Leading Educators Share Secrets At Annual Meeting Sessions
Psychiatrists
The MECC sessions are designed for attendees to have an “up close and personal” interaction with master educators. Limited to only 30 participants, the sessions give the audience an opportunity to ask questions about teaching techniques in a more intimate format.
The master educators were selected after APA’s Council on Medical Education and Career Development asked for nominations for an outstanding medical educator from each of three allied academic organizations: the Association of Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry, the Association for Academic Psychiatry, and the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training.
The Association for Academic Psychiatry selected
One of Fidler’s educational interests is the combining of theater, film, and video with medical education. He teaches advanced acting to the undergraduate and graduate students in the university’s theater department. He has written several plays, including “Voices in the Woods,” which played to sold-out audiences in Los Angeles. Fidler is also the director of West Virginia University’s Health Sciences Teaching Scholars Program, which he helped to initiate and develop with faculty from the schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing, and pharmacy. He has won several teaching awards, including APA’s
Rieder will speak on Wednesday, May 9, at 11 a.m. on “Teaching Psychopathology to Medical Students.” He will present segments of the two lectures on schizophrenia he gives to first-year medical students in a course on psychiatric disorders. The first lecture introduces students to the phenomenology of the illness, and the second describes research data and theories of etiology and pathogenesis, illustrating the illness with a video of a patient with whom he has worked. He will also compare letters the patient wrote while sane with those written while psychotic. The lecture enables students to appreciate this illness from the inside—the fear, confusion, misperceptions, anxiety, and sadness. The second lecture he will demonstrate focuses on the “myth of mental illness” proposals of
The locations for all three sessions will be published in the program book distributed at registration. ▪