What's New in the Office of Medical Student Education (OMSE)

This past year Stan Livingston, MD, Nancy Pandhi, MD and Ann Evensen, MD successfully completed the Department of Family Medicine Master Teacher Fellowship. This program, developed and led by Craig Gjerde, PhD, Jim Shropshire, MD and Jake Prunuske, MD, MSPH consisted of a series of workshops that provided instruction and experiences for faculty to develop their teaching skills. Workshops addressed skills for:

• Mentoring
• Communication
• Small group facilitation
• Providing feedback
• Use of video as an instruction tool
• Precepting in a busy office practice

Special thanks to Kim Lansing, Jerry Ryan, MD and Doug Smith, MD for leading educational sessions. The program culminated with a competency-based Objective Structured Teaching Exam developed by Jim Shropshire, MD. This exam used the Health Sciences Learning Center (HSLC) Clinical Assessment Center and six standardized students, and was a great success. Drs. Livingston, Pandhi and Evensen will each be leading Primary Care Clerkship small group sessions this year. Drs. Gjerde, Shropshire and Prunuske will be presenting the program at the 34th Annual Predoctoral Education Conference on January 24-27, 2008 in Portland, OR.

Jim Shropshire, MD has developed the "4-GET" model for improving communication between doctors and patients when using an electronic health record. Dr. Shropshire will be leading a workshop at the 34th Annual Predoctoral Education Conference on January 24-27, 2008 in Portland, OR to disseminate this model.

Please welcome Jake Prunuske, MD, MSPH to the Department of Family Medicine. Dr. Prunuske earned his medical degree at UW - Madison and completed his residency and fellowship at the University of Utah. His clinical practice is at UW Health - Monona. He is the chair of the OMSE committee and will serve as the faculty contact for the Office of Medical Student Education. Dr. Prunuske is also the course director of the Fourth-Year Preceptorship at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. He is assuming responsibility for the course as Byron Crouse, MD focuses on developing the Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine.

Please welcome Dan Schaefer, MD to the DFM. Dr. Schaefer earned his medical degree at UW- Madison and completed his residency at the UCLA Medical Center. His clinical practice is at Mt. Horeb. Dr. Schaefer is joining Don Carufel-Wert, MD as co-leader of the LOCUS program.

The 2007-2008 academic year is underway. Thank you to the many DFM faculty who are helping with the Generalist Partners Program; Patient, Doctor and Society; the Primary Care Clerkship and medical student education. We look forward to an excellent year.