Call for Abstracts is Now Open!

The abstract submission period for Educating Leaders 2022, the AACOM Annual Conference, is now open! Present with us and have your work recognized during the nation’s premier osteopathic medical education event, from April 27-29, 2022, both onsite in Nashville, Tennessee, and online from anywhere in the world. While we hope that conditions will allow us to hold our annual conference with an in-person component, please note that the location and timing are subject to change based on local, state and federal guidelines around COVID.

This year's conference has 5 distinct audience tracks. Audience tracks include:

1. Admissions
2. UME - Pre-Clinical Education
3. UME - Clinical Education
4. Transition to GME (Advising)
5. Graduate Medical Education Faculty

Current medical students and trainees are also encouraged to submit abstracts for Educating Leaders 2022! AACOM offers two abstract templates: Research and Promising Approach. Learn more about these options in the Submission Guides section below. 

Abstract Overview

Abstract Submission Deadline is October 7, 2021.
 

Abstract Topics

Submission Guides

FAQs

Submission Portal

Diverse and Culturally Competent Workforce  

• Diversity and inclusion in the workplace
• Diversity and inclusion in the student lifecycle
• Student/Trainee financing and debt

Osteopathic Healthcare Delivery

• Interprofessional education and practice
• Addressing social determinants of health
• Approaches to addressing the opioid epidemic
• Partnering with communities
• Emergency preparedness

Technology

• Using technology in OME and OMM
• Changes in teaching technologies

GME Programs and Osteopathic Training 

• Innovations and strategies for developing new GME programs and positions, including data and analytics 
• Graduate-level Osteopathic Training and Osteopathic Recognition  
• GME finance 
• Models for funding and accreditation to address medically underserved areas/populations  
• Innovative approaches for resident recruitment  

Osteopathic Representation, Voice and Influence

• Health policy 

The Healthiest Workforce 

• Supporting student or trainee mental health and personal counseling/advising 
• Designing/implementing faculty wellness programming 
• Student- or trainee-run wellness initiatives
• Relationship between curricular delivery, assessment and wellness
• Academic support from UME to GME

Leadership and Faculty Development

• Enhancing faculty leadership  
• Career mentoring and advising 
• Supporting grant writing and management 
• Advancing research and data skills 
• COVID-19 impacts on OME, the workforce and the healthcare system 

Professionalism

• Assessing and reporting professionalism
• Interventions to improve empathy

Trainee Readiness

• Teaching and assessing OMM/OPP 
• Teaching and assessing core competencies or EPAs 
• Designing/implementing healthy learning environments 
• Course and clinical rotation development and design 
• Advising best practices and use of data for residency Match success

Tracks & Topics (pdf) 

Promising Approach

Promising Approach abstracts describe a change to a current way of doing things that results in better outcomes, or an approach to a challenge faced in osteopathic medical education (including both undergraduate and graduate medical education settings).
 

Submit a Promising Approach Abstract if you have:

• Developed a novel osteopathic medical education program;
• Identified or overcome obstacles in the training of future osteopathic physicians; or
• Gained meaningful insight into learners’ progress along the continuum of osteopathic medical education.

Research

Research abstracts should summarize your research or your program evaluation, and contain the criteria listed in this guide.
 

Submit a Research Abstract if you have:

• Conducted innovative research valuable to the osteopathic medical community;
• Researched or evaluated educational practices with results that can be applied to a college of osteopathic medicine or postgraduate training program; or
• Undertaken scholarly work aligned with the conference themes. 

Promising Approach Guide (pdf)
 

Research Guide (pdf)