Geisel Academy Teaching Bootcamp: The Art and Practice of Small Group Teaching

Monday, August 18, 2025, 12:00 PM - Friday, August 18, 2028, 1:00 AM

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), CME-Designated Participation Credit (1.00 hours)

Dr. Pinto-Powell, inaugural Director for Learning Collaborative and Flourishing in Medical Education at Geisel, leads a dynamic session on effective small group teaching. Participants reflect on their motivations for teaching while exploring key competencies such as lifelong learning, well-being, and promoting diversity and inclusion. The Tuckman stages of group formation guide strategies for building psychological safety, accountability, and participation. Emphasis is placed on investing in group formation, fostering curiosity about learners, and addressing unprofessional behavior promptly. Collaborative teaching emerges as a powerful tool to boost engagement, enhance retention, and create a respectful, thriving learning environment for educators and students alike.

Presenter

Roshini Pinto-Powell, M.D
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Dr. Roshini Pinto-Powell is an internist and infectious disease specialist who has enjoyed the privilege of being a medical educator at Geisel for the past 28 years. Currently, she serves as the Associate Dean of Admissions at Geisel and as the Course Director for the On Doctoring course, helping learners find joy in the science and art of Medicine.

As a medical educator, Dr. Pinto-Powell teaches at the UME and GME levels and leads faculty development sessions locally and nationally. She has a love of teaching and finds the opportunity to help curious, bright, and engaged learners find joy in medicine, to be a gift she feels lucky to have. Every day, her patients and students remind her what truly matters.

In addition to her educational and administrative roles, her greatest joy is patient care. She shares that “I can honestly say that my patients have taught me more about medicine, life, and myself than I could have predicted!”

Download the slides HERE.

1. Effectively facilitate small group discussions in medical education settings to enhance learner engagement and learning outcomes.
2. Apply strategies for recognizing and managing group dynamics.
3. Foster active engagement and psychological safety to support collaborative learning experiences during small group activities.

In support of improving patient care, Dartmouth Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. 

American Medical Association (AMA)
Dartmouth Health designates this Enduring Material for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

All other learners may claim CME-designated participation credit. Consult your professional licensing board regarding the applicability and acceptance of CME-designated participation credit for programs certified for credit by organizations accredited by Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Education.

Registration/Requirements for Successful Completion
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Bibliographic Sources

• Please see the PDF of slides for references.

Provider Contact Information
Provider contact information for questions regarding accreditation of the activity:

Center for Learning and Professional Development
ACE Office
Dartmouth Health
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Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Dartmouth Health adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education.  Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including planners, faculty, authors, or others are required to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies^.  All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

^Ineligible Company is any entity whose primary business purpose is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.