Tuesday, September 20 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 1 | 9:30 – 10:30 am
Lana M. Minshew, PhD, MEd
Using Design Thinking to Engage Faculty, Staff, and Students in Curriculum Innovation Efforts
Presenters: Amy Prunuske, PhD; Chris Decker, MD; Julia Schmitt; Alexandra Harrington, MD, MT (ASCP)
MaryAnn Gilligan, MD, MPH
Experiential Learning Improves Medical Students’ Confidence in Delivering Difficult News
Presenters: April Zehm, MD, FAAHPM; Patrick Foy, MD; Michael Braun, PhD
Ming Lin, MS, MCW M3 Student
Using Personal Narrative as Foundation for Health Equity Education: Creating a Curriculum on Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Health
Presenters: Joyce Lee, MS; Ioang Vang, BS, MCW M3 Student; Lana Minshew, PhD, MEd; Kajua Lor; PharmD
Ryan Hillmer, PhD
Retrospective Analysis of SBAR Handoff Structure in a Clinical Human Anatomy Course
Presenters: Teresa Patitucci, PhD; Beth Krippendorf, PhD
Workshop 1 | 9:30 – 10:45 am
Giving Formative Feedback on the Fly Using the T.H.A.N.K. Model
Presenters: Daniel Bor; Sarah Thordsen
Learning Objectives:
- Introduce participants to salient components of good formative feedback.
- Use the T.H.AN.K. acronym and model to conceptualize how to receive and provide formative feedback in an organized, useful manner, while cultivating a culture of gratitude.
- Practice the T.H.A.N.K. model to internalize its benefits and maximize its utility.
Facilitator: Himanshu Agrawal, MD, DFAPA
10:45
Speed Posters 1 | 10:45 – 11:45 am
Jared Muench, M4 Student
Presenters: Michael Schellpfeffer, MD, MS
Bryan Johnston, MD
Presenters: Lauren Bauer, MD, MS; Hernan Barenboim, PhD, LMFT; Robert Treat, PhD; Kevin Hamberger, PhD
Sarah Vanderlinden, MPAS
Thomas Yang, MD
Panel Session 1 | 10:45 – 11:45 am
A Novel Framework for Flourishing in the Classroom and Beyond: The Role of Caring, Character and Practical Wisdom in Medical Education
Presenters: John Luk, MD, The University of Texas at Auston Dell Medical School; Sonia Nagy Chimienti, MD, FIDSA
Panelists introduce the KNN integrated framework for character, caring and human flourishing and scholarly research that underpins it. They will share the KNN integrated framework and its relevance to current medical education challenges; describe the KNN experience (collaborative of medical schools working together around shared values to find solutions to common problems); and explore how the framework can be leveraged to solve pressing issues in medical education.
12:00 pm
Keynote Address | Martin Pusic, MD, PhD | 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Fostering Adaptive Expertise All Along the Education Continuum: The Master Adaptive Learner
Keynote Address Introductions and Opening Remarks
José Franco, MD
Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology and Hepatology)
Senior Associate Dean for Education
School of Medicine
John R. Raymond, Sr., MD
President and CEO
Dr. Martin Pusic is a practicing Pediatric Emergency Medicine physician at the Boston Children’s Hospital with an advanced interest in the science of learning as it applies to health professions education. He is Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at the Harvard Medical School, having obtained his medical degree from the University of British Columbia, a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at McGill, and his PhD in Education from Teachers College of Columbia University.
1:30 pm
Roundtable 1 | 1:30 – 2:30 pm
Integrative Experiences with the Arts and Humanities
Presenters: Art Derse, MD, JD
This session brings together medical humanities practitioners to explore how, when, and where we can integrate existing, successful models into MCW’s medical education redesign, including successes in MCW’s current medical humanities curricula. We will explore promising opportunities to integrate these methods to continue to advance competencies and enhance physician well-being.
Katinka Hooyer, PhD
Speed Posters 2 | 1:30 – 2:30 pm
Alicia Pilarski, DO
Presenters: Kathlyn Fletcher, MD, MA; Devarati Syam, PhD; Amy Farkas, MD, MS; John Yoon, MD
Chase Morrison, BS
Presenters: Erin Bybee, BS; Saranya Madan, BS; Mernoosh Gafhouri, BS; Isaiah Hough, BS; Madison Graifman, BS
Desiree' Brionne Dillard, MBA, BS
Presenters: Meagan Tran; Rewan Abdelwahab; Sarah Atunah-Jay, MD, MPH; Audrey Elegbede, PhD, PCC, ELI-MP
Arun Umesh Mahtani, MD, MS
Presenters: Ilan Reinstein, MS; Jesse Burk-Rafel, MD, MRes
Kern Transformational Ideas Initiative (TI2) Posters 1 | 1:30 – 2:30 pm
Learn more about the Transformational Ideas Initiative (tI2)
Ashley Pavlic, MD
Presenters: Sehr Kahn, MD; Celeste Pain; Cecilia Scholcoff, MD; Sara Tesfatsion, MD; Madeline Kenzie, MD
Harini Shah
Presenters: Kathlyn Fletcher, MD; Jessica Miller; Tracy Bui; Elizabeth Dominguez; Aliyah Keval; Marisa Tobes
Bryn Sutherland
Presenters: Sandra Pfister, PhD; Monet Woolfolk; Christopher Davis MD, MPH
Emelyn Zaworski
Presenters: Sofie Kjellesvig; Eric Weaver; Eric Lee; Meghan Peterson; Jesslyn Hendrickson; Kate Kipp, MS, UW-Stevens Point; Amy Prunuske, PhD; Corina Norrbom, MD
Chase LaRue, MS, MSEd
Presenters: Erica Chou, MD; Kerrie Quirk, MEd; Max Hershey; Enrique Avila
2:45 pm
Roundtable 2 | 2:45 – 3:45 pm
Cultural Humility for Healthcare Providers
Presenters: Caden Ulschmid, BS; Kristina Kaljo, PhD
Cultural humility is important for healthcare providers, but medical students may not have formal opportunities to develop cultural humility as part of the curriculum. This roundtable discussion will focus on a new academic enrichment elective, Fostering Cultural Humility Through Service-Learning, that was developed to help address this need.
Workshop 2 | 2:45 – 4:00 pm
Mitigating Implicit Bias in Clerkship Evaluations
Presenters: British Fields, MLS (ASCP); Adriana Perez, MSBS
Learning Objectives:
- Acknowledge that we all have biases and identify what those are
- Understand how implicit biases impact URM students
- Utilize the "ABC tool for Mitigating Implicit Bias in Clerkship Evaluations" to write narratives that are free of bias
- Apply new knowledge in practice
Facilitator: Kristine Saudek, MD
4:00 pm
Panel Session 2 | 4:00 – 5:00 pm
MCW Curriculum Innovation Leadership Team – From Principles to Action
Presenters: John Hayes, DO; Alexandra Harrington, MD; Melinda Dwinell, PhD; Theresa Maatman, MD
The leaders of the MCW curriculum reform team will share how the formation of guiding principles informed the curriculum design process and how they plan to make these principles a reality. They will briefly present the plan for all three phases of the family medicine clerkship and then answer questions from conference attendees regarding our curriculum plans.
Moderator: Amy Prunuske, PhD
Roundtable 3 | 4:00 – 5:15 pm
Laborland: A Patient-Centered Table Top Game Experience
The topic of elective induction of labor was identified as a gap for our learners in a rural, longitudinal integrated curriculum. I developed this tabletop game to simulate the patient experience from 35 weeks gestational age to delivery.
