Patient Care is Focus of ABMS/ACGME Joint Conference
Posted on: Monday, 21 August 2006, 12:00 CDT
EVANSTON, Ill., Aug. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Assessing and Improving Patient Care, the sixth annual joint conference on the core competencies presented by the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), will be held Nov. 2 and 3, in Rosemont, Ill., near Chicago's O'Hare airport.
The 1-1/2 day event will feature noted healthcare professionals who will focus on assessing and improving the quality of patient care provided by residents in training and physicians in practice. The topics and speakers include:
* The Quality Gap by Elizabeth McGlynn, Ph.D., M.D., RAND Corporation; * Assessing Patient Care panel session with Diane M. Hartmann, M.D., University of Rochester School of Medicine and F. Daniel Duffy, M.D., American Board of Internal Medicine; * How Literacy and Communication Initiatives Improve Patient Care by Darren A. DeWalt, M.D., MPH, University of North Carolina and * Models for Improving Patient Care panel session with Ed H. Wagner, M.D., MPH, MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation and Charles M. Kilo, M.D., MPH, GreenField Health.
"Improving patient care and closing the quality gap is a challenge that must always remain a high priority," said Sheldon D. Horowitz, M.D., senior vice president, ABMS. "Previous attendees have responded well to the series on core competencies and we anticipate a particularly positive response to this year's program."
Past ABMS/ACGME conferences on the core competencies have focused on medical knowledge, interpersonal and communication skills, professionalism, practice-based learning and improvement and systems-based practice.
For more information about the Assessing and Improving Patient Care conference, call (847) 491-9091 or visit the ABMS Web site at http://www.abms.org/conferences.asp.
About the Host Organizations
ABMS is the umbrella organization for the 24 approved medical specialty boards in the United States. Established in 1933, ABMS' mission is to maintain and improve the quality of medical care in the United States by assisting the Member Boards in their efforts to develop and utilize professional and educational standards for the evaluation and certification of physician specialists.
ACGME is a private professional organization responsible for the accreditation of nearly 7,800 residency education programs. Residency education is the period of clinical education in a medical specialty that follows graduation from medical school, and prepares physicians for the independent practice of medicine.
American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS)
CONTACT: ABMS Media Contact - Lori Boukas, +1-847-491-9091,lboukas@abms.org
Web site: http://www.abms.org/conferences.asp
Source: PRNewswire
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