Seminars/Conferences

All residents and fellows are strongly encouraged to attend Core Competency Conferences throughout their training program, usually held the second Tuesday of every month in G013 Varnes (School of Nursing Building) from 6:30-7:30 am. All conferences focus on at least one of the ACGME Core Competencies: Patient Care, Medical Knowledge, Interpersonal and Communication Skills, Professionalism, Practice Based Learning, & Systems-based Practice.

Each year, the University of Kansas School of Medicine GME Office also provides a "Residents as Teachers" conference and workshop emphasizing techniques that enable residents to integrate their teaching duties into daily patient care activities. These Conferences are co-sponsored by the University of Kansas and the University of Kansas Hospital to comply with the requirements of the ACGME and to provide improved quality patient care.

Resident Core Competency Conference Schedule

Date	Topic
June 9, 2009	Pain Management at KU Medical Center Speakers: Melanie H. Simpson, PhD, RN-BC, Teresa D. Long, MD, Talal Khan, MD, Martin De Ruyter, MD
August 11, 2009	The Risks and Benefits of an EMR and the Ramifications for Billing, Compliance, Professionalism and Patient Safety Speaker: Aroop Pal, MD, Assistant Professor, General and Geriatric Medicine
September 3, 2009	Housestaff Blood Utilization Conference Speaker: Timothy Hannon, MD, MBA, Medical Director, Blood Management Program, St. Vincent Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana
September 8, 2009	Rapid Response Speaker: Tim Williamson, MD, Assistant Professor, Associate Program Director - Internal Medicine
October 13, 2009	Organized Medicine Speaker: Kim Templeton, MD, Associate Professor, Program Director - Orthopedic Surgery
October 13, 2009 Noon	Disparities in Care: A Problem with a Solution (PowerPoint Presentation) Speaker: Marcy Donley, Health Care Communications Consultant Location: 1050 School of Nursing
November 10, 2009	Ethical and Professional Decision Making in Medicine Speakers: Amy O’Brien-Ladner, MD, Director, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Bruce Toby, MD, Professor, Chair of Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Thomas Whittaker, MD, Professor, Program Director - Ophthalmology
November 23, 2009	Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation Speaker: Damien Stevens, MD, Assistant Professor, Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship Location Change: 3015 Sudler, 12:15 P.M.
December 8, 2009	Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation - Canceled due to weather Speaker: Damien Stevens, MD, Assistant Professor, Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship
January 12, 2010	Integrative Medicine Speaker: Bette Bischoff, MD, Fellow- Integrative Medicine
February 9, 2010	Impacting Morality through Quality Improvement and Patient Care Speaker: Sue Pingleton, MD, Professor of Medicine
March 9, 2010	Blood Management - The Bloody Truth Speaker: Lowell L. Tilzer, MD, Medical Director and Chairman, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine The Library and The Bloody Truth Speaker: Anne Huffman (Whitworth), MLS Head, Public Services Liaison, School of Medicine - Archie R. Dykes Library
April 13, 2010	Sepsis Speaker: Steven Simpson, MD, Associate Professor, Program Director - Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship
May 11, 2010	Effective Care and Communication when Relaying Bad News to Patients and Family Speaker: Karin Porter-Williamson, MD, Assistant Professor, Program Director - Hospice and Palliative Care

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