Event

Conference

The ACGME`s Focus on Physician Well-being: Deepening our Commitment to Faculty, Residents and Patients

Date:
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Time:
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location:
VA: 803C, ECMC: Doctor`s Dining Room, BGMC: GUI 5019B

Physician well-being has become the central issue facing the GME community - and the communities in which residents and fellows live and work. As the ACGME has widened its view to embrace resident and practicing physician well-being as the sixth area of focus for CLER, Dr. Brigham will share with us what the game plan entails. Recently, the ACGME convened a Symposium on Physician Well-being that had as its goals to understand the problem across the continuum, to advise the ACGME Board of Directors on how to be effective in addressing the necessary culture change, to begin a national dialogue on the issue and to collaborate with other organizations to effect positive transformational change. After these deliberations, the ACGME accepted a recommendation to establish a Task Force to work together to enable necessary transformation in the areas of education, research, collaboration and large-scale culture/system change. Please join us as Dr. Brigham updates us on the activities of the ACGME in these areas - on early successes and what lies ahead as we improve physician well-being.Enabling this culture change and through these efforts for our physician community, we envision deepening our commitment to faculty, residents/fellows and patients.

Objectives:

At the end of this session, the learner should be able to:
-Explore the complex issues surrounding resident and practicing physician wellness;
-Reflect on current trends affecting resident and practicing physician wellness and
stressors leading to burnout and suicide; and
-Understand work being done at a national level through the ACGME's efforts to address
the need for prevention and counseling programming, support systems and solutions.


Speaker:

Timothy Brigham, MDiv,PhD, as Chief of Staff and Senior Vice-President, Department fo Education at the ACGME, is responsible for the ACGME's Annual Educational Conference, the Milestone Outcome Project, and the development of new educational programs. Prior to joining the ACGME in 2008, Dr. Brigham served since 1989 in several capacities at Jefferson Medical College, including faculty, resident and chief resident and program director education and development.

Moderator:

Carrie Eckert, MBA is the associate DIO and Executive Director of GME and a Clinical Assistant Professor in Family, Population and Preventive Medicine at Stony Brook Medicine. Ms. Eckert is Chair of AHME's Council of Institutional Leaders (COIL)



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