MedCon 2021 Schedule
Thursday, April 8
| 7:00 p.m. | Talk on Dr. McGovern’s book, What Christ Suffered: A Doctor’s Journey Through the Passion Westerman Auditorium Dr. Thomas McGovern |
Friday, April 9
| 6:00 p.m. | Registration Engineering Lounge |
| 6:30 p.m. | Welcome Murphy McPhee President Minnis |
Personal Decision Making (Tom McGovern - Moderator)
| 6:35 p.m. | Story from the Trenches: How I made the decision? Murphy McPhee Gabriel Lebeau (1st Year KU Med Student) |
| 6:40 p.m. | Discerning a Vocation to Healthcare Murphy McPhee Dr. Thomas McGovern |
| 6:55 p.m. | Q&A Murphy McPhee Grabriel Lebeau & Stefano Byer |
| 7:10 p.m. | Choosing a Medical Specialty Using Temperament, Spiritual Gifts, & Flow Murphy McPhee Dr. Thomas McGovern |
| 7:50 p.m. | Q & A Dr. Thomas McGovern and Francesca Ursua |
| 8:00 p.m. | Break |
How to Engage Peers and Faculty During Medical Training (Glenn Stanton - Moderator)
| 8:15 p.m. | Story from the Trenches: They Think I’m Crazy to be Catholic Murphy McPhee Collin Connor (4th Year KU Med Student) |
8:20 p.m. | Basic Principles of Evangelization and Apologetics Murphy McPhee Glenn Stanton |
8:35 p.m. | How to Practically and Effectively Reach Young Adults who Disagree with You Murphy McPhee Rachel Hall, Benedictine College FOCUS Missionary |
| 8:50 p.m. | Activity: Explain Why You’re a Catholic to a non-Catholic Murphy McPhee Glenn Stanton or FOCUS Missionary |
| 9:05 p.m. | Emotional Intelligence Tips for Defending Your Beliefs Murphy McPhee Glenn Stanton |
| 9:20 p.m. | Discussion – What did you learn? Engineering Lounge Glenn Stanton |
| 10:00 p.m. | Goodnight! |
Saturday, April 10
| 7:30 a.m. | Mass Location TBD Bishop James Conley |
Abortion (Jonathon Scafford - Moderator)
| 8:30 a.m. | Story from the Trenches: Anti-Life Subterfuge at a Catholic Medical School Murphy McPhee Maggie Hartman |
8:40 a.m. | History of Academic Change in Attitude Toward Abortion Murphy McPhee Jonathon Scafford, MD |
8:55 a.m. | Understanding Thought Processes of Professors and Med Students who Accept Abortion as Moral and Health Murphy McPhee Glenn Stanton |
9:10 a.m. | How to Engage Peers and Professors About Abortion Murphy McPhee Jaylem Duroussneau, Midwest Regional Coordinator (KS, NE, SD) and Mary Briganti, Programs Director for SFLA |
9:40 a.m. | Activity: Explain why Abortion is Bad for Women’s Health to a Fellow Med Student Murphy McPhee SFLA Member, Glenn Stanton and Jonathan Scafford |
9:55 a.m. | Discussion – What did you learn? SFLA Trainers |
10:15 a.m | Break Engineering Lounge |
Motivation, Burnout, and Thriving in Medical School (Sheryl Beard - Moderator, Med Student Panelists)
10:30 a.m. | Story from the Trenches: Back from the Brink of Burnout Murphy McPhee Gabriel Lebeau (1st Year KU Med Student) |
10:35 a.m. | Burnout – History and Current Status Murphy McPhee Sheryl Beard |
10:50 a.m. | Compassion – Anti-burnout Mindset Murphy McPhee Dr. Thomas McGovern |
11:00 a.m. | What I Wish I Knew in College About Medical School Murphy McPhee Maggie Hartman |
11:10 a.m. | How I Keep and Grow in the Faith in Medical School Murphy McPhee Brooke Gensler (Creighton Med Student) |
11:20 a.m. | Small Group Discussion Murphy McPhee Sheryl Beard |
11:35 a.m. | Q&A– What Else do you Want to Know About Medical School Murphy McPhee Sheryl Beard, Brooke Gensler and Maggie Hartman |
10:35 a.m. - 12:00 p.m | What I wish I Knew in College About Nursing School Westerman 218 Teresa Kenney, a woman’s health nurse practitioner from Pope Paul VI Institute and Molly Price, a family practice nurse practitioner from the Kansas City area |
12:00 p.m. | Lunch Dining Hall |
Gender Ideology and Homosexuality (Larry Mitnaul - Moderator)
1:00 p.m. | Real Life Example from Clinical Practice Murphy McPhee Larry Mitnaul or Michelle Stanford |
1:05 p.m. | History and Meaning of Definitions - Sex, Gender, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Configuration Theory Glenn Stanton |
1:15 p.m. | Gender Dysphoria – Psychological Aspects Murphy McPhee Larry Mitnaul |
1:35 p.m. | Gender Dysphoria Medical and Surgical Treatment Harms Murphy McPhee Michelle Stanford |
1:45 p.m. | How to Lovingly Interact with a ‘Trans’ or ‘Trans-Affirming’ Individual Murphy McPhee Glenn Stanton |
2:05 p.m. | Role Play Scripts Murphy McPhee Larry Mitnaul |
2:20 p.m. | Discussion – What did you learn? Murphy McPhee Larry Mitnaul and Glenn Stanton |
2:30 p.m. | Break Engineering Lounge |
Conscience Rights (Kevin Theriot - Moderator)
2:45 p.m. | Story from the Trenches: I was Asked to Act Against my Conscience Murphy McPhee Collin Connor (4th Year Med Student at KU) |
2:50 p.m. | How to Defend Refusal to Prescribe Contraceptives or Assist in Sterilization Murphy McPhee Jonathan Scrafford, MD |
3:30 p.m. | What you Need to Know About your Conscience Rights and Freedom of Religion in Medical Training Murphy McPhee Kevin Theriot |
3:45 p.m. | Activity: How to respond to a preceptor/professor who asks you to do something against your conscience and won’t back down Murphy McPhee Kevin Theriot, Glenn Stanton, Sheryl Beard |
4:00 p.m. | Q&A – What did you learn? Murphy McPhee Kevin Theriot |
The Catholic Medical Association has Your Back (Tom McGovern - Moderator)
4:15 p.m. | Story from the Trenches: How I Discovered and Came to Value the CMA in my Life Murphy McPhee Francesca Ursua |
4:30 p.m. | Mission of the CMA and What it means for Students Murphy McPhee Dr. Thomas McGovern |
4:45 p.m | Break Engineering Lounge |
5:00 p.m. | Vigil Mass (Reservations Required) St. Benedict’s Parish |
5:30-6:30 p.m. | Dinner Dining Hall |
6:45 p.m. | Personal Reflections on Catholic Healthcare as a Patient (in-person only) McAllister Board Room Bishop James Conley |
| Trivia Night Tom McGovern |
