Medical Education Week 2025

Pediatric ACGME Requirements Revisited: “Don’t be Inpatient” or “Meet aCute in General Peds”

8-9 a.m. via zoom

Session Overview: This session will review the most salient updates to the ACGME pediatric program requirements beginning on July 1^st, 2025, including historical context of how clinical training has evolved over the past several decades and the ACGME’s rationale for a course correction. The audience will see how our program is adjusting to comply with the details, embrace the spirit, and grow as a result of the required changes.

Speaker: Dan Sklansky, MD – associate professor, residency program director, Division of Hospital Medicine & Complex Care, Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

From Struggles to Strengths: Unlocking the Potential of ADHD in Medicine

12-1 p.m. via zoom

Session Overview: Medical school and residency can be especially challenging times for learners with ADHD. Those who are inadequately supported are at risk of anxiety, depression, and burnout; if well supported, they can become successful and innovative leaders in their field. This talk will focus on how to harness the many strengths of ADHD in medicine and support learners through various challenges. Attendees will leave with takeaways including identifying and addressing barriers for neurodiverse learners, strategies for creating an inclusive environment, and suggested accommodations.

Speaker: Arshiya Ahuja, MD – assistant professor, Division of Hospital Medicine, UNC School of Medicine

Be AWARE: An Anti-Bias Toolkit for the Evaluation of Medical Trainees

8-9 a.m. via zoom

Session Overview: Gender and racial biases continue to be pervasive within the field of medicine. These biases can have significant, lifelong impacts on career trajectory and can continue to promote inequities for groups that are underrepresented in medicine. One prudent area where we can combat these biases is within the evaluation of our medical trainees. This workshop will provide a toolkit to educate any provider or trainee who has the responsibility of evaluating any level of medical trainees on the recognition of implicit biases within narrative evaluations.

Speaker: Kristen Sandgren, MD – clinical assistant professor of pediatrics, Director of Medical Student Education, Department of Hospital Medicine, The Stead Family Department of Pediatrics, Carver College of Medicine

Resources: 

• Be AWARE Workshop Reference
• LOR and Evaluation Gender & Race Bias Flyer

Navigating the Landscape: A Roadmap for Scholarship in Medical Education

12-1 p.m. via zoom

Session Overview: Lost in the medical education scholarship landscape and don’t know how to find your way? This session will introduce a new resource, Roadmap for Medical Education Scholarship, and show possible pathways towards the goal of scholarly productivity.

Speakers:

Nikki St Clair, MD, MS – associate professor, Division of Hospital Medicine & Complex Care, Division of Global Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Sushant Srinivasan, MD – associate professor, Division of Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Resources:

MESP Roadmap 

Demystifying Osteopathic Medical Education and Training

8-9 a.m. via zoom

Session Overview: In this session, we will explore the educational pathway of becoming an osteopathic physician. This will include the distinctions between osteopathic and allopathic medical training and the unique strengths of osteopathic physicians. This is becoming more relevant each year, since the number of DOs matching into pediatric residencies continues to rise nationwide and here at the University of Wisconsin, we have one of the only pediatric programs with an osteopathic pathway for residents.

Speakers:

Sammi Tyler, DO – clinical instructor, Division of Neonatology & Newborn Nursery, Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Anna Johnson, DO – internal medicine, Pediatric Hospitalist, Alliana Healthcare

You Belong with Me…On this MedEd Topic

12-1 p.m. via zoom

Session Overview:

Please join us on virtual pay-per-view zoom (just kidding, it’s free)  for the medical education battle of the year, moderated by Adam Bauer. Three topics. Two opposing incredible pediatric faculty per topic. The audience decides who wins.

1. Wald v. Selkie: The Ellens will  wrangle over whether the length of residency and fellowship should be changed to individualize educational opportunities dependent upon future goals.
2. Babal v. McAdams: The humanities and AI clash in this feud over whether AI should be used when writing letters of recommendation.
3. McGregory v. Sklansky. Residency leadership quarrel over whether pass/fail medical school assessments have impacted the transition to residency for applicants and residency programs.

*Of note, the faculty member may not necessarily agree with the side they’re arguing for!

Moderator:

Adam Bauer, MD – associate professor, associate residency program director, Division of Neonatology and Newborn Nursery, Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Speakers:

Jess Babal, MD – associate professor, Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health	Ryan McAdams, MD – professor, Division of Neonatology & Newborn Nursery, Division of Global Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Dan Sklansky, MD – associate professor, residency program director, Division of Hospital Medicine & Complex Care Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health	Kelly McGregory, DO – associate professor, interim division chief, associate residency program director, Division of Child Protection, Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Ellen Wald, MD– professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health	Ellen Selkie, MD, MPH – assistant professor, fellowship program director, Division of General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

You Want Me To Do What? Providing Credible and Trustworthy Clinical Assessments of Learners

Presented by Pediatrics Grand Rounds

7:30-8:30 a.m. via HSLC 1345 & zoom

If you plan on attending this PGR in-person, please take a moment to register.

Session Overview: Have you ever struggled to meet your clerkship or residency director’s requests for clinical assessments? Despite our best intentions as educators, sometimes clinical assessment feels like one more task on an already too long list. By the end of this session, you will be reminded of the philosophy behind workplace-based assessments in order to focus on the facilitators and barriers to providing credible and trustworthy clinical learner assessment.

By the end of this grand rounds, participants will review the philosophy underpinning workplace-based assessments. This background will ground the discussion of facilitators and barriers to providing credible and trustworthy learner assessments.

Speaker:

Amanda Emke, MD, MHPE – associate professor, Division of Critical Care Medicine, associate director, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship, assistant dean for student assessment, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Medical Education Week Luncheon

11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

ILC 3110B

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Questions? Reach out to Reva Finkelman at rfinkelman@wisc.edu.

Medical Education Week Summit

12:30-3:30 p.m.

ILC 3110B

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Workshop Title: Providing Effective and Efficient Workplace-Based Assessments: Ensuring You, the Learner, and the Program Get the Most out of Assessments in Busy Clinical Environments

Workshop Overview: By the conclusion of this 3-hour workshop, faculty and graduate medical education trainees will be able to provide meaningful and credible direct observation and narrative assessments as part of workplace-based assessment programs.

Speakers:

Amanda Emke, MD, MHPE– associate professor, Division of Critical Care Medicine, associate director, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship, assistant dean for student assessment, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Kirstin Nackers, MD – associate professor, Director of Undergraduate Medical Education, Division of Hospital Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health