CHICAGO, March 10, 2004 – Seven different projects developed by residency program faculty and students received awards of excellence at the ACGME’s Annual Educational Conference, held March 3-5 at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place in Chicago.
The nearly 800 conference attendees program directors, program coordinators, faculty members and residents were invited to submit entries to the Marvin R. Dunn Poster Session. The posters were required to illustrate projects that addressed some aspect of the session’s topic, “Initiatives in Graduate Medical Education: Teaching and Assessing the Competencies; Implementing the Duty Hour Requirements.” More than 50 posters and oral presentations were submitted for the conference’s poster session, which was named in the memory of the late Marvin R. Dunn, MD, who served as the ACGME’s director of RRC activities for five years.
Abstracts of the winning posters will be posted on the ACGME’s Web site, www.acgme.org. The 2004 poster session winners are:
First place:
Systems-based Practice Training for House Staff – A Pilot Program. Christine B. Turley, MD, Kathryn J. Jinkins, RN, BSN, MEd, Marilyn Marx, MD, MBA, University of Texas (UTMB) Medical Branch, Galveston, TX.
Second place:
A Patient Survey to Assess Resident Performance. P. Jeppsen, D. Simpson, J. Robinson, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.
Third place:
Evaluation of Radiology Residents by Radiology Technologists as Part of the 360-degree Assessment. Dedrie Plett, BSc, Mardjohan Hardjasudarma, MD, Department of Radiology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA.
Judges’ Award
Practice-based Learning Through Review of Patients. Rajeshwar Peddi, MD, Forest Park Hospital, St. Louis, MO.
Instructional Accountability: The Professional Growth Indicator. Sally T. Miller, Department of Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
Developing an Assessment Center for Tracking Resident Competency: Establishing Inter-rater Reliability of a Leaderless Group Discussion. Ann T. Rohrer, MS, Robert M. Hearney, MD, St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
Honorable Mention
The Night Float System: Ensuring Educational Benefit. Hilary Sanfey, Shayna Lefrak, Sally Miller, Bruce Schirmer, Department of Surgery, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA.
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The ACGME is a private, non-profit council that accredits 7,800 residency programs
in 27 specialties affecting 100,000 residents. Its mission is to improve the quality
of health care in the United States by ensuring and improving the quality of graduate
medical education for physicians in training.
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