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SCHEDULE

Saturday, February 22, 2003

7:45 - 8:00 am - Introduction - Gloria J. Kuhn, DO, PhD, Wayne State University

8:00 - 9:00 am - Organizational Skills, James Adams, MD, Northwestern University, Organizational skills are critical for a busy academic emergency physician. Techniques for organizing your activities and using your time more efficiently will be highlighted. At the end of this session learners will be able to list techniques for keeping tract of their activities and accomplishing their goals in the allotted time they have.

9:00 - 10:30 am - Bedside Teaching: Optimizing the Clinical Experience/Teaching Procedures, Robert Wahl, MD, Wayne State University, The foundation of a residency program is experiential learning and being taught at the bedside. The most appropriate methods and techniques will be discussed with specific examples of particular situations. At the end of this session participants will be able to list methods and techniques they can use to maximize the clinical experience.

Break

10:45 - 11:45 am - Teaching Medical Students, Wendy Coates, MD, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Medical students have a sparse experience of clinical medicine. Tailoring their experience in the emergency department can prevent them from being overwhelmed, improve upon their knowledge, and begin laying a foundation for appropriate behavior in an emergency situation independent of their future career goals. At the end of this session participants will be able to list 1) methods most appropriate for didactic and bedside teaching of medical students and 2) actions to structure their expertise in the emergency department.

11:45 - 1:00 pm - Lunch

1:00 - 2:00 pm - Bedside Use of Evidence-Based Medicine, Stephen Hayden, MD, University of California, San Diego, In a busy ED, is there time for evidence-based medicine (EBM)? Several resources for use in teaching EBM that is practical for bedside evaluation will be presented. At the end of this session participants will be able to list a number of techniques which can be used to teach evidence based medicine at the bedside for problem solving.

2:00 - 3:00 pm - Evaluating Clinical Competence/Evaluating Core Competencies, Nick Jouriles, MD, MetroHealth Medical Center, Accurate evaluation of performance is essential to guide residents so they can increase their competence. The ACGME is now requiring assessment of core competencies. At the end of this session participants will be able to list methodologies for assessment of the competencies.

Break

3:15 - 4:15 pm - Interview Training Skills, James Adams, MD Northwestern University, Interviewing applicants is a task for many faculty members, but most have little training for this task. This session will review pertinent interview questions that will help predict future performance of a resident. At the end of this session participants will be able to list questions which will predict success in applicants and will be able to avoid those questions which cannot be legally asked during an interview.

4:15 - 5:15 pm - Letters of Recommendation/Advising Medical Students, Carey Chisholm, MD, Indiana University, Wendy Coates, MD, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Nick Jouriles, MD, MetroHealth Medical Center, Robert Wahl, MD, Wayne State University, At the end of this session the participants will understand the legal ramifications of writing letters of recommendation, will be able to state most common questions asked by medical students who are interested in going into the specialty of emergency medicine, will understand techniques that will identify successful candidates for emergency medicine and will know which questions cannot be asked during the interview session.

5:30 - 6:30 pm - Networking Lab, While practicing effective networking skills, get to know the other participants and faculty at the conference reception!

8:00 - 9:00 am - The Changing Face of Academics: Opportunities and Challenges for Junior Faculty, Ruth-Marie Fincher, MD, Medical College of Georgia, The definition of scholarly activity and its place in promotion is changing. At the end of this session participants will be able to state the definition of expanded scholarship and discuss methods to ensure their own scholarly activities can be used to enhance their chances for promotion.

9:00 - 10:00 am - What is Faculty Development?, Glenn Hamilton, MD, Wright State University, The process of continual training of educators and the responsibilities of the academic institution and an individual faculty member to achieve mutual success will be discussed. At the end of this session the participants will be able to define faculty development, list methods to achieve success in academic endeavors, and discuss the elements needed for a successful academic career.

Break

10:15 - 11:15 am - Track 1: Academics in the Community Setting, David Overton, MD, MSU/KCMS, Are academic requirements different in the community as opposed to the university setting? Many faculty working in community settings do not understand the role of scholarly activity or how to balance clinical and faculty obligations in this environment. At the end of this session participants will be able to state what the RRC requires of faculty in the community setting and how they can best accomplish their own academic goals.

Track 2: Academics in the University Setting, Ruth-Marie Fincher, MD, Medical College of Georgia, Are academic requirements different in the community as opposed to the university setting? Many faculty working in the university settings do not understand the role of scholarly activity or how to balance clinical and faculty obligations in this environment. At the end of this session participants will be able to state what the RRC/medical school requires of faculty in the university setting and how they can best accomplish their own academic goals.

11:15 - 12:30 pm - Optional Box Lunch Session: Getting to Know Your Colleagues or Diane Birnbaum, MD?? This is an opportunity to meet with faculty, discuss topics of interest, and ask questions in an informal setting. Pre-registration required. $25 fee.

12:30 - 1:30 pm - What a Faculty Member Needs/What a Chair Wants: Conflicting Agendas?, Brooks Bock, MD, Wayne State University, and Cherri Hobgood, MD, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Frequently chairs and faculty are at odds over questions of productivity, protected time, and what constitutes support. At the end of this session participants will be able to state how the chair of the department views productivity, what activities are valuable for furthering the mission of the department, and how they can balance these obligations with their own career goals.

1:30 - 3:00 pm - Challenges in Motivating/Evaluating and Guiding Faculty, Brooks Bock, MD, Wayne State University, Glenn Hamilton, MD, Wright State University, David Overton, MD, MSU/KCMS,and Brian Tiffany, MD, Maricopa Medical Center, At the end of this session participants will be able to state what actions department chairs consider to be supportive of faculty needs, how faculty are evaluated, and how they attempt to guide faculty in career development.

Break

3:15 - 4:15 pm - Track 1: Performing Research: Community Setting, Brian Tiffany, MD, Maricopa Medical Center, At the end of this session participants will be able to determine how best to perform research in the community setting, including balancing time commitments, finding mentors, research facilities, and funding.

Track 2: Performing Research: University Setting, Susan Stern, MD, University of Michigan, While medical school state that faculty are expected to participate in research, faculty members are often at a loss as to how to get started. At the end of this session participants will be able to determine how best to perform research, including balancing time commitments, finding mentors, research facilities, and funding.

4:15 - 5:15 pm - Resident Remediation, Carey Chisholm, MD, Indiana University, Techniques to assist faculty members in identifying a weak resident and help them with their deficiencies will be discussed. Participants are invited to bring their own cases to review. At the end of this session participants will be able to recognize and verbalize problems residents are encountering and will be able to construct a customized program to remedy deficiencies.

8:00 - 9:00 am - How to Get Involved in Regional/National Academic Affairs, Debra Perina, MD, University of Virginia, and Mary Jo Wagner, MD, Saginaw Cooperative Hospitals, Inc., One step along the path of a successful academic career is to become active in regional and national activities. Discussion will include traditional and unique methods of developing these opportunities. Each panel member will discuss methods they have used to become involved in academic activities. At the end of this session participants will be given time to ask questions of the panel members.

9:00 - 10:00 am - Five Balls in the Air: Balancing Work, Family, and You, Susan Promes, MD, Duke University, While many physicians feel that shift work is ideal for allowing time for career advancement and participating in family activities, the reality is often quite different. At the end of this session participants will be able to list techniques for balancing all of the roles an academic physician is expected to fill.

Break

10:15 - 11:15 am - Negotiating Skills and Effective Communication, Thom Mayer, MD, Fairfax Hospital, The inability to negotiate and effectively communicate can destroy a career. These skills are vital to success. At the end of this session participants will be able to list effective negotiating and communication techniques.

11:15 - 12:15 pm - Lunch Break

12:15 - 1:15 pm - Common Reasons for Manuscript Rejection, Michelle Biros, MS, MD, Hennepin County Medical Center, Manuscript rejection can be a source of great frustration. Common causes for manuscript rejection will be discussed by Dr. Biros, the editor of Academic Emergency Medicine, one of the major Emergency Medicine journals. At the end of this session learners will be able to list reasons for rejection and techniques to avoid rejection of manuscripts.

1:15 - 2:15 pm - Choosing Instruction: When to Talk/When to Show, Gloria Kuhn, DO, PhD, Wayne State University, Instructional strategies which can be used during didactic sessions will be discussed. Emphasis will be placed on practical application of these strategies but theories as to why they are successful will be briefly discussed. At the end of this session the audience will be able to state in which situation a particular strategy is most appropriate.

2:15 - 3:15 pm - Educator's Portfolio, Gloria Kuhn, DO, PhD, Wayne State University, Many institutions are using the educator's portfolio as a method of documenting scholarly activity. At the end of this session the participants will be able to list the uses of the portfolio, and be able to customize a portfolio for documenting their own scholarly activities.

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