Teaching in Higher Education - GTP workshop

UVM's Center for Teaching and Learning, Writing in the Disciplines (WID),

and the Graduate College invite graduate students to participate in this new
program. Graduate students completing the program can earn formal
recognition from the Graduate College.

The program is designed for graduate students who are interested in pursuing
teaching in higher education.

Learn more at http://www.uvm.edu/ctl/gtp/

Applications to the program are on the web page and due by October 1, 2010.

An upcoming workshop for all Graduate Students interested in teaching and in
the GTP  is coming up this Friday.  Register at http://uvm.edu/ctl/register/

Description Below:

Teaching in Higher Education - GTP workshop<
http://www.uvm.edu/ctl/apps/ctlcal/events/411>

Friday, September 17 @ 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM

This workshop is meant to be the orientation session of the NEW Graduate
Teaching Program. This workshop will help you reflect on your teaching
practice, and help create a peer network of graduate students interested in
teaching. We will discuss the development of your teaching philosophy, We
will share current research on teaching practices: High Impact and Universal
Design for Learning. Finally, the last part of the workshop will be about
the requirements of the NEW Graduate Teaching Program.

Event details:

 *   Contact: Holly B. Parker, Holly.Parker@uvm.edu<mailto:
Holly.Parker@uvm.edu>, 802/656-1124
 *   Facilitated by: Holly B. Parker, Ctr for Teaching & Learning
Susanmarie Harrington, Director, Writing in the Disciplines
Charles Rathbone, Education
 *   Location: CTL Commons, 303 Bailey/Howe Library

Workshop: From Funding to Publication

 

From Funding To Publication

September 22-October 28, 2010

This workshop series will be held in Dana Medical Library Computer Classroom on six consecutive Wednesdays from noon to 1 pm. The sessions will be

repeated each Thursday, at the same time.

Through a combination of lectures and hands-on exercises, participants will learn about software, web sites, and databases that facilitate finding, managing, and publishing the results of scholarly research. The series is especially appropriate for graduate students, fellows, and junior faculty.

September 22 and 23: Advanced literature review skills, Discover expert search techniques to refine and focus your literature searches. Use MyNCBI to set up automatic e-mail updates, and save searches, bibliographies, and settings.

Instructors: Fran Delwiche, Donna O’Malley, Dana Medical Library.

September 29 and 30: Managing references with Endnote, Create a list of references in Endnote, download records from online, add citations to a paper using Endnote and Microsoft Word.
Instructor: Angie Chapple-Sokol, Dana Medical Library

October 6 and 7: Sources and databases beyond PubMed, Explore other high quality databases and data sources in the biomedical sciences.
Instructors: Nancy Bianchi and Donna O’Malley, Dana Medical Library

October 13 and 14: Preparing posters, Learn guidelines for creating legible, attractive, and effective scientific posters. Identify sources of medical images and discuss associated copyright issues.
Instructor: Raj Chawla, Medical Photography, College of Medicine

October 20 and 21: Scholarly publishing, Evaluate approaches to assessing journal quality, determine author's rights, explore alternative publishing models.
Instructors: Gary Ward, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, and Jeanene Light, Dana Medical Library.

October 27 and 28: Identifying funding, Learn to use the grantseeking and grantwriting resources available to you at UVM.
Instructor: Hilda Alajajian, Office of Sponsored Programs

Space is limited. To register for these sessions, please contact Donna O’Malley, donna.omalley@uvm.edu, 656-4415.

Graduate Student Research Day ~ October 14th

The UVM College of Medicine

Invites faculty, staff, friends, students and alumni to join the College of Medicine community to celebrate the achievements of our graduate students and graduate alumni at the

Graduate Student Research Day

featuring the presentation of 

The 2010 Graduate Alumni Award to 

Dr. Brooke Mossman, MS '70, PhD '77

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 Thursday October 14, 2010

Graduate students in the College of Medicine and associated graduate programs will present their work in both poster and oral sessions to showcase the quality of their research projects to the College of Medicine Community. Awards will be presented at the end of the day for first, second and third place in both the poster and oral sessions.

The 2010 Graduate Alumni Award will be presented to recognize the achievements of Dr. Brooke Mossman, Professor of Pathology, whose dedication as both a scientist and mentor serve as an inspiration to our entire community.

Schedule of Events

12:30-2:00 p.m.  Graduate Student Poster Session - Hoehl Gallery, HSRF 100
2:00-4:00 p.m.   Graduate Student Research Talks - HSRF 400 Conf. Rm
4:30-6:00 p.m.   Award Presentation & Reception- Hoehl Gallery, HSRF 100

To attend the Award Presentation & Reception kindly RSVP by September 30, 2010 to 802-656-4014 or email: medalumni.relations@uvm.edu <mailto:medalumni.relations@uvm.edu>

New Faculty Publication

The Effect of Medication Samples on Self-Reported Prescribing Practices: A Statewide, Cross-Sectional Survey

Richard G. Pinckney, A. Shams Helminski, Amanda G. Kennedy, Charles D. Maclean, Laurie Hurowitz and Elizabeth Cote

JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE

DOI: 10.1007/s11606-010-1483-x

Abstract

Background  

The pharmaceutical industry spends billions of dollars annually to encourage clinicians to prescribe their medications. Small studies have demonstrated that one of the marketing strategies, the distribution of free sample medications, is associated with increased use of brand name medication over generic medication.

Objectives  

To determine the relationship between the presence of drug samples in primary care clinics and prescription of preferred drug treatments.

Design  

Cross-sectional survey.

Participants  

Primary care prescribers in the state of Vermont.

Main Measurement  

Prescribers were presented with two clinical vignettes and asked to provide the name of the medication they would prescribe in each case. We compared the responses of prescribers with and without samples in their clinics.

Key Results  

Two hundred six prescribers out of the total population of 631 returned the survey and met the eligibility criteria. Seventy-two percent of prescribers had sample closets in their clinics. Seventy percent of clinicians with samples would prescribe a thiazide diuretic for hypertension compared to 91% in those without samples (P < 0.01). For managing depression 91% of prescribers with samples would have provided a generic medication in a patient with no health insurance, compared to 100% of those without samples in their clinic (P = 0.02).

Conclusions  

Clinicians with samples in their clinics were less likely to prescribe preferred medications for hypertension and depression.

Medical Error Talk - highly recommended

Bob is a national leader in medical error reductions and a fine speaker. I'm looking forward to this one!
--Ben

Friday, September 10, 2010

Burack President's Distinguished Lecture Series: "What We Need to Know and Do to Cure Our Epidemic of Medical Mistakes." Robert M. Wachter, professor and associate chair, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. Davis Auditorium, Medical Education Center Pavilion, Fletcher Allen Health Care. 8 a.m. Information: (802) 847-7911.

Clinical Research Oriented Workshop (CROW) Meeting: Aug 25, 2010

Clinical Research Oriented Workshop (CROW) Meeting: Aug 25, 2010

Present: Abby Crocker, Rodger Kessler, Ben Littenberg, Charlie MacLean, Connie van Eeghen

1. Round Table: Next meeting starts our new schedule on Fridays:
a. Sept 3, 11:00 – 12:00
b. Followed by noon seminar, when scheduled

2. Connie’s Discussion: Qualitative assessment on answers to questions related to “Ease of Use” of QI processes

a. At our August 11 workshop, the group conducted a first trial of a qualitative assessment that concluded with the recognition that we needed the context of the questions that stimulated the utterances created during this case study. For a second trial, we decided to look at the utterances related to questions about the dependent variable “ease of use” by previewing a document with just these utterances ahead of time and creating themes separately.
b. At this workshop, we analyzed the major themes that came from these separate exercises; there were 35 non-unique themes and we grouped them into 8 unique themes:
i. Ease of Use – high
ii. Ease of Use – low
iii. Complex
iv. Process evaluation
v. Burdens
vi. QI process criteria
vii. Management role
viii. Culture
c. This analysis was done recognizing that the themes are completely dependent on the reviewers and the moment-of-review; a second review process might produce different results. (And, it is interesting to note similarities and differences in themes created by an independent reviewer, not present for this meeting: Protocol characteristics (the way the process of the project is organized), Leadership, Feedback, Engagement, Perceptions about the underlying conceptual model of QI, Perceptions of the outcome of QI, Resources.)
d. We discussed contradictory themes, and noted that the comments were mixed in that some were made about A3 and others were made about other QI processes prior to the A3 project
e. We disagreed about whether the headings we came up with were really about "ease of use." One of the reviewers found many of the comments not directly related to this variable and put them in a "not relevant" pile whereas others found tangential linkages that led to other headings.
f. We discussed a new approach: providing the group with the entire transcript - all the comments - and to ask for a "grounded theory" approach to creating themes. Assessments of what these say about dependent and independent variables will either come spontaneously from the reader or from a second stage of review not yet defined. To be continued at a later Workshop.

3. Next Fellows Meeting(s): Friday, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., at Given Courtyard Level 4
a. Sept 3 (NOTE: FRIDAY SCHEDULE STARTS): Abby will present her research topic
b. Sept 10: Connie and Qualitative Data Analysis, part 3
c. Sept 17: Rodger’s article on Behavior’s Influence on Medical Conditions (or the one on mixed methods)?
d. Sept 24:
e. Future agenda to consider:
i. Rodger: Mixed methods article
ii. Rodger: Unpublished article on the influence of behavior on medical conditions and function-and behavioral interventions with medical issues
iii. Future: Review of different types of journal articles (lit review, case study, original article, letter to editor…), when each is appropriate, tips on planning/writing (Abby)
iv. Future: Informed consent QI: Connie to follow up with Nancy Stalnaker, Alan Rubin will follow up with Alan Wortheimer or Rob McCauly
v. Kairn will ask a librarian to join us for selected issues

4. Fellows document – to be reviewed in the future. We trialed Wednesday meeting times, which started May 5, 2010 and continued until August 25, 2010. We returned to Friday meetings on Sept 3, 2010

Recorder: Connie van Eeghen

Re: Informatics Grand Rounds - Tuesday, September 14th 4PM-5PM

INFORMATICS GRAND ROUNDS

MEANINGFUL USE AND VERMONT HEALTH REFORM – CONFLICT OR CATALYSIS?  
David Cochran, MD
President and CEO
Vermont Information Technology Leaders, Inc. (VITL)

Date/Time:        
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Location:    
Medical Education Center Room 300 (Reardon Classroom)
http://www.uvm.edu/map/
(Note: for those who are interested in attending remotely, we are exploring the use of live Web broadcasting and will provide more information closer to the date.)

Abstract:
Vermont has been on a multi-year path to transforming its health system which has included a significant focus on the use of health information technology to enable improved care. In 2009, the HITECH component of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act created the requirement for the "meaningful use" of electronic health records by providers in order to qualify for incentive payments. The specifications for meaningful use have recently been released. How do these requirements support or conflict with Vermont's health reform initiatives? What can we anticipate in the next few years in Vermont in the deployment of electronic health records and information exchange?

Speaker Bio:
David Cochran, MD is President and CEO of Vermont Information Technology Leaders, Inc (VITL). VITL is responsible for supporting the deployment of Electronic Health Records throughout Vermont in support of the state's ambitious health care reform initiatives. In addition, VITL manages Vermont's statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE).
      Before joining VITL in July 2009, Dr. Cochran was the senior vice president for strategic development at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, one of the leading health plans in the U.S. In that position, he led the company's business planning and strategy development processes. From 1993 to 2000, Dr. Cochran was the associate medical director for clinical practice systems at Harvard Pilgrim, where he led the effort to select and implement a new clinical information system and electronic medical record.  At Harvard Pilgrim, Dr. Cochran also led physician teams in the development and implementation of clinical guidelines, which included automating one of the first health screening guidelines in a health plan. He was directly responsible for the consumer health and provider support components of Harvard Pilgrim's Internet strategy. From 1986 to 1993, he served as the director of several health centers in the health plan's Boston-area network, providing 500,000 patient visits a year. Dr. Cochran received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1979. He did his internship in Internal Medicine at UC San Francisco Affiliated Hospitals, and his residency in Medicine, Primary Care at UC San Francisco Affiliated Hospitals. He was an Internist at Harvard Community Health Plan in Boston from 1982 to 1997.

Flyer (feel free to post/share):
http://bit.ly/9vHVsJ

Informatics Grand Rounds is a joint initiative between the University of Vermont (Center for Clinical and Translational Science – Informatics Unit, Continuing Education, and Dana Medical Library), Fletcher Allen Health Care, and the State of Vermont.
http://www.uvm.edu/~ccts/web/informatics/grandrounds