Pre-meeting Workshops
Join us for hands-on Workshops to kick off your SACME 2027 experience!
Most AI workshops focus on what AI can do. This workshop begins with a different question: What can possibly go wrong? Using real-world cases, ethical dilemmas, and decision-making exercises, participants will explore where AI fails, where humans fail, where policies fall short, and how continuing professional development leaders can make sound judgments in an increasingly AI-enabled environment. The goal is not to create AI experts. The goal is to create better decision-makers.
Welcome to SACME: Your Passport to People, Possibilities & Professional Growth, Adrienne Ross
This interactive two-hour workshop is designed to help first-time Annual Meeting attendees and new SACME members do more than simply learn about the organization. Participants will begin building meaningful connections, discovering opportunities for involvement, learning how to navigate the Annual Meeting, and identifying ways SACME can support their professional growth and engagement throughout the year.
A ‘SACME Passport’ will serve as an interactive guide throughout the workshop. Participants will use it to capture key resources, identify people they want to meet, explore committees and engagement opportunities, and develop a personalized action plan for making the most of both the Annual Meeting and their SACME membership.
This interactive two-hour workshop is designed to help first-time Annual Meeting attendees and new SACME members do more than simply learn about the organization. Participants will begin building meaningful connections, discovering opportunities for involvement, learning how to navigate the Annual Meeting, and identifying ways SACME can support their professional growth and engagement throughout the year.
A ‘SACME Passport’ will serve as an interactive guide throughout the workshop. Participants will use it to capture key resources, identify people they want to meet, explore committees and engagement opportunities, and develop a personalized action plan for making the most of both the Annual Meeting and their SACME membership.
Every scoping review begins the same way a great detective story does: with a question no one has fully answered, a scattered trail of clues, and the promise that something meaningful is waiting to be uncovered. In this hands-on, two-hour workshop, you won't just learn about scoping reviews - you'll step into the role of investigator and work through a case from the first lead to the final report.
At the heart of this session is an escape-room investigation. Working together in teams, you'll move through a series of locked stages, each one anchored to a core step of the scoping review process and grounded in the field's foundational frameworks. To advance, you'll need to crack each stage: framing a searchable question, defining who and what belongs in the investigation, following the evidence trail, and charting your findings so the full picture comes into focus. Short, focused mini briefings before each stage provide you with the tools to solve the next puzzle, and a closing debrief ties the clues together into a method you can take back to your own work.
Whether you're an administrator or a new researcher finding your scoping review footing, or a seasoned investigator adding a new method to your kit, this workshop meets you where you are. No prior experience with scoping reviews is needed—just curiosity and a willingness to follow the evidence.
At the heart of this session is an escape-room investigation. Working together in teams, you'll move through a series of locked stages, each one anchored to a core step of the scoping review process and grounded in the field's foundational frameworks. To advance, you'll need to crack each stage: framing a searchable question, defining who and what belongs in the investigation, following the evidence trail, and charting your findings so the full picture comes into focus. Short, focused mini briefings before each stage provide you with the tools to solve the next puzzle, and a closing debrief ties the clues together into a method you can take back to your own work.
Whether you're an administrator or a new researcher finding your scoping review footing, or a seasoned investigator adding a new method to your kit, this workshop meets you where you are. No prior experience with scoping reviews is needed—just curiosity and a willingness to follow the evidence.
How do we move beyond participation toward meaningful learning and practice change in HyFlex environments? In this capstone workshop, participants will revisit the case from the previous sessions and examine how cognitive presence supports inquiry, reflection, and application in professional learning.
Drawing on participant experiences and lessons learned throughout the series, the group will explore practical approaches to designing activities that move learners from discussion to action. Participants will also synthesize insights from social presence, teaching presence, and technology planning to develop a comprehensive approach to HyFlex CPD design.
An interactive workshop using authentic clinical situations and expert reasoning to explore complex professional decisions.
This workshop is designed to introduce participants to an educational approach for situations that involve uncertainty, interpretation, and judgment rather than a single, unequivocably correct answer, Learning-by-Concordance (LbC). Learners respond to questions based on authentic clinical situations and then compare their responses with those of a panel of experts. Participants will have the opportunity to work in small groups to develop an authentic clinical situation, formulate an initial hypothesis/option, and introduce supplementary information that requires the learner to reconsider it. Each participant will identify a situation that could become an LbC module and the next step needed to develop it.
This workshop is designed to introduce participants to an educational approach for situations that involve uncertainty, interpretation, and judgment rather than a single, unequivocably correct answer, Learning-by-Concordance (LbC). Learners respond to questions based on authentic clinical situations and then compare their responses with those of a panel of experts. Participants will have the opportunity to work in small groups to develop an authentic clinical situation, formulate an initial hypothesis/option, and introduce supplementary information that requires the learner to reconsider it. Each participant will identify a situation that could become an LbC module and the next step needed to develop it.
Additional workshops under development include a leadership workshop and an interactive workshop focused on developing clinical judgment and professionalism through Learning-by-Concordance.