Fifty posters featured at 2009 Marvin R. Dunn Poster Session
Ten abstracts selected for oral presentations during 2009 Annual Educational Conference

CHICAGO, March 30, 2009 – The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education accepted 50 entries for its 2009 Marvin R. Dunn Poster Session, which took place during the  2009 ACGME Annual Educational Conference, held March 5-8 at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas.

Abstracts submitted to this year’s poster session focused on program and institutional projects that enrich teaching or assessment of the general competencies, use creative scheduling to meet duty hour requirements, develop innovations in transitions of care, increase patient safety and error reductions, use assessment results to improve programs, implement strategies and methods to foster educational improvement and quality, or change the learning environment or redesign education and patient care.

Out of the 50 posters accepted, a team of judges chose 10 posters, based on the quality of the abstracts, to be featured at two oral presentation sessions. The abstracts picked to be included at the oral presentation sessions were:

• A RESIDENT-DRIVEN QUALITY IMPROVEMENT INITIATIVE TO REDUCE ERRORS AND IMPROVE PATIENT SAFETY Clea English, MPH, Lynn Shaker, MPH, RN, William Ward, MD, David Scott, MD, Donald Girard, MD, Arnar Roy Magnusson, MS, MD, OHSU Healthcare, Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland, Ore.


• BALANCED RESIDENCY EDUCATION? STUDYING/ CLINIC/SURGICAL/EDUCATIONAL/DUTY HOUR BALANCE  Margaret Mulligan, MS, Peter Langenstroer, MD, MS,  Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisc.   


• IMPLEMENTATION OF MEDICATION CRITICAL PATH ANALYSIS IN OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY  Teresa Tam, MD, Neal Ipema, MD, Resurrection Health Care/ St. Joseph Hospital, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Chicago, Ill.


• IS HANDS-ON TRAINING WITH A TASK-TRAINER BETTER THAN A LECTURE-BASED CURRICULUM FOR IMPROVING THE CONFIDENCE AND TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY OF INTERNS LEARNING ULTRASOUND-GUIDED CENTRAL VENOUS LINE PLACEMENT?    Anish A. Patel, DO (1), Carl R. Pavel, MD (1), Jennifer C. Thompson, MD (1), Alexander Niven, MD (2), Jennifer Wink, MD (3), Jison Sim, DO (1), Tatjana Calvano, DO (1),  (1) Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, (2) Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, Wash., (3) William Beaumont Army Medical Center. El Paso, Texas


• METABOLIC CONTROL: FINDING THE WEAKEST LINK  Hope Torregosa, MD, James Salem, MD, FACE, Lynn Clough, PhD, David Sweet, MD, FACP, Rebecca Johnson, BS,  Summa Health System/NEOUCOM, Akron, Ohio


• OTOLARYNGOLOGY RESIDENT WORKFLOW: A TIME-MOTION STUDY  A. Victores, J. Roberts, B. Alford, M. Takashima,  Bobby R. Alford Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery  Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas


• TOWARDS A NEW PARADIGM IN GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES: ELIMINATION OF THE 24-HOUR CALL Susan G. Mautone, MD, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Department of Pediatrics, Newwark, N.J.


• USE OF STANDARDIZED TESTING TO OBJECTIVELY ASSESS ATTAINMENT OF COMPETENCY IN OBJECTIVES IN MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE AND PATIENT CARE  James F. Burke, MD, Eric M. Gnall, DO, Sandra V. Abramson, MD, Timothy A. Shapiro, MD, Paul K. Schick, MD, Lankenau Hospital and Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelpha, Pa.

The 2010 Marvin R. Dunn Poster Session will be held in conjunction with the 2010 ACGME Annual Educational Conference, scheduled for March 4-7 at the Gaylord Opryland Resort Hotel and Convention Center in Nashville, Tenn. The call for abstracts will be posted next fall on the ACGME’s website, www.acgme.org

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