Professional Development

Overview: Medical Education Scholars in Pediatrics (MESP) is a monthly Regularly Scheduled Series for faculty and trainees to conduct research in medical education, viewing medical education as a primary focus for academic scholarship. These sessions are intended to foster collaboration and disseminate knowledge to promote scholarship in medical education. Success will be measured by the quantity of scholarly output in medical education per academic year and number of faculty seeking or successfully completing promotion with Education as a primary or secondary focus. MESP went through the accreditation process and each session for 2022-2023 will be worth CME credit.

Audience: Anyone in the Department of Pediatrics (Faculty, Trainees, Staff, Researchers and more!)

Global Learning Objectives:

1. Faculty and trainees increasingly seek to conduct research in medical education, viewing medical education as a primary focus for academic scholarship
2. There are few structured programs within the department to foster collaboration and disseminate knowledge to promote scholarship in medical education
3. Expertise exists within the department, within the university, and outside the university to promote these ideas

Co-Chairs: Sushant Srinivasan, MD and Nikki St Clair, MD

Coordinators: Reva Finkelman & Kate Dougherty

Committee Members: Carolyn Sleeth, MD, MPH, Sammi Tyler, DO and Katie Denzin

Accreditation Statement – Log into your ICEP account to view sessions, check your credits and more!

In support of improving patient care, the University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Credit Designation Statements

American Medical Association (AMA)

The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Continuing Education Units

The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP, as a member of the University Professional & Continuing Education Association (UPCEA), authorizes this program for 0.1 continuing education units (CEUs) or 1 hour.

POLICY ON FACULTY AND SPONSOR DISCLOSURE

It is the policy of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Interprofessional Continuing Education Partnership (ICEP) to identify, mitigate and disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* held by the  speakers/presenters, authors, planners, and other persons who may influence content of this accredited continuing education (CE).  In addition, speakers, presenters and authors must disclose any planned discussion of unlabeled/unapproved uses of drugs or devices during their presentation. For this accredited continuing education activity, all relevant financial relationships have been mitigated and detailed disclosures are listed below.

* Ineligible companies are those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. The ACCME does not consider providers of clinical service directly to patients to be commercial interests.

Medical Education Week – April 19 to April 21

Please checkout the Medical Education Week Website.

Research Week 2023 – May 15 to May 19

Please checkout the Research Week Website.

Clinical Care Week 2023 – September 18 to September 22

More information to come!

The Department of Pediatrics hosts lectureships to celebrate and honor past and present faculty! We hope that you can attend these incredible events.

The Murray Katcher Child Health Advocacy Lectureship

Thursday, April 13, 2023 | 7:30-8:30 a.m. via Zoom and HSLC 1345

This new lectureship will feature speakers who address the challenges and successes of advocacy for health and safety of children and vulnerable adults. Murray Katcher, MD, PhD, emeritus professor of pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, will deliver the inaugural lecture in 2023.

Please find more information regarding this lectureship here.

The Iams-Tuffli Lectureship

Thursday, May 11, 2023 | 7:30–8:30 a.m. via Zoom

The Iams-Tuffli Reception

Thursday, May 11, 2023 | 5:00-8:00 p.m at Café Hollander (registration required)

The Iams-Tuffli Lecture is an annual lecture series on the practice of pediatrics. The series is named after the late Alexander Iams, MD, and Gordon Tuffli, MD, two Madison-based pediatricians and friends who embodied the lecture series’ goal of promoting camaraderie in the field of pediatrics. After Iams passed away in 1984, his family – including son and daughter-in-law Jay and Pat Iams – established a memorial fund and lecture series to honor his 35+ years in pediatrics. The annual lecture covers a diverse range of topics relevant to pediatricians in both private and academic settings. Additionally, the memorial fund generously pays for the registration fees for all participants.

Tuffli coordinated the Iams Lecture series until his retirement in 1998. Sadly, Tuffli passed away in 2020 after a courageous battle with Parkinson’s disease. In 2021, the Iams family renamed the lecture “Iams-Tuffli Lectureship” to honor the legacy of Tuffli, his friendship with Iams, and his stewardship of the lecture series.

Iams-Tuffli Planning Committee: Jeff Sleeth, MD, Mala Mathur, MD, MPH, David Bernhardt, MD, Alison Craig, MD, Dana Johnson, MD, Jess McGee, MD and Kari Hegeman, MD

Coordinators: Reva Finkelman and Kate Dougherty

Please find more information regarding this lectureship here.

The Odell Lectureship

Speaker: Stephen Meyn, MD, PhD – Professor, Genetics & Metabolism, Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title: Forthcoming

Thursday, May 18, 2023 | 7:30–8:30 a.m. via Zoom and HSLC 1345

The Odell Lectureship was established in 1994 to honor Dr. Gerard B. Odell, Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics. Dr. Odell was internationally recognized for his research in the field of neonatal jaundice and bilirubin metabolism. In addition to the lectureship, the Gerard B. Odell Research Award was established to honor Dr. Odell’s distinguished career in pediatrics research, academics, clinical practice and education. The award is given to an assistant or associate professor of pediatrics in recognition of outstanding research accomplishments and demonstrated potential for future contributions in basic or translational research.

Please find more information regarding this lectureship here.

The Allen Inspiring Children Lectureship 

Thursday, July 13, 2023 | HSLC 1345 & Zoom | New Intern Reception to follow

The Allen Inspiring Children Lectureship welcomes our new trainees each July. This lectureship is grounded in motivating, creating connections and sparking passion in these new learners, by sharing the experiences that have made faculty wiser clinicians and to keep learning and growing from patients.

Please find more information regarding this lectureship here.

The Gilbert-Barness Lectureship 

Thursday, October 19, 2023 | 7:30-8:30am

The Gilbert-Barness Lectureship, as designated by its endowment, invites University of Wisconsin medical community individuals who will provide state-of-the-art, contemporary information and ideas in the areas of pediatrics and pathology. The lectureship is co-administered by the Departments of Pathology and Pediatrics. The lectureship embodies the highest ideals of academics. It broadens the learning potential of both departments and will bring to the entire University community fresh ideas on which to contemplate.

Please find more information regarding this lectureship here.

Flourish Hour is accessible to all faculty, staff, and trainees and these sessions are created to support department members in flourishing in their careers. Sessions may include a variety of topics that relate to our department’s Strategic Priorities (DoP login required), as well as topics such as finding passion in your work, how to utilize time management strategies, and how to live a healthier life.  These sessions are recorded and can be accessed on the DOP Intranet. If you are interested in hosting, teaching and/or suggesting a future professional development event, please complete the Professional Development Activity Request Form. Looking for more Professional Development workshops and conferences? Look at the Professional Development Calendar.

Flourish Hour Schedule 2022-2023:

The Department of Pediatrics recognizes the value of hands-on experiential workshops to enhance the professional work of faculty and staff, and it is committed to hosting half-day workshops for all department members.

Upcoming Professional Development Workshops and Series

Empowering Pediatricians Learning Qualitative Research (ExPLQR): A qualitative research methods curriculum 

This cohort meets monthly starting in late January 2023. Sessions will include a brief didactic presentation of a specific topic in qualitative research followed by an interactive discussion of cohort members’ works in progress. The goals of this series are to improve participants’ knowledge, confidence, and skills necessary to initiate, complete, and evaluate qualitative research.

Learning Objectives: The goals of this curriculum are to improve participants’ knowledge, confidence, and skills necessary to initiate, complete, and evaluate qualitative work. As a primary outcome, we will evaluate participant knowledge of and confidence in performing key aspects of qualitative inquiry using session assessment surveys. Additional goals include enhancing participant engagement and collaboration in qualitative research and promotion of mentoring relationships across the Department. We will assess these goals by tracking session attendance, overall cohort retention, engagement in new qualitative projects, and evaluation of new collaborations and mentoring relationships following workshop conclusion. Our final goal is to refine this workshop for future adaptation and evaluation, which will be achieved by garnering open-ended input from participants following each session and through a participant focus group at the completion of the curriculum.

Cohort Members: Cohort members for 2023 have been established already. Please reach out to the main contacts below if you have any questions regarding this year’s cohort!

Main Contacts:

Co-Chair: Taylor House – trhouse@wisc.edu 

Co-Chair: Michelle Kelly – michelle.kelly@wisc.edu

Co-Chair: Madeline Kieren – mkieren@wisc.edu

Coordinator: Kate Dougherty – catherine.dougherty@wisc.edu

Schedule: Every 4th Tuesday of every month from 12:00-1:00 via Zoom

More information on the intranet!

Learner Assessment Workshop

Date: Thursday, April 20, 2023 I 9:00-11:30 a.m. I HSLC 3110B

Workshop: Learner Assessment

*This is an in-person only event.

Speaker: Ann Burke, MD, MBA, FAAP – professor of pediatrics, interim associate dean for student affairs and admissions, director, pediatric residency program, vice-Chair for pediatric education, Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine Dayton Children’s Hospital

Registration required for workshop