Day: April 14, 2024
SACME Annual Meeting Barbara Barnes Keynote Address: Expanding the CPD Ecosystem through Equity and Inclusion
Dr. Sophie Soklaridis opened the meeting by sharing a very poignant story of a personal work experience that would forever influence and guide her professional work to promote the integration of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) principles into academic teaching and the daily practice of medicine. Medical schools are struggling to implement DEI principles into CPD learning activities using various creative and effective strategies. Dr. Soklaridis emphasized that “The thing we all have to remember is there is no point where any of this will ever be uncomplicated or straightforward..
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Building Community— SACME Members Relax and Reflect
One goal of the 2024 meeting, was to assure our members enjoyed the venue by hosting a variety of relaxing social activities. Planned by the Fun Sub-Committee, members were treated to a classic S’moors roast; a dog-petting session; yoga and dance; delicious dinners hosted by Board members; quiet walks along the beautiful harbor; and just laughing over coffee with friends and colleagues. While the meeting’s academic and learning goals were as robust as in prior years, perhaps the 2024 meeting distinguishes…
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SACME 2024 Annual Meeting Plenary: Applied AI in Health—What the Education Field Needs to Know
Recent rapid advances in AI have struck the CME/CPD community with a set of challenges and opportunities. What to do? What is next? How will we handle the change? — are just some of the questions that come to our mind.
In this masterful lecture on Applied AI in Health: What the Education Field Needs to Know, Dr. Mamdani provided insight that can help us address the emerging questions. The lecture included a set of convincing examples of how AI improves healthcare delivery, reflected on what AI is and the complexity of its implementation, and discussed how the CPD community can better lead the digital transformation in the AI-enhanced world.
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SACME 2024 Annual Meeting Plenary: Changing the World One CME Activity at a Time
SACME was pleased to welcome Graham McMahon, MD from the ACCME as a presenter at the annual meeting. Those familiar with the messages conveyed from the CEO of the ACCME (the U.S.-based accreditation system) will recognize that Dr. McMahon consistently promotes the need for CME/CPD professionals to develop new thinking and apply more engaging approaches to their educational programming.
To his credit, as part of the evolution of the field CME/CPD, Dr. McMahon routinely highlights our collective need to practice what we preach. He underscores our goal as a field to strategically plan activities in a manner…
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SACME 2024 Annual Meeting Plenary: Building for CPD without Borders
This session began with Dr. Linda Hill, MD, MPH introducing why we care about CPD without borders. Dr. Hill is a Distinguished Professor and Assistant Dean in the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health at UC San Diego and the Executive Director of the Asylum Seeker Medical Screening and Stabilization Program. During this session she specifically spoke to her experience in the latter role. Dr. Hill emphasized that we care about CPD without borders because we need to address historical inequities, we exist within biased health systems, we serve diverse communities, and we serve diverse health professionals.
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SACME 2024 Annual Meeting Plenary: We Can Do This—Leveraging CPD to Address the Climate and Health Crisis
“On a morning like this in San Diego, doesn’t it remind you how lucky we are to live on this beautiful planet?” Dr. Kurth opened with this question, setting the tone for a moving and action inspiring plenary in which she effectively elucidated that relationship between climate change and health. Her talk highlighted four key lessons.
The climate crisis is happening now. Drawing upon data from the Six Americas Super Short Survey (Chryst et al., 2018), Dr. Kurth underscored the growing consensus on the need for action to address climate change.
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SACME 2024 Annual Award Winners
Each year, SACME awards members who have distinguished themselves via their research, scholarship, innovation and/or extraordinary service to the SACME Board and general membership. Congratulations to our 2024 awardees:
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From the Editors
This, the 4th Annual Meeting Proceedings Report, attempts to capture the remarkable presentations that were made during the 48th Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education (SACME) Annual Meeting. The goal of this report is to give this meeting a life beyond San Diego and to recognize the impressive talent of our SACME members engaged in CPD research. Its content, presented here for the first time in digital format, is now searchable to any CPD professional for future research and learning. As such, the meeting content becomes part of the historic literature…
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SACME 2024 Annual Meeting Oral Abstract Presentations
1. Harnessing the Power of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in CPD Program Evaluation Author(s) Kenya A. Costa-Dookhan, MSc, Medical Student, University of Toronto Temerty Faculty of Medicine Marta Maslej, PhD, Staff Scientist, Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics, Center for Addiction & Mental Health (CAMH) Kayle Donner, MA, M.Ed., Research Methods Specialist, Center for Addiction and Mental […]
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SACME 2024 Annual Meeting Posters
1. Doctors as Leaders: Implementing a Pilot Cohort-based Leadership Program for Early to Mid-career Physicians Author Purpose/problem statementRotenstein et al. (2018) stated that “unlike any other occupation where management skills are important, physicians are neither taught how to lead nor are they typically rewarded for good leadership. Even though medical institutions have designated “leadership” as […]
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