Professional Development Workshops
Professionalism for Faculty and Residents
Instructors: Laura Kenkel, M.D. and Dan Ragland, Ph.D.
Upon completion of this course, learners will be able to:
- Describe professionalism and professionalism lapses;
- Review current conceptualizations of professionalism lapses;
- Discuss challenges involved in identifying professionalism lapses;
- Explore underlying factors that may contribute to professionalism lapses;
- Consider options for responding to professionalism lapses, including available supports and resources.
» 0.5 CME Credits are available for this course.
How to Apologize: Asking for Forgiveness Gracefully
Scott has just arrived at his staff meeting, and he can tell that his boss, Catherine, is stressed. He ignores the tension in the room, and launches into his carefully researched presentation.
After a few minutes, however, Catherine picks up on a tiny error and begins to berate Scott. She accuses him, and the rest of the team, of not pulling their weight. Her hurtful words embarrass Scott, and he leaves the meeting early because he's so upset.
As the days pass, Scott expects Catherine to apologize for her behavior. However, the apology never comes, and their relationship becomes strained, resentful, and unproductive. A few months later, Scott takes a position in another department.
In this situation, Catherine could have healed her relationship with Scott with a sincere apology after the meeting. But, instead, she lost a talented team member.
In this article, we'll see why apologies are so important, and we'll look at how to apologize with sincerity and grace when you've made a mistake.
How to Build (and Rebuild) Trust (TED Talk)
Trust is the foundation for everything we do. But what do we do when it's broken? In an eye-opening talk, Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei gives a crash course in trust: how to build it, maintain it and rebuild it -- something she worked on during a recent stint at Uber. "If we can learn to trust one another more, we can have unprecedented human progress," Frei says.
Computational Thinking for Problem Solving
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.
Speaking to Inform: Discussing Complex Ideas with Clear Explanations and Dynamic Slides
In the professional realm, most speeches and presentations we give are informative in scope. A scientist needs to explain her recent research findings. A financial officer needs to report on quarterly earnings to his company’s board. A technology professional needs to educate a consumer about a new product. Any time you need to convey ideas or demonstrate a process, you’re dealing with informative speaking.
Informative speaking is a fun puzzle. You need to think from the perspective of your audience to identify what they need to hear in order to understand the key ideas. How much does the audience already know? What are the most important elements to convey? How should one convey these ideas with appropriate breadth and depth given the time constraints of the speech? This demands a strategic approach to speech design that we’ll undertake in this class.
By the end of the course, you should be able to explain complex ideas vividly and accessibly, design clear and compelling presentation slides, convey your passion for a topic while maintaining your professional credibility, and speak dynamically from notes and/or a manuscript. Learners will record speeches, providing and receiving peer feedback.
Process Mining: Data Science in Action
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.
More Training Opportunities
Race and Medicine in Clinical Practice
This innovative course assists learners in identifying race as a social construct, recognizing medical practices that contribute to the perpetuation of race-based stereotypes, and how to describe health inequities resulting from structural racism among minority groups.
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Define race, racism and anti-racism;
- Discuss the history of race as a social construct;
- Explain how race is used in medicine (often incorrectly);
- Distinguish race as a social construct from genetic populations with shared ancestry; and
- Identify methods of practicing anti-racism in medicine.
Working Virtually, Tips and Resources
This site includes articles and tutorials to help you most effectively use Zoom as we all navigate the coronavirus pandemic.
Giving Effective Feedback
Adapted from "Workshop in a Box: Visual Demonstration of Small Group Facilitation Techniques for Faculty Development" to provide efficient, consistent, and easily accessible faculty development to small group facilitators. This module is generalizable for other types of small groups, learners and faculty development settings.
Audience: All faculty
Managing Workplace Conflict: Navigating the COVID-19 Crisis
The COVID-19 crisis has dramatically changed the way most of us work. In just a matter of weeks, the situation has created immense organizational uncertainties and placed tremendous pressures on our professional and family lives. These conditions create the perfect storm for workplace conflict, which is exacerbated by stress, uncertainty, and barriers to communication. Dealing with workplace conflicts created by our unusual situation requires a clear understanding of the link between the crisis and the potential for workplace tensions.
E-learning modules from the London Deanery
This series of open access short modules covers core topics in clinical teaching and learning. They have been developed by the Multi-professional Faculty Development Team to inform and support the professional development of clinical teachers. On completion of a module, a certificate can be printed out for your own records or portfolio. E-learning for clinical teachers was designed and edited by Judy McKimm and Tim Swanwick.
All of the content on The Educator Hub is free to access, with no registration necessary. However, registration is recommended, as this allows users to track their learning, provide feedback on sessions, and retain certificates of completion. All of The Educator Hub content can be accessed at https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/educator-training-resources/ and if you wish to access without registering select the ’Browse our catalogue’ button.
YouTube Videos
Examples (there are thousands):
Magna Commons
Magna Commons is an on-line on-demand faculty development program for higher education. It has over 150 different seminars available and is compliant with Blackboard. It is geared towards higher education and not specific to medical education but many of the modules are relevant to educator development within medical education. It has a free seven-day trial for one to explore the array of topics. Modules are associated with a cost. Additionally you can buy “packs” of modules around specific topics such as the Flipped Classroom and Online Learning.
Coursera is an online education provider that offers online courses, popularly known as MOOCs or Massive Open Online Courses, from top universities around the world. Currently it has over 200 partners from 48 countries. These partners include Universities such as Stanford, Duke, Penn, Princeton, Michigan, Peking, and HEC Paris.
Assessment in Higher Education: Professional Development for Teachers
Are you a teacher in higher education wanting to get the best out of your students and assessments? This course will guide you through the different phases of preparing, creating and evaluating the assessments in your course.
After participating in this course, you will be able to:
- Design an assessment that is constructively aligned (content, level, methods) with the course objectives and activities
- Apply the quality criteria with respect to validity, reliability and transparency for construction of assessments and assessment items
- Analyze the assessment output and results, assess the quality of the assessment and make decisions about students’ grades accordingly
- Formulate future improvements for an assessment