Pritzker at the AAMC
The 2007 Annual AAMC Conference took place from November 2–7 in Washington, DC with many members of the Pritzker community in attendance. The work presented by those from Pritzker demonstrated just a few of the ways in which innovation can be found here on campus.
Dean Shumway
Second-year student Dean Shumway was one of just five students selected to present at the AAMC Annual Conference’s Student Programming Showcase Plenary Session. Dean discussed the innovative Health Care Disparities in America curriculum, the various teaching modalities used, and the need to incorporate this type of instruction and experience into medical education in order to address the pervasive issue of health disparities in America. In the concluding remarks of his proposal, Dean wrote, “While the biomedical and clinical sciences comprise the core of medical school curricula, medical training would be incomplete without educating future physicians about the societal context in which they will practice…For me and for my classmates, Health Care Disparities in America was a very moving introduction to the community in which we would learn to become doctors. The impact on our perceptions, attitudes, and even our careers would be impossible to calculate.”
Troy Leo
Fourth-year student Troy Leo served as co-author of an article entitled “Third-Year Medical Students’ Participation in and Perceptions of Unprofessional Behaviors,” which appeared in the October 2007 edition of Academic Medicine. Dr. Shalini Reddy, Assistant Dean for Student Programs, gave an oral presentation on the topic as a part of a Research for Innovations in Medical Education (RIME) session at the AAMC Annual Meeting. Dr. Vineet Arora, Assistant Dean for Curricular Innovations, and Dr. Holly Humphrey, Dean for Medical Education were among the article’s co-authors.
