AAMC recap

The 2009 American Association of Medical Colleges annual meeting was held in Boston in early November.. and was attended by many of our UW Med Ed Forum frequent fliers. We reviewed major themes from the meeting and had a meaty discussion, including the following topics:

-- e-learning: national focus on research in instructional design
-- comparative effectiveness research on educational interventions is ripe for funding
-- simulation: outcomes of open exploration vs. proficiency based criteria vs. highly prescriptive approach
-- study of process and outcome within medical education
-- increasing attention to integration of basic sciences and clinical medicine (out of this sprang a discussion of the content and process that basic sciences bring to to medical school... and how to optimize learning of this material; discussed drawing basic sciences through the 4 years, and starting clinical work earlier?)
-- physician wellness / mindfulness / satisfaction (faculty and residents)

Thanks for a fantastic session!

Kickoff 2009!

Dr. Janice Sabin opened the first Med Ed forum of 2009-2010 with her talk entitled: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care: A Multidisciplinary Perspective for Clinical Level Intervention.

Janice, thanks for joining us and for facilitating such a rich discussion!

The talk was captured by video, and is open to anyone with a valid UW NedID/password:

http://mediasite.hs.washington.edu/Mediasite/Viewer/?peid=8923bd4d41db4d0a9754a8e948f72190.

A few instructions about the video:
-- You may get a warning from their web browser saying that the content might not be safe to access. It is perfectly safe to either continue to the site or install a certificate exception.

-- The slide area is blank until about 6:48, then the synchronization begins (sorry! the VGA cable was not initially connected correctly)

Growing a WWAMI community

Dr. Peggy Schlesinger, who has participated in the Med Ed forum via conference call from Montana so many times this year, joined us in Seattle in June and gave an outstanding talk on Growing a WWAMI community in Missoula Montana -- thanks, Peggy!

WWAMI is an acronym for the five states joined in a medical education partnership with the University of Washington --Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho.

Peggy is a private practice physician in internal medicine and rheumatology in Missoula, Montana, has taught UW medical students in Missoula since 1992, and is coordinator for WWAMI internal medicine clerkship for third-year medical students.

May forum: Moodling about

Thanks to Dave Masuda for his med ed forum presentation this week on online environments-- moodling!

You can find his presentation here:
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.cc2c53bf-ce0c-4cb6-af57-745f4ef686a5&hl=en

April forum - Impacting the Educational Environment

Many thanks to Kelly Fryer-Edwards for a fabulous forum and stimulating discussion this month!

Impacting the Educational Environment: Challenges for Educational Research

Her ppt slides can be found here:
http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dr2mzg8_358hqk3f6db

Technology Planning for the MD Curriculum

Our January forum - Technology Planning for the MD Curriculum -- was a great success! 30+ attendees, and a very engaged audience. Many thanks to Michael Campion and colleagues for their presentation and discussion.

You can find the presentation here.

Works in Progress - MEDEX Experience

Many thanks to Doug Brock, Keren Wick, and Tim Evans from MEDEX for their stimulating “works in progress” discussion on Ethics Instruction: The MEDEX Experience, Online Discussion Boards... there was a great turnout! Their presentation can be found here.

Thanks for your participation... and hope to see you at the next forum.