Medical Grand Rounds/The Brodie Medical Education Lecture:
Jazz and the Art of Teaching
Wednesday, 4 March 2015, 12:15-1:15 pm (NOTE CHANGE IN START TIME)
Jordan Conference Center Auditorium
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Presented by Paul M. Haidet MD MPH
Professor of Medicine, Humanities, and Public Health Sciences
Co-Director, Office for Scholarship in Learning and Education Research Penn State College of Medicine, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey PA
Teaching has important parallels to improvisational jazz performance. Jazz musicians on the bandstand both play in the moment and communicate constantly with one another and their audience. Like jazz musicians, teachers must know where they are going in a class, but the pathway to that place is never the same, and they need to stay centered in the present moment and be inventively responsive to learners' unique reactions. In this program, celebrated physician-educator Dr. Paul Haidet explores the jazz concept of voice and translates this to the teaching environment. As teachers (of medicine or other subjects), how can we best shape our own voices, deftly deliver the material, communicate in the moment with diverse learners, and carry a class and its themes through to a satisfying and memorable conclusion?
**Co-presented with the Brodie Medical Education Committee and the Department of Medicine, in observance of Medical Education Research Week
**The Lane Road entrance to the Jordan Conference Center is unlocked 12:00-12:30 pm to allow public access to the Medical Center Hour.
**See Medical Center Hour on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/uvamch. Videos post a week after the program.
