Strategies for identifying and helping struggling learners were explored as teaching faculty, student counsellors and college administrators met at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) to participate in the Remediation in Health Professions Education Symposium.
Through a series of interactive workshops, discussion groups and presentations, the two-day event sought to build on the skills and knowledge of professionals working in the medical education sector to help them assess learner needs, provide useful feedback to struggling students, build effective student support networks with colleagues and offer individualised solutions to students.
Co-ordinated by WCM-Q’s Division of Continuing Professional Development, the symposium was attended by healthcare education professionals from WCM-Q and several other healthcare education institutions from across Qatar.
The participants engaged in lively discussion as they shared their experiences of helping struggling learners, placing particular emphasis on the need to be sensitive to the many different cultural attitudes to learning and achievement that exist among Qatar’s cosmopolitan population.
The symposium was co-directed by Dr Stephen Scott, associate dean for Student Affairs at WCM-Q, and Dr Calvin Chou, professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
WCM-Q faculty Dr Gerardo Guiter, assistant professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; Dr Lotfi Chouchane, professor of Genetic Medicine; Dr Kevin Smith, assistant dean for Premedical Education; and WCM-Q staff member Dr Kelly Anne Nelson, director of Student Affairs, were also members of the planning committee and facilitated on the sessions.