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Educating the educators: a unique physiology‐ and anatomy‐based educator workshop in the Wiregrass region

It is well‐established that educator development is important for optimal curriculum delivery and student engagement, particularly in the science and health‐related professional fields. Educator development may include teaching workshops, peer‐to‐peer mentorship, and professional training. Here, we describe a free‐of‐charge, community‐oriented outreach program for high school and college educators that incorporates workshops and hands‐on training in cadaver‐based anatomical sciences, teaching methodologies, patient simulation laboratories, and current bench‐to‐bedside research. To date, this is the only workshop of its kind in the Wiregrass region. Educators from nursing and other allied health college programs as well as high school science educators attended the Health and Anatomy in the Wiregrass Educator Workshop, held this year during summer 2016. This was the third annual educator workshop, and this year's theme was the Respiratory system. All sessions were led by medical school faculty. Attendees rotated through the following programs: 1. Hands‐on anatomy laboratory with a prosected human cadaver and dissection of porcine lungs and heart, 2. Respiratory‐case simulation laboratory using the SimMan® patient simulator, 3. Lung biologist guest lecture on pseudomonas aeruginosa research, and 4. Team‐based Learning (TBL) interactive workshop involving a clinical respiratory case. Attendees were asked to complete a survey immediately post‐workshop. One hundred percent of respondents strongly agreed that the workshop was useful to them as educators, with 71% citing the TBL experience as valuable to their development as educators and 42% stating that the anatomy laboratory was important to them. The majority of attendees stated that the use of hands‐on, interactive sessions with skilled facilitators as the main strength of the workshop. Offering a resource that benefits local educators may improve the educational backbone of the region as well as educator enthusiasm for teaching in the health and bio‐sciences.