Agenda - SWAT Symposium

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Time	Event	Credits*	Location
7:30 a.m. - 8 a.m.	Registration		NG3 Commons Area
8 - 11:30 a.m.	Interactive workshop 1 Focus on introduction to CBE The Perils and Promise of Competency-based Education in the Health Professions Jason R. Frank, MD, MA(Ed), FRCPC	3	NG3.112 T. Boone Pickens Auditorium
	This interactive workshop will introduce faculty to CBE for health professions, using group discussions and group and individual exercises. Participants will be able to describe the implications of CBE to their colleagues and begin to examine their own curricula using this new approach.
4 - 5 p.m.	University Lecture Series: *The Changing Tide of Health Professions Reform Worldwide* Jason R. Frank, MD, MA(Ed), FRCPC	1	T. Boone Pickens Auditorium note location change
	Current health professionals are perhaps the best-trained in the history of humanity, so why then are there calls for change and reform? A look at the issues that are reshaping the way societies ensure a vital supply of professional caregivers and scientists.

*Credits are AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™

Thursday, April 5, 1012

Time	Event	Credits*	Location
7:30 a.m. - 8 a.m.	Registration		NG3 Commons Area
8 - 11:30 a.m.	Interactive workshop 2 Focus on intermmediate CBE Implementing Competency-based Health Professions Curricula: Methods, Milestones, and Management Jason R. Frank, MD, MA(Ed), FRCPC	3	NG3.112 T. Boone Pickens Auditorium
Noon - 1 p.m.	Effective Teachers Series Lecture Leading Change in Medical Education: How Clinician-Educators Get the Job Done Jason R. Frank, MD, MA(Ed), FRCPC	1	NG3.112 T. Boone Pickens Auditorium note day and location change from usual ETS lectures
	Why do so many curricular reform initiatives fail? For that matter, why do so many organizational changes of all kinds fail? Change leaders need intimate knowledge of their organizations and the effective tools for successful innovation. This lecture will provide a tour of the educational change leader’s toolkit.
1- 3:15 p.m.	SWAT Seminar: Applying Lessons Learned to UT Southwestern (Limited spaces available - Register NOW!) Concurrent 1-hour, repeated sessions Session topics		NG3.102 NG3.104 NG3106 NG3.108
	Through small group discussions facilitated by UT Southwestern education leaders, we will continue our journey toward curriculum reform in the campus’ schools and in domains within each school.
1 - 2 p.m.	Session 1	1
2 - 2:15 p.m.	Break
2:15 - 3:15 p.m.	Session 2	1

*Credits are AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™

SWAT Seminar Session Topics

Applying Competencies to a Pre-Clinical Curriculum
Laurette Dekat, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Physician Assistant Studies
Jennie Hocking, MPAS, PA-C, Associate Director, Physician Assistant Studies

In 2004, the Physician Assistant (PA) profession adopted the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) competencies for didactic and clinical year teaching/evaluation. This interactive session will demonstrate how to integrate the competencies into the existing syllabi and learning outcomes in the preclinical/didactic curriculum. Attendees are encouraged to be prepared to discuss the use of competency-based education in their respective programs.

Applying Competencies to a Clinical Curriculum
David J. Klocko, MPAS, PA-C, Associate Professor, Physician Assistant Studies

This interactive session will demonstrate how to integrate ACGME competencies into student clinical evaluations and into rotation goals and objectives. Attendees are encouraged to be prepared to discuss the use of competency-based education in their respective programs.

Integrating Milestones in a Competency-based Curriculum
Lynne Kirk, MD, Professor, Internal Medicine, Family & Community Medicine
Holder of the Tim and Toni Hartman Professorship in Medicine

Once the outcomes have been defined for a competency-based curriculum, milestones can be developed that describe the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that the learners will be able to demonstrate along the continuum of education and training. Dr. Kirk will present examples of nationally-developed milestones for internal medicine residency training. Attendees will define milestones for learners in their areas in medicine, the health professions, and biomedical sciences at undergraduate and graduate levels.

Competencies and the Reprise and Synthesis of Basic science and Clinical Medicine: Is it possible?
Andrew Zinn, MD, PhD, Professor, Associate Dean for the Medical Scientist Training Program
Joseph Albanesi, PhD, Professor, Pharmacology

Drs. Zinn and Albanesi will discuss mechanisms for introducing, extending, and utilizing pre-clinical basic science concepts into the clinical years of medical school.