Wednesday, April 30
Grassroots Forum for Program Directors (formerly know as Program Directors SIG)
Jerry Rushton, MD, MPH, Indiana University School of Medicine; Rukmani (Roni) Vasan, MD, MSEd, University of Southern California; Brian Youth, MD, Maine Medical Center
Slide Presentation

Special Interest Group (SIG) for Associate Program Directors
Nancy Spector, MD, St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Keith J. Mann, MD, Children’s Mercy Hospital
Slide Presentation

Coordinators’ Assembly
Welcome/Opening Remarks
APPD Coordinators Executive Committee Members

Follow the Yellow Brick Road to Skill Discovery
Aida K. Velez, MEd, University of Connecticut Pediatric Residency Program, East Hartford, CT
Slide Presentation

Keynote Address
Kohoia – Choice, Fate and Destiny—Using Native Hawaiian Culture to Develop Physicians and Academic Leaders for the 21st Century
Naleen N. Andrade, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii

Thursday, May 1
Plenary Session

APPD’s L.E.A.R.N. Pilot Project on Procedural Competency
Patricia Hicks, MD, Moderator
Slide Presentation

Friday, May 2
FOPO Task Force on Women in Medicine: Flexible/Part-time Training...The Devil is in the Details
Facilitators: Ann Burke MD, Theodore Sectish MD, Robert Vinci, MD

APPD/ABP Session: Teaching and Assessing Professionalism -- A Program Director’s Guide
Facilitators: Ann Guillot MD, Joe Gilhooly MD, Robert McGregor MD, Edwin Zalneraitis MD

Workshop Session I
1. Teaching Teachers to Teach
Keith J. Mann, MD, Jason G. Newland, MD, Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, Kansas City, MO
Slide Presentation

2. Mentoring Across the Spectrum of Training
Ann P. Guillot, MD, Jillian S. Sullivan, MD, Vanessa Goodwin, Patty W. Rissacher, MD, University of Vermont/Vermont Children’s Hospital, Burlington, VT
Slide Presentation

3. Spinning Your Web: Creating a Web Site as an Effective Educational Tool
Paul S. Matz, MD, Andrew McInnes, MD, Amy Pattishall, MD, Nancy D. Spector, MD, St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, PA

4. Six Months Ago I Couldn’t Even Spell Portfolio, Now I Need One
Fred A. McCurdy, MD, PhD, MBA, Texas Tech Pediatrics (Amarillo), Amarillo, TX, Clifton E. Yu, MD, National Capital Consortium Pediatric Residency, Washington, DC, Rashmi Srivastava, MD, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO

5. CURRICULUM TASK FORCE: Interactive Symposium of Curricular Tools for Professionalism
Ann Burke, MD, Wright State University, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton, OH, Susan Bostwick, MD, New York Presbyterian - Weill Cornell, New York, NY
Slide Presentation | Handout 1 | Handout 2 | Bibliography

6. Outcomes Project Phase 3: What’s Toyota Got to do with It?
Richard Shugerman,MD, Heather McPhillips, MD, MPH, Kelly Evans, MD, Eric Gustafson, MD, Erica Michiels, MD, University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA
Slide Presentation

7. How Do You Evaluate ACGME Competencies? You Find a Valid, Reliable Instrument
Su-Ting T. Li, MD, MPH, Daniel C. West, MD, UC Davis, Sacramento, CA
Material

8. Pediatric Standardized Patients & Simulation
Mary J. Cantrell, MA, Grace Gephardt, MEd, Travis B. Hill, BA, Christopher E. Smith, MD, The PULSE Center at Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Little Rock, AR
Slide Presentation

Workshop Session II
9. The Leader in You
Aida K. Velez, MEd, University of Connecticut Pediatric Residency Program, Hartford, CT
Slide Presentation | Handout 1 | Handout 2 | Handout 3

10. Education Mentors - Empowering Your Faculty to Teach the Competencies
Aditee P. Narayan, MD, MPH, Kathleen McGann, MD, Joseph M. Majure, MD, Duke University Department of Pediatrics, Durham, NC
Slide Presentation

11. Public Speaking Advanced Life Support (PAL-S): Resucitating the Art of Effective Public Speaking for Pediatric Trainees
Jason (Jay) H. Homme, MD, Nathan Taggart, MD, Christine Sabapathy, MD, Vibha Singhal, MD, Robert Voigt, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Slide Presentation

12. Improving the Evaluation and Feedback Process: New Tools to Facilitate Evaluation, Feedback and Documentation
M. Virginia Barrow, MD, Lee T. Miller, MD, Kate L. Perkins, MD, PhD, Arthur Cho, MD, Angelika Rampal, MD, Alice Kuo, MD, PhD, UCLA Tricampus Pediatric Residency Program, Los Angeles, CA, Rona Molodow, MD JD, UCLA Tricampus Pediatric Residency Program, Sylmar, CA

13. Teaching Residents Behavior Change Counseling to Enhance Patient-Centered Communication Skills
Heather McPhillips,MD, MPH, Paula Lozano, MD, MPH, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

14. Beyond the Mock Code: Development and Implementation of Simulation in a Competency Based Curriculum
Glenn Stryjewski,MD, Jefferson Medical College/AI duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE, Sharon Calaman, MD, Andrew McInnes, MD, Drexel/St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, PA, Clifton E. Yu, MD, National Capital Consortium, Bethesda, MD

15. Developing a Comprehensive Research and Education Program Targeting all Pediatric Subspecialties
Robert Ross, MD, Srinivasan Suresh, MD, MBA, Prashant Mahajan, MD, MPH, MBA, Deepak Kamat, MD, PhD, Children’s Hospital of Michigan/Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Slide Presentation

16. Individualized Learning Plans: A Primer with Tools and Concepts for Success!
Ann E. Burke, MD, Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton, OH, John CO, MD, Mass General Hospital, Boston, MA, John Mahan, MD, Ohio State University/Columbus Childrens Hospital, Columbus, OH, Amy Jost, MD, Boston Children’s Hospital, Ann Guillot, MD, University of Vermont
Slide Presentation | Handout 1 | Bibliography

Workshop Session III
17. Family-Centered Rounds (FCRs): Building Systems and Skills for Success at the Bedside of the Hospitalized Child in a Teaching Hospital
Javier A. Gonzalez del Rey, MD, MEd, Jeffrey M. Simmons, MD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
Slide Presentation

18. Faculty Learning Community (FLC) - An Innovative Approach to Faculty Development
Ryan Bode, MD, Grace Caputo, MD, MPH, Phoenix Children’s Hospital/ Maricopa Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ
Slide Presentation

19. Leadership is Everyone’s Business
Pat F. Bass, MD, Paul Cooper, MD, Connie Arnold, PhD, LSUHSC-Shreveport, Shreveport, LA

20. Curriculum Development for Dummies or How to Develop a Robust Curriculum in Five Easy Steps
Susan Guralnick,MD, Robyn Blair, MD, Stony Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook, NY

21. Crossing the Quality Chasm - Curriculum and Projects in Pediatric Training
Lynn C. Garfunkel, MD, Suzanne Mullin, MD, Steve Scofield, MD, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

22. Changing the Culture: Using Interactive Small Groups to Teach Professionalism
Cynthia K. Schenauer, MD, Caroline Barangan, MD, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Las Vegas, NV

23. To Be or Not to Be: Faculty Development for Individualized Learning Plan Advisors
Keith J. Mann, MD, Denise Bratcher, DO, Jane Knapp, MD, Lorraine Brewer, DO, Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, Kansas City, MO

24. NRMP Session for Fellowship Directors
Mona Signer, NRMP Executive Director

Controversies (Debrief from Wednesday’s Grassroots Forum for Program Directors and SIG for Associate Directors – Next Steps)
Summary Document

Saturday, May 3
Coordinators Session

Forum for Chief Residents
Planning the year to come, while making sense of the year that is passing
Edwin Zalneraitis, MD, Program Director, University of Connecticut; Monica Sifuentes, MD, Associate Program Director, Los Angeles County-Harbor UCLA Medical Center; Priti Bhansali, MD, Associate Program Director, University of Connecticut and John Mahan, MD, Program Director, Children’s Hospital/Ohio State University

Forum for Fellowship Directors

Forum for Directors of Small Programs / Affiliate Chairs
Steven P. Shelov, MD, MS, Department Chair, Maimonides Medical Center; Surendra Varma, MD, Program Director, Texas Tech University (Lubbock)