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Practical Approaches for Achieving Required Competencies in Systems-based Practice and Practice-based Learning and Improvement


September 26-28, 2002
Hyatt Regency Cambridge
Cambridge, MA

 
Thursday, September 26, 2002
 
6:00 p.m. Registration and Reception
7:00 - 8:00 p.m. Dinner
8:00 - 9:00 p.m. The Health Professional of the 21st Century
Harvey Fineberg, MD, President-elect, Institute of Medicine, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health
 
Friday, September 27, 2002
6:45 - 7:45 a.m. Full Breakfast and Registration
8:00 - 8:15 a.m.

Welcome and Program Introduction
Mary Y. Lee, MD, MS, Associate Provost, Tufts University
Dean for Educational Affairs, Tufts University School of Medicine, and THCI Faculty Development Director, Course Director

8:15 - 9:00 a.m. Curriculum Reform and Competency-based Education for the Primary Care Clinician
Nicole Lurie, MD, MSPH, Senior Natural Scientist and
the Paul O'Neill Alcoa Professor, RAND Corporation
9:00 - 9:45 a.m. Plenary Address - Beyond Clinical Competencies: The Ideal Clinician for a Better Health Care System
Robert S. Galvin, MD, Director, Global Health Care, General Electric
Thomas H. Lee, MD, SM, Chief Medical Officer, Partners Community HealthCare Inc.
9:45 - 10:00 a.m. Break
10:00 - 11:15 a.m.

Workshop I. Integrating Systems-based Competencies into Clinical Training
Scenario-based, concurrent workshops. Registrants will attend one workshop.

Facilitators:
  • Colleen Conway-Welch, PhD, CNM, FAAN
  • George Isham, MD
  • Maryjoan Ladden, PhD, RN, CS
  • Nicole Lurie, MD, MSPH
  • Gordon T. Moore, MD, MPH
  • Marla Oros, RN, MS
  • Gregory Pawlson, MD, MPH
11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Strategies for Teaching and Integrating the New Competencies into Your Curriculum
Hershey S. Bell, MD, FAAFP, Senior Vice President for Medicine, Primary Care, and Medical Education, Hamot Medical Center
Colleen Conway-Welch, PhD, CNM, FAAN, Professor and Dean, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing
12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch and Resource Marketplace
1:30 - 2:45 p.m.

Workshop II. Best Practices for Teaching and Integrating the New Competencies
Concurrent. Registrants will attend one workshop.

  • Cost-Effective Care - Mark Callahan, MD, assistant professor of Public Health and Medicine, chief, Division of Outcomes and Effectiveness Research, Department of Public Health, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, director of Outcomes Research, New York Presbyterian Healthcare Network
  • Curricular Redesign - Donald Bordley, MD, professor of Medicine, associate chair for Education, program director, Internal Medicine, University of Rochester
  • Health Care System - Jeffrey Lenow, MD, clinical assistant professor, Department Family Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University
  • Population-based Care - Susan Schooley, MD, chair, Family Practice Department, Henry Ford Health System
  • Quality Improvement - Joseph F. O'Donnell, MD, professor of Medicine, senior advising dean and director of Community Programs, Dartmouth Medical School
  • Quality Improvement - Linda Norman, DSN, RN, senior associate dean for Academics, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing
  • Teamwork and Collaboration - Shirley Moore, RN, PhD, FAHA, associate dean for Research, associate professor of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University School of Nursing (CWRU); and Mark Richard, MD, director, Pediatric Residency, assistant professor, MetroHealth Medical Center, CWRU
2:45 - 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 - 4:15 p.m.

Workshop III. Best Practices for Teaching and Integrating the New Competencies
Concurrent. Registrants will attend one workshop.

  • Cost-Effective Care - Mark Callahan, MD, assistant professor of Public Health and Medicine, chief, Division of Outcomes and Effectiveness Research, Department of Public Health, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, director of Outcomes Research, New York Presbyterian Healthcare Network
  • Curricular Redesign - Donald Bordley, MD, professor of Medicine, associate chair for Education, program director, Internal Medicine, University of Rochester
  • Evidence-based Medicine - William Taylor, MD, associate professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, senior physician, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Health Care Associates at Longwood
  • Health Care System - Jeffrey Lenow, MD, clinical assistant professor, Department Family Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University
  • Managing Chronic Care - Susan L. Janson, DNSc, RN-NP, professor of Nursing and Medicine, co-director, Center for Collaborative Primary Care, University of California San Francisco (UCSF); Robert B. Baron, MD, MS, professor of Clinical Medicine, associate dean, director of Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program, UCSF; and Molly Cooke, MD, professor of Medicine, co-director, Center for Collaborative Care, Department of Medicine, UCSF
  • Population-based Care - Susan Schooley, MD, chair, Family Practice Department, Henry Ford Health System
  • Quality Improvement - Joseph F. O'Donnell, MD, professor of Medicine, senior advising dean and director of Community Programs, Dartmouth Medical School; and Linda Norman, DSN, RN, senior associate dean for Academics, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing
4:15 - 5:00 p.m. How Would We Recognize Best Practices if We Saw Them?
George Isham, MD, Medical Director and Chief Health Officer, HealthPartners
Mary Y. Lee, MD, MS
 
Saturday, September 28, 2002
6:45 - 7:45 a.m. Full Breakfast and Registration
8:00 - 8:15 a.m. Welcome and Program Introduction
Rosalie R. Phillips, MPH, Executive Director, THCI
8:15 - 9:00 a.m. Beyond the OSCE: Assessment of Professional Competence
Ronald M. Epstein, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, and Director, Pre-Doctoral Medical Education, University of Rochester Medical Center
9:00 - 10:15 a.m.

Workshop IV. Assessment Tools and Skills Sets in Practice
Concurrent. Attendees select one workshop.

  • General: Creating a Culture of Assessment - Ronald M. Epstein, MD
  • General: Assessment Tools and Techniques - Dierdre Lynch, RhD, research and evaluation specialist, ACGME
  • Family Medicine: Tools and Skill Sets for Family Practice Residency Programs - Hershey S. Bell, MD, FAAFP
  • Internal Medicine: Assessment Tools and Skill Sets for Internal Medicine Residency Programs - Patrick Alguire, MD, FACP, director of Education and Career Development, American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine
  • Nursing: Assessment Approaches in Nursing Education - Charlene Hanson, EdD, RN, FNP, FAAN, professor emerita, School of Nursing, Georgia Southern University
  • Pediatrics: Defining and Measuring Benchmarks to Evaluate Resident Competence in Systems-based Practice and Practice-based Learning and Improvement: A Pediatric Perspective - Robert Englander, MD, director of Inpatient Management and Inpatient Services, Connecticut Children's Medical Center; and Carol Carraccio, MD, associate chair for Education, University of Maryland School of Medicine
10:15 - 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 - 11:30 a.m. "Best Ideas" Presentation and Discussion Session
"Best ideas" in the germination stage will be discussed in an interactive, participatory session
Facilitator: Gordon T. Moore, MD, MPH
11:30 a.m.- 12:15 p.m. Making the Assessment Needle Move: Lessons from the Field
David Leach, MD, Executive Director, ACGME
12:15 p.m. Conference concludes; box lunches available