Academy for Professionalism in Health Care (APHC) 8th Annual Meeting

8th Annual Academy for Professionalism in Health Care (APHC) Conference is organized by Academy for Professionalism in Health Care (APHC) and will be held from Apr 29 - May 01, 2020 at Sofitel Chicago Magnificent Mile, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America.

Description:
The 2020 APHC conference will focus on the restoration of trust for health care professionals working within complex organizations. We invite papers that address educational and system level approaches to promote and preserve trust between patients, clinicians and communities, and across professional disciplines at various levels of education, training and practice. General papers in the field of professionalism are also welcomed. These include interdisciplinary scholarship on faculty development, graduate, undergraduate and pre-professional education, as well as topics such as ethics, humanism, social justice, well-being, and innovations in assessment.

Inspiring and Informative Pre-course: 
Pre-Conference Workshop on Wednesday, April 29, 2020, 9:00 AM until 12:00 PM

? From Teaching Professionalism to Supporting Professional Identity Formation: Transforming a Curriculum
Description: Richard Cruess, MD, Professor of Surgery and a Core Faculty Member of the Centre for Medical Education of McGill University, and Sylvia Cruess, MD, Professor of Medicine and a Core Faculty Member of the Centre for Medical Education of McGill University, will lead a conference pre-course workshop, From Teaching Professionalism to Supporting Professional Identity Formation: Transforming a Curriculum.

The Cruesses and others have proposed that the teaching of professionalism is a means to an end, with the end and the educational objective, being to assist learners to develop their professional identities. If medical educators are to design a curriculum that supports professional identity formation and socialization, through which it is formed, they must understand both processes. This workshop will be based on experience gained in transforming a curriculum devoted to teaching professionalism to one whose educational objective is to support the development of professional identities of learners.

Learning Objectives:
• Describe the nature of professional identity formation in medicine.
• Articulate the role of socialization in the formation of professional identity and the factors which impact upon the
process.
• Develop a plan to support professional identity formation in their own milieu

? Best Practices for Developing Professionalism OSCE Stations
Description: Professionalism is an essential competency for all healthcare providers, yet it is difficult to teach and to assess. OSCE stations can cover some of the challenging behaviors that need to be addressed (e.g., admitting mistakes, addressing unprofessional behaviors in colleagues, standing up for what is right despite pressures). Sometimes such stations can be integrated in more general OSCEs, and at other times they can be combined to form a Professionalism OSCE. This PreConference Course will enhance participants’ skills in developing Professionalism OSCE stations that are culturally, professionally and institutionally relevant and educationally effective. 

Learning Objectives:
• Identify Best Practices for the various stages of OSCE development (i.e., initial preparations/needs assessment, case
writing, station preparation and implementation).
• Translate professionalism concerns into OSCE stations (i.e., objectives, learner and SP instructions, rating forms).
• Mitigate challenges unique to Professionalism OSCE stations.

Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.