With the 2026 theme, “A Wider Lens,” the conference convenes clinicians, researchers, patients, and health system leaders to advance shared decision making across specialties, care settings, and institutions. Plenary sessions address scalable implementation, ethical integration of artificial...

Learn how the AI Patient Actor platform, developed at Dartmouth, enables healthcare educators to design and implement clinical communication and diagnostic reasoning training using AI-simulated patient encounters. This session covers case creation, rubric-based formative feedback, natural voice...

Generative AI has the potential to transform medical education through unprecedented content creation, individualized learning, and timely feedback. Educators have the opportunity to harness this potential by intentionally applying gen-AI to augment and transform pedagogy, grounded in principles...

This session helps health science & professions educators (HSPEs) choose and design appropriate data collection methods. Participants will learn Maxwell's five-part model for research design and explore when to use interviews, surveys, or mixed approaches. The session examines the affordances and...

This session explores quantitative research methods for health science & professions educators (HSPEs) seeking to answer "what" and "how much" questions. Participants will learn the core characteristics of quantitative research and examine common study designs for hypothesis testing, including...

This session explores qualitative research methods for health science & professions educators (HSPEs) seeking to answer "how" and "why" questions. Participants will learn the core characteristics that distinguish qualitative from quantitative approaches and explore four common qualitative...

This session addresses a common question among health science & professions educators (HSPEs): "Can't I Just Write it Up?" Participants will discover why conceptual frameworks are essential to rigorous education research. The session explains what conceptual frameworks are, provides concrete...

This session introduces health science & professions educators (HSPEs) to the foundational skills of education research and scholarship. Participants will explore the broad scope of health professions education scholarship to identify where their interests align. The session emphasizes strategic...