Paradigm

Knowledge is like a sphere, the greater the volume, the larger its contact with the unknown.

Paradox

The more you know!
...the more you don't know?

Pedagogy

MoMIA

Mobile Medical Ignorance App

MoMIA... Mobile applications allow students and teachers to collaborate on projects promoting inquiry. Students submit their questions and develop topics with teachers, all driven by the CMI theme

TT/SQ Handbook

Curriculum for Translating, Translation, and Scientific Questioning

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A classroom-based guide with exercises to engage students and teachrs in authentic scientific inquiry. The curriculum emphasizes bidirectional translation from basic discovery to practical application to nurture curiosity and innovation.

SIMI

Summer Institute on Medical Ignorance

The Summer Institute of Medical Ignorance is a seven-week in-residence experience for disadvantaged high school students. The experience provides each student with the opportunity to work in research-based laboratories and attend lectures on biomedical research. Students produce a capstone project where they put research translation into practice by presenting before an audience of peers and faculty. They also produce, in teams, translational videos, putting into images and words what they have learned to share.

QVideo Production:

Technology, Team and Translation

Using the surgery training axiom - "see one, do one, teach one", students are encouraged to become active communicators, contributors, authors, and mentors, taking what they learn and translating that information into a shareable format, be it video, live presentation, journal article or other medium. A special YouTube channel is dedicated to this a ctivity.

VCRC/Q

Virtual Clinical Research Center / Questionarium

The Virtual Clinical Research center and Questionarium is a simulation of an NIH-type Clinical Translational Science/Clinical Research Center (CTSA/CRC), where students/trainees can navigate through the explorarium, library, and current research spaces, and choose expert or student presentations on various topics and pursue research questions of interest.

Workshops/Conferences

Held throughout the US and internationally, these educational offerings focus on medical and other ignorance - unanswered questions and unquestioned answers - and provide inquiry tools at multiple educational levels to explore "what we know we don't know don't know we don't know, and think we know but don't" about a wide variety of topics.

T³

Technology, Team and Translation

A variety of technologies are used in CMI to promote blended learning and reach diverse learners in a variety of venues. Learning teams from n=l (individual innovation) to multinational learning communities are encouraged, focusing on the generation and sharing of iterative questions with intermediate answers. Practical application as well as fundamental discovery is encompassed.

K-20 Collaborations

Multilevel partnerships with K-20 higher and professional education and research institutions

Learning/inquiry partnerships are forged and nurtured with bidirectional exchange emphasizing particularly K-12 community and biomedical research/health professional careers with special attention to disadvantaged students and populations and dissemination strategies.

Questionarium Project

This faculty to faculty to student exchange model aims to promote sharing of key basic, clinical and societal questions underlying active or planned research projects with the end result of establishing new collaborations and teams. It is a type of match.com or eharmony for initiating research partnerships and gathering research teams. La Residencia del Incognito Based on a model at the University of Madrid developed by Nobel laureate Severo Ochoa, this residential retreat in Tucson, Arizona "devoted to all we have yet to learn and discover” provides a protected stress-free paperless environment for learners of all ages and experience to engage in reflection, discussion, and interchange. It is home to the Ignorance Foundation.

Questionarium Project

This faculty to faculty to student exchange model aims to promote sharing of key basic, clinical and societal questions underlying active or planned research projects with the end result of establishing new collaborations and teams. It is a type of match.com or eharmony for initiating research partnerships and gathering research teams. La Residencia del Incognito Based on a model at the University of Madrid developed by Nobel laureate Severo Ochoa, this residential retreat in Tucson, Arizona "devoted to all we have yet to learn and discover” provides a protected stress-free paperless environment for learners of all ages and experience to engage in reflection, discussion, and interchange. It is home to the Ignorance Foundation.

Pipeline

Stepwise involvement in workforce and career development focuses on facilitating entry and retention in the biomedical workforce and providing engaging inquiry-based experiences in science education and practice.

IgU

Ignorance University

IgU is a new University for the next century where the focus has been shifted from all we know (knowledge factory) to all the things that we have yet to learn and discover. Questions, the questioning process, and questioners (Q³) are the elements of IgU, which also links failure and chaos to the new paradigm.

La Residencia

Ignorance University

IgU is a new University for the next century where the focus has been shifted from all we know (knowledge factory) to all the things that we have yet to learn and discover. Questions, the questioning process, and questioners (Q³) are the elements of IgU, which also links failure and chaos to the new paradigm.

Q³ Analytics

Multipronged evaluation system has been developed for CM I and its activities involving national and international consultants and both objective and subjective measures including student portfolios.. A Q³ metric termed IQ³, an approach to semantics and algorithms at describing progress in questioning, as well as standard short- and long-term process and outcome measures are encompassed