NEWS

Highlights from the June 4th Research Administration Update

Institutional Review Board

• A second IRB is being established and new members are being recruited. Starting September 2007 there will be 2 monthly meetings:

  • second Wednesday from 7:30 - 9:00 am

  • fourth Monday from 3:00 - 5:00 pm

• The IRB WebKit is being enhanced based on new regulatory requirements and researcher requests for a mid-summer roll-out.

 

Sponsored Programs Administration

• A new Internal Processing Form (IPF) has been developed for late-summer implementation.

  • All research will go through the IPF

  • IPF precedes IRB submission

  • Both PI & department chair are required to approve IPF

  • PI & chair approval will include new tax exempt language

• New Medicare research coverage regulations effective July 20, 2007 update National Coverage Decision 2000.

  • Previous diagnostic and billing coding rules are unchanged.

  • Significant changes from previous coverage rules include types of covered/allowed research and new incremental qualifying processes.

For questions, contact Louise Morse at 4-7906 or Dr. Richard Engelman at 4-5201.

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New Psychiatry Residency Proposed for Baystate Medical Center

BMC's Tenth Residency Program Could Start as Soon as July 2009

The Baystate Health Board of Trustees approved a proposal to develop a new residency in psychiatryat Baystate Medical Center during its June 12, 2007 meeting.

Dr. Benjamin Liptzin, Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, will serve as the inaugural Residency Program Director. As proposed, the new residency program would have 4 residents in each year of the 4-year program.

The proposal will now go to the BMC Graduate Medical Education Committee and then to the Accreditation Committee for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). It is anticipated that the program could recruit its first group of residents to begin training in July 2009.

On June 14th, Baystate’s Med-Peds Residency learned that it received full accreditation without citations by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and a 2-year review cycle—the maximum ACGME allows for new programs.   

Over the past 8 months all combined medicine–pediatrics programs in the country underwent a process to receive accreditation as free-standing residency programs.  Prior to this, all med-peds programs functioned as tracks of their categorical internal medicine and pediatric residency programs.  The program's request for an exemption allowing med-peds residents to participate in the Internal Medicine Educational Innovations Project headed by Dr. Kevin Hinchey was also approved. 

Baystate has been fortunate to have a strong med-peds residency program since its inception in 1983 by Drs. Edward Reiter and Martin Broder.  Resident and attending members of the program have held leadership positions in several national med-peds organizations, and the program is highly respected in the medical education community. 

Samuel Borden, MD is the Residency Program Director, and Brendan Kelly, MD is the Associate Director.

A report in this month's issue of AAIM Insights features the Baystate Manager Model as the centerpiece of the Baystate/Tufts University School of Medicine Educational Innovations Project (EIP). This model is grounded in the mastery of clearly defined competencies and has 3 sequential phases: learner, manager, and teacher. Authors include Michael Rosenblum, MD Michael Picchioni, MD, Samuel H. Borden, MD Mihaela Stefan, MD, Lauren Meade, MD, Kevin Hinchey, MD, and Patricia J. McArdle, EdD. Read the complete report.

The Northeast Group on Educational Affairs (NEGEA) is one of four regional groups of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Group on Educational Affairs. NEGEA's annual meetings provide a forum for medical educators to exchange ideas, learn new strategies, and develop plans to facilitate their own work in promoting excellence in the education of medical students, residents, and physicians.

• Mihaela Stefan MD, Gladys Fernandez MD, Michael Picchioni MD, David Page MD, Michael Rosenblum MD, Kevin Hinchey MD.
  A Longitudinal Simulation-Based Training Curriculum for Third Year Medical Students – A Combined Effort between Medical and Surgical Departments.
  Preliminary results after 6 months highly support the use of simulator based training for students in the development of critical thinking, decision making, leadership and communication skills.

• Michael Rosenblum MD, Samuel Borden MD, Lauren Meade MD, Michael Picchioni MD, Mihaela Stefan MD, Kevin Hinchey MD.
  The Baystate Manager Model.
  The Manager Model is an innovative and effective paradigm to produce competent physician-educators. The Managers are responsible for all aspects of inpatient care and work one-on-one with an attending physician as well as with manager peers.

• Lauren Meade MD, Samuel Borden MD, Michael Rosenblum MD, Michael Picchioni MD, Mihaela Stefan MD, Kevin Hinchey MD.
  

  Translating the Core Competencies into Progression-based Evaluations for an Internist.

  In moving from time-based requirements to a competency-based progression in Internal Medicine graduate education we have developed evaluations that are based in the core competencies and are specific measurable behaviors that represent the milestones in progression toward attaining the fundamentals of the Internist.

• Michael Picchioni MD, Kevin T. Hinchey MD.
  

  Increasing the Quality and Quantity of Feedback in Medical Education.

  Attending a half-day retreat and two skill-based workshops produced a dramatic increase in the quality and quantity of the feedback residents provided to medical students that has been sustained over a 6 month period with a single 45 minute follow-up session.

Majority of Baystate’s Clinical Research Staff Now Have Certification

95% Acheived Certification on May 11th SoCRA Certification Exam Compared to National Average of 80%

Academic Affairs is proud to announce that the majority of Baystate’s Clinical Research Coordinators, Assistants, and Regulatory Specialists are certified as either a CCRP (Certified Clinical Research Professional) or a CCRC (Certified Clinical Research Coordinator).

Certification in clinical research demonstrates a level of knowledge, experience, and professional commitment that is highly desirable to sponsors and accrediting organizations. SoCRA and ACRP are the two primary professional organizations for those working in the field of clinical research.

Certified Clinical Research Staff

Annual Report of the TUSM Faculty Senate Available Online

Baystate’s Senate Representative, Lauren Meade MD, Provides Highlights for Baystate Faculty

TUSM Clinical Teaching Subcommittee

Charged with reviewing the TUSM Clinical Faculty Teaching mission and making recommendations to address significant issues including obligations, compensation and recognition, the Clinical Teaching Subcommittee conducted a survey of each of the 4 teaching institutions.

Based on survey data that revealed that Clinical Teaching Faculty spend many uncompensated hours teaching medical students independently of house officers (9,797 hours/year at Baystate alone), the subcommittee concluded that:

• Clinical Faculty are currently uncompensated or under-compensated.

• A more standardized formula is needed to distribute the small amount of compensation currently dedicated for Clinical Faculty teaching time.

• There is a need to raise funding for Clinical Faculty in collaboration with the TUSM development office.

Clinical Faculty Appointments and Promotions Committee

The Clinical Faculty Appointments and Promotions committee submitted the final draft for new Promotion criteria.  All Baystate faculty are strongly encouraged to review the criteria and apply for appropriate promotion with mentorship from your Chair.  Appropriate advancement is important for each individual as well as Baystate’s aggregate faculty representation at the medical school. 

The Clinical Faculty Appointments and Promotions document details the 3 track options for promotion:

• Unmodified Track—considered for overall accomplishments in teaching, clinical service, administrative service and/or research.

• Research Track—based on contributions in generation of new knowledge as the exclusive domain for a faculty member’s professional activity.

• Clinical Track—reserved for clinical faculty who direct the majority of their professional effort to clinical services but also make considerable contributions to teaching.

TUSM Updates

The Medical School is implementing an Educational Strategic Planning Committee. The changing nature of biomedical knowledge and practice, such as advances in genetics and molecular and cellular biology, are diminishing the traditional boundaries between disciplines and increasing the interface between basic and clinical science. Although still in the early planning phase, a "blueprint" to guide TUSM over the next 5 to 10 years has emerged that may affect the timing of medical students’ 3rd and 4th year clerkships at Baystate.

Faculty Senate agendas, minutes, annual reports and calendar are posted on TUSK,