Workshops for Clinicians

12 Tips for Teaching Clinical Reasoning

After completing this module, the learner will be able to: (1) Identify key strategies for promoting improvement in clinical reasoning in learners; (2) Understand core approaches to teaching clinical reasoning through "compare and contrast" questioning of learners; and (3) Understand strategies for "diagnosing the learner" when learners struggle to collect patient histories and laboratory data and reason to a diagnosis.

• 0.5 CME Credits are available for this course.

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Clinical Microteaching: Breaking It Down

At the end of this course, participants should be able to: Demonstrate how to use simple questions to accurately diagnose learners, laying the foundation for effective feedback and efficient clinical teaching. Understand the critical role of learning climate on the educational process and outcomes. Recall the four steps of the One Minute Preceptor. Examine your own communication style and analyze the clinical thinking process of learners to enhance teaching effectiveness.

• 0.5 CME Credits are available for this course.

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Conflict Management in Clinical Care

By the end of this module, you will have learned to: (1) Define conflict and its stages; (2) Describe the effects of conflict in the clinical workplace; (3) Identify three benefits of conflict; (4) List the Thomas-Kilmann conflict styles; and (5) Apply conflict management techniques in a healthcare environment.

• 1.0 CME Credits are available for this course.

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MedEd Moments: Giving Feedback

This lesson covers effective methods for giving feedback to learners. Borrowed from a faculty development series, is used with permission from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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Professionalism for Faculty and Residents

Upon completion of this course, learners will be able to: (1) Describe professionalism and professionalism lapses; (2) Review current conceptualizations of professionalism lapses; (3) Discuss challenges involved in identifying professionalism lapses; (4) Explore underlying factors that may contribute to professionalism lapses; (5) Consider options for responding to professionalism lapses, including available supports and resources.

• 0.5 CME Credits are available for this course.

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Race and Medicine in Clinical Practice

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to: (1) Define race, racism and anti-racism; (2) Discuss the history of race as a social construct; (3) Explain how race is used in medicine (often incorrectly); (4) Distinguish race as a social construct from genetic populations with shared ancestry; and (5) Identify methods of practicing anti-racism in medicine.

• 0.5 CME Credits are available for this course.

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MedEd Moments: Setting Expectations

This lesson covers effective ways of setting expectations with medical students and residents. Borrowed from a faculty development series, It is used with permission from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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Advising Graduate Students Conference: Remote Advising in Unprecedented Times

Speakers

• Dr. Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor - Associate Dean for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars, UC Davis Graduate Studies
• Slande Erole - Graduate Student Assistant to the Dean of Graduate Studies and Chancellor, Political Science Ph.D. Candidate

Session Moderator: Wallace Woods - AGS Steering Committee, Senior Academic Advisor, UC Davis Graduate Studies

Advising Graduate Students Conference: Inclusion, Bias, Allyship, and Upstanding

Speaker: Dr. Pablo Reguerín - Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs. UC Davis

Session Moderator: Brad Wolf - AGS Steering Committee, Senior Academic Advisor, UC Davis Graduate Studies

Advising Graduate Students Conference: Resilience Building

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Sharon Milgram will speak on the power of resilience-building for graduate students, but also for faculty and staff advisors as well. The session will provide strategies for navigating stressful times and emphasize the importance of community and self-care. As we prepare for another academic year of challenges, this session will promote ways our graduate education community can face adversity and promote a culture of support and wellness on campus.

Session Moderator: Elizabeth Sturdy - AGS Co-Chair, Director of Advising and Mentoring, UC Davis Graduate Studies

NIH OITE: Tips for Effective Conversations

Offered by the NIH OITE. Discusses best practices for communication with mentees.

National Institute of General Medical Sciences: Culturally Aware Mentorship

Sherilynn Black, Ph.D., and Angela Byars-Winston, Ph.D., describe the value of cultural awareness in mentorship. They also review highlights from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report on effective mentorship and discuss resources on culturally aware mentorship for mentors and mentees.

Maximizing Mentoring Relationships

Led by Sharon Milgram of the NIH Office of Intramural Training and Education, this workshop provides best practices in mentorship including topics such as setting expectations, stereotype threat, and imposter syndrome. Focus is on mentorship of undergraduates, however the information is relevant to all mentors.

Presented by: GradPathways Institute

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COVID-19: Coping as a Community (online workshops)

Many people have questions about ways to cope with stress experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic. In response to this, the UC Davis Office of Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and its collaborating partners organized a webinar series with Dr. Hendry Ton, M.D., M.S. as well as several special guests.

Presented by: UC Davis Health

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Supporting Students with Disabilities in an Online Environment

Student Disability Center (SDC) faculty forum conducted for the College of Biological Sciences on March 26, 2020.

Presented by: Student Disability Center

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Supporting Yourself and Your Trainees During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Offers tips and tricks on how to manage stress and mentorship needs during Covid-19.

Presented by: NIH OITE

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2020 Grant Writing Bootcamp

The highly-interactive GWB is designed to increase participants’ knowledge of (and facility with) the grant writing process, covering everything from finding funding to managing time, writing drafts, and soliciting feedback. Suitable for researchers and creative practitioners of all disciplines and skill levels, participants who complete this series will walk away with a rough draft of the grant proposal of their choice.

Presented by: Faculty Development

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Data Management Considerations for Clinical Trials (Applied Statistics for Translational Researchers Series)

This seminar will cover data management considerations for clinical research an d the need for team science approaches. The selection of appropriate database software to manage a study will be presented along with some of the special considerations for clinical trials, including biomarker-driven adaptable designs. Data coordinating center operations and infrastructure for larger, national clinical trials will be discussed.

Learning objectives:

• Recognize the transdisciplinary nature of and the needed components for data management of clinical research data
• Identify some of the pitfalls of using inappropriate software to manage clinical data
• Understand unique data operation requirements for clinical trials

This seminar series is supported by the following NIH-funded centers: CTSC, MIND IDDRC, Cancer Center, and EHS.

Presented by: CTSC

Instructor: Bradley Pollock, Ph.D.

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Global Engagement in a COVID-19 World: Global Affairs Grants, Opportunities, and Resources for Faculty

Global Affairs offers opportunities, funding, and resources that support UC Davis faculty in achieving their academic, research, and service goals in every corner of the world. Topics for discussion will include funding opportunities for globally-oriented research, making classes more responsive to global challenges (like COVID-19), finding global collaborators, and creating projects that have a global footprint.

In these unprecedented times, we are all doing our best to manage our work and those with whom we work and support. Academic Affairs offers expert-led programs, our bag lunch workshops, which provide information and resources to support you and your work with a special focus in some of the offerings during these challenging times when we are working mostly remote and managing multiple priorities. Please see the Faculty Bag Lunch Series page for more information. Sessions continue to be added to the site, so we recommend checking back on this page regularly.

Presented by: Academic Affairs

Target Audience: UC Davis Health faculty

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Advising and Mentoring Graduate Students and Scholars Remotely

If you are struggling to keep your research group moving forward during the pandemic, wondering how to help graduate students succeed in a remote research and writing environment, or assessing how to best orient a new Postdoc to UC Davis, we have a session to help with these pieces. Hear from fellow faculty and campus experts on how to successfully adjust your mentoring to remote contexts. Topics for discussion will include helping students re-tool their dissertations, supporting students struggling with mental health issues, and advising students and scholars who are still getting their bearings. Key ideas and resources will be shared to help support your work with graduate students and scholars remotely.

In these unprecedented times, we are all doing our best to manage our work and those with whom we work and support. Academic Affairs offers expert-led programs, our bag lunch workshops, which provide information and resources to support you and your work with a special focus in some of the offerings during these challenging times when we are working mostly remote and managing multiple priorities. Please see the Faculty Bag Lunch Series page for more information. Sessions continue to be added to the site, so we recommend checking back on this page regularly.

Presented by: Academic Affairs

Target Audience: UC Davis Health faculty

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Annual Grant Writing Symposium

Each spring the UC Davis Health Office of Research Grants Facilitation Team brings their multiple years of experience as researchers, authors, editors, manuscript reviewers, grantees, grant reviewers, NIH scientific review officer, NIH program officer, and patent holders to offer a one-day symposium on research grant writing.

This symposium (designed for faculty, researchers and post-docs) will focus on the basics of getting started in grant writing and maintaining success. The continual challenges to personal bandwidth, changes in funding, and grant funding policy affect both new investigators starting out and the experienced investigators who serve as mentors.

Workshop goals:

• Finding information and help when you need it
• What needs to be managed throughout the process: pre-submission, submission, post-submission
• Keeping up with the new policies on human subjects and clinical trials
• Knowing the grant mechanisms for each level of development and circumstance
• Gaining a competitive edge when writing the proposal
• Understanding what just happened: summary statements, funding lines, and the response to reviews
• Building your personalized approach to grant writing and funding to include how to use the information in this symposium, self-review, working with a team, working with a mentor

Presented by: UC Davis Health Grants Facilitation Team

Co-sponsored by: UC Davis Health Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC)

Audience: Open to all faculty and postdoctoral scholars

Our 2020 symposium was held on May 7, 2020. The date of the 2021 symposium has not been set yet.

Computational Thinking for Problem Solving (online)

Process mining is the missing link between model-based process analysis and data-oriented analysis techniques. Through concrete data sets and easy to use software the course provides data science knowledge that can be applied directly to analyze and improve processes in a variety of domains.

Participants will learn various process discovery algorithms. These can be used to automatically learn process models from raw event data. Various other process analysis techniques that use event data will be presented. Moreover, the course will provide easy-to-use software, real-life data sets, and practical skills to directly apply the theory in a variety of application domains. This course starts with an overview of approaches and technologies that use event data to support decision making and business process (re)design. Then the course focuses on process mining as a bridge between data mining and business process modeling.

The course is at an introductory level with various practical assignments.

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Process Mining: Data Science in Action (online)

Computational thinking is the process of approaching a problem in a systematic manner and creating and expressing a solution such that it can be carried out by a computer. But you don't need to be a computer scientist to think like a computer scientist! In fact, we encourage students from any field of study to take this course. Many quantitative and data-centric problems can be solved using computational thinking and an understanding of computational thinking will give you a foundation for solving problems that have real-world, social impact.

In this course, you will learn about the pillars of computational thinking, how computer scientists develop and analyze algorithms, and how solutions can be realized on a computer using the Python programming language. By the end of the course, you will be able to develop an algorithm and express it to the computer by writing a simple Python program. This course will introduce you to people from diverse professions who use computational thinking to solve problems. You will engage with a unique community of analytical thinkers and be encouraged to consider how you can make a positive social impact through computational thinking.

The course is at an introductory level with various practical assignments.

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Patients in the health care setting sometimes experience anxiety for a variety of reasons. A newly diagnosed illness, separation from loved ones, threat associated with diagnostic tests or surgical procedures, and expectations of life changes are just a few factors that cause anxiety. How successfully a patient copes with anxiety depends, in part, on previous experiences, the presence of other stressors, the significance of the event causing anxiety, and the availability of supportive resources. The nurse can be a support to the patient. The nurse helps to decrease anxiety through effective communication. Communication methods reviewed in this skill will assist the nurse in helping an anxious patient to clarify factors causing anxiety and to cope more effectively. There are four stages of anxiety with corresponding behavioral manifestations: mild, moderate, severe, and panic.

Estimated duration: 30 Minute

Audience: All faculty

Training organization: UC Davis Health Center for Professional Practice of Nursing

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• Empathy: The Human Connection to Patient Care
• Strategies for Better Doctor-Patient Communication
• What's helping me become a better doctor
• Dealing with the angry patient or family
• Golden communication tips for doctors

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