Spotlight
Primary Care Faculty Development Fellowship Program's Research and Development Poster Reception and Conference

Each year fellows in the MSU Primary Care Faculty Development Fellowship Program design, develop, implement and evaluate a major research or curriculum project. The fellows will present their major projects at a poster reception and scholarly conference. The posters and oral presentations will be reviewed by two national leaders in medical education: Larrie Greenberg, MD and Mark Loehrke, MD.

We invite you to attend the poster and oral presentations and graduation of this year's fellowship class. Major project topics include:

• Patient Centered Medical Home
• Telephone Medicine
• Medical Decision Making
• Unopposed Residencies
• Pediatric Resuscitation                              
• EBM Curricula
• Diabetic Self-Management                       
• Vitamin D and Diabetes
• Skipping Breakfast and BMI        
• Dermatology Curricula
• Peer Counselor and Breast Feeding      
• Online Obstetrics Curricula
• Global Health Rotation                  
• Procedures Curricula

The free poster reception will be held:

Wednesday, May 18, 2011
4:00-6:00 pm
MSU Radiology Building Atrium

The scholarly conference will be held:

Thursday, May 19, 2011
8:00 am-5:30 pm
Michigan State University
Kellogg Center, Willy Room and Room 110

The conference is free, but if you would like to attend the lunch meeting in the Red Cedar Room and hear the keynote address given by Dr. Loehrke, there is a fee of $25. Registration is required whether you attend only the conference presentations or the lunch meeting also. 

If you are interested in attending the Wednesday poster reception, please email us at [email protected]. If you are planning to attend the Thursday conference and graduation, please submit the registration form and payment via US mail no later than May 10, 2011.

Make checks payable to: Michigan State University, Primary Care Fellowship. Mail the registration form and payment to:

Donna Mulder
Primary Care Faculty Development Fellowship Program
Michigan State University
A-206 E. Fee Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824

For more information go to http://omerad.msu.edu/fellowship or contact William Anderson at [email protected], Donna Mulder at [email protected] or call her at 517-432-8722.

B-CLR

How do MSU Faculty and Students Use Collaboration Tools to Connect? 

The Block II Clinical Skills Gateway Assessment Exam is continuing its development as a core assessment event for students on their clinical skills competency path toward graduation.  Similar to the Block III Gateway that is a performance exam given at the end of the six required clerkships, the Block II Gateway shows if students have mastered basic clinical skills and are ready for clerkship experiences.  Drs. Eugene Tay and Robin DeMuth, director and associate director of the clinical skills curriculum also lead the Block II Gateway.  The performance exam gives second year students an opportunity to demonstrate the interviewing, physical exam, and health record writing skills acquired in Blocks I and II and to demonstrate their preparation for seeing real patients in the clinical years.  A unique aspect of the exam is the immediate and personalized feedback students receive from clinical faculty in a one-on-one encounter afterward.

Recent innovations to the Gateway Exam include a new scoring rubric to support assessment of the written health record; consensus-developed checklists; and an enhanced interview station.  Additionally, Drs. Tay and DeMuth will be working with OMERAD and College-Wide Assessment to conduct the first in a series of standard setting exercises to establish Gateway as a valid and reliable summative assessment event.  This approach to student evaluation is part of a national trend to increase performance assessment in the medical school curriculum to determine what students can do and not just what they know.  In the Block II Gateway Assessment, students focus on:

• cardiac exam
• newborn exam
• neurologic exam
• abdominal problem interview and exam with SOAP note write-up
• undiagnosed Problem Interview with quiz

Faculty Development

Not Your Father's (or Your Mother's) Presentation!

Teaching the Newest Generation of Medical Students and Residents

They have grown up with MTV, cable and the Internet. How they learn, how they interact with their world and how they search for information is vastly different from their instructors and teachers. These differences are creating some interesting tension (and even, dare we say, some hostility!) in the classrooms and on the wards as this newest generation (labeled Gen Y, the Millennials, and ME) enters our medical schools and residencies.

So how should you teach these days? How might you approach these learners? How can you reach them where they hang out? The answers to these questions will be covered in this free OMERAD Faculty Development Seminar Series program. So come join us over the noon hour for a fast-paced, practical and informative look at how we can teach in this new day and age.

The presenter is Dr. John B. Molidor, professor of Psychiatry and OMERAD, and community assistant dean for the Flint campus. Dr. Molidor comes to us from a family of 10 children, 23 nieces and nephews, and 17 great nieces and nephews, where he says he is getting a first-hand look at the newest generation of learners.

Thursday, May 12
12:00 noon to 1:00 pm
Room E-4 Fee Hall, East Lansing

This seminar may be broadcast via video conference to the other CHM communities. For more information contact Deborah Sleight, PhD, OMERAD, at [email protected] or 517-353-9656 ext 229.

Registration is required. To register, send an email to [email protected] 

OMERAD Presentations 

See a list of recent presentations from our OMERAD faculty.