The 2018 CFAS spring professional development conference call for proposals for concurrent breakout sessions and poster presentations is now open. The following brief form will enable you to submit session or poster proposals for our April meeting in Chicago, Ill. Content proposals should be aligned along the following broad themes:

• Institutional Wellness
• Faculty Leadership
• Communication and Advocacy
• Faculty Development
• Medical Education & Training
• Diversity and Inclusion
• Governance
• Funds Flow and Academic Health Center Operations
• Research/Scholarly Activities

In addition to these themes, the Program Committee also will consider concurrent session and poster submissions that describe innovative work coming out of your society or academic institution.

Concurrent sessions will be 75 minutes long. Posters will be displayed throughout the meeting, but there will be one session focused on accepted submissions. Accepted poster contributors will be asked to stand with their poster during that session to answer questions and engage with meeting attendees. Concurrent session submissions not accepted by the Program Committee will have the opportunity to be developed into posters.

Meeting Date and Time:
April 19-21, 2018
The Westin Chicago River North
Chicago, Illinois

Submission Deadline:
Friday, November 16, 2018, 11:59 p.m. (Eastern)

Meeting Background

The CFAS spring professional development conference provides representatives and attendees a unique forum to collaborate with peers from medical schools and academic societies nationwide on the issues that matter most to them. It is designed to be fully interactive and social, with opportunities throughout the event to get to know your peers from around the country and across disciplines, specialties, career seniority, and roles. Please join us in Chicago where you can:

• Become fluent in academic medicine’s current hot topics
• Understand key issues and new perspectives by networking across diverse groups
• Help shape future CFAS initiatives and programming

This year’s meeting will include several plenaries, breakout sessions, and a significantly expanded poster session that provides ample time to meet the poster presenters. In addition, our meeting will launch sessions that are part of a new leadership development curriculum. Opportunities for audience participation will increase from previous years, with all plenaries designed to offer something for everyone across our faculty membership. Plenary sessions will cover:

Bringing the Joy Back into Academic Medicine: Engaging Faculty and Institutions in Wellness
What are institutional frameworks for promoting wellness? Are faculty perspectives of wellness aligned with those of the institution? What are institutions doing to promote wellness?

A New Frontier: Precision Education and Training
What new, personalized education and training strategies for MDs, PhDs, and others—along with emerging technology— will improve cognitive and performance skills in learners and faculty? Sooner than we imagine, education, research training, and faculty development may become as personalized as precision medicine. How will we respond?

Nurturing the Emergence of New Faculty Leaders
What cultural changes are needed to facilitate the acquisition of leadership skills by faculty? How can these be implemented and integrated into a health system’s existing culture? What skills do the leaders of tomorrow need to develop today? What can faculty do to enhance their opportunities and improve their environment to facilitate the development of their leadership skills?

Untangling Regulatory Burden in All That We Do
What new policies and regulations are being imposed that affect clinical, research, educational, and training activities in academic health systems? What can our institutions and faculty do—or what are they doing—to address these new challenges? Do advocacy efforts at the institutional and individual levels include mechanisms for change? If so, what are effective strategies to leverage?

As always, the meeting will provide tools and resources you can share with your medical school and specialty societies.