Innovations in Healthcare Education Research Conference

Conference Theme: Professional Identity Formation

IGNITE SESSION VIDEOS

• Himanshu Agrawal, MD, DF-APA: A Day in Bed – A Novel Idea in Medical Education
• Sonal Chandratre, MD: Surviving The Attacks On My Professional Identity – An Inspirational Autobiography
• Rachel Kavanaugh, PharmD: Taking a Hands-On Approach: Developing a Longitudinal Physical Assessment Curriculum for Pharmacy Students
• Jutta Novalija, MD, PhD, CHSE: Escaping the Operating Room – A Team Building Exercise
• Wendy L. Peltier, MD: Can We Define Caring for Medical Education?
• Robert Trevino, MD, PhD: I was, I am, I will be: Evolving Professional Identity Formation through Training

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

The conference featured keynote speaker Verna E. Monson, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Educational Psychologist and Consultant, Professionalism and Ethics Education in Medical Schools. Dr. Monson presented on "Understanding Medical Professional Identity Formation and Professionalism Remediation."

View the 2020 IHER Conference Program (PDF)

The 6th Annual MCW Innovations Conference was attended by more than 150 educators and students. The conference included opportunities for attendees to view more than 30 poster presentations, 15 podium presentations, workshops and faculty development sessions.

AWARD WINNERS

Presentation Winners

• The #MCW Common Read: Finding Common Language and Shared Experience
  Olivia M.T. Davies, BS; Sehr Khan, BS; Gerilyn M. Olsen, BA; Sarah Bennett, BA, MS; David Cipriano, PhD, MS; Arthur R. Derse, JD, MD; Kathlyn Fletcher, MA, MD; Joe Hodapp, BA; Scott Lamm, BS; Sophia Lindekugel, BA; Ashley Ng, BS; Zoe Retzlaff, BS; Elizabeth Suelzer, MLIS, AHIP; Kimberly Tyler, BS, MS; Catherine Ferguson, MD; Wendy Peltier, MD; and Martin Muntz, MD
• Faculty Expectations of Entering Medical Students Skills and Values
  Jane Machi, MD; Joseph Budovec, MD; Greg Kaupla, MCE; and William J. Hueston, MD
  

Poster Winners

• Clinical Exposure and Cultural Competency Training in the Preclinical Years: a Pilot Program involving Veteran Patients
  John Wagner, BA, MA; Mara Peterson, BS; Maggie Murphy, MT-BC; Ramadevi Parachuri, MD
• Improving Residents as Educators in Clinical Settings
  Jacqueline M. Powell, BS; Bipin Thapa, MD; Megan M. Haak, MA; Greg Kaupla; Kristina Kaljo, PhD; Heather Toth, MD; Paul Lemen, MD; Kenneth Simons, MD; Robert Treat, PhD; Robert Trevino, MD, PhD; Laura Walker; Caitlin Pilon; and Marie Padilla

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

The conference featured keynote speaker Elizabeth Baker, MD, MHPE, Senior Associate Dean at the Rush Medical College in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Baker presented on "Reimagining the Curriculum: Educational philosophy, 'flipping the classroom' and innovative transformation."

Watch a recording of the keynote speaker's address

View the 2019 IHER Conference Program (PDF)

The 5th Annual MCW Innovations Conference was attended by more than 150 educators and students. The conference included opportunities for attendees to view more than 30 poster presentations, 15 podium presentations, workshops and faculty development sessions.

AWARD WINNERS

Presentation Winners

• Rising M-1 Medical Student Anxiety: Six Years Later with a New Curriculum and Generation of Students
  Robert Treat, PhD; Diane Brown, MS; Koenraad De Roo; William J. Hueston, MD; Amy Prunuske, PhD; Kristina Kaljo, PhD; Jennifer Janowitz, MS; Dawn Bragg, PhD
• Capacity Coaching for Patients who are not Difficult, but have Difficult Lives
  Kathryn Havens, MD; Dr. Laura Miller; Kristyn Ertl; Kasey Boehmer, PhD; Hilary Ryan, MSW

Poster Winners

• Medical Student's "Final Answer": Game Show Teaching Sessions Well Rated Even After NBME Examination
  Sara Lauck, MD, MCW Department of Pediatrics; Erica Chou, MD, MCW
• Increasing Pharmacy Students' Knowledge of Medical Interpretation: Early Collaboration with Medical Interpreter Students
  Sue Korek, MAED, MCW School of Pharmacy; Karen MacKinnon, BPharm, RPh, MCW School of Pharmacy; Rodney Ramos, Sr., BS, Milwaukee Area Technical College

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

The conference featured keynote speaker, Dr. John Andrews from the University of Minnesota, who shared his insights as a leader in a competency-based medical school program in pediatrics (EPAC) that involves collaboration with several other medical schools.

Watch a recording of the keynote speaker's address

View the 2018 IHER Conference Program (PDF)

The 4th Annual MCW Innovations Conference was attended by more than 130 educators and students from MCW and schools and universities from Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota. The conference included opportunities for attendees to view more than 30 poster presentations, 17 podium presentations, workshops and faculty development sessions.

AWARD WINNERS

Presentation Winners

• Evaluation of an Interdisciplinary Program Designed to Promote the Self Efficacy of Medical Students Underrepresented in Medicine
  Amy Prunuske, PhD; Anna Wirta Kosobuski; Abigail Whitney, BS; Andrew Skildum, PhD
• Using Likelihood Rations to Improve the Quality of Resident Medical Education
  Justin Adams, MD

Poster Winners

• No Difference Between Third-Year Medical Student and Intern Presenter Empowerment Action Scores During Pediatric Patient and Family Family-Centered Rounds
  Sara Lauck, MD; Sarah Vepraskas, MD; Jennifer Hadjiev, MD; Anjali Sharman, MD; Heather Toth, MD, Dawn Bragg, PhD; Michael Weisgerber, MD, MS
• SURFBoards Program: An Innovative Mixed Methods Comprehensive Pediatric Resident Boards Review Curriculum
  Amanda Rogers, MD; Michael Weisgerber, MD; Jennifer Di Rocco, DO; Sara Lauck, MD
• Using LibGuides to Promote Self-Directed Learning
  Elizabeth Suelzer, MLIS; Barabara Ruggeri, MLIS; Rita Sieracki, MLS

Watch a recording of keynote speaker, Stuart Slavin, MD, MEd's keynote address

View the 2017 IHER Conference Program (PDF)