The SOT Education and Experiential Opportunities Committee (EEOC) encourages you to submit an abstract for the “Educating Future Toxicologists and Communicating with the Public” category. If you have been involved in formal or informal education, your innovations and experiences could make for a discussion-worthy poster at the SOT Annual Meeting and ToxExpo. Come share your innovations in teaching and learning with potential collaborators and colleagues.
Not only will you disseminate your work, but you will meet and network with other educators. You never know where this might take you.
At the 2023 meeting, several undergraduate faculty shared their different takes on course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) during the education poster session. They met each other, several for the first time, and discussed their different approaches introducing toxicology to their students. Later that year, Joshua Gray, US Coast Guard Academy, decided to apply for a National Science Foundation Improving Undergraduate STEM Education grant with the four other SOT members, most of whom teach at primarily undergraduate institutions. The proposal has been funded, and a collaboration has grown as these educators work together over the next several years to create CURE modules focused on toxicology. Partners in this grant include Mindy Reynolds, Washington College; Jennifer Newell-Caito, University of Maine; Julie Hall, Lincoln Memorial University; and Sam Caito, Husson University School of Pharmacy.
The abstract submission category “Educating Future Toxicologists and Communicating with the Public” includes educational topics, issues, and modalities at any level: K–12, undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate, as well as the public. The abstract submission deadline is November 13, 2024.
Educational activities take time, effort, and creativity to develop, implement, and evaluate. Your efforts and insights could benefit others involved, or hoping to become involved, in toxicology education. This Poster Session is an opportunity to share valuable experiences and original information in toxicology education in the broadest sense. Topics of potential interest include learning objectives and teaching strategies for courses, science outreach, partnerships with schools, risk communication strategies, affordable toxicology laboratory activities, summer research experiences for high school and undergraduate students, active learning and problem-based learning in toxicology, career development training programs, and translating toxicology to the public.
Abstracts for this Poster Session often are unlike reports of bench research. Take note of the “Tips for Non-laboratory or Non-field Studies”. As with all abstracts submitted for presentation at the Annual Meeting, the SOT Scientific Program Committee reviews and makes acceptance decisions. To write an effective education-related abstract, we recommend that you identify the activity and its connection to toxicology; describe how the activity informs, or is informed by, literature or calls to action; define the population(s) being served; and state the learning outcomes/objectives for the activity and how the results can inform other educators or those who communicate with the public. If applicable, explain how the effectiveness of the activity has been evaluated.
Please note that SOT allows a person to be presenting author on only one poster at the Annual Meeting. Accordingly, if you are already the presenting author on a different poster, consider including a colleague or student as the presenting author of your poster for this session.
If you would like comments before you submit, please contact me, Bob Roth, chair of the EEOC.
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