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LAC NEWSLAC SimFair & Open House to be held December 5, 2007 The LAC Steering Committee and Staff would like to invite
interested parties to a special event to see demonstrations of our medical simulation
equipment and hear how it has and can be used in medical simulation and assessment by
the Colleges of Veterinary Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine, Nursing and Human
Medicine faculty as well as hospitals and others in the human and animal health communities.
'Dry Run' for Grand Opening of LAC involves Fee Hall Staff Since June, 2005, the staff in East Fee Hall have experienced much noise and dust created by the construction of the LAC. To say 'thankyou' the LAC team has organized a lunch and tour of the Center on Friday March 3 for Fee Hall staff at noon. This tour will also give LAC personnel experience with touring people through the Center, using medical, nursing and veterinary students as tour guides. The students will be wearing color-coded 'scrubs' and learning their roles for the formal dedication event on March 16. Assessment Events begin in the LAC Two colleges, the College of Veterinary Medicine and the College of Nursing held formative assessment events in the LAC during February, all while installation of equipment and computers was occurring. Dr. Sarah Abood involved a small number of veterinary students taking a communications skills elective in a process of interacting with standardized patients. Drs. Denise Soltow and Bridgid Warren and their colleagues in nursing implemented a 2 station OSCE for nurse practitioiner students completing their basic clinical skills sequence. Lessons Learned from the Aviation Industry about Team Care Western Michigan University's Center of Excellence for Simulation, under the direction of William Rutherford, M.D. and William Hamman, M.D., Ph.D., is working with Michigan State University's Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies to develop effective team training scenarios for use in the health professions. Drs. Rutherford and Hamman will give a seminar sponsored by the Learning and Assessment Center at MSU entitled:
The Seminar will be on April 12, 2006 from 3:00 - 5:00 pm in the MSU Radiology AuditoriuTo register for this seminar, go to the Institute for Health Care Studies website, www.ihcs.msu.edu and click on Lessons Learned from Aviation about Team Care The LAC team assumed occupancy of the Learning and Assessment Center on Monday, January 16. The month of January will be spent in outfitting the center with furniture and equipment, and with readying the computers and related software for assessment events. Toward that end, Balazs Moldovanyi, designer and owner of the software product, WebSP, visited MSU to assist with installation and with staff training. He also delivered a session to faculty in the health professions colleges on "How WebSP Can Support Faculty in their Assessment Roles". During the months of June and July, 2006, each first year resident in Lansing will participate in a structured assessment focusing on individual and team patient care skills. The purpose of this Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation (OSCE), scheduled to take place in the Learning and Assessment Center, is to enable these new residents and their program directors to identify each trainee’s strengths and weaknesses, and to design personal learning plans to address identified gaps in knowledge or skill. Communication skills, history-taking, physical examination, note and order writing, as well as team interaction skills will be emphasized. Stations will involve the use of standardized patients, simulation equipment, and web-based applications (often in combination) to produce the most realistic experience for the trainees. This event will involve over 100 residents, and will be under the direction of Dianne Wagner, MD, Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education in the College of Human Medicine. It is the first event of its kind involving an entire community and its various residency training programs. Learning and Assessment Center nearing completion. The build-out of the 6th floor of East Fee Hall is nearly complete. Drywall, plastering, During the first weeks of October 2005, one hundred and ten first year students from the College of Veterinary Medicine’s VIPS I course participated in a video-taped event with the LAC. The goal of the exercise is to evaluate he student-doctor’s ability to effectively communicate with a standardized client about an animal’s medical problem, which involves establishing rapport, building trust, etc. The students will receive feedback from the standardized client, student peers, and faculty on how to continue to develop and improve their ability to engage clients in good communication. On September 16, 2005, sixteen pre-clinical student volunteers from the College of Veterinary Medicine participated in a communications pilot project lead by Dr. Sarah Abood. The pilot project is designed to study the potential benefits of pre-clinical students practicing targeted communication skills via a videotaped standardized client and student-doctor interviews. The students will be randomized into several groups to measure any significant difference between students receiving communication skills training and those receiving no training. The final video-taping of students for the project will be in the later part of November 2005. On August 23, 2005, seven Interns from the Small Animal Hospital in the College of Veterinary Medicine participated in a video-taped communication skills event with the LAC. Each Intern spent 15 minutes interviewing a Standardized Client using one of the 4 cases that had been developed at the 2 nd Annual ICCVM conference. The Interns were asked to complete a pre- and post- self-assessment survey, using a checklist of criteria for communication competencies, and de-briefed the experience two days later. First Team Meeting On Wednesday, August 24, 2005 the LAC Operations team had their first team meeting. In attendance were Ruth Hoppe, Theresa Bernardo, Paul Donahue, Ruth Hoppe, Matt Koss, Betty Lee, Mary Kay Smith, Dave Solomon. The team discussed preparations for the opening of the Center, set for early winter, 2006, and as well, conducted an exercise to identify key values supporting team functioning. COM Clinical Skills Practice Examination On July 27 and 28, 2005, 73 fourth year students from the College of Osteopathic Medicine participated in a clinical skills assessment event involving simulated patients portraying common medical problems. Students were asked to interview the patients, do relevant physical examinations, and construct a 'post encounter note' incorporating key data, major diagnoses and a beginning plan of management. This event was designed to assist students in preparing for their upcoming licensure examination step through COMLEX, the licensure examination taken by osteopathic physicians. The COM event was led by Evita Gilbert-Johnson, Coordinator, Clinical Education and Rebecca McAdam, Standardized Patient Coordinator for the Learning and Assessment Center, along with Dr. Taylor Scott, Dr. Cheryl Doane, and Dr. Paul Entler, MSUCOM faculty members and Academic Program Staff Mrs. Robin Hastings , Ms. Patricia Horn , Dr. Perry Parkhurst, Ms. Mary Schneider, Mrs. Rhonda Sutton, Ms. Sherri Sutton, and Mrs. Patti Wilkins. CON Nurse Practitioner Program Assessment Event On Wednesday July 20, 2005, 28 nurse practitioner students from the College of Nursing experienced a 2-station clinical problem solving exercise as part of their required summer course, Nursing 809. This was the first time that standardized patients have been used for performance assessment in the College. Course Director Kathy Dontje worked closed with Rebecca McAdam, the Standardized Patient(SP) Coordinator for the Learning and Assessment Center. Faculty from the College of nursing participated as raters of the student-SP interactions. CHM Assessment Event On
June 9 and 10 over 90 students in the College of Human Medicine
who have completed their third year of medical school, participated
in a practice clinical skills event organized and delivered by staff
from the Learning and Assessment Center and faculty from the College.
Dr. Rae Schnuth from CHM was the lead faculty member; other faculty
participants included Dr. Suzanne Sorkin, Dr. Renuka Gera, Dr. Rebecca
Henry, and Dr. Brian Mavis. Students participated in four cases,
and received ratings on their communication skills, history and
physical examination skills, and note-taking skills. This
event was staged as practice for the upcoming licensure examination
which all of the students will participate in during the coming
year (USMLE Step 2 Clinical Skills). On June 16 nineteen internal medicine residents from the Internal Medicine program in Lansing, directed by Davoren Chick, MD, participated in a skills workshop organized by faculty from the department of Medicine (Dr. Dianne Wagner, Dr. Sherif Almahdy, Dr. Heather Laird, and assisted by Dr. Ruth Hoppe, Director of the Learning and Assessment Center (LAC). Several skills stations involved the use of needle-based techniques utilizing mannekins provided by the LAC. Residents practiced skills in lumbar puncture, arterial line insertion, central line insertion, as well as demonstrated their skills with sterile technique, and with providing informed consent to a standardized patient.
Medical Educators discuss the Learning and Assessment Center On Thursday May 12 Ruth Hoppe, MD, Director of the Learning and Assessment Center (LAC) met with faculty in the Office of Medical Education and Development (OMERAD) to discuss the opportunities that the LAC presents to medical educators primarily from a research perspective. Multiple topics dealing with competency-based curriculum development and with assessment of clinical performance of health professionals were discussed. View presentation
College
of Nursing Faculty Conduct Workshop on Competency-Based Curriculum Ruth Hoppe, MD, Director of the Learning and Assessment Center delivered a keynote address to the group on "Competency Based Health Professions Education: Why Should We Do It?" |
