delivering effective scientific presentations. Scientists preparing presentations for conferences or other venues will be able to identify and apply elements of effective presentations. This guide provides a how-to approach for:

• Presentation organization
• Effective visual design of slides
• Best practices in delivery in either in-person or virtual environments

Click to access the Best Practices for Scientific Presentations module.