29th Annual Meeting

Promoting Healthy Behaviors:
Changing Institutions, Teachers and Learners

October 2-5, 1999
Savannah DeSoto Hilton
Savannah, Georgia

Program Schedule

Saturday, October 2

10:00 - 5:00 Registration

12:30 - 3:30 Welcome and Plenary I

Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Changing Educational Institutions:
Linking the Learning Process to Evaluation
Hilliard Jason, M.D., Ed.D. and Daniel Klass, M.D.
Moderator: Jane Westberg, Ph.D.

3:30 - 4:00 Break and New Member Reception

4:00 - 5:30 Concurrent Seminar Sessions

Clinical Decision Making and Managed Care: An Overview of a Curriculum for Third-Year Medical Students in a Primary Care Clerkship Using Computerized Clinical Case Simulations
John F. Greene, D.O.
Mark Notman, Ph.D.
Margaret Kingry, Ph.D., R.N.
Dissecting A Tool to Promote Peer and Self Review Among Medical Students
Fred Hafferty, Ph.D.

4:00 - 6:00 Concurrent Workshop Sessions

No Small Change: Creating a More Humane Medical School Culture
B. Jim Blatt, M.D.
Balint Groups: Experiential Learning About The Doctor-Patient Relationship
Geoffrey Margo, M.D.
Clive Brock, M.D.
Alan Johnson, Ph.D.
Motivating Patients: How to Enhance Compliance and Healthy Outcomes in Patient Care
Philip J. Michels, Ph.D.

6:30 - 7:15 Pre-Dinner Speaker

The Tobacco World According to Blum
Alan Blum, M.D.

7:15 - 9:15 Dinner Banquet

Sunday, October 3

7:15 - 8:15 Common Interest Groups

8:30 - 10:30 Plenary II

Promoting Healthy Behaviors:
Changing Healthcare Organizations
Harvey Skinner, Ph.D. and Macaran Baird, M.D., M.S.

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 12:30 Concurrent Seminar Sessions

The Adoption of Telemedicine Technologies: Changing Practice Behaviors in Rural Missouri
James Campbell, Ph.D.
Kimberly D. Harris, Ph.D.
Barry W. Kling M.S.P.A.
Is There Really A Place for Spirituality in Family Practice Residency Training?
Alan S. Wolkenstein, M.S.W., C.I.S.C.W.
Linnea Larson, L.C.S.W., L.M.F.T.
Joseph Weaver, M.D.
Structured Self-tutorials: Substantiating and Assessing Performance in Case-based Instruction
Cathie M. Currie, Ph.D.
Joao Nunes, M.D.
An Interactive Method for Teaching Psychiatric
Assessment Skills to Future Primary Care Practitioners
Julia B. Frank, M.D.
Initiating a Prevention Based Curriculum into a
Family Practice Residency Program
Elizabeth McCord, M.D.
Cathy Peeples, M.P.H.

12:45 - 1:45     Networking Lunch
                       Resource Sharing
                       Poster Display (a complete list of posters will be available in the final program)

1:45 - 2:45 Future Directions of ABSAME

To Have Or Not To Have A Multidisciplinary Focus 2:45 Adjourn for the day

Monday, October 4

7:15 - 8:00 Breakfast in Small Groups

8:15 - 10:14 Concurrent Small Groups

AIME: Development of a Template for Auditing the Preparedness of
Medical Schools to Conduct Programs in Cultural Diversity
José Luis Calderon, M.D.
Fred Hafferty, Ph.D.
Brian Castellani, Ph.D.
Kenneth E. Wolf, Ph.D.
Richard S. Baker, M.D.
Nancy P. Chin, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Delese Ware, Ph.D.
Ken Durgans
Alicia Monroe, M.D.

10:15 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 12:00 Concurrent Small Groups

Healthy Habits: Motivating Yourself, Family and Friends
Richard J. Botelho, M.D. & Small Group Facilitators

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch on your own

1:30 - 3:00 Concurrent Seminar Sessions

Addressing Cultural and Socioeconomic Diversity
Alicia D. Monroe, M.D.
Smoking Cessation for Pregnant Women
Tricia Parish Ward, M.A.
Vijaya Bapat, M.D., M.P.H.
Meg Binnie Molloy, Dr.P.H., M.P.H., R.D.
Jim Martin, M.S.
The Perceived Educational Value of "Taking a Spiritual History:" A Qualitative Survey of Students and Faculty
David Musick, Ph.D.
Shirley C. Tipton M.S.
Lois Margaret Nora, M.D., J.D.
Teaching Medical Residents Relationship Building Skills Through Performance Training
Susan Massad, M.D.
Teaching Communication Skills: Laying a Foundation for Partnerships in Patient Care
Karla Hemesath, Ph.D.

3:15 - 4:45 Concurrent Seminar Sessions

Training Psychiatric Residents to Discern, Values,
and Integrate the Religious and Spiritual Dimensions of Patients into Treatment
Gary E. Myers, Ph.D.
Using Community Resources to Facilitate Wellness Education
In a Pediatric Residency Program
Judith Kaufman, Ph.D.
Ali Nadroo, M.D.
Ilya Bialik, M.D.
Leonie, M.P.S.
Educating Medical Students About Family Systems and Chronic Illness
Melton Strozier, Ph.D.
Lee Bowen, Ph.D.
Steve Livingston, Ph.D.

3:15 - 5:15 Concurrent Workshop Sessions

What makes children kill?
Dorris E Tinker, Ph.D.
Charlotte L. Kennedy, Ph.D.
Patient Empowered Readiness Model (PERM):
A Brief Intervention for Health Behavior Change in the Primary Care Setting
Margaret Jordan, Ph.D., R.N.

5:30 - 6:30 ABSAME Business Meeting

6:30 - 8:00 Dinner on your own

8:00 - 9:00 ABSAME Coffee Hour and Dessert

Tuesday, October 5

7:00 - 8:00 Breakfast for Early Birds

8:00 - 9:00 Plenary III Breakfast Session

Promoting Healthy Behaviors Implications for Public Policy and Public Health
John Showstack, Ph.D., M.P.H.

9:00 - 10:00 Sharing Reflections aboutConcurrent Small Groups