"Developing and Assessing Core Behavioral Competencies"
October 16-18, 2008
Catamaran Resort Hotel and Spa
San Diego, California
As residency programs require their residents to obtain competencies in the six defined areas of: (1) patient care, (2) medical knowledge, (3) practice-based learning and improvement, (4) interpersonal and communication skills, (5) professionalism, and (6) systems-based practice, medical schools have also begun to evaluate how their curricula helps to prepare medical students to achieve these same competencies.
To help facilitate and advance behavioral scientists' conversation and consideration of these competencies in undergraduate and graduate medical education, the theme of the ABSAME 2008 Annual Meeting will focus on Developing and Assessing Core Behavioral Competencies. Because the behavioral sciences play a vital role in the education and training of medical students and residents, this year's theme is designed to help behavioral scientists further develop and assess the desired core competencies in their medical school curricula and graduate medical education training.
Conference content is expected to benefit faculty, researchers, residents,
graduate and medical students from the fields of psychiatry, psychology, pharmacology,
primary care (family medicine, internal medicine, OB/GYN, pediatrics), neurology,
nursing, social work and allied health as well as sociology, medical anthropology
and the humanities.
We look forward to seeing you at San Diego for ABSAME 2008.
The ABSAME website now has selected PowerPoint slide presentations and handouts
from many of the 22 educational sessions offered at the conference, which was
held October 3-5 at theOctober 17-20, 2007 Copper Mountain Resort and Village
Copper, Colorado. Most of the documents focus on the theme of the conference
Behavioral Science Education: Bridging Bench
to Bedside. The collection includes slides from the keynote
speeches by Eduardo J. Simoes, M.D., MSci, M.P.H., CDC Prevention Research Center,
Spero M. Manson, Ph.D., Professor and Head, American Indian and Alaska Native
Program, University of Colorado, and Loretta Graham Ph.D., Rocky Vista University
College of Osteopathic Medicine. Click
here
ABSAME is currently preparing a CD-ROM of all the documents along with sound
recording of selected sessions. This easy-to-use CD-ROM can be used to refresh
you memory about the presentations, given to program directors, medical school
faculty, or anyone else involved in graduate medical education in the behavioral
sciences. The CD-ROM will be mailed free to all conference attendees. Additional
copies are available for $25.00. To order a disk, contact the ABSAME office.
The new ABSAME Board members have been installed. From the recent election, Michael Walsh, M.D. and Albert Eaton, Ph.D. were elected to the members-at-large position for three years.
Thanks to all the board members!