Montana WWAMI Faculty Development Conference - WWAMI Medical Education Program

Pre-Conferences Available

TRUST/WRITE Faculty Forum for TRUST/WRITE faculty and administrators - Friday 9am-1:30pm

9 am Doors open. Time to get situated.

9:10 - 9:15 Welcome and introductions

9:15 - 11:15 Frank Batcha, MD, Amanda Kost, MD & Robin Scott, MA ~ UWSOM Office of Rural Programs

WRITE 2.0/MEDLIC 1 & MEDLIC 2 ~ AY 2022-2023
- Check-in/Report
- Small Group Discussion
Challenges/Opportunities/Solutions ~ WBAs - Workplace Based Assessments
- Best practices of incorporating WBA process into daily clinic routine.
- Elentra App

11:15 – 11:30 Break

11:30 - 12:30: Lunch Presentation ~ Mark Deutchman, MD, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Anschutz, Director of the University of Colorado School of Medicine’s Rural Program

Scope of Care for Rural Family Physicians as Embodied in: What We Say We Are Training Them to Do Versus What They Emerge Competent to Do

12:30 – 1:30 The Idaho WWAMI experience with TRUST scholars and research in RUOP/WRITE ~ Rusty Baker, PhD, UWSOM Idaho Foundations Research Methods

2 – 3:30 pm Robin Scott, MA, UWSOM Office of Rural Programs

TRUST/WRITE Administrators’ Meeting ~ Board Room and by Zoom

All MT WWAMI Faculty Retreat - Friday 2-5pm

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2:00-2:10pm Welcome & Introductions, Jay Erickson, MD & Laura Goodell, MD

2:10- 4:50pm Teaching Across Differences

Laura Goodell, MD, STERN Regional Faculty Educator
Somnath Mookherjee, MD, Director, Center for Learning and Innovation in Medical Education (CLIME), Professor of Medicine, Division of Internal Medicine
Patricia Kritek, MD, EdM, Vice Dean, Office of Faculty Affairs, Professor of Medicine, PCCSM

4:50-5 pm Wrap-up

Conference Agenda

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Agenda Chico Conference 2024 Final

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Friday Arrival

5 pm Registration Desk Opens

5:30 to 7:30pm Reception with Appetizers

6 to 7 pm The Rural Physician Workforce, Scott Shipman, MD, MPH, Executive Director, Creighton University’s Institute for Population Health

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Saturday Morning Plenary

7:30 am Registration Desk Opens (Breakfast Available)

8 to 10 am Rural Medical Education, Perspectives from University of British

Columbia Faculty of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine

Maggie Watt, MD, Expansion Director ICC, UBC Faculty of Medicine
Mark Deutchman, MD, Assoc Dean for Rural Health, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Stephanie Lyden, MD, Assoc Director of RUUTE (Rural and Underserved Utah Training Experience), University of Utah School of Medicine

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2:30- 5:30 pm Saturday Afternoon Sessions

2:30-3:10 TRUST Graduates and Their TRUST Mentors - Brief reflection on key aspect of their TRUST training that facilitated their return to rural (40 min)

Anna Loge, MD/Ellie Schiedermayer, MD
Ashley Quanbeck. MD (video)/Marjorie Albers, MD
Greg Rice, MD (video)/Caroline Pihl, MD
Laura Bennett, MD (video)/KayCee Gardner, MD

3:10-3:50 Reflections on Rural Specialty Medical Education (Gen Surgery, PEDS, Psychiatry) (40 min)

Scott Smith, MD - General Surgery (via Zoom)
Kelly Irons, MD - Peds/Adolescent Psychiatry
Sheena Ray, DO - Psychiatry

3:50-4:10 Break (20 min)

4:10-4:50 Small Group Breakouts- Discuss how to improve rural medical education in Montana and the

WWAMI region (40 min)

4:50-5:30 Large Group Discussion on Rural Medical Education (40 min)

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Saturday Dinner Banquet

6:00 pm No-Host cocktails and reception

6:30 pm Dinner

Sunday Morning Workshop

7:30 am (Breakfast Available)

8 to 10 am Give Effective Feedback to Learners in Difficulty: A Workshop, HeidiCombs, MD, MS, & , Laura Goodell, MD, STERN Regional Faculty Educators

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Speaker Bios

2024 Chico Speaker Bios

Travel Stipends

Limited travel stipends are available to Montana physicians

MT WWAMI Travel Stipend

$400 travel stipend (two night’s lodging @ $150/night plus $100 travel) to the first 50 registrants
For reimbursement, you will need your Itemized hotel receipt and you will need to fill out the W-9 and travel reimbursement form
Contact Rachel Norris for more information: [email protected]

Montana TRUST/WRITE Stipend

After invoicing against your WRITE budget through the UWSOM, additional funds may be accessed through the MT TRUST Stipend
$400 travel stipend (2 nights lodging @ $150/night plus $100 travel) only for those also attending Friday TRUST session (all day session by invite only); OR
$250 (one night’s lodging @ $150/night plus $100 travel) for those MT TRUST preceptors attending weekend session only
For reimbursement, you will need your Itemized hotel receipt and you will need to fill out the W-9 and travel reimbursement form
Contact Lisa Benzel for more information: [email protected]

UWSOM Guidelines

Non-Montana TRUST/WRITE Travelers

WRITE sites hosting students in 2024 have a travel budget from the UWSOM for faculty development. These funds should be used to cover conference expenses for your site’s conference attendees. Attendees must be at the Friday, 9 am-1:30 pm, TRUST/WRITE meeting.

UWSOM Guidelines