Medical Education Retreat
VTCSOM Medical Education Retreat 2025 Recap
Align, Integrate, Innovate: Advancing Medical Education at VTCSOM
May 20, 2025
Thank You for Joining Us!
The 2025 VTCSOM Medical Education Retreat brought together over 80 faculty, leaders, and educational partners for a highly engaging day of collaboration, innovation, and planning focused on the future of medical education. With the theme “Align, Integrate, Innovate,” the retreat served as a launchpad for strategic initiatives that will shape our curriculum, enhance accreditation readiness, and further integrate professional identity and systems thinking into all phases of our program.
Event Highlights
Retreat Highlights
Keynote Address & Recognitions
Dr. Luan Lawson and Dr. Kacie Lord, distinguished leaders from Virginia Commonwealth University, inspired attendees with a keynote on aligning competencies, curricular integration, and accreditation. Their insights emphasized strategic design and the educator’s role in preparing learners to thrive in modern healthcare systems.
We also celebrated the following honorees:
Service & Teaming Award: This award honors non-instructional faculty or staff whose behind-the-scenes efforts are crucial to the success of the educational mission.
- Joalenn Tabor
Spark Recognition for Educational Excellence: This student-nominated award recognizes faculty who have created transformative learning experiences. Spark recipients are those who inspired students to think critically, reflect deeply, and grow as future physicians.
- Dr. Don Steinweg (Phase 1)
- Dr. Jennifer Cleveland (Phase 1)
- Dr. Kimberly Simcox (Phase 2-3)
Scholarship in Education Award: These awards recognize faculty whose educational scholarship meets rigorous peer-reviewed standards, advancing scholarship in medical education. Projects are evaluated using Glassick’s criteria, including clear goals, sound methods, and meaningful dissemination.
- Dr. Farrell Adkins – Virtual Reality Training for Surgical Immersion
- Drs. Renée LeClair, Andrew Binks, Jennifer Cleveland – Open Education Resources for Preclinical Students.
- Dr. Mariana Gomez – Carilion Hepatitis C Training Program
- Dr. Leslie LaConte – Integrated Research Curriculum
- Dr. Brock Mutcheson – Health Systems Citizenship Assessment
- Drs. Tarin Schmidt-Dalton, Jonathan Nogueira, Elvis Pagan – Ultrasound Curriculum Evolution
Interactive Workshops
- Standards Setting VTCSOM Developmental Milestones: Facilitators guided participants through aligning EPOs across program phases using Dreyfus levels.
- Phase 2/3 Updates and Innovations: Participants explored innovations in the new Phase 2/3 curriculum. Emphasis was placed on integrating foundational sciences with clinical learning and strengthening horizontal and vertical alignment in between Phases 1 and 2.
- How AI Effects Medical Education: Participants tackled timely questions about AI’s role in clinical reasoning, faculty workload, and learner assessment. Discussions centered on embracing AI as both a tool and a teammate, while acknowledging the need for clear developmental guidelines
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