Program Information
Program Objectives
To help and encourage participants to
- Understand the expectations and requirements of certifying and accrediting agencies;
- Gain insight into the instructional methods of master teachers;
- Apply proven teaching techniques in the classroom;
- Identify effective ways to reinforce or replace classroom lectures;
- Appreciate the appropriate roles of technology in helping students learn;
- Acquire learning resources available to medical physicists;
- Prepare a Self-Directed Educational Program to become a better teacher.
Program Outline
All sessions take place in Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall unless otherwise noted.
| THURSDAY, JULY 22 | ||
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6:30pm-8:30pm IceBreaker at Mad Mex, 3401 Walnut Street |
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| FRIDAY, JULY 23 | ||
| Time | Title | SPEAKER |
7:00am-8:15am Breakfast in Reading Room, Houston Hall |
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| 8:15am-8:30am | Welcome and Introduction | Hendee and Starkschall |
| 8:30am-9:20am | Strategies for Learning to Solve Physics Problems | Heller |
| 9:20am-9:45am | Panel Response and Audience Discussion | |
9:45am-10:15am Coffee Break in Reading Room, Houston Hall |
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| 10:15am-11:05pm | How to Be the Speaker Everyone Wants You to Be | Collins |
| 11:05am-11:30pm | Audience Participation in Problem-Based Learning | |
11:30pm-12:30pm Lunch in Houston Market |
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| 12:30pm-1:20pm | Learning through Problem-Solving | Hmelo-Silver |
| 1:20pm-1:55pm | Problem-solving examples with audience participation | |
| 1:55pm-2:45pm | Demonstration of RSNA-AAPM web modules | Hendee |
2:45pm-3:15pm Refreshment Break in Reading Room, Houston Hall |
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| 3:15pm-4:15pm | Break Out Session 1 | |
| 4:15pm-5:00pm | Break Out Session I Report Back |
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7:00pm-9:00pm Night In Dinner, Perelman Quad |
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| SATURDAY, JULY 24 | ||
| Time | Title | SPEAKER |
7:00am-8:15am Breakfast in Reading Room, Houston Hall |
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| 8:15am-8:30am | New and Changing Communications Media Social Media Revolution presented with permission from TeacherTube.com |
video presentation |
8:30am-9:20am |
Multiple Technologies to Address Multiple Instructional Needs | Beichner |
| 9:20am-9:45am | Panel and Audience Discussion | |
9:45am-10:15am Coffee Break in Reading Room, Houston Hall |
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10:15am-10:50am |
CAMPEP Expectations of Physicists | Hendee |
| 10:50am-11:35am | The ABR Physics Expectations of Radiologists, Radiation Oncologists and Physicists | Ibbott, Frey |
| 11:35am-12:20pm | Resident Panel (physics, radiation oncology, radiology) | Haibo Lin, PhD Kevin Du, MD, PhD Sriyesh Krishnan, MD UPenn |
12:20pm-1:20pm Lunch in Reading Room, Houston Hall |
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1:20pm-2:10pm |
Teaching Physics of Biology and Medicine | Amador-Kane |
2:10pm-2:35pm |
Panel (2) and Audience Discussion | |
| 2:35pm-3:30pm | Break Out Session II | |
3:30pm-4:00pm Refreshment Break in Reading Room, Houston Hall |
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4:00pm-4:30pm |
Break Out Session II Report Back | |
| 4:30pm-5:15pm | What I find Useful in Teaching and How my SDEP Has Been Helpful | Starkschall, Smilowitz, Rzeszotarski, Kagadis |
6:00pm-7:00pm Dinner in Perelman QuadTours of the UPenn Proton Center (sign up required) |
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| SUNDAY, JULY 25 | ||
| Time | Title | SPEAKER |
7:30am-8:30am Breakfast in Reading Room, Houston Hall |
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| 8:30am-9:20am | Wrapping Things Up: Overview, Examples, Suggestions this presentation cannot be posted as a .pdf due to animation |
Montemayor |
| 9:20am-9:45am | Panel and Audience Discussion | Hendee |
| 9:45am-10:15am | What is an SDEP? | Hendee |
| 10:15am-11:30am | Developing Participant SDEPs | |
| 11:30am-12:15pm | Presenting Sample SDEPs | |
| 12:15pm | Meeting Adjourns. Grab Box Lunches in the Reading Room and Depart | |
Continuing Education Credits
CAMPEP
This meeting program has been approved by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Physics Education Programs, Inc. (CAMPEP) for 19.58 credits.
- To obtain continuing education credit, attendees must complete an on-line evaluation survey.
- The survey will be available online Thursday, July 22 through Friday, August 20.
- Attendees must complete the survey by August 20 in order to receive CAMPEP.
- After the meeting:
- Medical Physicist registrants will be contacted with instructions for viewing the meeting transcript via the CAMPEP website. The transcript will list a description of the sessions and the number of continuing education credits obtained.
- Please note your badge I.D. will be required in order to complete the CEC evaluation survey.
Maintenance of Certification
All registrants are expected to participate in the entire program and complete a Self-Directed Educational Project (SDEP) as outlined by the Maintenance of Certification program of the American Board of Radiology.
Registrants must identify the area(s) in which improvement and/or augmentation as a medical physics teacher is needed or would be of value. The approach to a SDEP must be prospective and must be defined in advance. This part of the SDEP will be accomplished at the workshop. The components of the SDEP include:
- Significance: a statement of the educational need
- Approach: a list of activities designated to address the need
- Evaluation of Achievement with an initial (prospective) statement and a final (summary) statement at the time of completion
- Impact on Practice/Outcome Statement: with an initial (prospective) statement and a final (summary) statement at the time of completion
Guidance in preparing a SDEP to become a better teacher will be provided during the Summer School.
DVD of Audio Presentations
All paid registrants will receive a DVD ROM with audio from each session, synchronized with the .ppt presentation. Please allow 6 weeks to receive by mail post-meeting.
Program Director
- William Hendee, PhD,
Distinguished Professor, Medical College of Wisconsin
Invited Faculty
Robert Beichner, PhD is the Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor in the Physics Department of North Carolina State University. He is the creator of SCALE‑UP: Student‑Centered Active Learning Environment for Undergraduate Programs and director of an electronic "home base" for the physics education research community. He was recently named the 2010 North Carolina Professor of the Year and National Undergraduate Science Teacher of the Year.
Jannette Collins, MD is the Ben Felson Professor and Chair of Radiology at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. She holds an advanced degree in education and speaks nationally on topics related to undergraduate, graduate and continuing medical education She is a former Radiology Residency Program Director and Assistant Dean of Graduate Medical Education at the University of Wisconsin. In 2005 she received the Outstanding Educator Award from the Radiological Society of North America.
Don Frey, PhD Medical University of South Carolina
Kenneth Heller, PhD is the Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor and the Institute of Technology Distinguished Professor in the School of Physics & Astronomy of the University of Minnesota. He is a high-energy particle physicist who served as the President of the American Association of Physics Teachers in 2006. He is interested in using cooperative group techniques to solve context rich problems.
William Hendee, PhD is Distinguished Professor of Biophysics, Radiology, Radiation Oncology and Population Health at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is a former president of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, Society of Nuclear Medicine, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, and American Board of Radiology (ABR), and the current President of the ABR Foundation.
Geoffrey Ibbott, PhD is Professor of Radiation Physics and Director of the Radiological Physics Center at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. He is a former president of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, a current trustee of the American Board of Radiology and co-author of the text Radiation Therapy Physics.
George C Kagadis, PhD is Assistant Professor of Medical Physics & Medical Informatics at University of Patras, Greece. He holds a Diploma in Physics from the University of Athens, Greece and an MSc and a PhD in Medical Physics from the University of Patras, Greece. He is a Greek State Scholarship Foundation grantee, and a Full AAPM member. He has been involved in European and national projects, including e-health.
Suzanne Amador-Kane, PhD is Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Haverford College with interests at the interface of biological physics, condensed-matter physics and statistical physics. She has received the Haverford College Innovative Teaching Award and the Andrew Mellon New Directions Fellowship. She is the author of Introduction to Physics in Modern Medicine.
Victor Montemayor, PhD is Professor of Physics at Middle Tennessee State University. His interests have varied from nonlinear optics and atomic collision theory to curriculum reform and cooperative-learning pedagogies. He has recently developed a concentration in Medical Physics for undergraduate physics majors at MTSU. He has twice won the university’s Outstanding Teacher Award as well as the Award for Innovative Technologies.
Mark Rzeszotarski, PhD Metrohealth Medical Center
Cindy Hmelo-Silver, PhD is Associate Professor in the Program in Learning Cognition, and Development, Department of Educational Psychology, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University. She is co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Learning Sciences and is widely recognized for her work in problem-based learning.
Jennifer Smilowitz, PhD is Assistant Clinical Professor in the Departments of Medical Physics and Human Oncology at the University of Wisconsin (UW), Madison. She chairs a department committee to redesign the medical physics graduate curriculum. Her teaching includes clinical applications and problem‑based learning. In 2008 she completed a year‑long course on Medical Education Development and Leadership at the UW.
George Starkschall, PhD is Professor of Radiation Physics at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and the Deputy Director of the Medical Physics Graduate Program at The University of Texas Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics and Chair of the Education Council of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine.
Local Arrangements
- Stefan Both, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Local Arrangements Chair
- Margaret Blackwood, Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Local Arrangements Work Group