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Transformational Times
Words of Hope, Character & Resilience from our Virtual Community
Friday, September 16, 2022
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Guest Director's Corner
Perspective/Opinion
Poetry Corner
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Michael Esson: It was short, but Intense
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Your Turn
Upcoming Events/Announcements
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Guest Director's Corner
Big Data is Your Data to Share: So Why Should You?
By Tavinder K. Ark, BSc, MSc, PhD – Director of the Data Science Lab at the Kern Institute
In this guest Director’s Corner, Dr. Tavinder Ark, Director of the Medical Education Data Science Lab at the Kern Institute introduces her Lab and explains why we have launched a Medical Student Research Registry...
In this “Data Science Lab take over” issue of the Transformational Times, we introduce the members of the Lab and highlight some of the work each of us is doing. As a medical education data science lab, we, Libby Elinas, Ethan Duwell, Andrew Gleave and I work to determine what teaching methods and curriculum components are most impactful in preparing our medical students to take care of patients. We are working together to build information systems to support student learning and effective teaching. This work requires a range of expertise. We are a unique group. I am an educational measurement scientist, trained as a psychometrician, with a background in cognitive science and extensive experience in medical education. Dr. Elinas, an Anesthesiologist with a Master’s in Education, is deeply interested in ensuring the physician workforce is thriving and treated equitably, she is developing her expertise in education measurement, Dr. Duwell, a Kern Institute post-doctoral trainee, is a vision neuroscientist with expertise in neuroimaging and Mr. Gleave is a software engineer who is working closely with us on several key medical education systems design projects already in use at MCW and elsewhere around the country.
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Perspective/Opinion
On the Origins of our Differences: The Search For “Truth” in Assessment and Data Analysis
By Elizabeth (Libby) Ellinas, MD, MS – Data Science Lab Member
When is a difference really a difference? If your data indicate differences by gender, race, learner level (or any group) on a test item or a scale, are you sure that those differences are true differences? Or are you really measuring something else…
As a graduate-level teacher, you just got your learner’s latest test results back and you find that the learners who identified as part of a particular group consistently scored poorer on certain questions than other learners. Is this because they missed that class? Didn’t get the concept? Is their physiology preventing understanding? Or is it something else?
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Perspective/Opinion
The Case for Data Scraping in Medical Education
By Ethan Duwell, PhD – Postdoctoral Fellow
The future of medical education research and programmatic assessment depends on the development of more automated, empirical methods for collecting and analyzing data on our students, faculty and curricula. In this piece, Dr. Duwell describes how “data scraping” may help fill this void and spawn a quantitative, data-driven revolution in medical education...
Like the cerebral cortex, medical schools are extremely complex systems, which may initially seem impossible or impractical to model.
At the most fundamental level, both are a study of human behavior. Much like a behavioral experiment, students are given various tasks to perform throughout the curriculum and their performance is systematically assessed on various measures. However, one of the greatest differences I’ve noticed is in the level of experimental control and access to raw data. In a cognitive vision science experiment, I can control or measure all the relevant variables of interest in the testing environment and on the stimulus display, get empirical measures of behavioral responses, and in my case, record neural activity at every location across the brain with fMRI during the task. On my more optimistic days as a graduate student, I remember finding solace thinking, “In theory, if I designed the proper experiment, the answers to my questions lay somewhere in my subjects’ behavioral responses and within their brains.”
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Perspective/Opinion
Problem to Production: Developing a System to Measure the Readiness to Internship Using Iterative Development Practices
By Andrew Gleave
Developing data application systems from scratch can be a daunting prospect for institutions accustomed to buying software off the shelf. But with the right tools, team, and culture you may be surprised how quickly and effectively you can solve your problems, deliver value, and push frontiers...
In 2011 Mark Andreessen famously said, “Software is eating the world,” and in 2022 so much software has been written that you may find the solution to your current problem ready to purchase without going anywhere near engineers or programming languages. If an off-the-shelf solution is available, does exactly what you need, and your ambitions for the project will never outgrow its features, great! Go buy it and move on to your next challenge.
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Perspective/Opinion
Data Visualization to Translate Data to Actionable Change in Medical Schools
By Tavinder K. Ark, BSc, MSc, PhD; Andrew Gleave and Ethan Duwell, PhD
Napoleon Bonaparte is quoted as saying, “Un bon Croquis vaut mieux qu’un long discours,” or, "A good sketch is better than a long speech."
This Data Science Lab focuses on methods and systems for leveraging the data we collect to optimize medical education. Building an automated capture-to-reporting system is essential if we are to take full advantage of all the data collected in the routine running of the curriculum. Whether it involves combining data from different assessments (e.g., grades to performance assessments) or modalities (surveys, written content, course content from PowerPoints), there is a need for frictionless information pipelines, which move data from intake to reporting in a consistently reliable and valid manner. Ideally, such a system takes into account volume (e.g., amount of data), velocity (e.g., How quickly people get their data back) and effective data reporting to make sure all users can translate data into knowledge. How data is visualized is key to ensuring everyone understands the information.
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It was short, but Intense
By Michael Esson, M2
Breathe in,
for you have arrived,
From the west to the east,
As far as the eyes can see,
All of it, your father’s land,
It’s bounties, from the fruits of your mother’s womb.
Breathe out,
For with me, you are free,
your burdens, relieved with ease,
The warmth of your breath,
The depth of your stares,
The comforts of your embrace,
how my heart longs and aches.
Breathe in,
For today, the stars have aligned,
I had an intuition,
That you would be mine,
It came like a vision,
With no reason or rhyme,
your beauty undressed my heart,
Forever etched in time.
Breathe out,
For this is love,
You held my hand through the flood,
You never let it down,
Another step into your waters,
You never let me drown.
As time ticks and tocks,
I’m left with these rhymes, and if it could talk,
It would say, it was short, but intense.
From the poet: This is a love to Tanzania for all the experiences it provided me during my stay. There is another parallel message that I hope the reader can figure out for themselves.
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Readers Respond to last week's reflection prompt:
If you could travel anywhere to experience fall, where would you go and why?
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Asheville, North Carolina. I went to college there and the fall colors are breathtaking!
– Kerrie Quirk, Staff
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For this week's reflection prompt, please answer the following question:
What is your favorite trick-or-treat candy?
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Congratulations to
Narrative Medicine Competition Winners at ACP Wisconsin Chapter Meeting
Several MCW Attendings, Students and Residents were recognized and published in the 2022 Narrative Medicine Booklet at the American College of Physicians Wisconsin Chapter meeting. These essayists all submitted their work to the first-ever ACP-WI Narrative Medicine Competition.
The Judged Winners:
Students: Shawna Rivedal, Desiderium
Honorable mention: Abhishek Janardan, DItto
Residents: Brooke Jennings, I Will Carry You With Me.
Honorable mention: James Wu, Don't Stop Feeling
Attendings: Brett Linzer, An Experience Shared
Honorable mention: Rebecca Elon, All's Well that Ends Well
People's Choice:
Winner: Jennifer Woodard, Laughing in the Face of Death
Honorable mention: Matthew Aiken, Haikus to Say Goodbye
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Current Medical Students
Learn more about the MCWfusionTM curriculum and help improve plans
Current Medical Students interested in learning more about the MCWfusionTM curriculum: please sign up for a design sprint describing proposed assessment models and provide your feedback.
Session Dates: September 23, 26 & 27 and October 13 & 20, 2022
The September sessions will focus on assessment during the initial foundation science phase 1 of the curriculum including the patient-based discussions and the coaching program. The October sessions will focus on assessments during the Clerkship phase of the curriculum and would be most appropriate for M3 and M4 students.
Email MCWfusionCurriculum@mcw.edu with any questions.
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September Kaleidoscope
Avoiding Tokenism and Achieving Equitable Inclusion
Tokenism is the policy or practice of making only symbolic effort to include minority, underrepresented, or disadvantaged groups due to specified or salient characteristics. Thus, tokenism exists because inclusion of a person or group is required or expected, not because of inherent value.
Please join us as we:
- Define tokenism
- Understand tokenism’s affect on mental health and equity in the workplace
- Provide guidance on how to avoid tokenism
This session will be led by Kenyatta Sinclair, MSM, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Greater Milwaukee Foundation.
September 21, 2022
12:00 - 1:00 pm CT
Live Via Zoom
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Please Join Us!
KICS Journal Club with Jeffrey Wilhite, MPH
Register to join us at our monthly Kern Institute Collaboration for Scholarship Medical Education Journal Club! Each month, we discuss recent medical education scholarship with its author for a lively, intimate conversation about the transformation of medical education.
In October, Jeffrey Wilhite will be discussing the development and maintenance of the NYU medical education registry as we prepare to launch our own registry at MCW.
Jeffrey Wilhite is the program manager for NYU Langone’s Program for Medical Education Innovations and Research (PrMEIR) and serves as an honest broker for the NYU Medical Education Research Registry.
October 12, 2022
12:15 - 1:00 pm CT
Live Via Zoom
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Please Join Us!
Kern Connection Cafe: Saturday Clinic for the Uninsured
Saturday Clinic for the Uninsured (SCU) is a primary care clinic run by medical and pharmacy students that offers free health services to the uninsured patients of Milwaukee. SCU strives to provide comprehensive, quality care that empowers patients to achieve their optimal health outcomes through the following initiatives: primary care both in-person and virtually, specialty care access, social determinants of health screening and assistance, clinical continuity, and various committee efforts that contribute to patient care.
Join the Kern Institute and SCU to find out about this longstanding MCW community partnership, followed by information on becoming involved and a Q&A session with current SCU members.
September 27, 2022
12:00 - 1:00 pm CT
Live Via Zoom
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The Transition to Residency Symposium
Night-onCall, co-founded by Dr. Sondra Zabar and Dr. Adina Kalet, is an immersive, clinically- authentic simulation experience for near-graduating medical students that provides the student, and the medical school, with comprehensive, debriefed feedback on readiness from multiple perspectives. Please join the NOC Symposium for a virtual interactive discussion on communication and clinical competency during the transition to residency.
During this Symposium, you will have an opportunity to:
- Hear from Dr. Holly Humphrey, the President of the Macy Foundation, on how consortia like Night-onCall contribute to the future of medical education
- Learn about the impact of simulation from medical schools that have implemented Night-onCall
- Understand how using data-rich feedback for learners can help your curriculum and learners' transition into residency
October 28, 2022
10:00 - 2:00 pm CT
Live Via Zoom
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The Transformational Times publishes weekly, delivering stories of hope, character and resilience to our virtual community. | |
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Jeff Fritz, PhD, Editor-in-Chief
Editorial Board: Bruce Campbell, MD, Kathlyn Fletcher, MD, Adina Kalet, MD, Wendy Peltier, MD, Erin Weileder, Nabil Attlassy, Julia Bosco, Ana Istrate, Wolf Pulsiano, Eileen Peterson, Anna Visser, James Wu & Emelyn Zaworski
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