As we reflect on the past year, I would like to thank all of you for contributing to an exceptional first year of development for the Kern Institute, the National Transformation Network, and MedEd Next. We are very fortunate to have the engagement of exceptional leaders from across the nation, as well as strong MCW faculty, staff, students, and healthcare partners committed to transforming medical education with a focus on character, competence, and caring.

We have much to be proud of, and I look forward to working with you to advance the work of this national movement in the coming year.

On behalf of the Kern institute and our NTN partners, we wish you and your families a safe and happy holiday season, and all the best in the new year!

Best Regards,

Cheryl

Cheryl A. Maurana, PhD

Stephen and Shelagh Roell Endowed Chair, Professor and Founding Director

Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Institute for the Transformation of Medical Education

Historically, medical education has excelled in equipping student physicians with the knowledge and skills to be competent physicians. However, it has not placed the same importance and resources in ensuring the development of the physician’s professional character and identity. With the ever-changing demands in the health care environment, practicing physicians continue to be met with complex challenges that test their ability to make the best decisions for their patients as well as their own care.

 

Over the past year, the Kern Institute and the National Transformation Network (NTN) - a consortium of seven medical schools, including MCW - has made significant progress toward laying the foundation for advancing transformation of medical education with a commitment to addressing these challenges through a focus on the Triple Aim of Medical Education: character, competence, and caring.

 

Recently, the NTN launched cross-institutional workgroups in several key areas that will become the focus of their work together in 2018. These areas of focus include: holistic admissions, faculty development, and enhancing the learning environment. In addition, the NTN is developing collaborative strategies to advance women’s leadership and student-driven strategies for improving medical education, among other emerging areas.

 

Through this work and a commitment to collaborating across institutions, the NTN aims to speed the rate of change in medical education through increased knowledge sharing and testing innovations across institutions to create the ideal physician of the future. Learn more about the National Transformation Network partners and share your thoughts on the Triple Aim of Medical Education.

Members of the network include the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, MCW School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

Wednesday, January 24, 2018 | 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

MCW Cafeteria

Light refreshments will be served.

Please register here if you plan to attend.

Thursday, February 22, 2018

9:00 am | MCW Alumni Center

A Video Presentation of the

2017 AAMC Opening Plenary Session featuring

David Brooks, author of The Road To Character.

Facilitated by Ryan Spellecy, PhD

Thursday, March 29, 2018

9:00 am | MCW Alumni Center

Trading Places by David Carbone, MD, PhD, James Comprehensive Cancer Center,

The Ohio State University

According to the authors of Educating Physicians, medical education in the United States is at a crossroads: those who teach medical students and residents must choose whether to continue in the direction established over a hundred years ago or to take a fundamentally different course, guided by contemporary innovation and new understandings about how people learn.

Emerging from an extensive study of physician education by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Educating Physicians calls for a major overhaul of the present approach to preparing doctors for their careers. The text addresses major issues for the future of the field and takes a comprehensive look at the most pressing concerns in physician education today.

The key findings of the study recommend four goals for medical education: standardization of learning outcomes and individualization of the learning process; integration of formal knowledge and clinical experience; development of habits of inquiry and innovation; and focus on professional identity formation. To read a summary of the study and its findings, click here.