Symposium Planning Committee
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Matt Rustici, MD
Matt Rustici is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Denver Health Medical Center and the Co-Director of the University of Colorado’s TTR course (along with Jason Brainard and Anna Neumeier) which is a skill-focused, 4-week, mandatory course for all students. All topics in the course have been adapted to a specialty-specific context in one of 7 specialties: Anesthesia, EM, FM, IM, OBGYN, Pediatrics, or Surgery.
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Meredith Atkins, MD
K. Meredith Atkins is an OBGYN Laborist and the Associate Dean for Curriculum at Harvard Medical School. Working with another medical educator, Katherine Treadway, MD she developed the Clinical Capstone at Harvard Medical School which is a required transition to residency course that includes a week of didactics focusing on complex communication skills needed for residency, a week of pre-internship specialty track didactics, and two weeks of an in-person sub-internship experience where they are assessed on all EPA’s. Follow on Twitter: @kmeratkins
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Lauren Heidemann, MD MHPE
Lauren Heidemann is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School where she directs a 4-week Internal Medicine Residency Preparation Course (IM RPC). This course was established in 2016 and is meant for students entering IM categorical residency, Medicine-Pediatrics, or an IM-preliminary year. She also co-directs 6 specialty-specific RPCs (IM, Fam Med, Peds, EM, Procedures, and OB/GYN) along with director Helen Morgan. Her specific research area of interest is inpatient cross-cover and simulated paging. Additional course materials can be found at https://sites.google.com/umich.edu/imresidencyprep/home Follow on Twitter: @LaurenHeidemann
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Mary McGinnis (Teel)
Mary spent multiple years working as the Coordinator for the TTR course at the University of Colorado. She was born and raised in Arvada, CO, and went to Colorado State University for psychology and Spanish. She got married in 2020 to her wonderful husband who also grew up in Arvada. She loves to swim and paddleboard in the summer and snowboard in the winter. She loves to travel anywhere and everywhere and is always on the lookout for adventures.
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Jon Goforth, MBA
Jon Goforth is the Associate Director of Undergraduate Medical Education at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He oversees implementation of the final year curriculum for the school and co-directs the capstone Transition to Residency (TTR) Course. The TTR course was established in 2016 and is a 3 week CE style course that offers required “plenary” type sessions, simulations, MAT Waiver Training, as well as elective offerings ranging from personal finance to procedure workshops. These offerings are paired with specialty tracks (IM, FM, EM, Surg, Peds, Psych, and OBGYN) in which students focus on specialty relevant topics. Follow on Twitter: @jongo4th
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New Members for 2023
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Homan Wai, MD
Homan Wai is an Associate Professor of Medical Education at the University of Virginia School of Medicine Inova regional campus, where he serves as the Internal Medicine Clerkship Director and Acting Internship Director of Internal Medicine. Homan is the Internship Readiness Course Director of the mandatory 2-week course at the regional campus, which parallels the curriculum at the Charlottesville main campus directed by Kathryn Mutter. Guided by a common set of learning objectives, the Homan and Kathryn worked together to create a comparable experience across the two campuses while leveraging faculty expertise and resources (including simulation) on each site.
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Heather Davis, EdD
Heather Davis, EdD, NRP is the Director of Student Assessment at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA where she is responsible for a system of assessment that ensures fair, timely, equitable, accessible, and actionable feedback for and of learning. Heather also teaches and advises educational psychology doctoral students in the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California. The TTR Course at UCLA is a one-week required intensive called Assessment for Internship held in March each year. This course involves both core and specialty-specific activities including interprofessional simulations, procedural skills, mock pages, cases and topics addressing diagnostic uncertainty, patient sign-out, and informed consent.
Kristen Fletcher, MD
Kristen E. Fletcher is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Medical Education at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine where she co-directs a 4-week mandatory Transition to Residency course, that is currently tracked into Adult Medicine, Pediatrics, and Surgery. The course includes clinical skills workshops, high-fidelity simulation, and standardized patient inclusive communication workshops, all of which are delivered across four campuses.
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Kathryn Mutter, MD MPH
M. Kathryn Mutter is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine (UVA). She directs the Internship Readiness Course, UVA’s required 2 week TTR course for all graduating medical students, and runs the Acute Care track of the course. Homan Wai runs the parallel course at UVA’s Inova campus. Both courses are divided into tracks comprised of Acute Care/Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Surgery and Pathology, relying primarily on simulation sessions, procedural training and small group active learning sessions.