The 4th Annual Med AppJam has Kicked-Off The Med AppJam is a two-week long interprofessional competition where students from the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science (ICS) and the School of Medicine (SOM) along with students from other disciplines come together to create a fully functional and mobile healthcare application on the iOS Platform. Apps are judged Read More…

iMedEd Initiative Recognized as an Apple Distinguished Program The iMedEd Initiative has been recognized as an Apple Distinguished Program for 2015-2017

Viewing the Medical School Curriculum through the Ilios Reporting Tool Ilios is the curriculum management tool that allows us to map the School of Medicine curriculum to identify what is being taught in our courses and find gaps/redundanices. Justin Chu, on our team, has developed a simple reporting tool to assist faculty, staff and students Read More…

We have a new name: Division of Educational Technology On October 1, 2015, Dr. Warren Wiechmann assumed a joint appointment as Associate Dean for Clinical Science Education and Educational Technology. Dr. Wiechmann was previously the Associate Dean for the Division of Instructional Technologies which oversaw implementation and integration of technology for the Office of Medical Read More…

Engaging with Your Audience using Poll Everywhere Poll Everywhere is an audience response tool that enables you to interact with your learners by asking them questions that they can answer via text message, Twitter or a web browser. With this tool, there is no need for physical hardware, like a clicker device, and responses can Read More…

Bringing Design to UCI Health Clinician Education Dr. Alisa Wray, a Multimedia Design Education Techology Fellow in the Department of Emergency Medicine and a recent addition to the iMedEd team, partnered with Dr. Minh-Ha Tran of the UCI Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine earlier this academic year to help create a series of posters Read More…

Histology Flipped Classroom + Small-Group Discussion + Canvas = Active Learning The MS1 Histology course led by director Dr. Aileen Anderson and co-director Dr. Xiangmin Xu has integrated a new series of active learning sessions into their curriculum this year. They have designed these sessions to follow a flipped learning model where students watch faculty-created Read More…

Sign-Up for the Med iBookJam Sept. 15-28 On Sept. 15, 2015 at 5 p.m. in the Telemedicine Theater (basement of Medical Education Building, Irvine), we will kick-off for our second Med iBookJam, a competition where teams of faculty and students create multitouch digital books on topics in medical education, patient education and healthcare. If you Read More…