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Wednesday, September 21 Sessions

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Oral Presentations 2 | 9:30 – 10:30 am

Feifei Han, PhD

Feifei Han, PhD

Patterns of Medical Students Collaborative Learning in Blended Course Designs Based on their Learning Orientations

Presenters: Robert Ellis, PhD

Kristen Bunnell, PharmD

Kristen Bunnell, PharmD

Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Interprofessional Education Activity with Medical Laboratory Science Students and Pharmacy Students

Presenters: Erik Munson, PhD; Ehab Abourashed, PhD; Kelly Horton, MAT; Sue Korek, MAED

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Kurt Pfeifer, MD

Kurt Pfeifer, MD

Coaching Medical Student Personal and Professional Development: The First 3-Years of a Longitudinal Coaching Program

Presenters: Tracey Liljestrom, MD; Jed Calata, MD; Emily Joachim, MD; Jasmine Dowell, MD; Bipin Thapa, MD, MS, FACP; Wendy Peltier, MD; Jose Franco, MD; Tavinder Ark, PhD; Kaicey von Stockhausen

Robert Treat

Robert Treat, PhD

Neural Network Analysis of Medical Student Personality, Gender, and Perspective Taking

Presenters: Amy Prunuske, PhD; Jeffery Fritz, PhD; Kristina Kaljo, PhD; Craig Hanke, PhD

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Roundtable 4 | 9:30 – 10:30 am

Virtual Reality in Medical Education with Acadicus

Presenters: Amy Beierle, MEd; Johnathon Neist, MLIS; Amy Easton Bingenheimer, MLIS; Thomas Yang, MD; Morgan Wilbanks, MD; William Ballo; David Bond

Lynn Lewandowski, MS

Lynn Lewandowski, MS

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10:45 am

Roundtable 5 | 10:45 – 11:45 am

Patient-Centered Communication Training in the OBGYN Residency

Presenters: Monet Lane, MD; Kristina Kaljo, PhD

Patient-centered communication by physicians has substantial benefits for both the health of patients and the healthcare system, yet explicit specialty-specific communications training is rarely incorporated into residency training programs. Through an OBGYN-specific communications thread we seek to build skills addressing conversations across pregnancy, primary care, and surgery.

Lindsey McAlarnen, MD

Lindsey McAlarnen, MD

Speed Posters 3 | 10:45 – 11:45 am

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Development of a Hybrid Medical Curriculum

Yanire Nieves, MD, MBA
Yanire Nieves, MD, MBA

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A Flipped Classroom Approach to Providing Extremely Low Birthweight Infant Education for Resident Physicians

Kathryn Berlin, MD
Kathryn Berlin, DO

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Presenters: Rebecca Buchholtz, RN, MSN, NNP-BC, APNP; Scott Welak, MD

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Use of a Virtual Environment for Medication Therapy Management Skills with English and Non-English Patients

Rachel Kavanaugh, PharmD, BCACP
Rachel Kavanaugh, PharmD, BCACP

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Presenters: Jon Koehler, PharmD; Dimmy Sokhal, PharmD; Jessica Barazowski, PharmD

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Community Engagement Day for Emergency Medicine Residents

Hannah Johnshoy, MD

Presenters: Ashley Pavlic, MD, MA; Taylor Sonnenberg, MD

Dual Clerkship Experience: Addressing the Concerns of Traditional Clerkship Scheduling

Gordon Green, MD, PhD

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Medical Education Transformational Ideas Initiative (TI2) Posters 2 | 10:45 – 11:45 am

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Utilizing Tweet-Style Reflections to Foster Character Development Among Health Professions Students

Brian Hilgeman, MD
Brian Hilgeman, MD

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Presenters: Kevin Kurtz; Mary Hoeschen; Zachary Hovis, PharmD; Rachele Harrison

What To Expect When You're Expecting (To Start a New Rotation)

Zachary Schoppen, MD

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Presenters: Kate Dielentheis, MD

Medical Student Mediation Training Program

Natalie C. Fleury, JD
Natalie Fleury, JD

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Presenters: Erin Green, MD; Marissa Davis

Telehealth Experience by Learner Engagement using Simulation (TELES)

Thomas Yang, MD
Thomas Yang, MD

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Presenters: Morgan Wilbanks, MD; Rebecca Lundh, MD; Kurt Stefan; Lynn Lewandowski, MS; Hannah Mueller

On Palliative Care, Death and Dying: What’s Most Important for the New MCW Curriculum?

Lee Ann Lau, MD
Lee Ann Lau, MD

Presenters: Lara India, MD; Caitlin Pook, MD; Nabil Attlassy; Connor Ford; Wendy Peltier, MD

4C for Early Career Faculty

Meredith A. Albrecht, MD, PhD

Presenters: Christina D. Diaz, MD; Libby Ellinas, MD

The Phronimos* Project: Empowering Residents as Role Models of Practical Wisdom in Medicine

John Yoon, MD
John Yoon, MD

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Presenters: Kimberly Tyler, MD; Leroy Seymour, MD; Rebecca Rings-Miller, MD; Ana Istrate, MD; Sara Matloub; Andrew Perez; Fabrice Jotterand, PhD; Justine Espisito

12:00 pm

Keynote Address | Cathleen Pettepher, PhD | 12:00 – 1:15 pm

Integrating Foundational Sciences Throughout the Curriculum

Keynote Address Introductions and Opening Remarks

Catherine Ferguson, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Section of Emergency Medicine
Director, Quality Improvement & Patient Safety Scholarly Pathway

Cathleen Pettepher, PhDDr. Cathleen Pettepher received her undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of South Alabama in Mobile Alabama. She came to Vanderbilt to pursue a post-doctoral fellowship in diabetes where she focused on the characterization of the glucokinase gene locus utilizing transgenic mice and embryonic stem cell technologies. In 1993, she joined the Department of Cell & Developmental Biology and focused her efforts on teaching first year medical students and managing the Transgenic Mouse and Embryonic Stem Cell Core Facility for the Cancer, Diabetes and Kennedy Centers.

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1:30 pm

Roundtable 6 | 1:30 – 2:30 pm | “Meet the Chairs” of The Generalists in Medical Education (TGME)

This roundtable will help participants learn more about the TGME conference and understand the expectations of abstract submissions getting accepted at a national medical education conference.

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Roundtable 7 | 1:30 – 2:30 pm

MIRRORs Program for Resident Character and Professional Development

Presenters: Ashley Pavlic, MD MA; Taylor Sonnenberg, MD; Samuel Corbo, MD; Hannah Johnshoy, MD

Character and professional development are crucial for resident physicians but are often undervalued or omitted entirely from the curriculum. We discuss the formation of the MIRRORs program, a character and professional identity thread within our educational curriculum, and our efforts to prioritize practical wisdom and character formation for resident learners.

Kathleen Williams, MD

Kathleen Williams, MD

2:45 pm

Panel Session 3 | 2:45 – 3:45 pm | Critical Pedagogies in Health Professions Education

This panel discussion will offer practice-based resources and strategies to support audience member inquiry into to support colleagues and help faculty navigate and implement curricula that develop learners’ structural competence.

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Roundtable 8 | 2:45 – 3:45 pm

Assessment of Communication Skills Across the Medical Education Curriculum

This interactive roundtable discussion will focus on the assessment of communication skills across the medical education curriculum. We will review tools and methods described in the literature and discuss both the author's and the audience's experiences with assessment of communication skills. This session is meant to be interactive, with input from participants to help guide the discussion.

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Joshua Davis, MD

Joshua Davis, MD

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4:00 pm

Oral Presentations 3 | 4:00 – 5:00 pm

Kristina Kaljo, PhD

Kristina Kaljo, PhD

Pivot to 'SPARCC' Diversity in the Clinical Cancer Research Workforce: Implementation and Evaluation of an Academic Enrichment Pathway Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Global Pandemic

Presenters: Lindsey McAlarnen, MD; Michael Braun, PhD; Janet Rader, MD

Sarah Yale, MD

Sarah Yale, MD

A “PEaRL” of Support and Cooperative Learning: Shifting the Sands of the Dreaded Morbidity and Mortality Conference

Presenters: Patrick McCarthy, MD, MME

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Robert Treat

Robert Treat, PhD

Integrating Virtual Reality in an Institutional Healthcare Education Research Online Conference

Presenters: Amy Prunuske, PhD; Austin Gerdes, MPH; Rachel Kavanaugh, PharmD

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Gifty Marfowaa, BS

Gifty Marfowaa, BS

Effectiveness of URM Mentorship Platform in Promoting Scholarship

Presenters: Pinky Jha, MD; Abdul-rahman Abdel-reheem, MD; Devesh Kumar, BS

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Workshop 3 | 4:00 – 5:15 pm

Creating UME Communication Skills Curricula with Psychological Safety and Character Development

Learning Objectives:

  1. Understand underpinnings of communication skills training, universal skills that are being prioritized for integration into the MCW curricular redesign.
  2. Learn about the development of two specific communication skills training programs at MCW focusing on social determinants of health for preclinical students and difficult conversations for clinical students on their IM clerkship.
  3. Discuss operationalizing psychologically safe spaces for feedback and growth for our preclinical and clinical students and how to foster humility, bravery, social awareness, and practical wisdom through these sessions.
Ashley Pavlic, MD

Facilitator: Ashley Pavlic, MD, MA

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