No. 392,
May 2006
Editor: Kathleen Watson,
M.D., drwatson@umn.edu
Editorial Assistant: Allison
Campbell Jensen, aac@umn.edu
Work groups' leaders take next steps
in MED 2010, learner-centered education
MED
2010, learner-centered education for patient-centered care, is not simply a
curriculum change, says Dean Deborah Powell, M.D.; it is a structural change in
medical education. To help lead the next steps in MED 2010, heads of work
groups have been named. The work group on Professionalism is headed by Jim
Pacala, M.D., M.P.H., and Kathleen Watson, M.D. Mentoring is led by Wes Miller,
M.D., and Colin Campbell, Ph.D. Outcome Assessment is headed by Linda
Perkowski, Ph.D., and Kathleen Brooks, M.D., M.B.A., M.P.A. The overall effort
on Global and Community Health is led by Dean Powell, Watson, and Perkowski. It
includes three subgroups: Rural and Urban Health, headed by Gwen Halaas, M.D.,
M.B.A., and Scott Davies, M.D.; Global Health, headed by Cynthia Howard, M.D.;
and, Disparities in Health, led by Kola Okuyemi, M.D., M.P.H., and Joy
Dorscher, M.D.
MED 2010
addresses challenges and opportunities that arise from the explosion in
knowledge and technology, the call for improved quality through teamwork in
health care, the erosion of public trust, the increasingly empowered patient, the
high cost of educating physicians, and the need to improve diversity.
Come to Commencement, May 5
Stepping
across the bridge on
Meet the
Students
chose Patrick Schlievert, M.D., and
Saying fare-thee-well to
The
Farewell Banquet for sophomore students who are transitioning to the Twin
Cities campus for their third and fourth years was held the evening of April 27
at the Greysolon Plaza Ballroom. Students who began their two years of basic
science education on the
--Lil
Repesh, Ph.D., associate dean for Admissions and Student Affairs, Medical
School-Duluth campus
Center of American Indian and Minority Health
Symposium draws experts
American
Indian medical students, residents, and physicians from across the United
States, including Minnesota, North Carolina, and North and South Dakota, came
to the third annual Symposium on Academic Medicine and Research, March 31-April
1, hosted by the Center of American Indian and Minority Health. On Friday, they
learned from Anne Taylor, M.D., Russell Luepker, M.D., and Kola Okuyemi, M.D.,
M.P.H., about the challenges and benefits of academic medicine. Saturday's
session included William Freeman, M.D., M.P.H., of
CAIMH takes part in Cross-Cultural Medicine
workshop
Nineteen
Regional representation by our
Student National Medical Association members
Three of
our first-year medical students who are members of the Student National Medical
Association will serve on the Region 2 Board for the 2006-2007 year. Michelle
Encarnacion will serve as the regional Treasurer, Titilayo Adegboyega will
serve as the regional MAPS Liaison Chair, and Marissa Lightbourne will serve as
the regional Community Service Liaison Chair. They were among the 20 medical
students from our Twin Cities SNMA chapter, two SNMA Minority Association of
Premedical Students members, and staff from our Medical School Office of
Minority Affairs and Diversity who attended the 2006 SNMA National Conference
in
Transition to residency, May 1
Fourth-year
students are encouraged to come to room B2-650, 4:30 p.m., May 1, to learn the
nuts and bolts knowledge that will help ease their transition to residency.
CoursEval system rolling out end of
May
Starting
in late May, our undergraduate clinical courses will adopt the CoursEval system
that is being used in basic science courses and in other
Diehl
Award winners announced; awards banquet is May 19
The late
George Adams, M.D., head of the Department of Otolaryngology, has been awarded
a Diehl Award, as have Ray Christensen, M.D., Ernest Ruiz, M.D., and Warren
Warwick, M.D. The Harold S. Diehl Award is a prestigious lifetime award granted
by the
Clinical trials, confusing messages:
clinical research lecture series
Dr.
Marvin Moser, Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Yale University School of
Medicine, will present a special lecture, "Clinical trials, confusing messages,
and national guidelines" on Tuesday, May 23, at 12:10 p.m. The series is
sponsored by the
Our ACT 2006 team takes part in
national forum May 4
"Improving
patients' understanding of their medications," a quality improvement project by
our local ACT 2006 team, will be presented at the plenary session for the national
ACT 2006 forum May 4 in
May
11-12 Best Practices Institute: Teaching in the Health Professions
Registrations
will be accepted until May 5 for this free faculty development opportunity,
spanning a day and a half, Thursday and Friday, May 11-12, 2006. To view a
complete schedule of the institute and to register, please use the Control key
and click on http://www.BPinstitute.umn.edu.
Kudos to Peterson
Bonnie
Peterson, who coordinates clerkships for the Medical School Duluth campus
through the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, received an
Outstanding Service Award from the
Literary inspiration
Where the Mind Is Without Fear
Where
the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by
narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards
perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening
thought and action ---
Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country
awake
--
Rabindranath Tagore