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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Faculty Development Institute and Assembly on Education Symposium (July 25-29, 2009)


Planet Hollywood
Las Vegas, NV

CFP CLOSED

The deadlines to enter new abstracts and to edit existing abstracts have been reached.

The submission form will consist of 5 steps.

  1. Category
    • You will select the type of paper you are presenting- which topic does the paper cover?
      1. Curriculum Content
        1. Includes such things as HIM sub domains and knowledge clusters in:
        2. Designing syllabi that cover the KCs at the correct learning level
        3. ICD-10 in the curriculum
        4. Teaching Information Technology to HIM students
        5. eHIM, the legal EHR, Health Information Exchanges, HL7
        6. Entries in this category are encouraged to incorporate the speaker’s content into CourseShare for access by all educators.
      2. Educational Delivery Methods
        1. Includes distance/online learning, laboratory activities, professional practice experiences, Virtual Lab implementation and other methods to deliver and reinforce learning outcomes.
        2. Evaluation methods to measure student learning outcomes.
      3. Faculty Development
        1. Includes such things as: how to set up a new program, how to be more effective in the classroom, how to keep students engaged throughout their professional program phase, and how to run successful PPE sites (FDI)
        2. Getting the maximum commitment from your Advisory Committee
        3. Growing a presence for an online program at your college
        4. Team teaching: pros & cons
        5. Promotion and tenure issues.
      4. Leadership
        1. Includes such things as: reaching out to college administration, grant sharing with other allied health programs, taking on leadership roles in the community college and university, creating master programs
        2. Recruiting and developing Adjunct Faculty members
        3. Cross-discipline collaborations.
        4. HIM faculty leadership presence on campus.
        5. International HIM college/university initiatives.
      5. Best Practice
        1. Includes topics such as: demonstrate a new way of presenting content
        2. Managing student expectations (academic honesty, disabilities, professionalism, writing skills, problem students, etc)
        3. Building practical skills into the curriculum (lab time) (virtual lab)
        4. Materials suitable for learning packets in CourseShare such as:
          1. Use of Case Studies in the curriculum
          2. Group Projects (Project Management)
          3. PPE special projects/project based PPEs
          4. Working Information Technology into the curriculum
        5. Taking technology to the next level – using online technology to engage students (demonstration based)
        6. Entries in this category are encouraged to incorporate the speaker’s content into CourseShare for access by all educators.
      6. Research
        1. Includes such thing as: cutting edge research in HIM topics that can be assimilated into the classroom, also provides a forum for doctoral candidates to present their dissertation highlights
        2. Searching for Grants
        3. When funding dries up: Using grants for supplemental salary
        4. Going for the doctoral degree: what’s involved
  2. Title
    • Enter the Title and your email address. Add comments to organizers if there are any.
  3. Author/Presenter
    • You will enter information about each author, including Name, Address and Institutional Affliations.
  4. Abstract Text
    • You will enter your abstract text. The text must include the following headers:
      1. Objectives
      2. Session Outline
      3. Presentation Content Paragraph
      4. Marketing Paragraph
    • The total text (not including the headers) should be less than 1000 words.
  5. Confirmation

Submissions Closed

Once you have submitted the title of your presentation you will automatically receive an email that includes a password-protected hyperlink. If you must interrupt the submission process before finishing it, you can resume at any time by clicking on the hyperlink in that email. For help in submitting an abstract online, e-mail technical support.

Abstract submissions and revisions are no longer being accepted.

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Abstract ID#       Password      

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