Improving health care is the ultimate goal of all medical education – UME, GME, and CME/CPD. Yet, our current health care delivery model continues to fall show in achieving optimal outcomes of patients. We will discuss the impact of imprinting in medical education, and posit why few educational programs are able to successfully deliver on improving patient outcomes. Traditionally, educational outcomes have centered around learners and clinical outcomes have centered around patients. Explicitly recognizing the role of the clinical microsystem on learning, and creating greater alignment between the clinical and educational contexts may improve both learning and patient outcomes.

(Optional pre-reading to prime the discussion – “Transforming the academic faculty perspective in graduate medical education to better align educational and clinical outcomes”.  Wong & Holmboe. Academic Medicine.  April 2016)

RSVP here by March 5th to attend the session.  Contact Morgan Resnick-Kahle at morgan_resnick-kahle@med.unc.edu with questions.

Dr. Baxley has extensive experience across the breadth of the academic missions of medical schools including LCME and ACGME accreditation, Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER); student recruitment; curriculum evaluation and innovation; competency assessment, learning environment improvements; faculty professional development; enhancement of diversity programs; and creation of student distinction tracks. She served as the principal investigator on the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative. Dr. Baxley previously served as  Senior Associate Dean at the Brody School of Medicine, Chair of Family Medicine at USC and Co-Director of the I3 Collaborative. In her current role, Dr. Baxley’s focuses on Diplomate experience with the certification process, communications, and evolution of the performance improvement activities related to family medicine certification.