Stanford Health Professions Education and Scholarship Program (SHaPES) FY27

This program is open to Stanford students, residents, fellows, postdocs, faculty, staff, and affiliates.

The Stanford Health Professions Education and Scholarship Program (SHaPES) is a one- to two-year professional development program in medical education, designed to introduce clinical educators to fundamental concepts in education. All are welcome to attend/audit our seminar series: faculty, fellows, residents, students, and staff with an interest in medical education. This is an interdisciplinary medical education community for those in and around Stanford to support scholarship and curricula relating to the clinical environment.

2026 - 2027 Seminar Schedule
All session begin at 5:15pm via Zoom

September 2, 2026 - Curriculum Development
October 7, 2026 - Survey Methods: How to Get High Quality Data
November 4, 2026 - Lane Library's Quick Start Research Toolkit
December 2, 2026 - Planning and Implementing Your Educational Innovation: Planning the IRB
January 13, 2027 - Qualitative Methods: How to Analyze Open-Ended Survey Questions
February 3, 2027 - Creating a Time for Telling--Why and How
March 3, 2027 - Best Practices in Competency-Based Assessment and Feedback in Medical Education
April 7, 2027 - Dissemination Strategies in Medical Education
May 5, 2027 - Bedside Teaching: Enhancing Your Clinical Teaching… While Preserving Efficiency
June 3, 2027 - SHaPES Honors Scholars Capstone Symposium

Stanford covers the costs for SHaPES seminars and the SHaPES Honors Certificate for our Stanford students, residents, fellows, postdocs, faculty, staff, and affiliates.

Learn more and register here: https://med.stanford.edu/academy/programs/CTSS_Schedule.html

1. Utilize best practices to design, execute, and assess educational innovations and interventions.
2. Apply relevant education theory to the design and development of curricula.

In support of improving patient care, Stanford Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. 

Credit Designation 
American Medical Association (AMA) 
Stanford Medicine designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 10.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Accessibility Statement
 Stanford University School of Medicine is committed to ensuring that its programs, services, goods and facilities are accessible to individuals with disabilities as specified under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act of 2008.  If you have needs that require visual, auditory, cognitive, or mobility accommodations, please contact the coordinator.

Cultural and Linguistic Competency
The planners and speakers of this CME activity have been encouraged to address cultural issues relevant to their topic area for the purpose of complying with California Assembly Bill 1195. Moreover, the Stanford University School of Medicine Multicultural Health Portal contains many useful cultural and linguistic competency tools including culture guides, language access information and pertinent state and federal laws.  You are encouraged to visit the Multicultural Health Portal: https://laneguides.stanford.edu/multicultural-health


For activity related questions, please contact
Christine Schirmer - [email protected]

For CME general questions, please contact 
     Email: [email protected]

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Stanford Medicine adheres to the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education.

The content of this activity is not related to products or the business lines of an ACCME-defined ineligible company. Hence, there are no relevant financial relationships with an ACCME-defined ineligible company for anyone who was in control of the content of this activity.

Member Information

Role in activity

Nature of Relationship(s) / Name of Ineligible Company(s)

Becky Leanne Blankenburg, MD, MPH
LEAD Steering Committee, Clinical Professor
Stanford School of Medicine

Co-Course Director

Sarah Roberts Williams, MD
Clinical Professor
Stanford Dept. of Emergency Medicine

Co-Course Director

Christine Schirmer, EdD
Director
Stanford Medicine

Course Director