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Midwest Regional Breakfast
Minutes The APPD Midwest Region met on two occasions in conjunction with the 2008 APPD Annual Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii. On April 30, 2008, approximately 25 members of the region attended a session which consisted of three presentations followed by discussion. Topics for the presentations were chosen after surveying the regional membership. Keith Mann, MD, Associate Program Director at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and Children’s Mercy Hospital, gave a presentation entitled “Encouraging Resident Self-Directed Learning: Lessons Learned from the ILP.” Many of us have been finding it increasingly challenging to help our residents to be consistently self-directed, and Keith’s insight and thoughts regarding how to approach this issue were extremely helpful and generated a significant amount of discussion. Jay Nocton, MD, Program Director at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, discussed “The Other RRC (Ranking Resident Candidates): A Scoring System for Efficiently Creating a Rank List.” The approach that one program uses to identify the critical elements of the application, the relative weighting of these elements, and the generation of a rank list were discussed. There was interesting discussion following the presentation regarding which elements should be considered and how they should be weighted, with some considerable differences among programs. It was agreed that more formal study of the predictors of success (or failure) during residency might be very helpful for all of us, and might be a topic for a collaborative study among multiple programs. Finally, Tara Shirley, Program Coordinator at the University of Kansas-Wichita, presented “Resident Recruitment: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.” Tara discussed some recruitment events sponsored by her program, including what has been helpful, and what has not seemed to be as helpful. Tara’s presentation generated significant sharing among the attendees regarding recruitment ideas. At the Midwest Regional Breakfast, attendance was
impressive, with approximately 50 members present. Our region decided
to add the position of Associate
Program Director Co-Chair, and earlier this year an election was held.
Keith Mann, MD, Associate Program Director at the University of Missouri-Kansas
City, was introduced as our region’s first Associate Program Director
Co-Chair. At the instruction of APPD leadership, the potential benefits
of focused executive-type training for program directors were discussed.
It was agreed that such a course would be beneficial. The optimal format
for such a course was felt to be an initial short course followed by
longitudinal coursework, likely with web-based modules, to improve sustainability.
The membership also discussed goals for our region, including how best
to move forward toward developing collaborative innovative and educational
research projects. There was a consensus that having an additional meeting
within our region in the fall would be helpful, and we are therefore
exploring the feasibility of holding a fall regional face-to-face meeting
for program directors, coordinators, and possibly chief residents. The
agenda for this meeting would likely include sharing current curricular
ideas and topics, as we have done with previous teleconferences and meetings,
as well as presentation and discussion of potential innovative and research
collaboratives. We all look forward to continuing to share ideas and
hopefully develop some collaborative initiatives. Jay Nocton, MD |