2020 Innovations in Healthcare Education Research Conference
The MCW Office of Academic Affairs invites you to attend the seventh annual Innovations in Healthcare Education Research (IHER) Conference.
Conference Theme: Professional Identity Formation
September 24-25, 2020
Medical College of Wisconsin
Virtual Conference
Please view the information below for the 2020 IHER Conference, including the conference schedule and workshops.
The 2020 IHER program is now available and includes links to access the sessions.
Conference Schedule
Thursday, September 24
8:00-9:30 am |
Panel Presentation |
9:35-10:35 am 10:00-11:30 am |
Speed Posters 1: Assessment Workshop: Supporting Our Students |
10:40-11:40 am |
Oral Presentations 1 |
12:00 pm-1:30 pm | Keynote Address |
1:40-2:40 pm | Ignite Session OR Oral Presentations 2 |
2:45-3:20 pm 2:45-3:35 pm |
Speed Posters 2: Innovation Kern TI2 Speed Posters 1 |
3:25-4:00 pm | Speed Posters 3: Wellness |
Friday, September 25
9:00-10:00 am | Oral Presentations 3 |
10:05-10:55 am | Kern TI2 Speed Posters 2 |
11:00-12:00 pm | Speed Posters 4: Continuum |
Conference Details
Keynote Address: Dr. Verna E. Monson
"Understanding Medical Professional Identity Formation and Professionalism Remediation"
The 2020 IHER Conference keynote speaker is sponsored by the Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Institute for the Transformation of Medical Education.
The 2020 Conference will feature keynote speaker Verna E. Monson, PhD, Adjunct Professor, MCW Kern Institute for the Transformation of Medical Education, Educational Psychologist and Consultant, Professionalism and Ethics Education in Medical Schools
Dr. Monson will present on "Understanding Medical Professional Identity Formation and Professionalism Remediation"
About Dr. Monson
Dr. Monson received her PhD in Educational Psychology, Psychological Foundations of Education (social psychology, ethics education in the professions, evaluation), from the University of Minnesota. As the principle of her own firm, she has consulted to a broad range of professional education institutions (e.g. Law, Dentistry, Counselling Psychology, Medical) on issues related to professional identity formation (PIF) and ethics education. This includes working closely with Dr. Kalet on the application of an evidence-based constructivist-developmental measure of professional identify formation, the Professional Identity Essay (PIE) in medical students. This is based on the work of Muriel Bebeau, James Rest and Robert Kegan among other luminaries with whom she has worked closely.
Based on her work with Dr. Kalet for the past five years, Dr. Monson has worked with MCW, NYU, University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Virginia and Frank Netter Schools of Medicine and the new Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine. She provides expert staging and personalized feedback to medical students based on their written Professional Identify Essay. In this role she has highly unique and calibrated experience with the nature of the development of a medical student’s professional identity. She has analyzed thousands of these essays. More recently she has been providing professionalism remediation coaching for medical students. Dr. Monson brings a highly honed and unique perspective to the study of the education of professionals.