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The Directors of Clinical Skills Courses Annual Meeting brings medical educators together to discuss best practices in teaching clinical skills through an enriching plenary session, interactive workshops, an informative poster session, networking opportunities, committee opportunities, and our annual business meeting.

Click here for information on how to register for the Directors of Clinical Skills (DOCS) meeting.

Separate Registration Required
Click here for information on how to register for the Directors of Clinical Skills (DOCS) meeting.

Separate Registration Required

Click here for information on how to register for the Directors of Clinical Skills (DOCS) meeting.

Separate Registration Required

Meet with colleagues to discuss innovative strategies to drive institutional commitment to both educators and overall excellence in teaching in the health professions. The content of this meeting will be directed by the needs of the participants, and participants will leave with action items to use at their home institution.

The Academies Collaborative advocates for teaching academies and similar organizations to develop and recognize educators’ excellence in the health professions.

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AAMC Affinity Group Members Only

During medical school, advising is a crucial component for students’ academic success, specialty selection, and residency placements. There is variability in the timing, content, specificity, and requirements of advising for medical students by medical school. This session will be structured as a consensus meeting to provide a forum for students to understand the current state of advising and prioritize future advising practices at their respective schools.

AAMC Affinity Group Members and Friends
This reception is open to all members of COTH, CMOG, GIR, GRA, and GFP.

AAMC Connect, our hub at the Austin Convention Convention Center, will be located on the 1st Floor in Hall 1. Charge your phone, grab coffee and refreshments, meet up with a colleague, or use our huddle room for impromptu meetings.

Registration, the Information Desk, the Member Service Desk, and the Mobile App Help Desk are in this space. Each of these resources will be open from Friday through Tuesday.

Join your fellow attendees for an inspiring performance by the Dallas Street Choir. The choir, founded by Jonathan Palant, DMA, is composed of members of the Dallas, Texas, community who are experiencing homelessness and severe hardship.

Through community engagement and public performance, the Dallas Street Choir seeks to improve the way society views those experiencing homelessness. This innovative model also demonstrates that participation in a consistent, structured, safe, and creatively engaging environment better equips individuals experiencing homelessness to find a job and housing and improve their lives.

In June 2017, Dr. Palant and the Dallas Street Choir made their Carnegie Hall debut and also performed at the Washington National Cathedral. We are fortunate to have the choir join us in Austin. Please visit www.dallasstreetchoir.org to learn more and offer your support.

Shame is a powerful, ubiquitous emotion that occurs in response to perceived transgressions, including errors and failures to meet expectations. Shame may manifest as self-doubt and imposter syndrome in practicing physicians and medical learners, particularly when they transition into new roles or environments. We seek to create a forum for attendees to explore the transition period as potentially high-risk for shame, imposter syndrome, and emotional distress and to identify strategies for mitigating this risk.
Full Abstract Description

Learning Objectives:
• Report increased comfort in talking about their shame experiences with others
• Articulate why transitions may be high-risk periods for experiencing damaging shame reactions

How do partisanship, polarization and medical authority stand in the way of evidence-based medicine? Brown University Professor Eric Patashnik contends that many common treatments are not grounded in sound science. And efforts to tackle the medical evidence problem and curtail wasteful spending are often undermined by political controversy, patients’ fears, medical society lobbying, and physicians’ efforts to maintain professional autonomy.

Professor Patashnik explores why the rate at which evidence shapes and improve medical practice is much, much more sluggish than most people realize, and why the government’s efforts to address this important problem have been so modest. Included in the discussion will be data from five national public opinion surveys and a national physician survey conducted over the last decade.

Professor Patashnik calls on physician leadership not only to practice but also to champion evidence-based medicine. He suggests this will require including greater training and self-awareness, data on peer practitioners and how their practices compare to one’s own, and leaders of medical societies to embrace  science and educate their members about the overtreatment and unwarranted variations, as well as about the problems of undertreatment inadequate care.

Learning Objectives:
• By the end of the lecture, attendees will understand the findings of national opinion surveys on the public’s views on proposals to strengthen the evidence base of U.S. medical practice
• By the end of the lecture, attendees will understand the findings of a national physician survey that explores doctors’ views on how medical societies should respond to scientific debates over the effectiveness of treatments used in their respective practice areas
• By the end of the lecture, attendees will understand the role of Congress and other US political institutions in efforts to promote the use of comparative effectiveness research to improve the quality and efficiency of U.S. health care

Highlight sessions are comprised of reports on select abstracts along a theme. Abstracts presented orally may be research - completed empirical investigation that contribute to medical education research and practice or innovation – unique educational experiences far enough along in the developmental cycle to provide valuable lessons and insights. The sessions will be moderated and allow for presentation of each abstract along with discussion.

Download the full descriptions for the session abstracts below:
• A National Survey of Medical School Strategies to Address Student Well-being
• The Learning Environment and Resident Wellness: Findings from the Council on Resident Education in OBGYN Survey
• A Developmental Theory of Resident Resilience
• When Bad Things Happen: Medical Student Curriculum on the Aftermath of Adverse Outcomes

Learning Objectives:
• Recognize key topics in medical education that focus on wellness of trainees
• Distinguish similarities and differences among a variety of educational interventions
• Recognize the impact of curriculum innovation on trainee wellness and learning environment

Harassment and mistreatment by patients are common experiences in medicine, especially among women and ethnic minorities. At our institutions, students report having witnessed or experienced mistreatment by patients, and a recent national survey suggests that nearly 60% of physicians report having heard biased comments by patients. Such experiences can have a significant psychological impact. Students and faculty alike have expressed the desire for training on how to respond to such encounters in the clinical setting.
Full Abstract Description

Learning Objectives:
• Discuss the prevalence and impact of mistreatment by patients on trainees in the learning environment
• Describe the role of supervisors and the institution in monitoring and responding to mistreatment of trainees by patients, and identify potential barriers to this process

Presentations of research in medical education (RIME) papers offer an opportunity to participate in a forum for scholarly interaction and an exchange of new ideas while hearing presentations on the latest medical education research.

Download the full description for the session abstracts below:

• Art as Sanctuary: A Four-Year Mixed Methods Evaluation of a Visual Art Course Addressing Uncertainty Through Reflection
• Medical Student Use of Electronic and Paper Health Records during Inpatient Clinical Clerkships 2012-2016: Results of a National Longitudinal Survey
• Does Incorporating a Measure of Clinical Workload Improve Workplace-Based Assessment Scores? Insights for Measurement Precision and Longitudinal Score Growth

Medical schools face a variety of challenges in creating a welcoming institutional environment. This session will provide an overview of methods leaders have used to improve the climate at their institution for students, faculty, and staff of diverse backgrounds. This session will specifically focus on strategies to improve the culture/climate, create a welcoming physical space, and improve faculty retention.

Learning Objectives

• Describe interventions which have led to improved institutional culture/climate. 
• Learn institutional practices and policies which can be used to design welcoming, functional spaces for all populations. 
• Describe institutional practices for promoting faculty engagement and retention.

Alumni and Friends

P&S recently marked an historic milestone: 250 years of pioneering medical education, research, patient care, and community service. We invite P&S faculty, alumni, and friends to a special reception to reconnect and learn about our exciting priorities for the future.

Please click here to RSVP.

Alumni and Friends

A joint reception for administrators, faculty, staff, alumni and friends of the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences and the Sanford School of Medicine at the University of South Dakota.

Please click here to RSVP for this reception.

The University of Arizona College of Medicine invites all of our alumni, students, faculty, staff and friends to a hosted cocktail reception. Special guests for the evening will be Deans Irv Kron, MD from the UA College of Medicine – Tucson and Guy Reed, MD from the UA College of Medicine – Phoenix.

Please RSVP prior to October 31, 2018. Register  

AAMC Connect, our hub at the Austin Convention Convention Center, will be located on the 1st Floor in Hall 1. Charge your phone, grab coffee and refreshments, meet up with a colleague, or use our huddle room for impromptu meetings.

Registration, the Information Desk, the Member Service Desk, and the Mobile App Help Desk are in this space. Each of these resources will be open from Friday through Tuesday.

Each year, AAMC President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, MD, and the chair of the AAMC Board of Directors share their perspectives. With Dr. Kirch stepping down from his role in 2019, this will be his final speech as president at our annual meeting. He consistently delivers talks that inspire us to make change, look at challenges and issues in a new light, and reconnect with why we choose to work in academic medicine. This is a plenary you don’t want to miss.

President's Farewell Address: Mountaintops
AAMC President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, MD

Chair’s Address: The Most Important Lesson I Learned in Medical School
AAMC Board chair M. Roy Wilson, MD, president of Wayne State University, will deliver his annual chair’s address, “The Most Important Lesson I Learned in Medical School.” Wilson will reflect on the practice of medicine by sharing a lesson that he has carried throughout his 38-year career as an ophthalmologist who specialized in the treatment of glaucoma, an academic faculty member, deputy director of an NIH institute, dean, health sciences center leader, and university president. He will explore this lesson through today’s modern construct of medicine.

Physicians working in impoverished communities struggle daily with the social determinants of health. Although medical efforts have traditionally concentrated on downstream interventions to improve individual health, there has been increased awareness of the benefits of addressing the upstream social determinants of health. Physicians and medical education training programs have a unique ability to step out of the practice setting to develop grassroots interprofessional partnerships with others in the local community to effectively impact community health.
Full Abstract Description

Learning Objectives:
• Discuss how addressing social determinants of health can improve health equity in impoverished communities
• Describe the benefits of collaborative interprofessional partnerships between physicians and the community to create a local community culture of health

There is increasing evidence that the clinical learning environment affects the quality of resident training. Residents are also actively influencing health care quality not only through providing direct patient care, but also through engaging in quality improvement (QI), team-based care, and patient safety (PS) initiatives at their institutions. Although there are data through various national accreditation and regulatory organizations on physicians’ educational competencies, there is limited information on standardized assessment of the effects of individuals, programs, or institutions on society. Recently, there has been interest in exploring characteristics and outcome metrics that may identify programs that are best in class. This session will explore several key areas—metrics currently collected and analyzed, the effects of GME on institutional QI strategies and patient care outcomes, alignment of GME program-specific aims with health care value-based metrics, and more.

Learning Objectives:
• Highlight the need of establishing meaningful GME outcome measures
• Understand the importance of the practice environment on quality of resident training
• Share institutional approaches and brainstorm needed tools

Research in Medical Education (RIME) paper presentations offer an opportunity to participate in a forum for scholarly interaction and the exchange of new ideas while hearing presentations on the latest medical education research.

Download the full description for the session abstracts below:

• Predicting Medical School Enrollment Behavior: Comparing an Enrollment Management Model to Expert Human Judgement
• Faculty Perceptions of Challenges and Opportunities to Facilitate Implicit Bias Instruction: Implications for Curriculum Development
• Striving while Accepting: Exploring How Identity Influences Implicit Bias Recognition and Management
• Mapping Transgender and Gender Non-binary Experiences in Medicine: A survey of TGNB medical students and physicians

On any given day and for many different reasons institutions face crises that threaten their reputations. Public trust and standing within our communities are critical to an academic health center ability to deliver across its mission areas. When a reputational crisis occurs, professionals from across the institution can work together internally and publicly to address the cause of the crisis and communicate transparently on campus and beyond. It is possible that an institution can emerge stronger than before if lessons learned are applied. During this session, attendees will gain insights from leaders who have lead their institutions through reputational crises.

Learning Objectives:
•Recognize the dimensions of reputational crises affecting academic medical centers
•Understand the necessary interaction among campus leadership to successfully addressing reputational crises
•Identify important elements to include before, during, and after an adverse event in an effective crisis management program
•Gain five takeaways to assist with an effective crisis management program

BJ Miller knows a thing or two about caring for patients as well as being a patient. A triple-amputee and Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco, Dr. Miller has a passion for patient-centered care, palliative and end-of-life care.

Too often in training and in practice, physicians focus on the disease rather than the patient. And, some of this stems from the innate desire to “fix” things and a view that dying from a disease is a failure on the part of the caregiver and the patient. BJ Miller reminds us that people have been dying for a long time, but society outsourced death and medicine picked it up.

With a little bit of effort, Dr. Miller professes that we can reclaim the humanity of the subject of dying, uptick the importance of joy and meaning and relationship, and at the same time free up the health care system to work within the realm of the possible. We should all share in the burden and privilege of caring for one another through life's most vulnerable and poignant moments. Physicians can learn from their patients, and rich and rewarding interactions can happen when a physician and a patient face a crisis together.

The session will begin with an overview of SRL by Dr. Larry Gruppen who has published the framework for SRL that will be presented, followed by examples of application of this framework to preclerkship and clerkship experiences. Subsequently, there will be guided discussion of small working groups focused on developing learning activities related to SRL. These groups will be facilitated by faculty from six institutions, all of whom are actively engaged in supporting, conducting and/or researching SRL in UME.

Full Abstract Description

Learning Objectives:

1.Define the components of a framework for Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) as it relates to medical education

2.Apply a SRL framework to medical students’ learning activities to facilitate learning

3.Apply a SRL framework to your own setting and generate an action plan

Open to All

In this knowledge-sharing session, the education technology community will discuss education technology issues, trends, and related infrastructure. Any attendee interested in the topic is welcome to attend. Members of the GIR Medical Education Technology community will facilitate the session. This community is active in evaluating emerging technology trends and their application to medical education.

AAMC Connect, our hub at the Austin Convention Conv. Center, will be located on the 1st Floor in Hall 1. Charge your phone, grab coffee and refreshments, meet up with a colleague, or use our huddle room for impromptu meetings.

Registration, the Information Desk, the Member Service Desk, and the Mobile App Help Desk are in this space. Each of these resources will be open from Friday through Tuesday.

During this session, we will cover the following topics:
•Demystifying the Submission Process
• Getting on the Program
• Committees of RIME and Learn Serve Lead - what we do
• Tips and Strategies from the Planning Committee

Research in Medical Education (RIME) paper presentations offer an opportunity to participate in a forum for scholarly interaction and the exchange of new ideas while hearing presentations on the latest medical education research.

Download the full description for the session abstracts below:

• Incentivizing Medical Teachers: Exploring the Role of Incentives in Influencing Motivations
• Electronic knowledge resources and point-of-care learning: A scoping review

Full session title: The Economic and Social Imperatives of Disease Prevention:  The Obesity-Diabetes-Kidney Disease Paradigm.

Dr. Rodgers will discuss the science underlying disease prevention as viewed through three interrelated conditions—obesity, type 2 diabetes, and kidney disease.  Dr. Rodgers also will discuss NIDDK diversity programs that provide opportunities for researchers with underrepresented backgrounds, and outreach efforts to minority communities.

Learning Objectives:
•Participants will learn about the prevention of type 2 diabetes, the consequent prevention of health complications of diabetes, and translation of NIDDK’s Diabetes Prevention Program clinical trial results.
• Participants will learn about NIDDK diversity programs to support aspiring biomedical researchers, and about NIDDK outreach efforts focused on minority populations.

Addressing salary (in)equity is a challenge many institutions face. In this session, participants will hear promising practices from institutions that have successfully conducted a salary study, financially addressed inequities, and communicated change to promote transparency and equity in the workplace.

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the landmark ruling in the case of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, which set the stage for robust efforts to help achieve the educational and professional benefits for all students that are associated with diverse learning experiences. With, now, five Supreme Court opinions, countless research papers, and a rich body of institutional experience since 1978, what do we know? And how should recent federal policy changes, shifts in Supreme Court composition, ongoing litigation, and student activism influence wise and strategic institutional action?

This session will address issues of institutional policy, governance, culture, process management and practice intrinsic to success, with reflections on lessons learned from decades of hard work in the trenches. Topics covered will include relevant federal non-discrimination laws (and recent cases and Trump Administration actions on that front); models of governance and systems design that can help advance better outcomes; insights regarding important data and evidence that should be integral to program evaluation over time; and transparency and communications considerations. And, you’ll learn five critical institutional actions to succeed in challenging times.

Learning Objectives:
• Discuss the relationship between the Supreme Court rulings and DOJ guidance
•Identify time-tested, legally viable principles derived from settled federal law to inform the work of the medical school admissions community careers
• Reinforce steps schools can take to support their admissions decisions in a time of greater legal scrutiny

AAMC Connect, our hub at the Austin Convention Conv. Center, will be located on the 1st Floor in Hall 1. Charge your phone, grab coffee and refreshments, meet up with a colleague, or use our huddle room for impromptu meetings.

Registration, the Information Desk, the Member Service Desk, and the Mobile App Help Desk are in this space. Each of these resources will be open from Friday through Tuesday.

Times of curricular transformation can present a multitude of scholarly opportunities. In this session, we will discuss strategies to effectively and efficiently develop scholarship for meetings, journals, and MedEdPortal and address the pursuit of medical education grants. We will also discuss how to move from idea generation to preparation and, ultimately, submission using the FINER scholarly project matrix: Is it Feasible, Interesting, Novel, Ethical, Relevant, and does it have demonstrable Kirkpatrick outcomes?
Full Abstract Description

Learning Objectives:
• Identify domains of potential scholarship during curricular transformation
• Illustrate the key characteristics of quality scholarship using the FINER matrix
• Discuss strategies to develop scholarship for educational meetings (posters, presentations, workshops), journals, MedEdPortal, and grants
• Outline the process involved from idea generation to preparation and submission
 

The Research in Medical Education (RIME) research paper presentations offer an opportunity to participate in a forum for scholarly interaction and the exchange of new ideas while hearing presentations on the latest medical education research.

Download the full description for the session abstracts below:

• Testing Test-Enhanced Continuing Medical Education- A Randomized Controlled Trial
• Do one then see one: Sequencing discovery learning and direct instruction for simulation-based technical skills training
• Combining Scores based on Compensatory and Non-Compensatory Scoring Rules to Assess Resident Readiness for Unsupervised Practice: Implications from a National Primary Care Certification Examination in Japan

• Identify key steps of the abstract review and selection process, including factors leading to selection decisions at each step.
• Use specific strategies of Rhetoric to inform the writing of competitive abstracts
• Define factors that influence the degree of innovativeness of scholarly work and the degree expected in proposals for local, regional, or national audiences.