AAMC Annual Meeting Highlights Council of Faculty and Academic Societies Overview CFAS 2015 Milestones Plenary Session Summaries CFAS Programming Summaries.

AAMC Annual Meeting Highlights Council of Faculty and Academic Societies

OverviewCFAS 2015 MilestonesPlenary Session SummariesCFAS Programming Summaries

CFAS at AAMC Annual Meeting

About 121 CFAS Society and Medical School faculty reps attended the 2015 AAMC Annual Meeting in Baltimore Nov. 6-10.

CFAS Business Meeting

CFAS Knowledge Sharing Session

CFAS/GDI/ORR Joint Reception

Dozens of sessions directly related to faculty in academic medicine

Joint Leadership Presentations for COD/COTH/CFAS

CFAS Networking Breakfast

• Programming included:

CFAS Milestones and Accomplishments

Leadership transition Vincent Pellegrini, MD, is CFAS chair; Scott Gitlin, MD, is chair-elect,

Rosemarie Fisher, MD, is immediate past chair, and Kathleen Nelson, MD, transitions off the CFAS Administrative Board

CFAS Membership Overview 130 society reps 108 junior faculty medical school

reps 115 senior faculty medical

school reps

Created new content area system based on CFAS reps’ interests

CFAS was a major contributor to Optimizing GME Initiative in 2015

Added CFAS brochure, rep guide to website

Total reps: 353 (41% women) Chairs/vice chairs: 89 (22%

women) Ad board: 8 men, 7 women society

reps, 5 basic science reps

Launched CFAS Rep Update newsletter and CFAS listserv

Progress in defining faculty initiative

Accomplishments in 2015

Annual Meeting Plenary Sessions

Chair of the AAMC Board of Directors, Peter Slavin, MD, and AAMC President and CEO, Darrell G. Kirch, MD, discussed the changing landscape for academic medicine

Steven Brill and Steven Lipstein, MD, discussed America’s Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix our Broken Healthcare System

A Conversation With Steven Brill: America’s Bitter Pill

The Art and Science of LeadershipRobert Laskowski, MD, MBA, and Amy Gutman, president of the University of Pennsylvania, discussed important values for leaders

Eugene Robinson reflected on health inequities and the promising signs of a deeper conversation over societal inequalities in general

Social Justice: Race, Health, Education and Culture

AAMC Leadership Session

CFAS Administrative Board Meeting

How information will percolate up to the ad board from committees and working groups

Enhancing communication/coordination with other councils (COTH and COD) – possibly by using common theme of resilience

Structure and mission alignment of committees and working groups CFAS’s position as a conduit to the AAMC Board of Directors Setting concrete expectations for communication back to reps’

institutions Growing and enhancing CFAS rep community by brining in more

societies and appointing reps from eligible medical schools

Major Topics of Conversation

Joint Leadership Presentations for COD/COTH/CFAS

• Dr. Scott Gitlin will represent CFAS on the AAMC board• Distinguished Service Award presented to Dr. Kathleen Nelson

Dr. Darrell G. Kirch presented an overview of the academic medicine landscape:

Rise of retail health care (Walgreens, CVS, etc.)

Determining mergers/acquisitions impact on medical schools

Looming health care workforce shortage

Holistic admissions and Fisher II at Supreme Court

Resident application management

Dr. Atul Grover presented a policy update: Budget deal lifts sequester caps 2

years, paves way for NIH increase, but may cut Medicare payments to hospitals

House proposal to eliminate AHRQ funding

House passed 21st Century Cures with mandatory NIH funding but Senate bill lacks mandatory funding – increase for NIH regardless

CFAS Business Meeting• Two priorities for Ad Board: 1) articulate content areas so information flows

up to ad board and 2) develop membership category for reps who’s terms have expired but still want to benefit from CFAS programming

• Discussed upcoming Spring Meeting

• Honored Dr. Ann Bonham and Dr. Kathleen Nelson for their service

• Committees and working groups Basic Science working group addressing how we sustain research

enterprise Defining Faculty work group developing a comprehensive definition of

faculty Mission Alignment/Impact of Faculty work group working on

governance structures of academic health centers Advocacy Task Force focuses on NIH, NSF funding support and GME Nomination Committee looks at rotating and tracking current members

and engaging former members

CFAS Knowledge Sharing Session• Proposed limit on committee and working group assignments to one per person• Create transparent guidelines for work of committee and working group

members• Distribute information broadly on the work of the committees and working

groups, along with the work of the special work group on defining faculty• Membership renewal process and efforts to get all medical schools to appoint

CFAS reps• Create understanding on the benefits of and contrasts between the AAMC

annual meeting, CFAS spring meeting, and medical education meeting• Increase awareness of and engagement with academic societies 

Key themes of the open discussion: What Matters to CFAS Reps GME Diversity and Inclusion MCAT changes Admissions policy Residency Selection

Meeting Sessions Focused on Faculty

• So, Who Is Faculty? Checking In on an Interdisciplinary Approach to Find a Definitional Framework Described the ongoing effort to define faculty in the midst of nation-wide

health care consolidation. 100 people attended and actively participated

• The AAMC Optimizing GME Initiative: Engaging in Conversations and Advancing Our Collective Work Summarized recent progress of the initiative and brainstormed critical

elements for an optimal medical education continuum

• Improving the Environment for (and the Lives of) Faculty Focused on GME Discussed the portion of AAMC’s Optimizing GME Initiative that

focuses on faculty