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    Southeast Michigan Center for Medical Education

    The Southeast Michigan Center for Medical Education (SEMCME) was established in 1974 for the purpose of coordinating and assisting in the education of medical students, medical residents, faculty, and other health professionals. Its primary mission is to stimulate the delivery of quality care through excellence in graduate medical education and faculty development. SEMCME is the largest community based medical education consortium in the Midwest. There are 13 member hospitals with 277 accredited residency and fellowship programs in 90 specialties and sub-specialties, 3,636 approved residency and fellowship positions and over 4,000 university and community faculty.

    SEMCME also has an affiliation with the Wayne State University School of Medicine and the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine. These universities make a vital contribution to SEMCME's education efforts. SEMCME has established a process of pooling ideas for innovative medical education.  Cooperation among member hospitals and universities and the sharing of knowledge and experience achieves educational benefits which no single institution can obtain alone.

  • PARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONS

            • Ascension Providence Hospital; Novi and Southfield
            • Ascension Providence Rochester Hospital
            • Ascension St. John Hospital
            • Beaumont Hospital, Dearborn
            • Beaumont Hospital, Farmington Hills (Surgery)
            • Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak
            • Detroit Medical Center Hospitals


        • Garden City Hospital (Surgery)
        • Henry Ford Hospital
        • McLaren Health Care Hospitals
        • St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor
        • St. Joseph Mercy Oakland
        • Wayne State University School of Medicine
        • Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
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Available courses

Preparing for Practice / Session 2: Contracts, Compensations, Negotiations and RVU’s

Preparing for Practice / Session 2: Contracts, Compensations, Negotiations and RVU’s

Featured Speaker: Susan Sanford, Resident Outreach, Trinity Health
About the Course:

Preparing for Practice is not a recruitment event - It's an online educational program that will help trainees feel more comfortable with the process of finding their post training position and understanding employment agreements. The program will be offered virtually in a relaxed, informal environment with ample opportunities to ask questions. This fall, we are offering two sessions, giving residents the option to determine what topics might be of value to them depending on their timeline. 


Session 2: Contracts, Compensations, Negotiations and RVU's 
Thursday, September 24, 2020 from 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

After attending this session of the program, trainees can expect to understand common contract provisions as well as ones that can be risky, learn about compensation modules and benefits packages, and get tips on how to negotiate. This session is also targeted towards trainees expecting to graduate in 2021 or 2022.


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Session 1: CV's, Searches, and Interviews - Recording Available!

This session will focus on beginning your search for the right position after residency training. Topics to be covered include how to prepare for job interviews - what to expect, where to look, what questions to ask, as well as developing your CV. This session is targeted toward trainees expecting to graduate in 2021 or 2022. The recording of this session is available. Please contact Carly Ackerman at cackerman@med.wayne.edu for details.

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Faculty Development Workshop Series 1: Fostering Civility, Resilience, Mindfulness and Supportive Teams

Faculty Development Workshop Series 1: Fostering Civility, Resilience, Mindfulness and Supportive Teams

Teacher: Jillian Horton, Wendy Jolivet, Barbara Wolf

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Preparing for Practice / Session 1: CV's, Searches, and Interviews

Preparing for Practice / Session 1: CV's, Searches, and Interviews

Featured Speaker: Susan Sanford, Resident Outreach, Trinity Health
About the Course:

Preparing for Practice is not a recruitment event - It's an online educational program that will help trainees feel more comfortable with the process of finding their post training position and understanding employment agreements. The program will be offered virtually in a relaxed, informal environment with ample opportunities to ask questions. This fall, we are offering two sessions, giving residents the option to determine what topics might be of value to them depending on their timeline. 


Session 1: CV's, Searches, and Interviews - Wednesday, August 26, 2020 from 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

This session will focus on beginning your search for the right position after residency training. Topics to be covered include how to prepare for job interviews - what to expect, where to look, what questions to ask, as well as developing your CV. This session is targeted toward trainees expecting to graduate in 2021 or 2022.


Session 2: Contracts, Compensations, Negotiations and RVU's - Thursday, September 24, 2020 from 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

After attending this session of the program, trainees can expect to understand common contract provisions as well as ones that can be risky, learn about compensation modules and benefits packages, and get tips on how to negotiate. This session is also targeted towards trainees expecting to graduate in 2021 or 2022.


Teacher: Kate Sheppard

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31st Annual Chief and Senior Resident Workshop: Essential Skills for Resident Leaders

31st Annual Chief and Senior Resident Workshop: Essential Skills for Resident Leaders

Registration Information:

  • SEMCME Members:  FREE - To complete registration and gain access to the course, please enter the enrollment key provided to you via email.
  • Non-Members:  $150 - Please proceed to PayPal to complete your registration and gain access to the course.


About the Workshop

The SEMCME Chief and Senior Resident workshop provides residents the opportunity to enhance their management, communication, and leadership skills through comprehensive discussions about leadership style, constructive feedback, and problem resolution. Residents will become familiar with their own personal behavior style, explore behavior styles of others, and learn effective methods of behavior management. Upon completion of this workshop, participants will walk away with practical applications and strategies necessary to fulfill their new roles as Chief and Senior Medical Residents.

Target Audience

This workshop is intended for incoming Chief and Senior Residents in all specialties.


Topics Covered

- Essential Communication Skills for Leaders
- Implicit Bias in Health
- Leadership and Change Management 
- Problems and Problem Solving: Working with Difficult Folks
- Personality and Leadership Style
- Teaching your Residents How to Teach
- Women and Leadership in Medicine (Optional)

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18th Annual Internal Medicine Comprehensive Review Course

18th Annual Internal Medicine Comprehensive Review Course

About the Course

The course is a 6-day, intensive review of Internal Medicine to help with the preparation for the ABIM Certification examination. The course consists of recorded lectures and live discussions on several topics in Internal Medicine and its subspecialties based on ABIM blue print and an end of topic 20 question exam. A comprehensive book consisting of all the course material will be provided. 

Contact Carly Ackerman at cackerman@med.wayne.edu to register for this 6-day ABIM certification exam preparatory course. The registration deadline is Friday, May 22, 2020. 

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Postgraduate Course in Ob/Gyn 2020-21

Postgraduate Course in Ob/Gyn 2020-21

The SEMCME Ob/Gyn Committee established the Postgraduate Course in 1974 in order to enhance resident understanding of physiology and pathology as they apply to the practice of obstetrics and gynecology. In addition, the course serves to update resident knowledge regarding the most current concepts of obstetrics and gynecology, reproductive endocrinology, genetics, and oncology. In recent years, the Course has evolved to incorporate simulation training as a modality for teaching residents these important topics.

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SEMCME Fetal Assessment Course

SEMCME Fetal Assessment Course

About the Fetal Assessment Course:
All OB/GYN and Family Medicine Residents are invited to attend the SEMCME Fetal Assessment Course sponsored by the SEMCME OB/GYN Committee. Attendance is typically required for 1st year residents. This course is designed to teach and evaluate basic competency in interpreting antepartum and intrapartum fetal assessment data predominantly for the term pregnancy. Teaching methods include lectures and examples, with a focus on common terminology. Visual examples of fetal heart rate patterns are used extensively throughout the course. By completion of the day, course participants will be able to define and assess normal and abnormal fetal heart rates, variability, periodic and episodic decelerations, accelerations, uterine contraction patterns and uterine muscle tone.


Course Date:

This course will be held online on Wednesday, August 5, 2020 from 8:00 AM - 12:30 PM.


Please contact Carly Ackerman at cackerman@med.wayne.edu for questions regarding the course and registration.

Teacher: Carly Ackerman, Marie Foe, Tamra Gilewski, Vanessa Raona, Kate Sheppard

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2020 SEMCME Research Workshop Series

2020 SEMCME Research Workshop Series

Teacher: Karen Hagglund, Vanessa Raona

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42nd Annual SEMCME Research Forum

42nd Annual SEMCME Research Forum

Southeast Michigan Center for Medical Education

42nd Annual SEMCME RESEARCH FORUM

The Southeast Michigan Center for Medical Education and its member hospitals are pleased to present the 42nd Annual SEMCME Research Forum.  In addition to their academic and clinical responsibilities, residents in graduate medical education programs participate in research activities.  The Forum was established in 1978 to recognize the research efforts of the residents from our member hospitals and to recognize their scholarly achievements.  


SPECIAL NOTE:  Due to the COVID19 crisis, the 42nd Annual Research Forum has been moved to an online format !

SEMCME is sincerely grateful to all residents and faculty for participating and for your efforts during the pandemic. We think it is important to acknowledge and celebrate the full scope of the work you do by finding another way to hold this competition.  

Winners will be announced the first week of June.  Please visit this site for a complete listing of presenters and winners!   





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SEMCME Surgery Basic Science Lecture Series (2020-21)

Self enrollment

SEMCME Surgery Basic Science Lecture Series (2020-21)

The Surgery Committee established the Basic Science Course in 1979. The course is designed to assist the resident surgeon in acquiring a thorough and current understanding of the basic sciences as they apply to the surgeon. The course is intended to prepare the resident for an increasing emphasis on the Basic Science aspects of the ABSITE and the Qualifying Examination of the American Board of Surgery. 

The lecture series on basic science will use the textbook, Physiologic Basis of Surgery, 4th Edition by J. Patrick O’Leary, MD. In addition to attending the lectures, the resident is responsible for reading the assigned chapters in the textbook as well as taking a post-test for each lecture. A final written exam will be given at the conclusion of the course. 

Using Zoom video conferencing, the course will be broadcasted and received at Ascension Providence Hospital, Southfield, Ascension St. John Hospital, Beaumont Hospital (Farmington Hills and Royal Oak), Detroit Medical Center/Wayne State University (Detroit), and McLaren Health Care (Flint, Greater Lansing, and Macomb Hospitals). All sessions are from 7:00 to 8:00 a.m. on the first and third Thursday of each month unless otherwise noted. 


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SEMCME Basic Surgical Ultrasound Course

SEMCME Basic Surgical Ultrasound Course

SEMCME Foundations for Surgical Ultrasound                                                        Basic Knowledge and Scanning Skills for Surgical Residents 

November 20, 2020  & December 4, 2020 - Four Offerings (1/2 day each)  • 8:00 am - 12:00 noon and 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

This highly "hands-on" competency-based Course will provide SEMCME surgical residents (PGY 1 & 2) with an experience in basic ultrasound concepts and techniques.  The half-day course will employ a variety of teaching methods including didactic sessions, demonstrations, and hands-on learning.  Residents will gain valuable experience practicing ultrasound techniques while performing standardized simulation tasks on bench models and standardized patients.  

Highlights of the Course:

  • 3 clinical applications:  Neck anatomy for inline placement; Gallbladder imaging; Trauma FAST examination
  • 4 hour session with practice time for individuals on all tasks
  • Biopsy Techniques
  • Simulated tasks on models
  • Favorable instructor/resident ratio
  • Optimal trainee per session with appropriate number of ultrasound machines 
  • Pre and post testing

Target Audience

Trainees should be at the PGY 1 & 2 level with little of no formal ultrasound training


 Objectives

At the conclusion of the course, residents will be able to demonstrate:

  1. familiarity with core ultrasound theory that directly supports image acquisition and interpretation
  2. familiarity with core ultrasound engineering that directly supports image acquisition & interpretation
  3. basic scanning skills with image acquisition
  4. basic documentation and standard image capture skills
  5. appropriate transducer choices and machine settings for each clinical application
  6. appropriate patient positioning and transducer orientation for scanning in each clinical application
  7. knowledge of and the ability to produce the critical views specific for each clinical application 

Faculty

These hands-on courses are presented by experienced surgery faculty from Wayne State University School of Medicine.  Dr. Michael White is the Course Director.  He is currently an Associate Professor of Surgery (Clinician Educator) at WSUSOM, Director of the Burn Unit at Detroit Receiving Hospital, and the Associate Program Director of the General Surgery Residency Program. 


Location   

The Course will take place in the Kado Clinical Skills Center located in the Mazurek Education Commons at WSUSOM.  The address is 320 East Canfield, Detroit, MI 48201.  A map with parking information will be sent to registrants via your residency coordinator

https://semcme.org/pluginfile.php/1219/course/summary/Map%20to%20WSUSOM%20Mazurek%20Center.pdf


Registration

There is no online registration for these courses.  Please see your residency coordinator to sign up for one of the four offered courses.




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Bootcamp on the Fundamentals of Quality Improvement

Bootcamp on the Fundamentals of Quality Improvement

Quality Improvement Fundamentals Bootcamp

Thursday, September 24th, 2020

1:00 – 4:30 PM

An interactive webinar presented by

Southeast Michigan Center for Medical Education


Presented by:

Lakshmi Swaminathan, MD                                          Rajiv John, MD

Division Head, Hospital Medicine IHA                          Beaumont Hospital, Dearborn

St. Joseph Mercy Health System


Informative and interactive course on the fundamentals of conducting a quality improvement or patient safety research project.  Recommended for both medical residents and fellows of all specialties and faculty seeking to learn the fundamental approaches for conducting QI research.


W.E. Deming, often recognized as the father of Quality Management has quoted, “It is not enough to do your best, you must know what to do, and then do your best”.

 

This interactive online workshop will introduce residents and fellows to the key principles of developing successful quality improvement projects.  We will examine the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Model for Improvement framework, apply essential process improvement tools, and highlight examples and venues for sharing quality improvement work. Participants will have an opportunity to share and receive feedback on their project ideas.


Teacher: Rajiv John, Wendy Jolivet, Nadia Juzych, Lakshmi Swaminathan

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