Developing and Assessing Core
Behavioral Competencies

Program Schedule

Thursday, October 16, 2008

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:45 AM Welcome

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Symposium/Panel

What Must a Medical Student Know of the Behavioral Sciences?
Herbert Ochitill MD
Patricia Carney PhD
Blake Rawdin BA,MPH
Jason Satterfield PhD

10:15 AM - 12:15 PM Brief Paper Presentations

Missed and Cancelled Patient Visits: A Surrogate for the Effectiveness of Medical Interview Skills Training
Michael Walsh MD
Albert Eaton PhD

Learning Professional Values through the Process of Case- Based Problem-Centered Learning (PCL)
Rosanne McBride PhD
Charles Christians MD

Evaluating Competence in Clinical Translation Research Ethics
Patricia Mullan PhD

Therapeutic Communication In Primary Care: An En-Vivo Participant-Observer Model To Teach And Evaluate Residents
Bradley Samuel Ph.D.

1:30 PM - 2:45 PM Invited Pleanary

Interpersonal & Communication Skills: Educating for Relationship Competency
Elizabeth Rider MSW, MD, FAAP

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Workshop (concurrent)

Well-Being as a Professionalism Competency:
John Christensen PhD
Mitchell Feldman MD,MPhil

The Interpersonal & Communications Skills Competency Defined: Taxonomy Development to Identify Residents' Roles and Measurable Behaviors
Mark Graham PhD
Nicole Borges PhD

6:30 PM ABSAME Dinner & Cash Bar
Introductory Remarks: Gary Myers, Ph.D.

Traditional ABSAME Introductions Following Dinner

Friday, October 17, 2008

7:30 AM - 8:15 AM Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Invited Plenary

The NIH Social and Behavioral Sciences Curriculum: Advancing Medical Education for a Better Tomorrow
Patricia Carney PhD
Jason Satterfield PhD
Margaret Stuber MD

10:15 AM - 12:15 PM Brief Papers/Panel

Brief Papers

Moving the Goal Posts: Defining Professionalism in Medical Education and Practice
Steven Daugherty PhD
DeWitt C Baldwin Jr MD

The Professionalism Portfolio
Daniel Shaw PhD
Janet Hamstra EdD
Paula Anderson DO

Panel

Professionalism in Medical Students: Strategies for Selection, Assessment, Development and Reinforcement of Key Behaviors, Skills, and Attitudes
Carol Elam EdD
Nicole Borges PhD
Denise Gibson PhD

1:45 PM - 3:45 PM Workshop (concurrent)

Emotional expression and Communication Skills in Residency Training: A developmental approach to skill building
Anne Skamai PhD
Pamela Sass MD

BaFa BaFa: Using cross-cultural simulation to teach Professionalism and Interpersonal-Communication Skills
Bonnie B O'Connor PhD
Randal Rockney MD
Anthony Alario MD

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Poster Session & Reception

Barriers to Communicating with Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Emergency Department
Shelese Stucky
Wendy Coates MD
Susan Baillie PhD
Kenneth Wolf PhD
Tony Kuo MD, MSHS

Addressing the Diminishing Patient-Centered Attitudes of Medical Students
David RM Trotter MA
Lance Evans PhD
Betsy Jones EdD

Linking ACGME Competencies to the Resident Selection Process: Initial Development of a Behavioral Interview Tool
Linda Myerholtz PhD

Prevalence of substance abuse and Readiness to Change Substance Abuse Behavior in an Emergency Department Setting
Kenneth Frausto MD MPH
Shahrzad Bazargan-Hejazi PhD

Knowledge and Awareness of Vertical Transmission of HIV among Mauritanian Villagers Living Along the Senegal River
Reshmi Sinha
Marine Demirjian
Meenakshi Bhasin
Kenneth Wolf PhD
Tony Kuo MD, MSHS

The Impact of Pedometer Use on Residents' Physical Activity
Jill Anderson BA
Carly Seaberg BA
Linnea Hauge PhD

Facilitating Resident Development in the Six ACGME Core Competencies: Two Critical Success Factors or Three?
Lance Evans PhD
David Trotter MA

Assessing Clinical Teaching Using an OSCE-Type Behavioral Checklist: A Pilot Study
Terry Stratton PhD
Rosemarie Conigliaro MD
Ellen Napier MS
Jennings Chester MD

Competence in Patient-Centered Care: Views from Patients, Students, and Faculty
Melissa Griggs MEd
Kimberly Hoffman PhD
Joe F Donaldson PhD
Wei Hsin Lu PhD

Okay, Maybe Next Week: Attitudes and Attitude Change in Behavioral Health
Christine Senn MA, MS

Residents' Fitness Exercise and Counseling Practices
Carly Seaberg BA

A Team Approach to the Patient with ADHD with or Without Comorbid Problems
David Agerter MD
Norman Rasmussen Ed D, LP

Eating Disorder Treatment
Rebecca Cooper MFT, CCH, CEDS

Straight Talk: Patient and Provider Factors Influencing Colorectal Cancer Screening
Linda Larkey PhD
Brian Sillanpaa MD, MBA

Saturday, October 18, 2008

7:30 AM - 8:15 AM Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM - 9:45 AM Invited Plenary

Assessing Professional Behavior in Residency
Peter Katsufraki MD, MBA

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Brief Paper/Panel

Panel

Changing the Culture to Enhance the Competencies
Margaret Stuber MD
Brenda Bursch PhD
Hannah Zackson MD
Ian Cook MD

Brief Papers

Understanding the Relationships Between Religion Spirituality and Physical Health in Chronic Illness and Disability Implications for Medical Education
James Campbell Ph.D.

Improving Patient Understanding of Medical Communications via Teach-Back and Appropriate Handouts
Christine Senn MA, MS
Jeffrey Kingsley DO

1:45 PM - 3:45 PM Brief Papers - Workshop (concurrent)

Brief Paper Session

Helping International Medical Graduates Become Psychosocially Competent
Beverlee Ciccone PhD
Robert Solomon MD

Vlog Learning: The use of Vlogs to teach the Mental Status Exam
Dennis P. McNeilly PsyD

Arguing for the Idea of Procedural Style as Organizer of Biopsychosocial Developmental Aspects of Professionalism Education
Joao Nunes MD

Project Comfort: A Pilot Project to Teach Spouses of Injured Soldiers Care-giving Skills
Barbara Moquin PhD, APRN, BC-P

Workshop

Establishing and Defining the Foundations for Optimal Assessment & Evaluation
Pamela Andreatta PhD
Patricia Mullan PhD

3:45 PM Meeting Adjourn