Symposia

Agenda

Your role as a participant

Over the last two years, Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center has gathered hundreds of national thought leaders for a series of events to help develop new, consensus-driven principles to guide the reform process.

This event marks Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center's first in-depth look at medical education as part of health care reform. Your ideas and experience are invaluable as we work to find the best ways to advance and improve medical education as part of broad health care reform.

At the symposium, attendees will be able to offer reform ideas, comments and ask questions. Through instant response devices, participants will rank reform ideas and immediately learn what others are thinking. All participants have a say in the symposium's recommendations, which will be added to the reform proposals shared with the new administration and Congress.

Program Agenda

Sunday evening, April 26:

7-9 p.m. Informal reception and check in

Monday, April 27:

8-9:30 a.m. Converging Health Care Reform and Medical Education Reform
Event co-hosts Terry Cascino, M.D., Mayo Clinic neurologist, executive dean for education, Mayo Clinic, and board member for the American Association of Neurology, and Pat Mitchell, president and CEO, The Paley Center for Media, will share goals for the event and describe how attendees will help develop consensus-driven recommendations for medical education reform.

A panel of national leaders in health care education will address questions central to the issue at hand: Given the necessity for health care reform, what should health care education teach? How is it paid for? How are appropriate care delivery practices maintained? How can efforts in health care reform and health care education reform move forward together to help deliver high quality patient-centered care?

Panelists include:
Tenley Albright, M.D. Director, Collaborative Initiatives at MIT

Denis Cortese, M.D., CEO, Mayo Clinic

Michael Johns, M.D., Chancellor, Emory University

John "Jack" Stobo, M.D., Senior Vice President, Division of Health Sciences and Services, University of California

10-11:30 a.m. Licensure, Accreditation and Certification: Achieving Harmonic Resonance
If the goal of the health care system is to provide high-value, coordinated care, how should providers be taught and measured? A panel discussion will delve into what mechanisms — such as licensure, certification and accreditation practices — support optimal learning outcomes.

Moderator: Susan Wagner, ABC News

Panelists include:
Geraldine Bednash, CEO and Executive Director, American Association of Colleges of Nursing

Richard Hawkins, M.D., Senior Vice President for Professional and Scientific Affairs, American Board of Medical Specialties

Thomas Nasca, M.D., CEO, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education

Noon-1:30 p.m. Professionalism - The Critical Element in Health Care Education
Luncheon and keynote address
Jordan Cohen, M.D., President Emeritus, Association of American Medical Colleges, will examine the critical role professionalism must play as the health care system evolves to ensure that providers can deliver high-value, compassionate care within a relentlessly changing health care environment.

1:30-3 p.m. Realigning the Health Care Training System for Coordinated Patient- Centered Care
With health care reform focused on providing high-value, coordinated care, what should medical education teach? What are the links between education and optimal patient-centered care? A panel, with representation from allied health staff, nursing, the pharmaceutical industry and leadership of leading medical centers, will consider these questions.

Moderator:
Maggie Mahar, The Health Beat Blog

Panelists include:
Lindsey Henson, M.D., Ph.D., Vice Dean for Education, University of Minnesota Medical School

Mark Kelley, M.D., CEO, Henry Ford Medical Group

3:30-5 p.m. Your Views Concerning Change - What is Required to Create the Health Care Workforce of the Future?
Event co-hosts Pat Mitchell and Dr. Cascino will engage participants in discussion concerning the following question. Ideas will be compiled and participants will have the opportunity to prioritize the results.

"In order to create a health care workforce equipped to provide a high-value team approach to coordinated, patient-centered health care, what is the most important change required of the health care education system?"

6-7 p.m. Reception
Tours of Mayo Clinic's Multidisciplinary Training Simulation Center available

7-8 p.m. Driving Change in Academic Medicine
Dinner and keynote address
Darrell Kirch, M.D., president and CEO, Association of American Medical Colleges will provide perspective on the necessity for change in academic medicine.

Tuesday, April 28

7-8 a.m. Breakfast

8-8:30 a.m. Symposium goal: Identifying key priorities to further health care education reform
Event co-hosts Dr. Terry Cascino and Pat Mitchell recap the first day's activities and review goals and objectives for the remainder of the conference.

8:30-10 a.m. Life-long Learning That is Relevant and Sustainable
Once initial schooling is over, how should appropriate care delivery practices be maintained? Session participants will prioritize actions most needed to promote effective lifelong learning.

Moderator:
Catherine Crier, formerly with ABC News, Court TV

Panelists include:
Richard Baron, MD, Chair, American Board of Internal Medicine Board of Directors

Murray Kopelow, M.D., Chief Executive, Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education

Lucinda Maine, executive vice president, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy

Rick Nishimura, M.D., Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic

10:30-noon Financing Health Care Education
This discussion will identify ideas for sustainable, flexible financing models for education that promote patient-centered care delivery by caregivers of all types. Discussion topics will include:

• Who pays for education, government, industry, medical practice, and/or student?
• Specialization education (who needs to know how to do what?)
• Defining job roles, for example physician vs. allied health staff
• Conflicts of interest when industry pays for education

Moderator: Ceci Connolly, National Staff Writer, Washington Post

Panelists include:
Michael Johns, M.D., Chancellor, Emory University

Steve Shannon, D.O., M.P.H., President, American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine

Noon-1 p.m. MD Connector Student Competition
Luncheon and Competition Results
"In order to create a health care workforce equipped to provide a high-value team approach to coordinated, patient-centered health care, what is the most important change required of the health care education system?"
Throughout the symposium, participants will have the chance to review and vote on entries submitted to a scholarly student competition that will address this question. Competition winners will be announced during this luncheon. The competition was sponsored by MD Connector, an online academic community connecting pre-medical students, medical students and physicians.

1-2 p.m. Building a Roadmap for Transformation of Medical Education
This session will summarize symposium results, and will include a discussion of the implications of the priorities that have emerged. Participants will identify the priorities most urgent and most necessary to transform both the health care system and medical and health care education. The list will become a roadmap for future work to advance reform efforts in education.

Moderators: Event co-hosts Pat Mitchell and Dr. Terry Cascino