Introduction
ABSAME was founded over thirty years ago to provide support for medical school faculty and curriculum directors responsible for medical student education. Our Annual Meetings are directed toward the exchange of ideas and experience in a supportive, collegial atmosphere and takes the form of workshops, panel discussions, brief papers and posters.
This year’s 2009 Annual Meeting theme continues on work begun during the 2008 Annual Meeting, as we now focus on how behavioral scientists have developed and implemented students’ behavioral competencies. As primary care has placed a new emphasis on the “medical home,” where the focus is on accessible, continuous, comprehensive, family-centered, coordinated, compassionate, and culturally effective care, the 2009 theme, “Behavioral Competence for Integrated Health Care: Development and Implementation,” is designed to facilitate further discussion, thought and presentation of evidence-based practices in integrated health care. By the end of the 2009 ABSAME Annual Meeting, we expect attendees to better know how to best develop and implement the behavioral competencies from the expertise and experience presented in fellow colleagues’ presentations and interactions.
Topic Areas for Submission
Posters Still Accepted
The Association encourages submission of presentation abstracts relevant to the conference theme as well as other areas relevant to behavioral sciences and medical education in general. Suggested topics include:
1. Patient Care
- assessing compassionate integrated patient care
2. Medical Knowledge
- knowledge and application of social and behavioral sciences in clinical practice
3. Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
- assessing and appraising evidence-based medicine information related to patient’s health problems
4. Interpersonal and Communication Skills
- assessment of Interpersonal Communication Skills
5. Professionalism
- assessing professionalism use of portfolios and other structured mechanisms of assessing professionalism ethical situations/issues
6. Systems-Based Practice
- interdisciplinary team work in integrated health care delivery Conference
Coffee House—NEW!
It has been a recent ABSAME tradition that we invite a musician or other performer to an evening “coffee house” where we have dessert, coffee, and entertainment. This year, we are asking the entertaining folks amongst us to share their talents! When you register for the conference, please indicate if you would like to be part of the Coffee House festivities. Musicians, singers, dancers, visual artists, poets, and everyone else with an entertaining talent* is invited to participate in this open-forum venue with your fun-loving peers. This has proven to be a wonderful time for bonding and laughter. Join us for this creative and exciting evening! Coffee . . . with a twist!
* The ABSAME program committee reserves the right to interview prospective entertainers and make a final determination of the acceptance/decline of their presentation prior to the meeting.