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Best Practices in Residency Training - Reaching for Excellence
March 6-7, 2004
Saturday, March 6, 2004
8:00 - 9:00 am -The Changing Face of Academics:Opportunities and Challenges for Junior Faculty, Ruth-Marie Fincher, MD, Medical College of Georgia,
The definition of scholarly activity and its place in promotion is changing. At the end of this session participants will be able to state the definition of expanded scholarship and discuss methods to ensure their own scholarly activities can be used to enhance their chances for promotion.
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9:00 - 10:00 am - Resident Remediation, Stephen Playe, MD, Baystate Medical Center, Techniques to assist faculty members in identifying a weak resident and help them with their deficiencies will be discussed. Participants are invited to bring their own cases to review. Participants will be able to recognize and verbalize problems residents are encountering and will be able to construct a customized program to remedy deficiencies.
10:15 - 11:15 am - Interview Training Skills, James Adams, MD, Northwestern University, Interviewing applicants is a task for many faculty members, but most have little training for this task. This session will review pertinent interview questions that will help predict future performance of a resident. Participants will be able to list questions which will predict success in applicants and will be able to avoid those questions which cannot be legally asked during an interview.
11:15 - 12:15 pm - Networking Lunch for all attendees. While practicing effective networking skills, faculty and participants will share interaction time.
1:30 - 2:30 pm - Medical Simulation, Linda Spillane, MD, University of Rochester, and Wendy Coates, MD, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
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3:00 - 4:00 pm - Faculty Development, Glenn Hamilton, MD, Wright State University, These three presentations will outline examples of "Best Practices" regarding specific components of the EM residency curriculum and program requirements. At the end of these sessions participants will be able to determine how these examples of "Best Practices" might be incorporated into portions of their respective EM residencies.
Sunday, March 7, 2004
8:00 - 9:00 am - EM Program Requirement Revisions, Arthur Sanders, MD, University of Arizona, Larry Sulton, PhD, Executive Secretary, RRC-EM, and David Overton, MD, Michigan State University/Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies (MSU/KCMS)
9:00 - 10:00 am - RRC-EM "Open Forum", Arthur Sanders, MD, University of Arizona, Larry Sulton, PhD, Executive Secretary, RRC-EM, and David Overton, MD, Michigan State University/Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies (MSU/KCMS),
These two presentations will discuss recent program requirement revisions for EM residency accreditation as well as provide ample time for attendees to ask other pertinent questions of RRC-EM representatives. At the end of these sessions participants will have gained a working knowledge of the RRC-EM accreditation process.
10:15 - 11:15 am - Resident Dismissal, Charles Emerman, MD, MetroHealth Medical Center, The dismissal of a resident is one of the most perilous challenges a program director can encounter. At the end of this session participants will be able to discuss the various steps and pitfalls that may be anticipated during the dismissal process.
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12:30 - 1:30 pm - Core Competencies: Examples of Integration into the Evaluation Process, Stephen Hayden, MD, University of California, San Diego, and Pam Dyne, MD, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, It is the expectation of the ACGME to incorporate the core competencies into the performance evaluation of residents. At the end of this session participants will be able to determine if the presented examples will be of benefit in their respective resident evaluation process.
1:30 - 2:30 pm - Program Director Longevity, Kevin Rodgers, MD, Indiana University, EM program directors are faced with the daunting task of simultaneously striving for excellence in patient care, research, and management of their EM residency. These expectations may lead to some seeking other professional avenues within academic emergency medicine. Information will be presented by members of the CORD Program Director Longevity Task Force. At the end of this session participants will have gained insight into the challenges of maintaining professional satisfaction in the role of an EM program director.
3:00 - 4:00 pm - ABEM Longitudinal Study – Curricular Considerations, Robert Korte, PhD, American Board of Emergency Medicine,
This presentation will provide analysis of trends in residents' self-report measures from the ABEM Longitudinal Study of Resident Physicians in Emergency Medicine. At the end of this session participants will be able to highlight changing perspectives that occur during EM residencies in such areas as satisfaction with Emergency Medicine both in general and their specific residency, perceived problems in resident day-to-day experiences, and self-confidence as emergency physicians.
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