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Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center
Simpson Querrey Biomedical Research Center
303 East Superior Street
Chicago, IL 60611

October 8,  2021
8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

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Friday, October 8 • 10:15am - 11:45am
Morning Session 2 - Short Presentations

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MORNING SESSION 2
SHORT PRESENTATIONS
10:15 – 11:45 a.m.

Presentation Schedule: See additional details below schedule.

A Leadership Training Curriculum for Chief Residents and Fellows
Aashish Didwania, MD

Intra-operative Assessment of Non-Technical Skills for Surgeons: Challenges and Opportunity for Improvement
Egide Abahuje, MD, MHPEd

Using Grounded Theory to Illuminate and Improve: A Novel Conceptual Model for Anatomy-Related Outreach
Angelique Duenas, PhD

Using Natural Language Processing to Aid in the Interpretation of Narrative Feedback: Challenges and Lessons Learned
Christina Maimone, PhD

Feedback for Growth; How to Accept Feedback
Leslie Rydberg, MD

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  • A Leadership Training Curriculum for Chief Residents and Fellows
    Aashish Didwania, MD
    • The leadership curriculum content was divided evenly between self-awareness training in the first half of the year (inward facing) and leading others (outward facing). Content was delivered through a brief reading list, self-assessment inventories, two 1:1 coaching sessions and 12 one-hour interactive seminars lead by two instructors from the Center for Leadership. Pre-post surveys on a five-point Likert scale asked learners to rate their self-awareness of strengths, growth, identification of strengths in others, teamwork, influence, adaptability, coping, and conflict resolution skills.

      The curriculum has run for three years with 13 participants in the first year, 14 in the second year, and 5 in 2020-21* (limited by pandemic). Aggregate survey scores rose from 3.19 on the pre-survey to 4.18 at mid-point to 4.56 at the post-curriculum survey. Items rated the highest at the end of the curriculum pertained to self-awareness of leadership capabilities and strengths (4.4 - 4.7), while coping and adaptability were rated lower (4.0 - 4.3)."

  • Intra-operative assessment of Non-Technical Skills for Surgeons: Challenges and Opportunity for Improvement
    Egide Abahuje, MD, MHPEd
    • Results: We observed 18 surgeries, involving 6 surgeons, 11 residents, and 1 fellow. The total observation time was 37 hours. We observed 9 open surgeries and 9 minimally invasive surgeries. Two independent observers assessed eight surgeries, while a single observer assessed 10 surgeries. The mean NOTSS score was 3.8 for situation awareness, 3.78 for decision-making, 3.71 for communication and teamwork, and 3.76 for leadership. The inter-rater reliability ranged between 0.65 and 0.80 for all NOTSS categories. The observers documented examples of effective non-technical skills behaviors and examples of behaviors that need improvement for each NOTSS category.

      Conclusion: The NOTSS rating tool is reliable to assess the surgeon’s non-technical skills in live surgery. This tool is useful to document effective and ineffective behaviors in order to provide constructive feedback to surgeons.
  • Using Grounded Theory to Illuminate and Improve: A Novel Conceptual Model for Anatomy-Related Outreach
    Angelique Duenas, PhD
    • Educational outreach programs are prominent within medical schools, as a means to foster interest in the sciences and promote awareness around health professions careers. Among these, anatomy as a discipline is often featured as an engaging and approachable subject for individuals of all educational levels. However, the overarching phenomena of such anatomy-related outreach has never been explored. This presentation will describe how grounded theory (GT) was used to explore the phenomena of anatomy outreach, from the perspective of anatomist facilitators around the globe. It will present an evidence-based, novel conceptual model for understanding and improving such outreach. It will also highlight the usability of GT in medical education research. In the midst of a pandemic, better understanding how processes in medical education function is particularly important in conceptualizing what the future of the field may look like, and how best to shape it.
  • Using Natural Language Processing to Aid in the Interpretation of Narrative Feedback: Challenges and Lessons Learned
    Christina Maimone, PhD
    • Natural language processing (NLP) has promise to improve both the utility and feasibility of narrative assessment review.  At Feinberg, longitudinal medical student portfolios contain hundreds of narrative text comments describing a student’s performance, strengths, and areas for improvement. Reviewing these comments in detail reveal performance trends that can help students grow and improve. While faculty and mentors gain experience assessing performance through the time-consuming process of reviewing dozens of portfolios a year, students do not have this opportunity, which may limit context and thus benefits gained from narrative feedback review.  NLP methods can provide some of this missing context after applying strategies to accurately apply text analysis methods to the narrative. However, the unique language and context of medical education feedback presents challenges. When data preparation and adaptation are done deliberately, NLP provides a feasible and useful mechanism to efficiently communicate meaningful data regarding student performance.

  • Feedback for Growth; How to Accept Feedback
    Leslie Rydberg, MD
    • This short session will cover the “Educational Alliance” to stress the importance of the learner-educator relationship to optimize feedback, as well as top tips for making the best use of feedback.

Speakers
avatar for Aashish Didwania, MD

Aashish Didwania, MD

Vice Chair for Education, Department of Medicine; Associate Professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics) and Medical Education, Medicine
Dr. Aashish Didwania is the residency program director and vice chair of education for the Department of Medicine.
avatar for Egide Abahuje, MD, Ms-HPEd

Egide Abahuje, MD, Ms-HPEd

Fellow, Surgery
Dr. Abahuje is a research fellow at the Surgical Outcome and Quality Improvement Center (SOQIC). He completed his General Surgery training at the University of Rwanda in 2016. He thereafter completed a research fellowship in Simulation Medical Education at Brigham and Women’s Hospital... Read More →
avatar for Angelique Duenas, PhD

Angelique Duenas, PhD

Faculty, Northwestern University, Department of Medical Education
Angelique (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Education at FSM. She coordinates and teaches anatomy curriculum for the MD and PA programs within the school. Much of her current research and scholarship lies at the intersect of anatomy- and medical-education... Read More →
avatar for Christina Maimone, PhD

Christina Maimone, PhD

Staff, Northwestern University; Northwestern IT Research Computing Services
I am the Research Data Services Lead with Northwestern IT Research Computing Services. I develop and provide data science services and training for researchers across Northwestern with a team of staff and student consultants. I am presenting work done in collaboration with Celia O'Brien... Read More →
avatar for Leslie Rydberg, MD

Leslie Rydberg, MD

Faculty, Northwestern University, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Medica
Leslie Rydberg, MDAttending PhysicianAssistant Residency Director, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Medical EducationMonika and Henry Betts Medical Student Education ChairShirley Ryan Ability LabAssistant Professor, Physical Medicine and RehabilitationNorthwestern University... Read More →

Friday October 8, 2021 10:15am - 11:45am CDT
Baldwin Auditorium 306 East Superior Street, Chicago IL 60611
  Short Presentation

Attendees (28)