Lifelong Learning

Guest: Scott Kober Guest: Derek Warnick Host: Alicia A. Sutton Google Hangouts: they're not just for video chats. It turns out that they are also quite useful for focused learning platforms positioned for targeted learners. How are these hangouts being leveraged for innovative medical educational offerings? Host Alicia Sutton welcomes Derek Warnick and Scott Kober to discuss this emerging platform in the healthcare sector.

Host: Alicia A. Sutton "Patient engagement" is a broadly encompassing term that takes on various forms depending on the point of view, from the physician's drive toward better treatment compliance and health literacy to the patient's stance on being heard and understood through the care continuum. How can the medical profession assess, measure, and improve patient engagement indexes from both points of view? Host Alicia Sutton welcomes Pete Sheldon, president of Opus Science, LLC based in Annapolis, MD, to describe strategies employed locally and nationwide to enhance patient engagement.

Guest: AK Host: Alicia A. Sutton Visual representations of data come in many shapes and forms in medical education, but their clarity, meaningfulness, and utility are always intended to be top-notch. Unfortunately, this is sometimes not the case, with visual depictions of important information that may appear confusing or, even worse for the educator, uninteresting. What is the rhyme and reason to generating effective designs for medical data? Host Alicia Sutton welcomes Andy Kirk, data visualization expert and founder of Visualizing Data Ltd, to address this subject in depth. Mr. Kirk is author of Data Visualization: a successful design process, a practical guide for creating data visualisation solutions in the most effective and efficient way.

Guest: Cynthia Kear Guest: Tom McKeithen, Jr. Host: Alicia A. Sutton There is a national public health crisis concerning the misuse and overuse of opioid medications, and despite multiple large scale efforts to stem the tide, negative trends persist. In order to address risk and safety concerns, reduce serious adverse outcomes, and simultaneously ensure that pain patients maintain necessary access to opioids, the U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has developed a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) that applies to all long-acting and extended-release opioid medications. Joining Alicia Sutton to discuss how REMS programs are being used to help inform and educate the medical community are Cynthia Kear and Tom McKeithen. Ms. Kear is Senior Vice President of the California Academy of Family Physicians, while Mr. McKeithen is Senior Consultant at Healthcare Performance Consulting

Host: Alicia A. Sutton Guest: Destry Sulkes, MD, MBA The meeting of the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions (ACEHP) witnessed a broad spectrum of presentations and dialogues focused on medical education, from big data to quality improvement to social media to patient safety. Recapping highlights from this meeting is Dr. Destry J. Sulkes, President of the Board of Directors for ACEHP and co-founder of Medivo Inc.

Host: Alicia A. Sutton Guest: Bill Levisay, MBA Past success is not always a predictor of future success, and nowhere is this clearer than in the medical field. But what can medicine draw from the unprecedented successes and colossal failures of the corporate world? Joining host Alicia Sutton to discuss the gravity of success, and ways to avoid failure in the wake of that success, is Bill Levisay, Chief Customer Officer at Bolthouse Farms in Atlanta, GA.

Host: Alicia A. Sutton Guest: Alexander M. Djuricich, MD, FACP, FAAP Guest: Brian S. McGowan, PhD Are you using social media in your practice setting? If not, you may be missing important new peer-to-peer educational opportunities and innovative means of connecting with your patients for better care provision. Joining Alicia Sutton to discuss the emerging roles of social media in medicine are Brian McGowan, Chief Learning Officer for ArcheMedx, and Dr. Alexander Djuricich, Associate Dean for CME at Indiana University School of Medicine.

Host: Alicia A. Sutton Guest: Jennifer Golbeck, PhD How will new computational techniques leveraging "big data" analytics impact healthcare systems and medical practices, and where should this data come from? Alicia Sutton welcomes Jennifer Golbeck, director of the Human Computer Interaction Lab and associate professor at the College of Information Studies of the University of Maryland, to discuss present and future directions in big data usage for medicine and society.

Host: Alicia A. Sutton How divergent are cultural perspectives in the healthcare system, and how does this affect both the delivery of medical care by clinicians and the paths toward health and wellbeing for patients? Dr. Simon Kitto, Medical Sociologist, Director of Research in Continuing Professional Development and Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at the Wilson Centre for the University of Toronto, joins host Alicia Sutton to explore workplace culture from several vantage points, such as professional-to-patient value systems and group behavior dynamics, toward better understanding health outcomes.

Host: Alicia A. Sutton Guest: Ray Saputelli The American Academy of Family Physicians estimates that approximately 52,000 more primary care physicians will be needed in the workforce by 2025 in order to maintain basic standards of care for the American population. But in a climate where medical professionals are increasingly turning away from general medicine to pursue higher paying niche specialties, the challenge to counter a looming shortage of primary care physicians rises exponentially. What actions, incentives, and culture changes will be needed to bring primary care back into prominence? Joining host Alicia Sutton to examine this issue is Ray Saputelli, Executive Vice President of the New Jersey Chapter of the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Host: Alicia A. Sutton Quality Improvement in medical education can take place along several stages of behavior change, from orientation to enablement to sustainment. The timing of QI intervention, and the ways in which QI teams collaborate creatively within each phase, become critical. Joining host Alicia Sutton to elaborate on this type of modeling for education improvement is Chitra Subramaniam, Ph.D., Assistant Dean and Director for Continuing Medical Education at Duke University's Clinical Research Institute. Dr. Subramaniam is also Assistant Dean at the Duke Center for Educational Excellence.

Host: Alicia A. Sutton Host Alicia Sutton welcomes Dr. Arif Kamal, Director of Quality and Outcomes at the Duke Cancer Institute, to talk about ways in which clinicians can become more involved or even take the reins of leadership in quality improvement initiatives within their health systems. The discussion pays close attention to the burgeoning field of Big Data, and how its rapid entry into healthcare impacts quality improvement efforts.

Host: Alicia A. Sutton Host Alicia Sutton is joined by Bob Meinzer, Senior Director for National Education Strategy at the New Jersey Academy of Family Physicians. Their topic of focus is accountable care organizations (ACOs): what they are, how they are structured, and where their potential benefits and pitfalls lie respectively within the medical education field.

Host: Alicia A. Sutton "Quality improvement is not an event or a project; it's a continuous process." This is the sentiment of special guest Louis Diamond, President of the Quality in Health Care Advisory Group, LLC. Mr. Diamond also serves as Quality Improvement Education Initiation Chair for ACEHP. He joins host Alicia Sutton to discuss medical education's roles in quality improvement (QI) and the triumphs and challenges occurring at clinical and health political levels to advance QI goals.

Host: Alicia A. Sutton The Patient Centered Medical Home. What is it? How do practices become PCMH-recognized? And how do PCMH models change the way medical education is crafted and delivered to clinicians? Host Alicia Sutton welcomes guests Jennifer D'alessandro and Scott Weber to explore these and other questions. Ms. D'alessandro is Assistant Director of Education at the National Committee for Quality Assurance, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving health care quality. Mr. Weber is CEO of MED-IQ, a leading provider of continuing medical education.

Host: Alicia A. Sutton Continuous professional development in medicine is a lifelong endeavor that extends well beyond medical school. As our knowledge of system improvement increases, we begin to see corresponding changes in the learning environment. This creates new reasons for healthcare professionals to engage in quality improvement (QI) education. Joining host Alicia Sutton to discuss this evolution is Dr. Jack Kues, Associate Dean for Continuous Professional Development at the University of Cincinnati.

Host: Alicia A. Sutton Knowledge Translation (KT) is the process of making knowledge created within one professional community accessible, understandable and useful within other professional communities, which leads ultimately to widespread adoption of that knowledge into everyday health practices. But how is this done, and does it have any disruptive effects on Quality Improvement (QI) standards? Joining host Alicia Sutton to speak on this matter is Dr. Robert J. Birnbaum, MD, PhD. Dr. Birnbaum is the Knowledge Translation Research Director for the Massachusetts General Hospital Academy, the Director of Continuing Professional Development at Partners HealthCare, and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Host: Alicia A. Sutton Whether one is a learner or an educator, the current and potential impacts of legistlative trends from Washington are tremendous. As collaborations between academia, industry, and the government become increasingly complex, advocates of quality improvement in medical education must learn to navigate new challenges in key areas such as conflicts of interest, healthcare reform, physician-patient communications, and healthcare technologies. Joining host Alicia Sutton to discuss this important topic is John F. Kamp, Executive Director of the Coalition for Healthcare Communication.

Host: Alicia A. Sutton Health Information Technology (HIT) has an intuitive place in modern clinical practice, but the ways in which emerging technologies can integrate with quality improvement efforts in medical education aren't always clear. Health Technologist Dr. Joseph Kim joins host Alicia Sutton to describe various means by which organizations, group practices, and individual physicians can leverage new technologies to improve quality of care.      

Host: Alicia A. Sutton Host Alicia Sutton is joined by Chitra Subramaniam, Ph.D., Assistant Dean and Director for Continuing Medical Education at Duke University's Clinical Research Institute. Dr. Subramaniam is also Assistant Dean at the Duke Center for Educational Excellence. She describes several initiatives being undertaken at her academic setting to drive forward quality improvement in clinical education with innovative practice models.