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GEA CME Section Annual Meeting Program

Sunday, November 2

8:00 - 10:00am

CAS, COD, GEA CME Joint Plenary Session
Financing Continuing Medical Education: Evolving Questions, Evolving Models

Speakers:
George E. Thibault, M.D., President, Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation
Robert J. Alpern, M.D., Dean, Yale University School of Medicine

Response Panel:
Barbara E. Barnes, M.D., Associate Vice Chancellor, Continuing Education and Industry Relations, University of Pittsburgh
Thomas J. Fahey, M.D., Senior Vice President, Clinical Program Development Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Ajit K. Sachdeva, M.D., FACS, FRCSC Director, Division of Education, American College of Surgeons

This session will:

  • Highlight the recent recommendations of the AAMC Task Force on Industry Support for Medical Education related to commercial support of Continuing Medical Education and the development of clinical practice guidelines.
  • Discuss the ethical issues that should guide the sponsorship of medical school and teaching hospital CME and the specific recommendations of the AAMC Task Force on Industry Support for Medical Education.
  • Discuss the practical implications of evolving support models that limit or prohibit corporate funding.

Convention Center - Room 214 A

10:30am -12:00pm

GEA/SACME Plenary Session
Growing Pains: Medical School Expansion, Labor and Delivery

Convention Center - Room 217 A/B

5:30 -700pm

GEA CME Section FOCUS Session co-sponsored by Chief Medical Officers' group
How Can Quality Education Address Clinical Needs of the Academic Medical Center?

Speaker:
James Woolliscroft, M.D., Dean, University of Michigan College Of Medicine

Responders:
Lara Zisblatt, M.A., Assistant Director, CME, Boston University GME
Sue Pingleton, M.D., Chief Learning Officer University HealthSystem Consortium
Malcolm Henoch, M.D., Chief medical Officer, Oakwood HealthCare, Dearborn, Michigan

At the conclusion of this session, participants will:

  • Have a broad understanding of quality improvement achievements in an educationally-focused academic medical center
  • Learn the specifics of implementing a performance improvement program in CME
  • Recognize the role of the informal curriculum in Graduate Medical Education and its role in QI and PI
  • Gain a clinical perspective on quality and education

Convention Center - Room 007B

Monday, November 3

1:00 - 2:30pm

GEA CME Section Focus Session co-sponsored by the GFA Session
Professional Development

Speaker:
Kelley M. Skeff, M.D., Ph.D. Professor, General Internal Medicine and Associate Chair for Educational Programs Stanford University School of Medicine

Ivan Silver, M.D., Vice Dean, Continuing Professional Development, University of Toronto

At the conclusion of this session, participants will:

  • Appreciate the important role of Faculty Development in expanding and improving the educational quality of medical schools
  • Learn about specific program initiatives which link CME, UME and GME
  • Understand the process of the implementation of faculty development programs

Convention Center - Room 006 D

2:30 - 4:15pm

GEA CME Section Business Meeting

Section Chair:
Nancy R. Lowitt, M.D., Ed.M.
University of Maryland School of Medicine

Convention Center - Room 214 A

     

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