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CURRENT TOPIC: Evolving the Systems-Based Practice Competency in Graduate Medical Education to Meet Patient Needs in the 21st-Century Health Care System

DATE: Thursday, March 20, 2025

TIME: 12:00 PM Central

DURATION: 60 minutes

DESCRIPTION: The discussion for March's Journal Club will center around the need for an evolution of systems-based practice in GME to better meet patient needs and improve patient outcomes. This discussion and article tie into the ACGME Clinician Educator (CE) Milestones, UP 1: Reflective Practice and Commitment to Personal Growth, ETP 1: Teaching and Facilitating Learning, ETP 7: Learner Professional Development. Speakers Jed D. Gonzalo, MD, MSc, and James Reilly, MD, MS, will discuss their article, "Evolving the Systems-Based Practice Competency in Graduate Medical Education to Meet Patient Needs in the 21st-Century Health Care System," with moderator Laura Edgar, EdD, CAE, Senior Vice President of Competencies, Milestones, and Faculty Development at the ACGME. The speakers look forward to discussing their article further at this month's Journal Club meeting. Participants should be sure to read the article ahead of the session and come with any questions or reflections.

SPEAKERS:

Jed D. Gonzalo, MD, MSc

Prof. of Medicine and Health Systems and Implementation Science

Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine

Dr. Jed Gonzalo received his MD degree from the Penn State College of Medicine and completed his internal medicine residency and chief residency at the Beth Israel Deaconess in Boston, where he was Instructor at the Harvard Medical School. Following residency, Jed completed a fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh in General Internal Medicine/Medical Education. He spent 10 years at the Penn State College of Medicine as Associate Dean for Health Systems Education. Currently, Jed is the Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, where he is also a tenured professor of medicine and health systems and implementation science. Jed has an established track record for scholarship, multi-institutional collaborations, and grant funding (AMA, AAMC, HRSA, and Josiah Macy Foundation - Faculty Scholar Award).

James B. Reilly, MD, MS, FACP

DIO

Allegheny Health Network (AHN)

Dr. Reilly was born in Philadelphia, PA and raised in Pittsburgh. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Saint Joseph’s University (PA) in Chemistry, and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha and the Gold Foundation Humanism Honor Society. After completing residency in internal medicine and fellowship in nephrology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Reilly received a Master’s degree in Health Policy Research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania as the first post-doctoral fellow of the Penn Center for Healthcare Improvement and Patient Safety (CHIPS), under the mentorship of Dr. Jennifer Myers. After several years as an Associate Program Director for the Penn Internal Medicine Residency and site director at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where he won multiple awards for excellence in teaching, Dr. Reilly joined Allegheny Health Network (AHN) where he served as Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency until 2018. In his current role as SVP Academic Affairs and Designated Institutional Official for AHN, Dr. Reilly oversees undergraduate and graduate medical education for AHN, remains a core faculty member for the IMRP, and serves as the Regional Associate Dean for Drexel College of Medicine’s Allegheny clinical campus. Dr. Reilly’s mission is to continually work to foster the most supportive learning environment possible not just for trainees, but for everyone who cares for patients at AHN, and to prepare all trainees to thrive in the health care system of tomorrow. Dr. Reilly’s scholarly interests span several areas of medical education and health policy. He has conducted research in patient safety within both medical education and nephrology, and published several peer-reviewed manuscripts on his work, particularly surrounding diagnostic errors and the cognitive biases that underpin them. Dr. Reilly currently represents AHN as a co-Principal Investigator in a multi-institutional collaborative to re-engineer the Systems-Based Practice competency, developing residents as Systems Citizens through the American Medical Association’s Reimagining Residency grant program.

Laura Edgar

Senior Vice President, Competencies, Milestones, and Faculty Development

ACGME

Dr. Edgar is the Senior Vice President for ACGME. She provides leadership for the oversite, development, innovation, and maintenance of domestical and international competencies, Milestones program, and faculty development. She serves as an ACGME ambassador to and collaborator with internal (e.g., ACGME-I, global services, education, review committees) and external (e.g., program director groups, certification boards, medical specialty groups) stakeholders to advance the implementation of competencies, Milestones, faculty development, and other ACGME strategic initiatives. Prior to working at ACGME, Dr. Edgar worked in the clinical laboratory for 10 years and then directed several domestic and international certification, accreditation, and scientific organizations. Dr. Edgar earned her doctorate in education, focusing on organizational leadership, after obtaining a Bachelor's degree in medical laboratory sciences, and a Master's degree in business administration.