Announcing the Fall 2015 Med iBookJam

The iMedEd Initiative is excited to announce the second Med iBookJam competition to be held from Sept., 15-28, 2015.

What is an iBook?
An iBook is a multi-touch digital book that can provide an interactive learning experience on Macs and iOS devices such as iPads and iPhones, for example: Cardiac Ultrasound iBook

What is the Med iBookJam?
The Med iBookJam is a competition where teams of high school students, medical students and School of Medicine faculty come together to create multi-touch iBooks related to healthcare. The event will focus on the production of the iBooks using Apple’s iBooks Author tool. Teams will use a standardized template with the intention of publishing the content to the Apple iBooks Store for feature in a UC Irvine School of Medicine collection.

We held our first Med iBookJam from April 9-13, 2015. It was a great success with 12 iBooks produced over a 72-hour period. For information on the winning teams and the iBooks created during this competition, visit: 2015 Spring Med iBookJam teams. Congratulations to all faculty and students who participated in this inaugural event!

This September, we will expand the Med iBookJam to 12 days to provide faculty and students more time to create and collaborate on their final products. Further, we have partnered with the Health and Science Enrichment Programs led by Dr. Behnoosh Afghani to launch the iMedEd Technology Innovation Program through which gifted high school students will learn about technology in healthcare and receive mentorship while participating in the Med iBookJam competition.

Med iBookJam Sign-up
To sign-up for more information about the Med iBookJam or becoming a faculty mentor in the iMedEd Technology Innovation Program, complete this simple Sign-Up Form. Stay tuned for more details and information about the Med iBookJam in the coming month including iBooks Author workshops!

Important Update For Faculty and Residents Evaluating Students

With the help of HS developers, we have made an important update to the workflow for student evaluations to become effective next week. When you receive an email reminder to evaluate a medical student on a clerkship, you can simply click on the link in the email and it will take you straight to the evaluation WITHOUT requiring an additional login. For faculty and residents not at UC Irvine Medical Center, this feature should make completing evaluations much easier. We will be sending out a user guide shortly.

Reminder: Workshop: Creating Exams with Examsoft

This workshop will help faculty prepare exams for administration through Examsoft.

• Wednesday, August 5, 2015, 11 a.m.-noon, Conference Room A1000 (Irvine)
• Tuesday, August 11, 2015, 1-2 p.m., Colloquium Room 3070 (Irvine)
• Contact jyoum@uci.edu directly if you have an exam scheduled for August or September 2015 and need immediate assistance

Reminder: Workshop: Integrating Audience Response into your Presentations using Poll Everywhere

This workshop presents how to create polls using Poll Everywhere and highlights best practices/common uses for audience response.

• Tuesday, August 4, 2015, 9-10 a.m., Douglas Hospital, Conference Room 6843 (Orange)

Only one more week until the 2015 White Coat Ceremony!
We are actively working on having our courses ready in Ilios and Canvas for our new and returning students. Contact us if you need any assistance preparing your courses.