• Develop the skills necessary to teach in a clinical setting, utilizing effective, engaging teaching strategies, while addressing specific strategies focused on Millennial and Gen Z learners.
• Improved coaching and mentoring capabilities, educational scholarship, clinical care, and scholastic contribution to health sciences teaching and instruction
• Demonstrate an ability to teach and educate other learners, incorporate digital learning methods to teach healthcare professionals, recognize the importance of communication in medical education, and obtain knowledge related to addressing confident employment of teaching technologies.

Professional Practice Gap

Advances in the science of learning require healthcare educators to develop and practice new teaching skills consistent with the current academic climate.  Faculty from the various colleges within the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) require skills and resources to further their professional development.  This annual symposium fosters shared knowledge and serves as a benchmark to implement best practices related to engagement of learners utilizing tools such as improv; technology; AI; conflict resolution; gamification; simulation; and help educators reconnect to their purpose which could enhance their aptitude and ability in the classroom or other clinical setting.