Newswise — Twenty-two NYU School of Medicine faculty and staff members presented at the Association of American Medical Colleges’(AAMC) Annual Meeting this week in Denver, Colorado, on topics ranging from medical school expansion to research opportunities in challenging times, innovative partnerships with industry and new models of care. The AAMC is a not-for-profit association representing all 135 accredited U.S. and 17 accredited Canadian medical schools. Each year more than 4,000 academic medical professionals attend this meeting to discuss educational opportunities to help transform health care for all Americans.
Key presentations made by NYU School of Medicine faculty included:
-Curriculum Redesign: Challenges, Perils, & PitfallsMelvin G. Rosenfeld, PhD, associate professor of cell biology, associate dean for medical educationOver a hundred years since the publication of the original Flexner Report, curriculum reform is sweeping the nation’s medical schools. Dr. Rosenfeld highlighted NYU School of Medicine’s implementation of its modernized curriculum, entitled the Curriculum for the 21st Century (C21), and discussed a variety of aspects associated with curricular reform with particular emphasis on the challenges, perils, pitfalls, and recommendations for success. -The Diagnosis and Remediation of the Clinically Weak Medical StudentLynn Buckvar-Keltz, MD, clinical assistant professor of medicine, associate dean for student affairsAdina L. Kalet, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine and surgery, Division of General Internal Medicine, director of the Program in Professional Development Assessment and Outcomes, Office of Medical EducationMedical educators struggle with students that perform poorly in clinical settings and often these students are not identified until late in medical school. In this session, Drs. Buckvar-Keltz and Kalet, in collaboration with medical educators from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), introduced the topic of clinically weak students, contrasted how these students are different from students that fail a knowledge based exam, and framed the problems regarding identification and successful remediation of these students. -Increasing Diversity in Residency Training: Tales from Two CitiesDonna P. Phillips, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics and orthopaedic surgery Session examined strategies used in a combined program between the Department of Orthopaedics at NYU Langone Medical Center and an institute in Chicago to increase diversity in residency training, and examined a training and assessment model in cultural competency and professionalism geared towards serving underserved patients. In this discussion, Dr. Phillips highlighted what the Department of Orthopaedics is doing to increase diversity in their residency program, gave a brief overview of the professionalism curriculum, and summarized the results of a pilot program to assess patient care provided by the residents to underserved populations at Bellevue Hospital Center using unannounced standardized patients (USPs). This is the first orthopaedic residency program to use USPs to assess resident competence in core competencies that include communication skills and professionalism. -Redesigning the Clerkship Years to Include Cross-Cutting Clinical Topics & IntersessionsMary Ann Hopkins, MD, associate professor of surgery, director of clinical educationAdina L. Kalet, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine and surgery, Division of General Internal Medicine, director of the Program in Professional Development Assessment and Outcomes, Office of Medical EducationTraditionally, the clinical years of medical school consist of required core clerkships that usually act independently without a unified curriculum. In this workshop, Drs. Hopkins and Kalet discussed curricular reform at NYU School of Medicine in which cross-cutting clinical topics are taught during the clerkship years in independent sessions. -A New AAMC Initiative: Global Health Learning Opportunities "GHLO"Mekbib Gemeda, adjunct assistant professor of social medicine, assistant dean for diversity affairs and community healthIn response to growing interest by medical students and medical schools to expand elective offerings internationally, the AAMC is launching a new application service entitled Global Health Learning Opportunities (GHLO). Initially aimed at final year medical students, this global mobility program will facilitate information about, and application to, cross-border experiences. In this session, Mr. Gemeda addressed cultural competency in global health education and discussed NYU School of Medicine’s International Health Program (IHP) which sends approximately 38% of its students to sites across the globe to explore health care in other countries and to participate in clinical or basic research, public health initiatives, or clinical education programs. He also explained that NYU School of Medicine is developing a 12-week concentration in global health, an opportunity for students to explore global health in more depth. -Education Data Warehousing and Multi-Dimensional Analysis for the Medical School Management and Research (Poster)Marina Marin, MSc, senior information management developerGrowing challenges to traditional models of education and dramatic changes in health care delivery are prompting curricular reform at many academic medical centers. The NYU School of Medicine’s curricular transformation effort, entitled the Curriculum for the 21st Century (C21), calls for longitudinal tracking of learner and teacher data for metrics and measures of performance. Ms. Marin discussed how the Division of Educational Informatics (DEI) at the NYU School of Medicine has addressed this need by building an Education Data Warehouse (EDW) that aggregates data from a large set of educational data sources. This approach allows NYU School of Medicine to evaluate its curriculum, teaching efforts and learners’ competencies using powerful analytics software. -Web-based Virtual Human Designed for Medical Education (Poster)John Qualter, MSc, research assistant professor of educational informaticsNYU School of Medicine's Division of Educational Informatics has developed a comprehensive 3D model of human anatomy. The dataset has been packaged and deployed in the BioDigital Human Platform as an online anatomy trainer facilitated by recent advances in web and browser technology. This digital content is also being displayed in stereo using high quality consumer grade 3D glasses. -Different Strokes for Different Folks: Best Practices Integrating LGBT Health in Medical EducationMekbib Gemeda, adjunct assistant professor of social medicine, assistant dean for diversity affairs and community healthThis session examined comprehensive and specific approaches taken to address LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) health at three medical schools. During the discussion, Mr. Gemeda offered the genesis and impact of the new LGBT Health Program for medical students offered this past year at NYU School of Medicine. For additional information on the AAMC Annual Meeting, please visit https://www.aamc.org/meetings/2011_annual_meeting/. 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About NYU School of Medicine:NYU School of Medicine is one of the nation’s preeminent academic institutions dedicated to achieving world class medical educational excellence. For 170 years, NYU School of Medicine has trained thousands of physicians and scientists who have helped to shape the course of medical history and enrich the lives of countless people. An integral part of NYU Langone Medical Center, the School of Medicine at its core is committed to improving the human condition through medical education, scientific research and direct patient care. The School also maintains academic affiliations with area hospitals, including Bellevue Hospital, one of the nation’s finest municipal hospitals where its students, residents and faculty provide the clinical and emergency care to New York City’s diverse population, which enhances the scope and quality of their medical education and training. Additional information about the NYU School of Medicine is available at http://school.med.nyu.edu/.
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