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Coaching the Medical Learner | Corey Smith, PsyD
May 9, 2025

This 30-minute virtual session will overview best practices for coaching learners in a clinical setting. Attendees will be able to:

Describe the unique definition of coaching in contrast to advising and mentoring
Disseminate research on the impact of coaching on medical learners’ skills and wellness
Describe the process of coaching in the setting of medical education and practice and examples of efficient, effective coaching

Corey D. Smith, PsyD. Is the director of Behavioral Health education at the Maine Dartmouth FMR and has worked in primary care medicine and family medicine education since 2010. In that time, Dr. Smith spent years with a focus on resident wellness, community building, and engagement in resident issues and needs. Recently, Corey has focused upon earning a certificate as a mental performance coach (CMPC) and is currently a CMPC candidate with the Association of Applied Sports Psychology. The connection between mental skills, performance enhancement, and medical education is a natural one and Dr. Smith is passionate about learning about the impact of mindset, habits, and mental skills in reaching one’s greatest potential.

Multimodal Training & Mentorship for Forensic Evaluations in Asylum Medicine | Mary White, MD
April 11, 2025

This 30-minute virtual session will overview current practices in the education and administration of forensic medical evaluations. Attendees will be able to:

Recognize the clinician’s role in forensic evaluation of asylum applicants
Implement techniques in remote mentorship to assist the development of newly acquired clinical skills
Facilitate and participate in trainings designed to target a diverse audience of healthcare learners and professionals

Dr. Mary White is Board certified in Internal Medicine and is a sub-specialist in Infectious Diseases. She is a former attending physician at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Since 2005, she has performed more than 150 forensic medical examinations of individuals seeking asylum. From 2010 to 2012, she was Co-Medical Director and physician evaluator at the Weill Cornell Clinic for Human Rights, New York, where she trained and supervised medical students in the performance of these evaluations. After summering in Maine for more than two decades, she moved here in 2020 and obtained her medical license. She aims to encourage other healthcare providers to train in this most rewarding volunteer activity.

Evidence-Based Strategies to Improve Learning & How to Implement Them in Medical Education | Annie Derthick, PhD
March 14, 2025

This 30-minute virtual session will review six evidence-based methods to improve learning and how to apply this information to medical education. Attendees will be able to:

Identify at least one way to implement learning strategies in everyday practice of educating medical learners
Access multiple follow-up resources and action steps to develop competency in the domain of learning theory and practice implementing learning strategy in teaching

Dr. Annie Derthick is a clinical psychologist and the Director of Behavioral Science at the Central Maine Medical Center Family Medicine Residency. She also serves as the Associate Program Director. In that capacity, Dr. Derthick oversees the process of resident evaluation. She is also involved in faculty development, resident remediation, curriculum development, and program evaluation. Dr. Derthick serves as the Chair to the MERGE Executive Council, which oversees the fiduciary and strategic vision for the MERGE Collaborative.

Stay Calm, Teach On: Managing Stress While Precepting | Frank A. Bailey, EdD
February 14, 2025

This 30-minute virtual session will enhance rural preceptors’ intentionality in using emotional intelligence skills effectively in precepting and patient care while acknowledging their busy schedules. Participants will be able to:

Recognize the components of emotional intelligence and their relevance in precepting and clinical practice.
Apply strategies to communicate with learners effectively.
Develop a personal approach to managing stress and integrating learner engagement into clinical workflows without increasing workload.

Frank Bailey, EdD, is the Medical Educator at Northern Light Health Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, Maine. He is a certified EQ coach through the Lynn Leadership Group. He deploys tailored EQ curricula to all learner levels throughout the healthcare organization, with the goal of increasing team function to provide phenomenal patient care. He also oversees faculty development of many types of clinical preceptors and holds the position of Program Director of the Northern Light Health Longitudinal Integrated Curriculum (LIC).

AI Supported Precision Medical Education | Kalli Varaklis, MD, MSEd
January 10, 2025

This 30-minute virtual session will review how artificial intelligence is impacting the field of medical education and how it can be used to improve outcomes. Participants will be able to:

Understand the limitations of competency-based education
Appreciate how is Augmented Intelligence is being utilized in Education NOW
Explore how AI can support GME education in the future

Dr. Varaklis currently serves as DIO of Maine Medical Center, overseeing graduate medical education for more than thirty residency and fellowship programs. In addition to her work at Maine Medical Center, Dr. Varaklis also serves as principal investigator for the Maine Rural Graduate Medical Education (MERGE) Collaborative, a state-wide effort across all ACGME Sponsoring Institutions to create more learning opportunities in Maine’s rural spaces.

Models for Medical Education in a Clinical Setting | Marc D. Kimball, MD, FAAFP, FASAM
November 8, 2024

This 30-minute virtual session will overview strategies and techniques for preceptors to be more effective. Participants will be able to:

Understand the principles of Adult Learning Theory
Implement the “One Minute Preceptor” tool to help with effective teaching in a clinical setting
Implement the “BID” tool for teaching procedures/physical exam skills in a clinical setting

Dr. Kimball is the Course Director for the Competency-Based Apprenticeship in Primary Care (Tufts/Maine Track). He received his medical training from Tufts University School of Medicine and completed his internship, residency and chief residency in Family Medicine at Maine Medical Center. He also completed his fellowship in Addiction Medicine at Maine Medical Center and USVA-Togus. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and practices both Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine at MaineHealth Primary Care Family Medicine Westbrook.

Supporting Healthcare Learners with Disabilities | Bethany Picker, MD
October 11, 2024

This 30-minute virtual session will overview strategies and techniques to support learners with disabilities in a healthcare setting. Participants will be able to:

Define disability in a health education setting
Value learners with disability within a DEI framework
Recognize the risks of un/mismanaged disability
Appreciate the role of the preceptor in supporting learners with disabilities

Dr. Picker has been faculty in graduate medical education since 2022 and has been at CMMC since 2006. She became the Program Director in 2018. She has led the program to participate in national innovation studies of FM education including the Length of Training study and the Clinic First Collaborative. Recently, she has been focusing on collaborating with local partners to increase the program’s work in the community.

Wellness & Mindfulness to Increase Retention & Reduce Burnout | Kelley Strout, PhD, RN
September 13, 2024

This 30-minute virtual session will overview WellNurse, an interprofessional, holistic wellness intervention designed to promote resilience and reduce burnout. Participants will be able to:

Understand the impact of emotional well-being and stress on nursing student’s retention and on-time graduation.
Define mindfulness.
Explore evidence-based intervention options for nurses and healthcare professionals and their use in student populations.

Kelley Strout is an Associate Professor and Director of the School of Nursing at UMaine. She is the Principal Scientific Investigator for two federal Health Resources Services Administration grants focused on diversifying the nursing workforce, transforming nursing education, and promoting resilience. In the past three years, she has secured over $5 million in federal funding. Under her leadership, UMaine Nursing ranked in the top 11% of BSN programs nationwide by U.S. News and World Report. She lives in Bangor with her husband and two sons.

Navigating Difficult Feedback Conversations with Learners | Thomas Gearan, MD
August 9, 2024

This 30-minute virtual session will review strategies for approaching difficult feedback conversations with learners in the clinical learning environment. Participants will be able to:

Identify common causes of conflict in the educational setting.
Develop a framework for how to approach (and not approach) conflict and difficult feedback conversations.

Thomas Gearan, MD, FACP is currently the Associate DIO at Maine Medical Center (MMC) and MMC Site Director for the MERGE Collaborative. He previously served as program director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program and Rural Internal Medicine Maine (RIMM) Track, and currently serves as Chair of the ACGME Medically Underserved Areas and Populations Advisory Board. He received his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine and completed his internship, residency, and chief residency in internal medicine at Boston Medical Center. He is Associate Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and practices general internal medicine at MMC.

Recognizing & Supporting Neurodivergent Traits in Medical Learners | Rebecca Stetzer, MD
July 12, 2024

This 30-minute virtual session will cover how to approach struggling learners with a neurodiversity lens with the goal of optimizing support efforts. Participants will be able to:

Identify ways in which neurodivergent traits may present in the clinical learning environment.
Recognize the strengths and challenges encountered by medical learners with neurodivergent traits.
Consider ways to adapt teaching approaches and environments to support neurodivergent learners, even if not disclosed.

Rebecca Stetzer, MD, AGSF is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Internal Medicine and Neurology, and a fellowship-trained geriatrician with a special interest in cognitive impairment. She earned her medical degree from Emory University, completed residency at the Atlanta Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program, and geriatric fellowship at Tufts/Baystate Medical Center. Clinically, she works at the Center of Excellence for Alzheimer's Disease (CEAD) Albany Medical Center, where she provides care to older adults with cognitive impairment together with an inter- and multi-disciplinary team while hosting a variety of learners. In medical education she serves as assistant dean for competency-based assessment for which she supports struggling learners.

Integrating Addiction Care into Healthcare Provider Education | Eva Quirion, MP, PhD
June 14, 2024

This 30-minute virtual session will address the need for addiction awareness and give strategies to frame addiction awareness in the clinical education setting. Participants will be able to:

State at least one reason why it is important for new health care providers to understand and treat addiction.
Recognize and correct stigmatizing language and attitudes related to people who use drugs and alcohol.
Identify and address at least one barrier to the integration of addiction care into the education of health providers.

Dr. Eva Quirion, NP, PhD is a graduate of The University of Maine, Orono and the University of Phoenix. Eva’s clinical practice includes working side by side with primary care providers in order to help people living with chronic pain by providing sustainable, evidence-based care. She has become an expert at tapering chronic controlled substances with compassion due to the necessity to move away from high risk prescribing and move toward helping patients achieve meaningful functional improvements.

Structural Competency & Migrant Farmworker Health | Cheryl K. Seymour, MD
May 10, 2024

This 30-minute virtual session will introduce the concept of structural competency in medical education through the example of migrant and seasonal farmworker (MSFW) health. Participants will:

Expand their clinical thinking to include structural causes of illness.
Define and apply structural competency as a framework using a shared vocabulary.
Explore the concepts of structural violence and structural interventions through examples from MSFW healthcare.

Cheryl K. Seymour, MD has worked for the past twenty years caring for migrant and seasonal farmworkers with the Maine Mobile Health Program - serving as medical director for ten. Cheryl is an enthusiastic advocate for structurally competent and anti-racist medical care. Community health workers and farmworker patients across Maine are her favorite teachers; she strives to share their lessons with students, physicians and policy makers in order to inform a radical re-imagination of physician training and health care delivery.

Time Efficient Teaching | Jason Hine, MD
April 12, 2024

This 30-minute virtual session will cover the educationally enriching roles learners can play to support clinical operations and share presentation techniques in the clinical teaching setting. Learning objectives for this session include:

Identify and list specific teaching techniques that may improve the efficiency of teaching in the clinical setting.
Create a plan for improving teaching efficiency that includes at least two specific teaching techniques.

Jason F. Hine, MD completed his medical education as part of the Tufts Maine Track inaugural class. He went on to complete his Emergency Medicine residency at Temple University Hospital in North Philadelphia where he also served as chief resident. He joined Southern Maine Health Care (SMHC) in August 2016 and serves as the Educational Administrator there. Through the Scholars Program he hopes to improve his and his colleagues bedside teaching of residents and students at the SMHC ED.

Billing for Things Learners Do | Jim Jarvis, MD
March 8, 2024

This 30-minute virtual session will cover allowable billing practices when learners are part of your practices, including:

The difference in billing types of learners and different locations of care.
What services rendered by a learner are allowed for billing.
How learners can assist in raising efficiency in your practice and increase revenue.

Dr. Jarvis serves as the DIO for Eastern Maine Medical Center overseeing graduate and undergraduate medical education. He has nearly 30 years’ experience in medical education including serving at the national level as president of the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors. He has a ‘unique’ passion for appropriate billing and coding.

Competency-Based Evaluation & Assessment | Annie Derthick, PhD
February 9, 2024

This 30-minute virtual session will cover the foundations of competency-based medical evaluation (CBME) to enhance the feedback clinician educators provide their learners. Topics covered include:

The general principles of CBME
Optimizing assessment methods
Providing effective feedback
Managing the assessment of CBME

Dr. Annie Derthick is a clinical psychologist and the Director of Behavioral Science at the Central Maine Medical Center Family Medicine Residency. She also serves as the Associate Program Director. In that capacity, Dr. Derthick oversees the process of resident evaluation. She is also involved in faculty development, resident remediation, curriculum development, and program evaluation. Dr. Derthick serves as the Chair to the MERGE Executive Council, which oversees the fiduciary and strategic vision for the MERGE Collaborative.

Teaching in the Rural Outpatient Setting | Kalli Varaklis, MD, MSEd
January 12, 2024

This 30-minute virtual session covers a variety of topics to help any medical professional in productive teaching sessions in a clinical setting including:

“The One-Minute Preceptor” Technique
Time Efficiency with a Learner
Increasing Learner Engagement

Dr. Varaklis currently serves as DIO of Maine Medical Center, overseeing graduate medical education for more than thirty residency and fellowship programs. In addition to her work at Maine Medical Center, Dr. Varaklis also serves as principal investigator for the Maine Rural Graduate Medical Education (MERGE) Collaborative, a state-wide effort across all ACGME Sponsoring Institutions to create more learning opportunities in Maine’s rural spaces.

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