Beyond Flexner Conference 2015
April 13-24, 2015
University of New Mexico
The 2015 Beyond Flexner Conference examined the progress of social mission innovations and reforms, as well as the moral, financial, and pedagogic aspects of social purpose and social accountability in health professions education.
Attendees deliberated about best practices, new schools’ programs, curricular innovations, augmented pipeline programs, teaching health centers, “upstream” medicine, and the public health medicine interface.
Conference participants not only deliberated issues of social mission but had the opportunity to take part in one of 16 site visits in and around Albuquerque. These visits were to programs where health professions students and faculty engaged in community based health delivery, agriculture, environmental improvement, and information exchange projects, modeling the impact a medical school could have on social determinants of health.
Donald Berwick
Vice Admiral Vivek Murthy, U.S. Surgeon General
Fitzhugh Mullan: Beyond Flexner
Art Kaufman: Building a Movement
Donald Berwick: Challenge of Change: The Direction of Change
Christine Cassel: Preparing Students to Love Transparency and Accountability: If You’re Going to be Naked, It’s Good to be Buff
Thomas Nasca: The new GME
Lincoln Chen: Transforming health professions-Globally!
Nirav Shah: Community benefit & social mission
Marc Nivet: State of the Diversity Mission
Rishi Manchanda: How do we move Flexner upstream?
Steven Wartman: Academic Health Centers and Social Determinants
Barbara Brandt: Interprofessional Health Professions
Camara Jones: The Gardener’s Tale and the Physician’s Legitimate Role
Joshua Sharfstein: The Times, They are A-Changin’