Dear Colleagues, 

This year’s ADMSEP Annual Meeting will be June 14-16 at the Semiahmoo Resort in the wonderfully temperate coastal Pacific Northwest outside of Blaine, Washington. The Annual Meeting presentations take the form of plenary presentations, workshops, discussion groups and posters.
 
You are invited to submit proposal abstracts on any topics relevant to medical student education in psychiatry.  As in past years, a "plenary" will be a group of three to four individual presentations that are in some way related.  Plenary presentations will be a 12-15 minute formal presentations to the whole group of meeting attendees.  Several people can submit for a plenary they believe would fit well together or the program committee will try to group individual submissions with similar topics. "Workshops" are semi-structured learning sessions designed to facilitate interaction and active learning with a limited didactic element. They are given to smaller audiences, usually less than 25 participants, and last about 75 minutes. Depending on the mix of our submissions, we may again have a “Discussion Group” format concurrent during one of the Workshops sessions where three to four similar topics will be joined together for a more intimate discussion of the topics. Poster submissions can be anything from educational research to descriptions of innovative approaches to medical student education.    

The abstract submission application is available online in the “Meetings” section of our website at www.admsep.org. Please note that we must have all relevant application components, including disclosure statements, from all persons in your presentation by the deadline of Friday, October 7, 2011.  Please do not hesitate to call or email me if you have any questions.

As has been the case the last few years, we will have some of our abstracts, usually from the plenary and poster submissions, published in the journal Teaching and Learning in Medicine. The journal prefers empiric research so we are very interested in, though certainly not requiring, submissions that would include appropriate collection and presentation of data (even if the data is not available at the time of submission but would be so by the meeting).

Poster awards will be given for the best of “Research in Medical Education” and “Innovations in Medical Education”.

ADMSEP was founded over thirty years ago to provide support for psychiatric faculty responsible for medical student education. Our members, including psychiatric educators from all years of medical student training, keep in touch throughout the year via our active listserv discussions and meet annually to exchange ideas in a supportive, collegial atmosphere. On behalf of the Council and Membership, thank you, and we hope to see you at Semiahmoo in 2012!

 

Warmest Regards, 

John and Renate 

John J. Spollen, MD
Program Chair, ADMSEP 2012
Dept of Psychiatry
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
4301 West Markham St, Slot 589
Little Rock, AR  72205
john.spollen@va.gov
(pager) 501-688-6679

Renate Rosenthal, Ph.D.
Program Co-Chair, ADMSEP 2012
Department of Psychiatry
135 N. Pauline, 6th Floor
UT Memphis
Memphis TN 38105
rrosenthal@uthsc.edu
901-448-6400