Wednesday, September 21 Sessions
In the event of a Zoom Events or MS Teams connectivity problem, please contact one of the conference co-chairs: Kerrie Quirk (kquirk@mcw.edu) or Robert Treat (rtreat@mcw.edu)
Schedule (click times for session details)
Oral Presentations 2 | 9:30 – 10:30 am
Feifei Han, PhD
Patterns of Medical Students Collaborative Learning in Blended Course Designs Based on their Learning Orientations
Presenters: Robert Ellis, PhD
Kristen Bunnell, PharmD
Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Interprofessional Education Activity with Medical Laboratory Science Students and Pharmacy Students
Presenters: Erik Munson, PhD; Ehab Abourashed, PhD; Kelly Horton, MAT; Sue Korek, MAED
Kurt Pfeifer, MD
Coaching Medical Student Personal and Professional Development: The First 3-Years of a Longitudinal Coaching Program
Presenters: Tracey Liljestrom, MD; Jed Calata, MD; Emily Joachim, MD; Jasmine Dowell, MD; Bipin Thapa, MD, MS, FACP; Wendy Peltier, MD; Jose Franco, MD; Tavinder Ark, PhD; Kaicey von Stockhausen
Robert Treat, PhD
Neural Network Analysis of Medical Student Personality, Gender, and Perspective Taking
Presenters: Amy Prunuske, PhD; Jeffery Fritz, PhD; Kristina Kaljo, PhD; Craig Hanke, PhD
Roundtable 4 | 9:30 – 10:30 am
Virtual Reality in Medical Education with Acadicus
Presenters: Amy Beierle, MEd; Johnathon Neist, MLIS; Amy Easton Bingenheimer, MLIS; Thomas Yang, MD; Morgan Wilbanks, MD; William Ballo; David Bond
Lynn Lewandowski, MS
10:45 am
Roundtable 5 | 10:45 – 11:45 am
Patient-Centered Communication Training in the OBGYN Residency
Presenters: Monet Lane, MD; Kristina Kaljo, PhD
Patient-centered communication by physicians has substantial benefits for both the health of patients and the healthcare system, yet explicit specialty-specific communications training is rarely incorporated into residency training programs. Through an OBGYN-specific communications thread we seek to build skills addressing conversations across pregnancy, primary care, and surgery.
Lindsey McAlarnen, MD
Speed Posters 3 | 10:45 – 11:45 am
Medical Education Transformational Ideas Initiative (TI2) Posters 2 | 10:45 – 11:45 am
Learn more about the Transformational Ideas Initiative (TI2)
12:00 pm
Keynote Address | Cathleen Pettepher, PhD | 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Integrating Foundational Sciences Throughout the Curriculum
Keynote Address Introductions and Opening Remarks
Catherine Ferguson, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Section of Emergency Medicine
Director, Quality Improvement & Patient Safety Scholarly Pathway
Dr. Cathleen Pettepher received her undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of South Alabama in Mobile Alabama. She came to Vanderbilt to pursue a post-doctoral fellowship in diabetes where she focused on the characterization of the glucokinase gene locus utilizing transgenic mice and embryonic stem cell technologies. In 1993, she joined the Department of Cell & Developmental Biology and focused her efforts on teaching first year medical students and managing the Transgenic Mouse and Embryonic Stem Cell Core Facility for the Cancer, Diabetes and Kennedy Centers.
1:30 pm
Roundtable 6 | 1:30 – 2:30 pm | “Meet the Chairs” of The Generalists in Medical Education (TGME)
This roundtable will help participants learn more about the TGME conference and understand the expectations of abstract submissions getting accepted at a national medical education conference.
Roundtable 7 | 1:30 – 2:30 pm
MIRRORs Program for Resident Character and Professional Development
Presenters: Ashley Pavlic, MD MA; Taylor Sonnenberg, MD; Samuel Corbo, MD; Hannah Johnshoy, MD
Character and professional development are crucial for resident physicians but are often undervalued or omitted entirely from the curriculum. We discuss the formation of the MIRRORs program, a character and professional identity thread within our educational curriculum, and our efforts to prioritize practical wisdom and character formation for resident learners.
Kathleen Williams, MD
2:45 pm
Panel Session 3 | 2:45 – 3:45 pm | Critical Pedagogies in Health Professions Education
This panel discussion will offer practice-based resources and strategies to support audience member inquiry into to support colleagues and help faculty navigate and implement curricula that develop learners’ structural competence.
Roundtable 8 | 2:45 – 3:45 pm
Assessment of Communication Skills Across the Medical Education Curriculum
This interactive roundtable discussion will focus on the assessment of communication skills across the medical education curriculum. We will review tools and methods described in the literature and discuss both the author's and the audience's experiences with assessment of communication skills. This session is meant to be interactive, with input from participants to help guide the discussion.
Joshua Davis, MD
4:00 pm
Oral Presentations 3 | 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Kristina Kaljo, PhD
Pivot to 'SPARCC' Diversity in the Clinical Cancer Research Workforce: Implementation and Evaluation of an Academic Enrichment Pathway Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Global Pandemic
Presenters: Lindsey McAlarnen, MD; Michael Braun, PhD; Janet Rader, MD
Sarah Yale, MD
A “PEaRL” of Support and Cooperative Learning: Shifting the Sands of the Dreaded Morbidity and Mortality Conference
Presenters: Patrick McCarthy, MD, MME
Robert Treat, PhD
Integrating Virtual Reality in an Institutional Healthcare Education Research Online Conference
Presenters: Amy Prunuske, PhD; Austin Gerdes, MPH; Rachel Kavanaugh, PharmD
Gifty Marfowaa, BS
Effectiveness of URM Mentorship Platform in Promoting Scholarship
Presenters: Pinky Jha, MD; Abdul-rahman Abdel-reheem, MD; Devesh Kumar, BS
Workshop 3 | 4:00 – 5:15 pm
Creating UME Communication Skills Curricula with Psychological Safety and Character Development
Learning Objectives:
- Understand underpinnings of communication skills training, universal skills that are being prioritized for integration into the MCW curricular redesign.
- Learn about the development of two specific communication skills training programs at MCW focusing on social determinants of health for preclinical students and difficult conversations for clinical students on their IM clerkship.
- Discuss operationalizing psychologically safe spaces for feedback and growth for our preclinical and clinical students and how to foster humility, bravery, social awareness, and practical wisdom through these sessions.
Facilitator: Ashley Pavlic, MD, MA