Below is the event agenda, listed by day, outlining the topics to be addressed:


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SUNDAY, AUGUST 1, 2010

Kimball Lecture – The Social Contracts in Medical Education: Professionalism, Public Accountability and the Responsibility of Medical Educators
Kimball Lecturer: Thomas Nasca; Moderator: John Popovich

    GOAL:
  • Present a vision of the social contract (or social compact) for medical education and clinical training to prepare physicians with the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed in a high-performing health care system.

Medical Education and Training: Defining the Social Compact
Facilitators: Wendy Levinson and Catherine Lucey

    GOALS:
  • Explore your own personal experience in which medical institutions made or met a service commitment that connected deeply with your own values as a participant, recipient or observer.
  • Propose new ideas to enrich this discussion and principles of the social compact.

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MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 2010

Directions in Medical Education and Training (pdf)
Moderators: Clarence Braddock, Molly Cooke, Darrell Kirch

    GOALS:
  • Understand the changes underway to reform medical education and training programs.
  • Discover how these changes will lead to transformation of programs.
  • Consider whether these changes can achieve transformation in a timely way and what might accelerate diffusion and uptake.

Description of Early Adopters of Innovation (pdf)
Facilitators: Beverly Woo, Eric Holmboe

    GOALS:
  • Introduce typology and framework of early adopters of innovations in medical education and training.
  • Invite participants to explore multiple innovations through small group presentations.

See posters from the presentations by Innovators in Medical Education and Training.


Reflections on Presentations by Early Adopters of Innovations
Facilitator: Barry Egener

    GOALS:
  • Explore how to integrate innovations across the continuum of education and training, and promote collaboration among organizations working on reform.
  • Examine how to promote and spread new ideas.
  • Discuss how to ensure accountability for education and training goals.
  • Identify ways to continue to advance the state of the art in teaching and assessment.

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2010

The Role of Public Policy
Moderators: George Thibault, Dame Carol Black, Carolyn Clancy, Glenn Hackbarth

    GOALS:
  • Explore the role of the public sector in advancing the transformation of medical education and training.
  • Compare the role of the U.K. and U.S. governments in medical education.
  • Identify how the public and private sectors can work together effectively.

Now What? Moving Forward to Fufill the Social Compact for Medical Education and Training
Facilitators: Lynn Langdon and Daniel Wolfson

    GOALS:
  • Move from ideas to strategy through a focused exploration of topics determined by participants.
  • Develop recommended action steps to advance transformation grounded in the principles of the social compact.

Closing Remarks and Summary (pdf)
Facilitators: Richard Baron and Larry Hirschhorn

    GOAL:
  • Examine how multiple parts of a complex system need to work together to make transformation occur in medical education and training.