About Conference

This course, the first of its kind for CME, trains healthcare professionals at all levels to facilitate and apply Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) techniques and mindsets in classrooms, meetings, clinics, and hospitals. Learning and applying VTS strengthens humanistic and analytic competencies and can transform medical education, patient care, teamwork, equity, and professional growth. VTS is a methodology for leading and participating in discussions about complex, ambiguous materials

Highlights

This course has 2 interwoven through-lines: 1) Regular VTS facilitation practice and feedback, and 2) connecting the skills and mindsets of VTS to key topics in health care, including critical thinking, empathic communication, bias mitigation, health equity, psychological safety and interprofessional teaming, facilitative leadership, and well-being