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41st Annual Spring Conference
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Wednesday, April 30
8 am - 5 pm
PR1: STFM Faculty Development Series Workshop I: Teaching and Learning Skills
Dennis Baker, PhD; Cindy Passmore, MA; Gregory Smith, MD; Jeff Susman, MD; Barbara Tobias, MD
Participants will have an opportunity to acquire basic knowledge and entry-level skills in presentation and instructional design. Intended for new or entry-level faculty members, this workshop allows participants time to gain knowledge and practice in planning a unit of instruction and planning and delivering a mini-presentation during the workshop. During the follow-up debriefing meetings, participants can share their observations of presentations given during the conference and apply the concepts learned to their evaluations.
Workshop Objectives:
Identify and discuss issues that prompted participation in the workshop
Assess present skill levels with making presentations and designing instruction
Describe the basic components of instructional design
Plan and present a unit of instruction developed in small-group activities
Describe different types of presentation styles that faculty use when teaching
Plan, present, and deliver a videotaped mini-lecture
Observe and critique what has been learned by attending STFM conference presentations.
Assess level of confidence in using newly learned skills in the academic environment
Develop a workable plan for continuing to enhance your presentation and instructional design skills
(Additional fee: $195; Enrollment for this workshop is limited to 25 people)
Wednesday, April 30
8 am - 5 pm
PR2: STFM Faculty Development Series Workshop VIII: Making the Case for Cultural Proficiency: A Workshop for Medical Educators
Sonia Crandall, PhD, MS; David Acosta, MD; Desiree Lie, MD; Kim Griswold, MD, MPH; Paula Cifuentes Henderson, MD
Does your institution support the premise that providing culturally sensitive care promotes positive health outcomes for patients? Would you like assistance in the practical aspects of implementing and evaluating a cultural competence curriculum? This 8-hour, preconference workshop will apply known best practices to assist medical educators to develop, implement, and evaluate cultural competency curricula appropriate for any level of learner (students, residents, other health professionals). Workshop format will be approached from a train-the-trainer perspective. Teaching methods will be explored. A curriculum assessment instrument, the Tool for Assessing Cultural Competency Training, will be introduced as well as learner assessment tools. Educational strategies recognized as successful for cultural competency instruction will be used and include lecture-discussion, small-group exercises, role-play, simulation, demonstration, and videotape review. The workshop will target skill, knowledge, and attitude elements and participants will come away with resources they may apply at home. A group of ethnically diverse workshop instructors with considerable experience in faculty development for cultural competency has been convened. Instructors are members of the National Consortium on Multicultural Education for Health Professionals and are recipients of National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Cultural Competence and Health Disparities Academic Awards.
Workshop Objectives:
1. Consider practical aspects of and challenges to implementing and evaluating cultural competency curriculum.
2. Apply one tool that can assist them with curriculum development and assessment.
3. Identify three teaching methods (best practices) and distinguish in which educational activity each method can best be used.
4. Evaluate one strategy each for assessment of learner attitudes, skills, and knowledge.
5. Experience one strategy each for attitudes, skills, and knowledge.
6. Design one activity (60-minute large-group session or 90-minute small-group activity) they can implement at home.
(Fee: $195; Enrollment for this workshop is limited to 25 people)
Wednesday, April 30
8 am - 5 pm
PR3: Facing Down Our Demons: A Writing Workshop for Family Medicine Faculty
Lucy Candib, MD; John Frey III, MD; Valerie Gilchrist, MD; Virginia Hardy, PhD
Writing is necessary for personal advancement in academia and essential to the development of family medicine. Yet many faculty members, including well-respected leaders, struggle to produce the written word. Women, members of minority groups, and people from poor and working class backgrounds face particular challenges in feeling competent, confident, and legitimate in the academic setting. In this workshop, participants will work together with experienced writers to explore the factors that both facilitate and limit their scholarly efforts, learn some practical techniques to get “unstuck,” and develop personal strategies to take the next step in projects of their own. Using an understanding of relational styles and creating community, this workshop will provide both concrete strategies and interpersonal support to motivate participants to move ahead as authors.
This workshop on writing for family medicine educators is the first of four to be held over the next year. The Group on Minority and Multicultural Health sponsored this project and the STFM Foundation awarded the GOMMHC a grant to make the project a reality. We anticipate that the complexity of the content and the strength of collaboration among the participants will build over the course of the four workshops. To support those aims, we encourage participants to sign up for all four. Participants who attend the first workshop will have priority in attendance at the later workshops. We will also foster attendance by members of the GOMMHC who felt strongly the need for this kind of training and who worked hard to create it. The workshops will be limited to 30 participants.
Workshop 1, April 30, preceding STFM Annual Conference in Baltimore
Tentatively:
Workshop 2, September 27-28, Chicago, linked to end of Forum on Behavioral Science
Workshop 3, January 24-25, 2009, Savannah, linked to end of Predoctoral Conference
Workshop 4, April 29, 2009, Denver, preceding STFM Annual Conference
Content that will thread throughout the 4 workshops will include: Helping our process of getting to writing, identifying the strengths and barriers to writing emerging from our personal identities (class, race, gender, national origin, native language), and building a writing relationship with peers. Special invited guests from the field of rhetoric and composition who have worked with a variety of kinds of writers, including non-native English speakers, will participate in several sessions. The invited lunch speaker at the April 30th workshop will be Keith Gilyard, Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. He is a "writing teacher and a teaching writer" and is known for books on language competence and African American discourse. STFM members in Baltimore at lunchtime on April 30 are welcome to join the workshop participants in attending Dr. Gilyard's lunchtime presentation.
(Fee: $195)
Wednesday, April 30
1- 5 pm
PR4: The Characteristics and Contributions of Departments of Family Medicine in Highly-ranked Medical Schools
Thomas Schwenk, MD; Kent Sheets, PhD
This workshop will address the characteristics and contributions of departments of family medicine from the top 15 research-oriented and top 10 primary care medical schools (2007 USNWR). Of the 18 departments of family medicine in this group, eight chairs will make presentations that address specific strategies that have led to the success of their respective departments, special contributions made by their department to their respective institutions, particular challenges faced in such environments, and the ways in which their experiences may have value to academic family physicians and leaders in other institutions. The workshop will conclude with a discussion from a panel of selected presenters who will draw more general conclusions of lessons learned that may be of value to the success of other departments.
(Fee: $95)
Wednesday, April 30
1- 5 pm
PR5: Women in Family Medicine
Heather Paladine, MD; Sarina Schrager, MD, MS; Sandra Burge, PhD; Joanne Williams, MD, MPH; Marji Gold, MD;
Susan Pollart, MD; Julie Sicilia, MD; Robin Schroeder, MD; May Nawal Lutfiyya, PhD; Martha Illige, MD; Jennifer
Frank, MD; Roberta Gebhard, DO
Women in family medicine experience unique perspectives and challenges. This workshop will provide an opportunity to discuss issues of interest to women in academic family medicine (both community and university departments) and to encourage career development and leadership. Presenters will use large- and small-group sessions to discuss CV development, letters of reference, and gender differences in communication. Participants are encouraged to bring their CVs, instructions for applying for promotion in their institution and a statement of their institution's mission. The preconference will also include social/networking time.
(Fee: $95)
Wednesday, April 30
1- 5 pm
PR6: Group Medical Visits: From the Basics to Beyond
Julie Schirmer, MSW; Jeffrey Aalberg, MD; Arnold Goldberg, MD; Carmen Strickland, MD; Patricia Lenahan, LCSW,MFT,BCETS
The Future of Family Medicine project has mandated office redesign to improve the quality of primary care. Patients with chronic disease comprise between 24-28% of care provided by family physicians. Group medical visits have been successful in addressing chronic health issues and health behaviors contributing to disease and disability, including smoking, diet, exercise and excessive alcohol use. They can improve patient and physician satisfaction, decrease specialty and hospital medical costs, and improve physical outcomes and functioning. Group medical visits can improve participants' disease-related knowledge and treatment compliance while training residents in motivational interviewing, group facilitation and brief, disease-oriented medical visits. The goal of this STFM Group on Behavioral Medicine workshop is to present strategies, methods, and best practices to implement successful group medical visits.
(Fee: $95)
Wednesday, April 30
1- 5 pm
PR7: Training Your International Medical Graduate For Success: A Faculty Development Workshop For Family
Medicine Educators
Suparna Chhibber, MBBS, MD; Deborah Seymour, PsyD; Shannon Moss, PhD; Rajasree Nair, MD; Jane Corboy, MD
International medical graduates (IMGs) have become core players in the US health care system, especially in primary care and medically underserved and physician shortage areas. Trend analysis has shown a significant rise in the number of IMGs matching into family medicine residency programs. Recent surveys conducted among residents and program directors indicate a unique set of challenges facing the faculty and program directors in the training of IMGs, ranging from a lack of training in the bio-psychosocial model, US health care system and technology to communication difficulties. In this submission we propose a faculty development curriculum aimed at assisting faculty in identifying the needs of IMGs and developing the skills to train them to provide a patient centered medical home for the culturally diverse US population.
(Fee: $95)