Faculty, Staff, Students to Share Medical Education Acumen

2023 WGEA conference presentations will kick off in Honolulu, Hawaii

March 29, 2023

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A cohort of Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine (KPSOM) leaders, faculty, staff, and students will participate in the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Western Group on Educational Affairs (WGEA) Collaborative Spring Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii April 14 through 17. The KPSOM collective will share a total of 16 oral presentations, poster sessions, small group/panel discussions, and workshops that pair with this year’s conference theme, “From Virtual Education to Renewed Personal Connections: Re-Engaging with: Adaptability, Leadership, Opportunity, Humor and Humanism, and Accessibility (ALOHA).” 

“Having so many excellent abstracts accepted at this terrific conference is such a wonderful recognition for our students, faculty, and staff,” said Mark Schuster, MD, PhD, KPSOM Founding Dean and CEO. “I’m thrilled to see our school participate along with other schools in efforts to improve medical education everywhere.” 

KPSOM Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education, Abbas Hyderi, MD, MPH, agreed. “Having 16 peer-reviewed presentations is an extremely impressive showing at any point but especially this early in a school’s tenure,” said Hyderi. “We plan to have as much of this work published as possible via the development of enduring educational products or scholarly manuscripts. It will be great to celebrate these wins in Honolulu with fellow KPSOM attendees who I know will be great representatives of the school and will make us all proud.”

WGEA is one of four regional groups of the AAMC Group on Educational Affairs and membership is open to all faculty, staff, and learners involved in medical education. The organization fosters the professional development of medical educators, promotes excellence in medical education, and advances medical education research.

KPSOM presentations include the following:

April 15

Candace Pau
“Setting a common standard in clinical skills assessment: The experience of the California Consortium for the Assessment of Clinical Competence”
Oral Presentation
(Topic: Assessment)

Carla Lupi, Candace Pau, Lindsay Mazotti, Jung Kim, Abbas Hyderi
“Evaluation of curricular segments: A platform for adaptive design and implementation of EPOs and milestones”
Oral Presentation
(Topic: Assessment)

Michael Langevin, James Abele, Wilkin Muñoz Orozco, Kristian Diaz, Candace Pau, Victor Escobedo
“Konexiòn Paciente: Redefining medical Spanish education for Spanish-speaking students through patient-based simulation”
Oral Presentation
(Topic: Simulation and Technology)

Candace Pau, Lindsay Mazotti, Jennifer Loh
“A novel escape room to prepare students for clinical rotations”
Oral Presentation
(Topic: Simulation and Technology)

Caryssa Lim, Isabel Chen, Anne Vo, Paul Chung, Abbas Hyderi, Carla Lupi, Jung Kim
“Operationalizing Health Systems Science Through Teaming at Two Medical Schools”
Poster
(Topic: Clinical Skills: Teaching and Learning Pedagogies and Curricula)

Gia DiGiacobbe, Delores Amorelli, Linda Tolbert
“Teaching With Care: Using CareActors To Teach Professionalism In UME”
Poster
(Topic: Clinical Skills: Teaching and Learning Pedagogies and Curricula)

Ariel Silverman, Deshae Gehr, Ali Ghobadi, Harminder (Tony) Brar, Chileshe Nkonde-Price, Candace Pau
“Reinforcing the basic sciences with a student co-designed, integrative high-fidelity simulation curriculum”
Poster
(Topics: Basic Science: Teaching and Learning Pedagogies and Curricula / Simulation and Technology)

Mai Nojima, Jung Kim
“Implementing a Novel Longitudinal, Community-Informed Medical Student Curriculum to Improve Patient-Centered Disability Care”
Poster
(Topic: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism in the Learning Environment)

Sung Rhee
“Self-Paced Polling Increases Medical Student Engagement in Recorded Lectures and Improves Examination Performance” 
Poster
(Topic: Basic Science: Teaching and Learning Pedagogies and Curricula)

April 16

Candace Pau
“Exploring creative solutions to clinical reasoning assessment: The NBME OSCE for Clinical Reasoning Creative Community”
Small Group Discussion
(Topics: Assessment / Clinical Skills: Teaching and Learning Pedagogies and Curricula)

Nicole Lawson, Iesha Ticknor, Marla Abrolat, Jung Kim, Abbas Hyderi, Lindia Willies-Jacobo
“The Curricular EID Scorecard: A Student Evaluator Approach to Improving EID in Academic Medicine”
Small Group Discussion
(Topic: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism in the Learning Environment)

Lindsay Mazotti
“A Value Proposition: Understanding the Benefits and Costs of Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships”
Small Group Discussion
(Topic: Clinical Skills: Teaching and Learning Pedagogies and Curricula)

Gia DiGiacobbe
“EdTech Triage: Prioritization Processes for Team Health and Growth”
Panel
(Topic: Simulation and Technology)

Gia DiGiacobbe
“(Re)Designing and Implementing Inclusive Technology-Enhanced Learning Spaces”
Workshop
(Topics: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism in the Learning Environment / Simulation and Technology)

Quyen Ngo-Metzger
“Defining and using ‘Race/Ethnicity’ in medical education, research, and clinical practice guidelines”
Panel Discussion
(Topic: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism in the Learning Environment)

April 17

Candace Pau, Wendy Madigosky
“Interprofessional education: Operationalizing longitudinal competency-based assessment”
Small Group Discussion
(Topic: Assessment)