2020 Western Group on Educational Affairs (WGEA) Regional Meeting

The AAMC has been closely monitoring guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state and local health agencies as it relates to the coronavirus (COVID-19). Taking a number of factors into consideration, including the safety and well-being of our constituents, we have canceled the 2020 WGEA Regional Spring Meeting.

At this time, we are not planning to reschedule this meeting. Due to the cancellation, the AAMC will refund your registration fee in full in the original form of payment. You will receive a registration cancellation confirmation in a separate email.

For more information about future AAMC meetings, please see here.  

Please make sure to cancel your flight and hotel accommodations.  

You are responsible for cancelling your own hotel reservation and travel arrangements. Cancellation of any guaranteed room reservation at the Asilomar Hotel & Conference Center must be received by the hotel at least 72 hours prior to arrival to recover your deposit and avoid any additional charges or penalties assessed by the hotel for guest no-show.

To cancel your room reservation, please go to your hotel booking email confirmation and follow the cancellation instructions within the confirmation. You may also go online, and click the “Manage Existing Reservation” link. Or, you can call (831) 642-4219 or (831) 642-4213.

Summary

2020 AAMC Western Group on Educational Affairs Meeting

March 28-31, 2020
Pacific Grove, California

Please join us in Pacific Grove, CA for the 2020 AAMC Western Group on Educational Affairs (WGEA) Meeting. The theme for the meeting is “Finding Common Ground.” For this conference, we want to celebrate the many ways that WGEA members are working toward “Finding Common Ground” within and across communities. Our theme borrows principles from improv theater to provide a language for discussing the attitudes and skills that allow collaborative exchange and advancement. We invite you to say “yes and” to sharing experiences and programs that reflect commitment to attunement, affirmation and advancement within and among social, cultural, and ideological communities and along the continuum of medical education.

For more information about this meeting, including the meeting agenda, please visit wgea2020.com.

Pre-conference Learning - Saturday, March 28, 2020

MERC

Two Medical Education Research Certificate (MERC) sessions will be offered at the 2020 WGEA Regional Meeting. Registration for these sessions occurs separately from the main conference registration. Please click here to register for a MERC workshop.

Workshop #1 (9:00 am - Noon): Measuring Educational Outcomes with Reliability and Validity

This workshop introduces participants to the principles of score reliability and validity, using a combination of didactics and review of medical education research projects. The workshop is divided into two parts with group exercises designed to reinforce understanding of the main principles. After participating in this workshop, learners will be able to:

Identify three types of reliability (inter-rater, test-retest, and internal consistency);
Match types of reliability with appropriate statistical measures;
Describe the relationship between reliability and validity;
Describe multiple forms of evidence for validity;
Select an approach to reliability and validity assessment for a particular study.

Workshop #2 (1:00 - 4:00 pm): Questionnaire Design and Survey Research

This workshop will provide some basic principles in questionnaire/survey design and give workshop participants an opportunity for hands-on experience designing a questionnaire. Following participating in this workshop, learners will be able to:

Design a blueprint for a survey/questionnaire appropriate to their own application;
Construct and edit questions to avoid common problems in wording and framing;
Select an appropriate response format from a menu of alternatives;
Design the overall format of the survey/questionnaire to facilitate data management and analysis.

Additional Information

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