Abstracts From the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics (COMSEP)

Abstract

The Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics (COMSEP) is the national group of pediatric clerkship directors of North American medical schools. Its 2006 annual meeting was held in Salt Lake City, Utah, on March 16-19, 2006. The mission of COMSEP is to foster excellence in pediatric undergraduate education and thus to improve the health care of children in North America. The theme for this year was “Enhancing the Clerkship with Technology.” The Miller/Sarkin Lectureship speaker was Suzanne Stensaas, Ph.D., who discussed integrating technology into medical education. A preconference workshop for new clerkship directors and 21 other workshops on a wide range of topics in medical student education were presented. Before the meeting, the Research and Scholarship Task Force reviewed abstracts encompassing a wide range of innovative and research projects completed by the members in the past year. After being rated for quality, 23 abstracts were selected for presentation at the meeting. For this issue of Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 8 of these were selected for their quality and interest to other educators in medicine.