The 24th Forum for Behavioral Science in Family Medicine
Downtown Chicago: September 18 - September 21, 2003

This Year's Theme:
"Building Connections, Developing Competencies"

About this year's theme: Connections and competencies are essential ingredients for educators and health care professionals as we work with residents, patients and colleagues. Our theme challenges us to build and maintain important connections in concert with a renewed commitment to educational and clinical training experiences that advance the competencies of our learners.

The educational purpose of the Forum is to assist primary care faculty in understanding and developing their academic roles in family medicine residency education. Academic roles include common faculty practices in educational research, instructional design and teaching. Because the meeting focuses on behavioral sciences, the purpose is explicitly targeted to psychologists, social workers and physicians interested in behavioral science education.

The Forum has three key objectives that are supplemented by session objectives specific to each of the teaching workshops and seminars. These are the three overall objectives and specific details about them:

Build professionally helpful connections to those with diverse backgrounds

• Through networking and instructional sessions, participants will report one or more productive interactions with colleagues from different professional and cultural backgrounds

Plan, provide and/or evaluate effective educational experiences in behavioral science

• Participants will acquire one or more instructional skills for teaching the required (ACGME) competencies
• Participants will acquire one or more instructional skills for assessing the required (ACGME) competencies

Share new ideas in behavioral science teaching and patient care

• Through resource exchanges with presenters and co-participants, participants will acquire new methods and tools for teaching and/or patient care.
  

The Forum is sponsored by the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. The planning committee is national in scope as is the draw of the conference participants. The Forum is designed to be an intimate gathering (<150 people) to help each participant to attain their learning goals. The Medical College of Wisconsin designates this activity for a maximum of 15.75 category 1 credits toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits that he/she actually spent in the activity. Continuing education credits are provided by the CME office of the Medical College of Wisconsin.

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For reservations at the Holiday Inn - Chicago City Centre 300 East Ohio Street, Chicago, IL please call 312-787-6100. Be sure and mention that you are with "The 24th Forum for Behavioral Sciences" in order to receive your single room rate of $140.00. This special room rate is only good until August 27, 2003. After August 27th there is a higher rate. Be sure and make your reservations early.

Questions - Contact
Mary Ellen Radjenovich, Conference Coordinator, at 414-456-8189 or meradjen@mcw.edu, or Vicki Straub, PhD, program chair, at straubv@health.missouri.edu