Dissemination & Implementation Activities for
CHARACTER Mnemonic

9-14-07   Grand Rounds,  UTMB-Galveston  Dept. Pediatrics.    

CHARACTER has been incorporated into Professionalism in Pediatrics, a curriculum with one module for each of the letters and a Reflection activity,  linked here

9-28-07   poster presented at Gold Foundation Conference.  Teaching Humanism.  Chicago, IL.  

10-2-07   poster presented at UTMB Professionalism Retreat
The authors were awarded the 2007 John Stobo Professionalism Award for their curriculum efforts.

10-4-07  Resident Noon Conference,  UTMB-Austin Pediatric Residency Program

3-8-08    2008 Innovations in Medical Education Conference,
                Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California.

4-8-08    Professionalism in Pediatrics was adopted by the UTMB Internal Medicine Residency Program for use with some residents

5-15-08   poster presented at the UTMB Academy of Master Teachers Education Symposium

summer 2008.  adopted by the UTMB Internal Medicine Residency Program for residents with professionalism concerns

8-30-09  adopted by the UTMB Pediatric Residency Program for Interns with a monthly Professionalism Conversation, continued for 09-10, 10-11, 11-12.

7-31-09  Niebuhr V. CHARACTER used in Defining Professionalism, a web-based module for UTMB community preceptors , linked here.

12-11-09  Niebuhr V. UTMB Dept. Pediatrics. Faculty Forum

2-25-10    Rowen J & Niebuhr V.   UTMB School of Medicine Clerkship Education Conference . Teaching and Assessing Professionalism

3-26-10   Niebuhr  V, Rowen J.  CHARACTER: A Mnemonic for Evaluating Professionalism.  poster presented at the Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics.   Albuquerque, NM.  3-26-2010.

4-27-10   Rowen J; Niebuhr V;  Beach P. Professionalism in Medical Education   presented by the Office of Clinical Education for UTMB community-based preceptors. 

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