Medical education continues in a rapid evolution towards digital education — virtual communities of practice in content forms such as videos, podcasts, and social media. At the same time, artificial intelligence tools powered by large language models are increasingly changing what it means to learn and practice medicine. The Internal Medicine Residency at BIDMC continues its history of educational innovation with the Digital Education Track (DET) for residents to develop the knowledge and skills to become a leader in medical education and digital education.
The DET curriculum centers both on traditional educational principles while also discovering how those best practices translate to digital mediums. Residents will learn from BIDMC leaders and prominent digital educators from across the country.
The Digital Education Track has five main objectives:
- Gain a theoretical understanding of the principles of medical education and instructional design
- Develop the technical and design skills necessary to excel in digital education and create a digital education product
- Learn the basics of medical artificial intelligence and how to use AI technologies to enhance learning
- Learn how to effectively design educational curricula and the principles of educational evaluation
- Master the skills necessary for medical education research and develop a digital education research project
Curriculum and Timetable
All categorical residents are candidates to participate in the DET. Applications are due in December of your intern year. If accepted to the track, you will participate in a two-year longitudinal curriculum starting in July of your junior year. Each resident will develop a major digital education project.
Bootcamp
The track starts with an intensive weeklong bootcamp that will cover many of the theoretical fundamentals of medical education, as well as basic technical skills in digital education.
Core Content Curricula
Residents will meet for a half day on average every month during non-call blocks. You will partake in two overlapping curricula — Foundational and Digital Education Project Development.
The foundational curricula is taught by education experts here at BIDMC and national experts in digital education brought in via teleconference. You will also have hands-on skills sessions in topics such as graphic design, video design, and gamification.
Digital Education Project Development
A second curriculum will focus on developing your digital education project. Working with the track directors, and through workshopping with your colleagues, you will develop, record, and produce a digital education project throughout the course of a year. These products will be widely disseminated. Resident podcasts, distributed through CORE IM and the American College of Physicians, receive over 50,000 unique listeners each episode.
Final Track Year
The third year of the track focuses on larger projects rather than curriculum work — either a larger digital education product, or a research project of choice.
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