Background Material for December 7 Conference Call - Alliance for ...

30th Annual AIM Educational Conference
Welcome and Introductions
Catherine G. Wood
Presentation
Content
5.94 from 110 responses
5.94 from 107 responses
Session and Individual Speaker Comments:
Short and to the point was appreciated
Good but this session should really start at 9am. What AIM forgets is that you do have alot of people from
the west coast coming in who are trying to deal with a 3 hour time difference. Starting the sessions at 8am
is just too early.
Precise to the key points
Plenary Session I, “Organization of Departments of Internal Medicine: Centers, Institutes, and
Multidisciplinary Frameworks”
Lindsay J. Graham, Moderator
Paul E. Klotman, MD
William B. Applegate, MD
Max Wicha, MD
Presentation
Content
5.75 from 91 responses
5.92 from 88 responses
Session and Individual Speaker Comments:
Should have allowed more time for questions!
It was very helpful to hear the perspectives from each of the three parties (Dean, DOM Chair, Ca Ctr Dir.)
Thanks for bringing them together for this.
This was one my least favorite session. I think the panel was made up of good people but there was not
enough Q&A and interaction with the audience. I did not like the format. It felt like we were being talked
at for two hours and after a while you lost interest in the conversation.
I’m involved in helping getting a center started, and after the presentation, I learned I wasn’t! I am now
involted in getting a program started. It saved me a lot of effort. Klotman was particularly helpful.
I would of recommended that this not be the start off session it was good but it was a hard topic to jump off
with. Lindsay talked too long and didn’t leave enough time for speakers. More time for questions and
answers.
Good material, good information, just no time for questions. went too long.
Found this topic very interesting and relevant
Too long, application to administrators unclear.
It was important information and the format (Q&A to panel instead of slides) was refreshing and
interesting. The time management was really poor, however, and there was not enough time for questions
from the floor, which would have made the presentation more interesting.
This was excellent, it was good to hear the spectrum
More formal info would have been better.
Good breakdown of complicated information. Each speaker was very knowledgeable.
It’s interesting to hear from chairs, when so much of what we do administering is trying to interpret what
chairs’ and other high ranking faculty’s goals are. The speakers were knowledgeable, engaging and I
appreciate how they were able to connect their topics to the administrators’ concerns, i.e. where do we
appoint faculty, etc.
Wish there would have been more time for questions. probably not a good session to start with, not very
dynamic or energetic topic to kick off the meeting.
Academic Internal Medicine Week 2009 Evaluation Summary Page 12