Dear Colleagues,
Below you will find the summary report and notes from the first Annual ACGIM Chief's summit, as well as the PowerPoint presentations made there. It was truly our pleasure to have the benefit of so many thoughtful and dedicated leaders present, and your energy and engagement made the Summit a truly unique experience for GIM leaders. Thank you!
As we promised, the ACGIM executive committee focused on the ideas generated at the Summit itself regarding academic hospitalists in Divisions of GIM, and took them into account in the opening session of our retreat immediately following the Summit. We addressed the question: What should ACGIM do to support leadership development for Academic Hospitalists? David Meltzer was kind enough to extend his stay in Scottsdale to participate in that discussion. In addition, we were able to focus on recommendations made by the group on the workforce issue in General Internal Medicine.
We made the following decisions:
- The ACGIM Executive Committee is committed to supporting
leadership development within the Hospital Medicine community, and actively seeks formal
membership and participation by Hospitalist leaders in all aspects of the organization.
a. We will ensure ACGIM's Annual Management Institute includes workshops specific to academic hospitalist management issues.
b. We will reconfigure membership in the ACGIM executive committee to include at least one hospitalist leader at all times.
c. We will continue to co-chair and support the SGIM/ACGIM academic hospitalist task force.
d. We will advocate for quality, safety, and inpatient systems improvement research sessions at SGIM's annual meeting, in order to support and highlight these activities as worthwhile academic endeavors.
e. We plan to take this important issue to the Association of Professors of Medicine at the upcoming spring meeting in Phoenix.
- The ACGIM Executive Committee actively seeks further dialogue on the GIM workforce issue. This issue is multifaceted, and it is clear that there is no single solution to this problem. ACGIM supports the current efforts underway by the AAIM, ACP, SGIM and others to redesign residency education, and will continue to partner with these organizations. ACGIM is interested in developing collaborations on ambulatory redesign in the coming year as well, and agrees conceptually that changes in the model of ambulatory care are needed to enhance the attractiveness of our field.
Again, we appreciate very much the willingness all of you showed to put potentially divisive differences aside for a few hours to focus on improving the milieu for success of academic generalism in all its forms. We remain optimistic about GIM's future!
Sincerely,
| Valerie Weber, MD Summit Program Chair President Elect - ACGIM |
Carolyn Voss, MD President, ACGIM |
ACGIM SUMMIT PRESENTATION & SUMMARY MATERIALS |
- ACGIM Summit Meeting Minutes
- Presentation Materials:
Integration of Hospitalist Sections within the General Internal Medicine Division:
A. Mark V. Williams, MD - Proponent
for separate divisions of hospital medicine
B. Robert M. Centor, MD - Proponent for
integrated hospital medicine model
C. Mary D. Nettleman, MD - A
Chair’s Perspective
D. Summary Materials from Open Discussion
- moderated by Tim McChesney
Key points from Hospitalist Discussion
E. Crisis in Internal Medicine - Impending Workforce Issues - Valerie Weber, MD
ACGIM SUMMIT EVALUATION |
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