11:00-11:45
11:45-12:00
12:00-1:30
1:30-2:00
2:00-3:15
Thursday, March 31st
Welcome Lunch for First-Time Attendees
Attendance is limited to first-time attendees and invited guests. If you register for
this luncheon, please make your travel plans accordingly.
Annual Meeting Opens
Ronald Amedee, MD, AIAMC President
Cheryl Goliath, PhD, 2016 Annual Meeting Chairman
Panel Presentation: Developing Team Competencies through the Continuum of
Medical Education
Darrell Kirch, MD, President and CEO, Association of American Medical Colleges
(AAMC)
Thomas Nasca, MD, MACP, Chief Executive Officer, Accreditation Council for Graduate
Medical Education (ACGME)
Graham McMahon, MD, President and CEO, Accreditation Council for Continuing
Medical Education (ACCME)
Our conference will open with a perennial favorite of attendees: The “Big Three”
Panel. The AIAMC Annual Meeting is the only national conference to regularly feature
– together on one stage -- the continuum of medical education with the C-Suite
leaders of the AAMC, ACGME and ACCME. And, academic medical centers are the
only venue where education, research and patient care come together, putting them
in a unique position to address the challenges facing our nation’s healthcare system.
Our esteemed panel will outline the trends taking place in undergraduate, graduate
and continuing medical education to help ensure that we are preparing future
physicians to succeed in the year 2020.
Break; Exhibits Open
CONCURRENT BREAKOUT WORKSHOPS
Making a CLEaR Plan Linking System Priorities, Sponsoring Hospitals & GME: A WinWin Methodology: Aurora Health Care (please note this session will be repeated on
Friday)
Ruric “Andy: Anderson, MD, Chief Medical Officer– System & Executive Vice President
Jacob Bidwell, MD, Designated Institutional Official
Deborah Simpson, PhD, Director Medical Education Programs
Jeffrey Stearns, MD, Medical Director and PI National Initiative V
Hsieng Su, MD, Chief Medical Officer , Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center
Evolution of the CLER focus areas requires true partnerships between our system
QI/PS leaders, sponsoring hospitals CMOs, and GME leaders, faculty and residents.
Using the time between our first and second CLER visits we engaged in a systematic
analysis to identify our CLER gaps, form mutually beneficial partnerships with our
system/hospital leaders to address these gaps, and to matrix our findings from our
second CLER visit and our sponsoring hospitals CMS/JC visits to focus on next cycle of
joint ventures to improve the clinical learning environment for our patients and
residents. This session will overview our step-wise approach and engage participants
this process during small facilitated group discussions.
Building Support for Medical Education: A New Tool in the CAO’s and CEO’s
Toolboxes: Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, LifeBridge Health
John Crumbliss, Legislative Consultant, Cornerstone Government Relations
Martha Nathanson, Vice President, Government Relations
3:30-4:30
4:45-5:30
4:45-5:30
Examine the use of the legislative advocacy process as a means to transform the way
government funds programming and research activity at Independent Academic
Medical Centers. Identify specific differences between how the legislative advocacy
process is utilized at IAMCs and university-based academic medical centers. Learn
how to engage your CEO, CAO, CQO and other administrative and program staff in the
advocacy process. Identify your Members of Congress and using Sinai as an example,
develop a framework for your own advocacy toward the goal of enhancing funding for
programming and research at your institution.
The Journey from a Great Idea to Sustainable Improvement: Ochsner Health System
Ronald Amedee, MD, Designated Institutional Official
Janice Piazza, MSN, MBA, Associate Vice President, Graduate Medical Education
The Journey from a Great Idea to sustained improvement can be one that is plagued
with challenges and missteps. The Ochsner Health System’s effort to develop a
robust, effective Resident Quality has been such a journey. The Ochsner team will
share what worked, what didn’t and current success factors. Using examples of great
ideas from participants, the presenters will walk through the phases and challenges of
change, identifying re-enforcing growth factors and how to identify and address
limitations, leading to sustained improvement.
Teaming Through Technology Applications in the GME Office
Rob Cooney, MD, Associate Program Director, Emergency Medicine, Geisinger Health
System and 2014-15 IHI-AIAMC Improvement Scholar
Is your GME office working as a competent team? Teaming as a verb is a relatively
new concept describing how we work. Emerging technology holds promise to
improve our teaming behavior and team competence. This presentation will focus on
a case-based approach to integrating technology to achieve these goals.
AIAMC Speed Dating
Back by popular demand for the third year is AIAMC Speed Dating, and we anticipate
this session will fill quickly. Please note that pre-registration is required and will
include completion of pre-work (see description of template form below).
Attendance is limited to AIAMC members and to the first 20 registrants.
Every year, we hear from attendees that the opportunity for NETWORKING is the #1
most beneficial aspect of the meeting. This session will maximize that networking
potential .Participants will be split into two equal groups and will be seated facing one
another. At the sound of the bell, each facing pair of participants will have one
minute to introduce themselves and to share descriptions of something each of their
institutions does particularly well. Participants will be provided with a “Speed-Dating
Template” form prior to the conference which they will be required to complete and
return to the AIAMC office. Note that this form will be easy to fill out and will be
limited to ONE page. This form will include the participant’s contact information, a
photo, and one idea they wish to share. “Speed-Dating Template” forms will be
copied by AIAMC staff and brought to the session, so that each participant will be able
to distribute a hard-copy of the idea he/she has brought to share. This will be a fun,
fast-paced and valuable session; we hope you register!
Resident Networking Session
This is a great opportunity for our resident attendees to meet one another in a
relaxed environment. Network with residents from AIAMC-member institutions
4:45-5:30
5:30–7:00
7:00-8:00
8:00 – 9:30
across the country, make new contacts and share ideas. You can continue the
conversations at our Opening Reception to follow at 5:30 pm.
IHI-AIAMC Improvement Scholars Alumni Networking Session
This is a NEW addition to our Annual Meeting agenda and will allow IHI-AIAMC
Improvement Scholars alumni to meet one another in a relaxed environment.
Network with Scholars who have participated in the program over the past three
years, make new contacts and share ideas. You can continue the conversations at our
Opening Reception to follow at 5:30 pm.
Reception
End the first day of the Annual Meeting by catching up with old friends and making
new ones in an atmosphere that is light and collegial. The food and beverage fare will
include a substantial assortment of hors d’oeuvres and one drink ticket, followed by
cash bar. There is no additional fee for this event; however, to help us budget and
keep costs in line, we do ask that you adhere to your stated “attendance plans” as
outlined in the conference registration form.
Friday, April 1st
Buffet Breakfast; Exhibits Open
Keynote Address: Collective Competence: Adapting our Concept of Competence to
Healthcare Teams
Lorelei Lingard, PhD, Director, Centre for Education Research and Innovation, Schulich
School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario
Abstract: Patient care is widely recognized to be a "team sport". In clinical training
and assessment, however, our orientation remains focused on individual competence,
leaving us poorly equipped to deal with situations in which competent individuals
form incompetent teams. This presentation introduces the concept of collective
competence and discusses the philosophical and practical shifts that it would entail
for clinical training.
Objectives:
1. To review the conventional, individualist discourse on competence
2. To suggest another discourse, characterizing competence as a collective construct
3. To consider the implications of the concept of collective competence for health
professional education
9:30 – 10:00
10:00 – 11:00
Key Messages:
The individualist discourse of competence has supported certain kinds of education
and assessment, and constrained others. Given the emphasis on expert teamwork in
current clinical and educational frameworks, we need to extend this conventional
discourse to allow for the distributed and collective nature of competence in team
situations. This new discourse will challenge our traditional approaches to
"measuring" and "maintaining" competence.
Break; Exhibits Open
Team Competency in Action
Baystate Medical Center: Douglas Salvador, MD, VP Quality & Safety and Associate
Chief Medical Officer
Tri Health: David Dhanraj, MD, Medical Director, Faculty Medicine Centers, and Becky
Williams, MEd, Administrative Coordinator, GME
11:15 – 12:45
Virginia Mason Medical Center: Brian Owens, MD, Director, Medical Education & DIO
AIAMC member exemplars will share their National Initiative success stories regarding
targeted initiatives for improvement via culture of safety, event reporting and
attestation timeout. The member panel and keynote speaker Dr. Lingard will then
consider each example’s affordances and limitations for promoting collective
competence.
CONCURRENT BREAKOUT WORKSHOPS
(Lunch served in meeting rooms. Actual sessions to start at 11:30 and will be 75
minutes in length)
Making a CLEaR Plan Linking System Priorities, Sponsoring Hospitals & GME: A WinWin Methodology: Aurora Health Care (please note this session will also be held on
Thursday)
Ruric “Andy: Anderson, MD, Chief Medical Officer– System & Executive Vice President
Jacob Bidwell, MD, Designated Institutional Official
Deborah Simpson, PhD, Director Medical Education Programs
Jeffrey Stearns, MD, Medical Director and PI National Initiative V
Hsieng Su, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center
Evolution of the CLER focus areas requires true partnerships between our system
QI/PS leaders, sponsoring hospitals CMOs, and GME leaders, faculty and residents.
Using the time between our first and second CLER visits we engaged in a systematic
analysis to identify our CLER gaps, form mutually beneficial partnerships with our
system/hospital leaders to address these gaps, and to matrix our findings from our
second CLER visit and our sponsoring hospitals CMS/JC visits to focus on next cycle of
joint ventures to improve the clinical learning environment for our patients and
residents. This session will overview our step-wise approach and engage participants
this process during small facilitated group discussions.
Culture by Design: Leadership Exercises and Activities to Enhance Team
Development: Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center (please note this session
will be repeated on Saturday)
Jeri Hepworth, PhD, Director of Medical Education and DIO
Ashley Negrini, MS, Supervisor, Medical Education
Leaders have opportunities in small ways to intentionally create a culture of
collaboration and teamwork. Though formal team development retreats can be
useful, a culture of collaboration is developed through consistent acknowledgement
of others’ views and intentional activities to facilitate active participation of all team
members. Team members need to trust that their perspectives will be respected and
that time spent in discussion will result in more informed decisions and plans. In this
highly interactive break-out session, participants will practice several leadership
strategies to facilitate enhanced discussion and participation, and therefore
commitment to team plans and goals. The interactive exercises can be easily adapted
for brief team development opportunities in the participants’ home settings.
Learn. Share. Collaborate. Building a GME University©: Trinity Health System
Peter Coggan MD, MSEd, Vice President and Chief Academic Officer
Debi Kellogg, System Director of Medical Education
gmeUniversity© is an online learning community which offers a one-stop shop for
GME programs in a 29 teaching hospital system. It gives faculty and residents a place
to learn, share and collaborate with each other. Residents and faculty can learn
1:00 – 2:00
2:00 – 2:30
2:30 – 3:30
3:30 – 6:30
6:30
virtually at a time and place that is convenient, share expertise with each other, and
collaborate on projects with other members of their GME learning community. This
session will share the journey of development of a technology solution that provides
access across Hospital Systems and GME programs to program directors, faculty,
residents and fellows. It creates opportunities for: sharing; teaching; virtual journal
clubs; on-line faculty development with CME credit; communication and discussion
forums, resident sharing of tips and advice, online new resident orientation, just-intime learning and other activities. This platform is user friendly, easily learned and
easily replicated.
The Clinical Learning Environment’s (CLE) Road to 2020
Ronald Amedee, MD, Designated Institutional Official, Ochsner Health System
Theresa Azevedo, Associate Institutional Director, GME and DIO, Kaiser Permanente
Northern California
Kevin Weiss, MD, MPH, Senior Vice President, Institutional Accreditation, ACGME
Barbra White, Director, Medical Education and Medical Research, Advocate Illinois
Masonic Medical Center
Hear from AIAMC members who have had their second CLER site visit. They will share
comparisons of the first and second visits and key learnings from the experiences.
Panel moderator Dr. Kevin Weiss will report on findings of the first round of site visits
as well as future plans for pursuing excellence in the clinical learning environment.
Annual Business Meeting
All conference attendees – both AIAMC members and guests – are encouraged to
attend the Annual Business Meeting. Directors and Officers of the AIAMC Board will
be elected, and current officers will present highlights of the past year, including
major accomplishments, new members and the year-end financial report. Be sure to
attend and be the first to hear the results of our 2016 Member Needs Assessment!
IHI-AIAMC Improvement Scholars
Surekha Bhamidipati, MD, Medicine Faculty Hospitalist, Christiana Care Health System
and 2014-15 Improvement Scholar
Donald Goldmann, MD, Chief Medical and Scientific Officer, Institute for Healthcare
Improvement (IHI)
Lisa Powell, MBA, GME Specialist, Sparrow Hospital and 2014-15 Improvement Scholar
Prepare to be impressed and inspired by the results of the IHI Improvement Scholars
Program in Collaboration with AIAMC. Dr. Goldmann will provide an overview of the
program, followed by reports of two alumni highlighting their QI work and sustained
results.
Free Time; Enjoy Your Afternoon in Beautiful Tucson!
Annual Awards Dinner – Offsite at Skyline Country Club
This event is always a sell-out; plan now to attend and enjoy a most memorable
evening with your AIAMC colleagues and friends. In addition to our traditional
Weinberg and Innovations awards, we will honor Board Officers who have completed
their terms of office. The Skyline Country Club boasts unparalleled panoramic views
of the Santa Cruz valley and the city lights of Tucson. It is located just 6 miles and less
than 15 minutes from our conference hotel and is designated a “Platinum Club of
America” by Sibbald and Associates. This prestigious honor places Skyline among the
top 200 private clubs in America, and is the only Club so honored in Southern Arizona.
Please note that seating is limited and that a separate registration fee is required.
7:00 – 7:45
7:45 – 8:45
9:00 – 10:15
The registration fee covers your dinner, one complimentary drink ticket and door-todoor motorcoach transportation.
Saturday, April 2nd
Buffet Breakfast; Exhibits Open
Joy in Practice: Why it’s Missing, Why it Matters and What Can Be Done
Christine Sinsky, MD, Vice President, Professional Satisfaction, American Medical
Association
Professional satisfaction is a powerful driver of the Trip Aim. Yet nearly half of all US
physicians exhibit some sign of burnout, increasing the likelihood of mistakes, patient
dissatisfaction and physician intent to leave practice. Improvements in clinical
workflow, teamwork and communication are among the most potent anecdotes to
burnout. This session will describe new AMA practice transformation modules that
can help physicians and staff re-engineer their office practice and approach to work.
CONCURRENT BREAKOUT WORKSHOPS
Beginning to Ameliorate Healthcare Disparity: The Nuts and Bolts of Our Health
System’s Initial Approach: Main Line Health System
Barry Mann, MD, Chief Academic Officer
Joseph Greco, MD, Program Director, Family Medicine
Main Line Health System will present its recent 5-year journey toward the
amelioration of healthcare disparities. This session will describe the following
programs in a NUTS and BOLTS fashion in the hopes of enabling other health systems
to implement these programs while benefitting from the Main Line Health
experience:
 Healthcare Disparities Colloquium
 Medical Student Health Advocates Program
 Nursing Student Health Advocates Program
 Health Career Academy, a high school education enrichment program for
underserved youth
 Health Careers Summer Camp for underserved youth
After presentation of the concepts, participants will receive “how-to” work-books and
will be challenged to map-out the specific measures required to implement the
programs they deem most appropriate for their health systems. In a closing reportout, participants will then highlight the barriers that their specific health system
and/or communities might present to implementation of the programs. Finally, a
focused conversation will be facilitated among the participants to help each other
theorize creative solutions to anticipated barriers.
Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Fellowships: What is Known, How Do They
Work, and What Is In It For Me?: Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center and
TriHealth
Bahnsen Miller, MD, Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Fellow, Our Lady of the
Lake Regional Medical Center
Lori Ginger Klarquist, DO, Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Fellow, TriHealth
Miriam Chan, PharmD, Director, Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Fellowship
OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital
Alston E. Dunbar III MD, MBA, FAAP, Patient Safety and Clinical Quality Improvement
Fellowship Director, Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center
There is currently a lack of consensus with design of Post-Graduate Patient Safety and
10:15 – 10:45
10:45 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:00
Quality Improvement Fellowships. Approximately 15 fellowships are offered
throughout the country with large variation in curriculum and program structure. To
gain a better understanding of this variation, we surveyed fellowship program
directors to gain insight on program design, Fellow demographics/characteristics, and
curriculum. During the breakout session, we will share our survey data and discuss our
experiences in developing a QI/PS Fellowship. Through group discussion, participants
will be expected to identify institutional priorities, benefits of a fellowship, and
barriers to implementation. Most importantly, we hope this session will benefit
institutions considering starting a post-graduate PS/QI fellowship, institutions that
currently have a fellowship in place, and trainees that may be considering fellowship
training.
Culture by Design: Leadership Exercises and Activities to Enhance Team
Development: Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center (please note this session
will also be held on Friday)
Jeri Hepworth, PhD, Director of Medical Education and DIO
Ashley Negrini, MS, Supervisor, Medical Education
Leaders have opportunities in small ways to intentionally create a culture of
collaboration and teamwork. Though formal team development retreats can be
useful, a culture of collaboration is developed through consistent acknowledgement
of others’ views and intentional activities to facilitate active participation of all team
members. Team members need to trust that their perspectives will be respected and
that time spent in discussion will result in more informed decisions and plans. In this
highly interactive break-out session, participants will practice several leadership
strategies to facilitate enhanced discussion and participation, and therefore
commitment to team plans and goals. The interactive exercises can be easily adapted
for brief team development opportunities in the participants’ home settings.
Break; Exhibits Open
Poster Slam
The five highest-rated poster submissions will be presented in a poster slam, i.e.,
executive summary, format by the following AIAMC members:
Effect of Ethnic Disparities on the Outcome of Stage III Colon Cancer Patients
Carlos Sequera, MD, Internal Medicine Resident, Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical
Center
Engaging and Developing Faculty as Educators from Entry to Teaching the Teachers
Deborah Simpson, PhD, Director, Medical Education Programs, Aurora Health Care
Transitions of Care: Exploring the Frequency and Content of Overnight Provider
Documentation on Inpatient Medicine Units at a Community Hospital
Shaun Hanson, MD, Quality and Safety Administrative Fellow, Christiana Care Health
System
Residents as Educators: Value-Added Integration of Teaching And Leadership Skills
Deepthi Yeturu, Medical Student, University of Queensland and Laura Bateman, MD,
Associate Program Director, Ochsner Internal Medicine Program
Examination and Cost Analysis of Inappropriate Continuation of Stress Ulcer
Prophylaxis During ICU Transfer and Hospital Discharge
Hayden Smith, PhD, MPH, Coordinator, Faculty Resident Research, UnityPoint Health Des Moines
Staffed Poster Displays
12:00 – 1:00
All posters will be displayed throughout the entire Annual Meeting; this session is
dedicated to staffed display. These include posters that support our Annual Meeting
theme as well as the projects of the 2015-16 IHI-AIAMC Improvement
Scholars…….prepare to be impressed and inspired by this collective body of work!
Closing Session and Boxed Lunch
Addressing Health Disparities: It Takes A Team
Ronald Wyatt, MD, Medical Director, Division of Healthcare Improvement, The Joint
Commission
This session will serve as the close of the 2016 Annual Meeting and the opening of
National Initiative V Meeting Two. Dr. Wyatt will discuss disparity as a patient safety
issue and present potential solutions to addressing health inequity in AIAMC-member
care populations.