World Congress Co-ChairsRobert Baron, MD, MSAssociate Dean for Graduate and Continuing Medical EducationProfessor of MedicineUniversity of California, San Francisco School of Medicine

Mary G. Turco, EdD President, Society for Academic Continuing Medical EducationConsultant, Center for Learning and Professional DevelopmentDartmouth-HitchcockAssistant Professor of MedicineThe Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Themes

• CME Works—Now What?

• What is CME/CPD in the 21st Century?

• How can CME/CPD participate as a full partner in the rapidly changing healthcare system?

Guiding Principles

Global

Interactive

Interprofessional

Keynote Speaker

Alicia R. Cole

“Why What We Do Matters: The Patient’s

Story”

• Her life changed dramatically in 2006 when a routine

surgical procedure left her fighting for her life against

sepsis, multi-drug resistant bacterial infections, and

necrotizing fasciitis.

• She is a nationally recognized patient safety consultant,

public speaker, and patient advocate. She and her parents

founded ASAP, a non-profit education and awareness

organization working to eliminate preventable infections.

• She was recently appointed by President Obama to the

Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-

Resistant Bacteria.

Keynote Speaker

Lorelei Lingard, PhD

“Collective Competence: Truths about Teams”

• As a rhetorician, she investigates "language as social action”: how social groups use language to get things done, and how that language acts on them, their identities, their purposes, their situations, and their relationships.

• Her research program has investigated the nature of communication on inter-professional healthcare teams in a variety of clinical settings.

• She has explored the influence of team communication on healthcare training, team competence and patient safety.

Keynote Speaker

Zeke Emanuel, MD, PhD

"What Do We Need to Protect, At All Costs, in the

21st Century?"

• He is an author, breast oncologist, cook, and policymaker.

• He is Vice Provost for Global Initiatives, the Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor, and Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania.

• He was the founding chair of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health and held that position until August of 2011.

• He served as a Special Advisor on Health Policy to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the White House.

Keynote Speaker

Alex Jadad, MD, DPhil, FRCPC, FCAHS, FRSA

"Learn to Change: Teaching toward a Shifting

Healthcare Horizon”

• A physician, educator, researcher, and public advocate, his mission is to help improve health and wellness for all, through information and communication technologies.

• His research and innovation work seeks to identify and connect the best minds, the best knowledge and the best tools across traditional boundaries to eliminate unnecessary suffering.

• His work focuses on a radical "glocal" innovation model designed to improve the capacity of humans to imagine, create and promote new and better approaches to living, healing, working and learning .

• Founder and Chief Innovator of the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation at the University Health Network and the University of Toronto, he is a full professor, staff physician, holder of the Canada Research Chair in eHealth Innovation and Interim Director of the Institute for Global Health Equity and Innovation.

Abstract Submissions

We received a total of 238 abstracts:

•Research orals 27%•Best practice orals 22%•Workshops 21%•Posters 18%•Innovations 11%•Research symposia 1%

Rigorous Review Process

Invitations to review were sent to:•Advisory Board•Steering Committee•Program Committee•Research and Publications Committee• 43 reviewers were assigned 30 abstracts, instructed to recuse themselves as relevant, and asked to select 18 abstracts to review within their areas of expertise

• Every abstract was reviewed by at least three reviewers

Featured Interactive Symposia

• Co-Producing and Co-Creating Learning and Assessment

• SQUIRE Guidelines in QI and Education

• How Collective Competence Can Provide a Way Forward in Practice, Teaching and Assessment

• Is the Hidden Curriculum Getting in the Way of IPE

Featured Interactive Symposia• Future of Accreditation Systems around the World

• Defining the Future of Medicine and the Role of Providers at the Local and Global Level - What Does This Mean for CPD?

• Most Influential Articles in Medical Education—What Would You Choose?

• Personal Learning in the Work Place

Special Features

• Facilitated Poster Sessions

• Innovations—Demos and Presentations

• Clinics• Where to Submit My Manuscript

• Twitter

• Social Media

• Research Coaching

• End-of-Day Takeaways

• Reflections/Connections