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Office of UME & Curricular Affairs

School of Medicine Update

March 2024 Edition

We're Back!

Hello Residents and Faculty! It's been a little while since we showed up in your inbox, but don't worry, you couldn't get rid of us that easily! Please read on for a few important updates happening at the School of Medicine!

PLEASE HELP US!

Residency Preparation (Transition to Residency - TTR) Request

Our TTR course is a month long required course for all graduates and match seniors. It prepares students for the transition to residency and its responsibilities, stressors, challenges, expectations, and roles.

We are in need of a tremendous number of senior and chief residents, fellows, attendings, and faculty members to make our non-surgical residency prep course a success! This course is crucial to making our students internship-ready and confident in their abilities, but we can't do it without you. We need volunteers to assist with our breakout sessions and especially our OSCE station handoffs.

Volunteers will be provided with all of the necessary information and materials to successfully run breakout sessions.

Details

Dates: April 1-26

For more information on the session times and dates, please view the sign up sheet.

Where: In-person at the School of Medicine

Weeks:

Week 1: Foundations and Communication

Week 2: Subspecialty week and specialty based OSCEs

Week 3: Skills & Procedures

Week 4: Application & simulation

There will be a meeting at the end of March to provide more information and resources. Date TBD.

For more information on this exciting volunteer opportunity, please email Michelle Hill.

Click to read a recent (free) AMA publication that gives more information on the importance of these transitions.

M3 Orientation to Clerkships

Every year as part of preparing our new M3 students to begin clerkships, we host a series in professionalism expectations. The core of this is frequently small group discussions regarding the professionalism tenets and practices of becoming a physician. We have openings for virtual group leaders to do one-hour small groups (on Zoom when YOU'RE available), and we'd love for you to join us! Faculty, residents, and fellows are all welcome.

Dates: March 18-22

Contact Michelle Hill to volunteer!

M4 Changes You Should Know

We've been hard at work developing our new and improved fourth year curriculum! Here's what you need to know before our newest graduating class starts their fourth year April 1st.

Every student in the Class of 2025 and onward will be required to do a competency-based Acting Internship in either Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, or Pediatrics. These used to be called subinternships, but will now be known as Acting Internships or AIs. The new task of the AI is to evaluate the competency of students to enter residency by evaluating performance of the EPAs (Entrustable Professional Activities). We continue to develop this course as an in-vitro replacement for STEP 2 CS (gone forever) that will evaluate our students in a different manner. Further faculty training is in the works as this evolves.

All other electives will now be called Subinternships (Sub-Is) to better reflect the workload expected in each course and the popular nomenclature around the country.

Every student will take two longitudinal courses every quarter called Teaching and Learning in Medical Education (TLMed) and Clinical Reasoning Using Integrated Skills in Education (CRUISE). These courses will provide opportunities to expand on the student's foundational knowledge and cultivate student teaching skills in preparation for residency.

Match Day

Is it just us or do the Ides of March sound familiar...?

Our Class of 2024 is counting down the days until they can open their residency match envelopes on March 15th. We're looking forward to sharing a toast with our happy students and sending them out into the world. We hope you'll join us in sending good thoughts of matching top choices to each of our eager students. Soon, they'll be joining you all as fresh interns, and we can't wait to see all of the amazing things they do!

Clinician Investiture Ceremony

At the School of Medicine, we love to celebrate our students' milestones at every opportunity. That's why we're hosting our special "first" event, the Class of 2026 Clinician Investiture.

Please be our special guests!

As our clinical faculty, your open arms as educators are critical to our students' success. This event will act as the first opportunity to welcome students to the hospital and clinical setting, and your presence is highly appreciated.

The Clinician Investiture is a key mile marker on our Highways to Excellence curriculum. This event will focus on our joint educational commitment in preparing our trainees to provide compassionate, collaborative, and scientifically excellent care to all patients as they transition to the Clerkship Phase of their medical education. The program will be anchored in the professional attributes we aim to develop in our students and that mark the essence of a Wayne Warrior MD. The Clinician Investiture denotes a significant transition for our medical students as they take on the professional responsibilities of comprehensive patient care and collegiate clinical work during a pivotal segment of their medical education journey, so it's important for the SOM to recognize the momentous occasion.

As such, we'd like to extend an invitation to join us in this auspicious and meaningful event.

RSVP here: Faculty and Staff

Details

Date: Thursday, March 28

Free Parking: Structure 1 on Cass & W. Palmer

Strolling Lunch Reception:

Location: WSU McGregor Memorial Conference Center

495 Ferry Mall, Detroit, MI 48202

Time: Noon-1:15 p.m.

Clinician Investiture Program:

Location: WSU Community Arts Auditorium

450 Reuther Mall, Detroit, MI 48202

Time: 1:30-2:30 p.m.

Keynote Address: Dr. Eileen Hug, DO, outstanding Clinical Professor, Senior Staff Physician, and our Director of UME at Henry Ford Hospital

The program will conclude with our Physicians In Training receiving a commemorative stethoscope and reciting the uniquely Wayne Pledge of Ethics and Professionalism before proceeding to onboard for the Clerkship Phase of the MD Curriculum.

RSVP

Learn More About the Event

Resident and Faculty Handbook

If you have not already, please take a look at our updated Resident and Faculty Handbook. This handbook includes important information for all of our teachers, including specific guidance on our new evaluation form that includes evaluation questions on communication skills, as well as the updated goals and objectives for all required clerkships and subinternships.