IME Submission Information
IME submissions showcase innovative scholarly activities in medical education that are currently in progress or that have been completed. The hallmark of an innovation is that the idea is new and meets an important need in medical education. Projects for submission include, among others, the development, implementation, or evaluation of innovative courses, curricula, assessments, simulations, virtual patients, resources, Web-based tools, or interdisciplinary collaborations. Projects may be presented without complete evaluation data.
IME sessions are designed to stimulate collaboration and creative thinking among meeting attendees. Authors are required to identify their submission as belonging to one or more descriptive submission categories from the list below. Submissions may optionally include a website URL that reviewers and conference participants can use to access online resources such as a course syllabus, assessment instrument, implementation guide, or complete Web-based course. This URL must be accessible to the public, or guest login information must be provided and valid for at least two weeks after the last day of the conference. The URL will count in word/character counts. Except for submissions tagged as Web innovations, the content of this URL will not be considered in submission decisions. For Web-based education submissions, reviewers will access the URL if provided and will consider the website as part of the review process; Web innovations without a URL will be judged solely on the submitted text.