AUPO Medical Student Educators

Dr Carlos Rosende will be rotating off the AUPO MSE Council effective date April 1, 2011.
We thank him for his years of service and hope that he enjoys spending more time with his family.

We are now accepting nominations for a new Council Member At Large.

Nominees must have been a medical student education director for at least two years at the time of election and be prepared for a commitment of an additional 5 years after election.

In preparation for our second annual meeting at the AUPO, we invite you to submit proposals for presentations. We are interested in hearing you discuss your experiences with curriculum reform at your school as well as novel teaching tools you have developed that can be adapted for other schools' curricula.

In addition, please send  Linda Lippa the time-point in the curriculum at your school where ophthalmology in any form is first introduced to the medical school class (month and year, e.g., February of year one.) She is trying to set up a research grant for the summer between year one  and two, and needs this information on a national scale to figure out the logistics of awards.

Please remember to post progress on your curriculum reform efforts at your medical school on the AUPO-MSE website and check in regularly. It is the primary way for us to maintain the exciting momentum at our first AUPO meeting, and to stay vital in between in-person meetings.

The Consortium of Medical Student Educators is now the AUPO Medical Student Educators. The site's new home address is www.aupomse.org. Any links/bookmarks you may have saved to cmse.ophed.com should still work and should redirect you to our new address.

The third meeting of the AUPO Consortium of Medical Student Educators took place at the Association of University Professors in Ophthalmology meeting. The meeting was well attended by CMSE members, department chairs and residency program directors. The meeting was led by Dr Linda Lippa the president of the Consortium. The meeting served to reintroduce the Consortium’s mission and to report on progress over the past year and challenges to come.

MedEdPORTAL (www.aamc.org/mededportal) is a free peer-reviewed publication service and repository for medical and oral health teaching materials, assessment tools, and faculty development resources. Currently, they are having trouble getting ophthalmology reviewers. If you'd like to help out, please contact Cindi Chou at cchou@aamc.org

Please note corrected dates!

This year's AUPO-CMSE meeting is scheduled for Friday, Jan 29 from 1:30 to 2:30 at the 44th Annual Meeting of the AUPO in Sarasota, FL. The CMSE symposium will be held on Saturday Jan 30 from 9:15 to 10:45.  A copy of the preliminary program is attached below.

The American College of Physicians is in need of two faculty members to run a funduscopy workshop for their meeting in Toronto in April 2010. Travel will be covered. Please get in touch with Linda Lippa if you're interested in participating.

In keeping with the new status of the AUPO-CMSE members as Associate Members of the AUPO, meetings of the AUPO-CMSE will now take place at the annual AUPO meeting instead of the AAO meeting. This should give us “protected time” to brainstorm, network, present our work to an interested "captive audience" and actually get things done.

The next AUPO meeting will take place January 28-30, 2010 at the Ritz-Carlton in Sarasota Florida.

Please urge your chairs to sign you up for associate membership

The chair membership of AUPO overwhelmingly voted to admit medical student educators as associate members on par with residency program directors, recognizing the vital role that we play in supporting the future vitality of our specialty. We urge you to stay in touch with your fellow educators, by accessing the website cmse.ophed.com to share experiences, curricular programs ideas and assessment tools, and to stay abreast of notice of future meetings so you can reserve the dates.