Create your own Surgical education outreach program: Keys to success for starting and maintaining a robust outreach effort
Session TypeWorkshop
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Yes
As a surgical education center that hosts upwards of 20 outreach events annually, the Washington University Institute for Surgical Education (WISE) team will demonstrate how outreach programs can bring value to your own simulation centers. Our surgical education outreach programs provide opportunities that uniquely explore the basics of surgical healthcare and are targeted towards learners interested in pursuing careers in medicine, especially learners from underserved or under-resourced areas. The workshop will build off of our existing model but will be applicable and scalable to participant’s individual institution’s needs and capabilities.
This workshop is designed for surgical education professionals (PDs/APDs, sim center directors, residents, fellows, administrators, technicians, and medical students), chiefly those interested in community outreach initiatives. It aims to familiarize participants with tips and tricks to engage local communities and build sustainable outreach programs within their own simulation centers.
Our goal is to share nearly a decade of WISE’s successes and challenges in outreach, providing participants with a practical framework and adaptable tools to design programs that fit their own communities and institutions.
At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
- Identify their own target audiences and develop their program’s primary outreach goals (ie. exposing low resourced, medically focused learners to basic career choices within the realm of surgery)
- Create a low risk, high yield environment for participants’ selected outreach audience
- Demonstrate pathways for identifying community participants
- Formulate strategies for recruitment of outreach volunteers, along with funding sources and partners
- Plan session agendas for outreach events
- Generate action items to ensure outreach events yield high ROI
- Established milestones for data collection and program longevity
90-minute workshop
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Identify their own target audiences and develop their program’s primary outreach goals
Create a low risk, high yield environment for participants’ selected outreach audience
Demonstrate pathways for identifying community participants
Formulate strategies for recruitment of outreach volunteers, along with funding sources and partners
Plan session agendas for outreach events
| Activity Order | Title of Presentation or Activity | Presenter/Faculty Name | Presenter/Faculty Email | Time allotted in minutes for activity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
Workshop Leader's Introduction |
Michael Awad |
awadm@wustl.edu |
5 |
2 |
Introduction to WISE and our community outreach efforts |
Karen Schubert |
schubertk@wustl.edu |
10 |
3.1 |
Breakout table 1: Target Audiances |
Gretchen Blow |
blowg@wustl.edu |
30 |
3.2 |
Breakout table 2 – Simulation activities |
Angelia DeClue |
angelia.declue@wustl.edu |
30 |
3.3 |
Breakout Table 3 – Engaging volunteers, residents, and program leadership |
Blake Beneville |
blake.b@wustl.edu |
15 |
3.3 |
Breakout table 3- Engaging volunteers, residents, and program leadership |
Abby Hatcher |
abigailh@wustl.edu |
15 |
3.4 |
Breakout table 4 – Collecting feedback and presenting data to stakeholders |
Krista Dirnberger |
dkrista@wustl.edu |
30 |
4 |
Open Discussion – share out from tables |
Karen Schubert |
schubertk@wustl.edu |
20 |
5 |
Engaging on a Global Level |
Peggy Frisella |
frisellap@wustl.edu |
10 |
6 |
Value of community outreach initiatives – ROI |
Karen Schubert |
schubertk@wustl.edu |
15 |