AMCAS is hosting the 2nd live demo webinar of the AMCAS for Schools platform on Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 2:00 pm ET. This 90-minute webinar will provide admissions officers and IT staff with an overview of the new reports and features within AMCAS for Schools that go live on Tuesday, April 30, 2019 at 9:30 am. We will also provide a brief update on data, including the latest Choose Your Medical School (CYMS) selection numbers in preparation for the availability of the Commit to Enroll option.

Attendees will learn:

• Details about the new Program Management feature, which supports individual deadline extensions and applicant preapprovals
• How to use and understand the data in the 3 new reports – CYMS Detailed Report, CYMS Change History, and Matriculated Elsewhere Report
• Information about the CYMS emails that begin on April 30
• The importance of submitting admissions action data on a timely basis as it feeds the CYMS tool and provides better information in the reports
• The importance of communicating school-specific policies to applicants regarding the expected use of the CYMS tool
• What AMCAS resources are available for training and learning about the new reports and features

There will be time at the end of this live demonstration to ask questions.

We encourage your admissions and technical teams to attend this webinar to ensure you are prepared for the release of the new reports and features on April 30, 2019.

PJ Kania
Director of AMCAS Product Management 

Rachel Shore
AMCAS Medical School Engagement Specialist

Join AAMC, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) for a monthly webinar series to discuss five reports published by NASEM. In these webinars, we will explore the major findings, implications and recommendations of these reports. This webinar series will be interactive, and we invite you to bring your questions and experiences to share as we discuss how to implement these findings at the institutional level. The webinar series topics are: 

1. An overview of NASEM, how NASEM develops its reports, and a brief overview of the five reports
2. Graduate STEM Education for the 21st Century
3. Open Science by Design
4. The Next Generation of Biomedical and Behavioral Science Researchers: Breaking Through
5. The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering and Medicine in Higher Education: Branches from the Same Tree
6. Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Register now for all 6 webinars.

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The sixth and final webinar in the 2018 National Academies report series will delve into “Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in the Academic Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.” This ground-breaking report examines the present state of harassment in science, including: 

• the critical role of organizational culture, 
• the inadequacy of the legal system to address it,  
• the frequently overlooked issue of gender harassment  

Join study director Frazier Benya, PhD, as she presents on the report’s key findings and recommendations for implementing real and lasting change and how to promote equity within scientific organizations and institutions. She will focus on the implementation of two essential recommendations: 1) addressing the most common form of sexual harassment – gender harassment and 2) moving beyond legal compliance to address culture and climate change. This webinar will also feature examples of institutional implementation of these two recommendations.

Webinar participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and share their experiences with the presenters and with each other throughout the presentation.

Speaker:

Frazier Benya, PhD

Senior Program Officer; Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine; Policy and Global Affairs Division
NASEM

This is the sixth part of the series “The Impact and Implementation of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 2018 Reports on the Biomedical and Medical Workforce.” If you would like information on the full series, please click here.

This hour-long webinar will review best practices for adopting schools preparing to use WebAdMIT for AMCAS for the 2020 application cycle. The webinar will be important to attend for all current 2019 and upcoming 2020 users, as well as for any schools still deciding about WebAdMIT for the 2020 cycle. Steve Goldbeck, AMCAS Medical School Engagement Senior Specialist and WebAdMIT Project Manager, will lead the webinar and highlight new feature enhancements for the 2020 application cycle. There will be time at the end to ask questions.

Attendees will learn:

• How current adopters can best prepare for the transfer settings 
• How new adopters can set the right scope of work for the new setup
• The timelines for the new cycle and how to set your project due dates
• The 2020 application cycle enhancements for user experience
• The upcoming training program from Liaison and AMCAS
• User feedback and best practices

Steve Goldbeck

AMCAS Medical School Engagement Senior Specialist and WebAdMIT Project Manager

Rachel Shore

AMCAS Medical School Engagement Specialist

This webinar accompanies the release of the AAMC’s FY2019 Quality Pay-for-Performance Report. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss issues and recommendations during a Q & A session at the end of the presentation. 

This webinar will enable participants to: 

1. Describe MedPAC’s March 2019 report to Congress which recommends the revamp and combination of the three current pay-for-performance programs, and engage with the latest regulatory work from the AAMC on quality pay-for-performance programs, 
2. Find hospital-specific rates on the Quality Pay-for-Performance Report in order to trace the source of penalties and bonuses at your institution for FY2019, and 
3. Utilize new features/revisions of the report. 

Matt Baker
Senior Research Analyst

Phoebe Ramsey
Sr. Regulatory Analyst - Quality & Payment Policy

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"The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education: Branches from the Same Tree" is the topic of the fifth webinar in the 2018 National Academies report series. The report elaborates on benefits of the proposed integrative model of learning, which bridges the knowledge, modes of inquiry, and pedagogies from these multiple disciplines within the context of a single course or program of study.

Join Study Director Ashley Bear, PhD, as she examines the key findings and recommendations of the report, focusing on the implementation of integrative curricula and how faculty, administrators, and accrediting bodies can explore, identify, and mitigate constraints that hinder integrative efforts in higher education. This webinar will also feature examples of institutional implementation of this recommendation.

Webinar participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and share their experiences with the presenters and with each other throughout the presentation.

Speaker:

Ashley Bear, PhD
Senior Program Officer; Committee on Women in Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Policy and Global Affairs Division
NASEM

This is the fifth part of the series “The Impact and Implementation of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 2018 Reports on the Biomedical and Medical Workforce.” If you would like information on the full series, please click here.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) oversees initiatives to improve the quality of care through clinical decision support (CDS). Join AAMC and AcademyHealth for a webinar featuring AHRQ’s CDS Connect. Dr. Edwin Lomotan, Medical Officer and Chief of Clinical Informatics for the Health IT Division in the Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement at AHRQ will describe how the CDS Connect Repository is advancing evidence-based care into practice. He will present findings from the project’s first use cases, identify CDS-related funding opportunities available through AHRQ, and highlight ways stakeholders can contribute to CDS Connect. 

Audience members will have an opportunity to participate in a Q&A discussion following the presentation.

Edwin Lomotan, MD

Medical Officer and Chief of Clinical Informatics for the Health IT Division in the Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Moderators

Alexander Ommaya, D.Sc.
Senior Director, Clinical and Translational Research and Policy
Association of American Medical Colleges

Margo Edmunds, PhD
Vice President, Evidence Generation and Translation
AcademyHealth

This webinar will focus on the relationship between the VA contracting officer and the Academic Affiliate contracting officer.  What makes it work?  What are the challenges?  The focus will be on how the relationship can impact the timeliness and successful approval of contracts.  

Q&A to follow.

Faced with increasing occurrences of patients’ biased behavior targeting health care team members and trainees, the faculty, staff and students of the University of Virginia Health system united in a multidisciplinary, inter-professional effort to address this issue. In this webinar we seek to contribute to the growing body of knowledge exploring responses to disrespectful or discriminatory behavior while sharing the evidence-based framework we use in our work. We will share educational activities we have employed including techniques, language, process, and outcomes. 

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will recognize that acts of bigotry, prejudice, disrespectful or biased behavior occur with some regularity in the academic health care environment. 
2. Participants will be able to identify key elements in a comprehensive institutional response to bigotry and disrespect in a healthcare environment 
3. Participants will be able to identify key elements in the B.E.G.I.N framework, an evidence-based framework for responding to disrespectful behavior in the healthcare environment  
4. Participants will identify steps that they can take to address bigotry and disrespectful behavior in their own healthcare environments 

Session Moderator

David A. Acosta, MD, FAAFP
Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer
Association of American Medical Colleges

Session Faculty

Margaret L. Plews-Ogan, MD
Brodie Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine
University of Virginia School of Medicine

Dr. Plews-Ogan is the Brodie Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.  She is the Director of the “Be Wise” program—a health-system initiative to address stress, burnout and professionalism at UVA, which includes a coaching program for faculty and staff.  She was the founding director of the Center for Appreciative Practice, a center dedicated to fostering positive emotion in the workplace.  She is also the director of the Foundations in Medicine program for the Medical School where she has piloted a program of fostering wisdom in medical trainees and initiated a longitudinal patient-student-partnership for all medical students.  Dr. Plews-Ogan did her undergraduate medical training at Harvard Medical school and her residency in Internal Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.  After residency she worked for 5 years with migrant farmworkers before coming to the University of Virginia where she practices in the residency continuity clinic and in hospital medicine.  Dr. Plews-Ogan was division chief of Hospital and Ambulatory medicine, geriatrics and palliative medicine at UVA for 10 years.  Her research began in the area of medical error, disclosure, coping with mistakes.  This led to research on learning from failures, and ultimately to the arena wisdom—how wisdom is gained in the wake of difficult experience. She is the author of three books—1) Appreciative Practices in Health Care, 2) Choosing Wisdom (with an accompanying Public television documentary), and 3) Wisdom Leadership: Leading positive Change in the Academic Health Sciences Center.

Susan M. Pollart, MD, MS
Ruth E. Murdaugh Professor of Family Medicine
Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and Faculty Development
University of Virginia School of Medicine

Dr. Susan M. Pollart, Ruth E. Murdaugh Professor of Family Medicine, leads the Office of Faculty Affairs and Faculty Development in the University of Virginia School of Medicine as Senior Associate Dean (SAD).  As SAD, Dr. Pollart is involved in all aspects of faculty life from recruitment to retirement.  Her primary focus is the professional development and active engagement of faculty, particularly those faculty traditionally underrepresented in medicine.  She has initiated innovative programs for new faculty orientation and enculturation and has worked with faculty and leadership across the University of Virginia in the expansion and implementation of an award-winning leadership development program.  Since 2010, Dr. Pollart has played a leadership role in the University of Virginia School of Medicine’s efforts related to diversity and inclusion.  She is active in the AAMC Group on Faculty Affairs, serving on the Steering Committee from 2013-2016; the AAMC Group in Diversity and Inclusion participating as faculty for the Health Care Executive Diversity and Inclusion Certificate Program; and has taught for over a decade in the AAMC Group on Women in Medicine and Sciences Early Career Women Faculty Professional Development Seminar.  She has recently joined the faculty of the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine® (ELAM) program, an intensive one-year fellowship of leadership training aimed at expanding the national pool of qualified women candidates for leadership in academic medicine.  

Gregory Townsend, MD 
Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health; 
Associate Dean for Diversity and Medical Education;
University of Virginia School of Medicine

Dr. Gregory C. Townsend, Associate Professor of Medicine, leads the Office of Diversity and Inclusion in the University of Virginia School of Medicine as Associate Dean for Diversity and Medical Education. He shares general responsibility for promoting the educational mission of the School and provides leadership, information, and counsel to students, housestaff, faculty, and staff to facilitate a positive experience for all as part of a diverse community. He leads the School of Medicine’s Diversity Consortium and Diversity Steering Committee, and is a member of its Admissions Committee, among others. He also sits on the University-wide Diversity Council.

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The 2018 National Academies report  “The Next Generation of Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences Researchers: Breaking Through” addresses the core challenges that early and mid-career scientists encounter throughout the biomedical research enterprise in the U.S., putting at risk their critical contributions in the areas of health and innovation. The report makes recommendations that aim to support the next generation of America’s biomedical researchers as they seek to identify and pursue the independent research career path that best serves them and the research community, whether in an academic, industry, government, or other setting, as well as promote a robust biomedical research community consisting of diverse and innovative researchers.

To discuss these core challenges and provide practical recommendations for addressing them at the organizational and institutional levels, join study director Lida Beninson, PhD, in the fourth webinar of the series. She will focus on the implementation of two essential recommendations: 1) providing every postdoctoral researcher with a high-quality training experience that prepares them for success in their chosen career and 2) developing mechanisms to increase the number of individuals in staff scientist positions. This webinar will also feature examples of institutional implementation of these two recommendations.

Webinar participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and interact with the presenters and other participants during the presentation.

Speaker:

Lida Beninson, PhD
Program Officer; Board on Higher Education and Workforce; Policy and Global Affairs
NASEM

This is the fourth part of the series “The Impact and Implementation of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 2018 Reports on the Biomedical and Medical Workforce.” If you would like information on the full series, please click here.