Attendance at the Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology Annual Meeting

Attendance at the Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology Annual Meeting

Grant:
Lecturers' Professional Development Fund (LPDF)
Academic Year:
2014 - 2015 (June 1, 2014 through May 31, 2015)
Funding Requested:
$1,960.00
Project Dates:
-
Applicant(s):
ahteich
Overview of the Project:
With the advent of the Ophthalmology Milestone Project, educators across the country are seeking new ways to better assess resident performance. Residents currently keep records of every patient seen on call in accordance with Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requirements, and these logs are potential sources of valuable information on resident clinical experience and progress if stored in an easily accessible format. An iPad application was developed to document information about each on call patient encounter in real time. The application was implemented at the Kellogg Eye Center starting January 1st, 2014 and preliminary data was gathered for 5 months. The number of patients seen per call ranged from 0 to 21 with a mode of 2. The average number of patients seen on a weeknight was 3.5 versus 9.5 on a weekend day. Additional data was compiled regarding types of consults seen, types of diagnoses seen, and duration of encounters. The digital call log application is a useful tool for ascertaining numerous parameters of the resident call experience. This will be helpful in assessing the call system as a whole for quality improvement as well as evaluating individual residents according to ACGME milestones. The project will be presented at the annual meeting of the Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology in Tucson, Arizona in January 2015. This will be an invaluable experience to share our data and to learn more about the current challenges and innovations in ophthalmology education across the country.
Final Report Fields
Project Objectives:

The objectives were as follows: (1) To represent the University of Michigan at the Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology (AUPO) annual meeting, (2) To present our data on the development and use of a novel iPad application for documenting and logging patients seen on call in our residency program, (3) To meet ophthalmology educators from around the country, and (4) To learn the current challenges facing ophthalmology education and how others are innovating to meet these challenges.

Project Achievements:

The major achievement of this project was that my work on the call log application was accepted as a talk at the conference, and it was well received by my colleagues. We got valuable feedback from other program directors, several of whom commented that the biggest challenge for them in implementing such an electronic call record would be motivating their residents to follow through. We have also found this to be a challenge in our own program, and we have since worked together with our residents to further innovate the call log system to export data directly from the electronic medical record. Our residents find this to be less burdensome and easier to comply with.

Continuation:
The project is no longer active.
Dissemination:
Our chief resident every year attends the AUPO meeting to represent the University of Michigan and present the most current and relevant educational project.
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