Faculty Development Sessions Archive
This page features previously recorded professional development presentations. The title, presenter(s) and objectives for each session are described. After clicking on the presentation link, you will be asked to log in using your UM System single sign on (SSO) account.
Sessions are no more than one hour each.
Curricular Design and Instructional Methodology
AIM High: How to Deliver Affirming, Inclusive, and Meaningful Care to the LGBT+ Community (2022)Presenter: Molly Uhlenhake, D.O.
Objectives:
Understand the healthcare disparities that LGBT+ patients face
Review common biases surrounding gender identify and sexual orientation and how they affect healthcare
Identify simple steps to enhance the medical experience for LGBT+ people
AIM High presentation
Creating Diverse, Inclusive and Equitable Content in Medical Education (2022)Presenter: Amy Caruso Brown, M.D., MSC, MSCS, HEC-C, FAAP
Objectives:
Describe the impact of bias in healthcare education content on our learners, colleagues, and patients
Identify the challenges to preventing bias from reaching learners
Apply a checklist approach to creating diverse, equitable and inclusive content in healthcare education
Creating DEI content in Medical Education presentation
Engaging Students in a World of Distractions (2022)Presenter: Jeana Wilcox Ph.D., APMHCNS-BC, CNE
Objectives:
List several current student engagement issues
Discuss possible way to mitigate student engagement issues
Describe several online engagement management tools for the classrooms
Engaging Students presentation
Supplemental materials:
Humanities Education for Teachers and Learners (2021)Presenter: Brian S. Carter, MD, FAAP
Objectives:
Understand the value of humanities education for medical trainees.
Identify how educators can incorporate humanities education into the preclinical and clinical education of medical trainees.
Humanities Education for Teachers and Learners presentation
Microaggressions in Life and Medicine (2021)Presenter: Dean Mary Anne Jackson, M.D.
Objectives:
Understand the impact of microaggressions and ways to build resilience
Incorporate knowledge of your personal communication style in dealing with microaggressions and building your career plan
Use the 4Rs framework to deal with microaggressions
Recognize-identify
Reason-and impact
Responsibility-who beyond aggressor are responsible
Response-strategy and timing
Microagressions in Life and Medicine presentation
Incorporating Adult Learning Strategies into Didactics — Parts 1 and 2 (2020)Presenters: Stefanie Ellison, M.D., Jamie Lawless, M.D.
Objectives:
Introduce key concepts in Adult Learning (Andragogy) and how they pertain to medical education
Discuss interactive online didactic activities using Zoom, asynchronous learning, and flipped classroom strategies to engage learners
Review examples of how interactive adult learning can be incorporated into medical education
Provide free open access medical education resources that can be used by learners.
Adult Learning Strategies — Part 1 presentation
Adult Learning Strategies — Part 2 presentation
How to Support Learners as They Develop Their Professional Identity (2020)Presenters: Louise Arnold, Ph.D., Christine Sullivan, M.D., Jennifer Quaintance, Ph.D.
Objectives:
Review the theory and practice of professional identity formation (PIF)
Discuss how PIF applies to learners
Identify how to select methods to guide PIF for learners
Supporting Learners presentation
Managing Generational Differences in Healthcare Education (2020)Presenter: Jenna Wilcox, Ph.D., APMHCNS-BC, CNE
Objectives:
Explore broad generational differences of the healthcare classroom
Discuss the impact of generational differences in relation to classroom and workforce interactions
Apply knowledge of generational differences in a healthcare workforce training simulation
Managing Generational Differences presentation
Learner Assessment
Learner Feedback: The How, What, When, Where and Why’s of Mastering the Practice (2022)Presenter: Lacie Bailey, M.D., M.S. and Emily Hillman, M.D., MHPE
Objectives:
Describe two common feedback models
Apply two feedback models to real-life feedback scenarios
Identify three strategies that can facilitate challenging feedback conversations
Describe three best practices of giving meaningful and constructive feedback
Discuss differences between providing feedback to medical students versus residents
Learner feedback presentation (Box)
Guide to Remediation of Learners (2020)Presenter: Christine Sullivan, M.D.
Objectives:
Enhance mechanisms to identify learners that require remediation, including utilizing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) approach to understand cause(s) of sub-standard performance
Learn, through learner scenarios, how to implement an effective remediation plan
Recognize and incorporate predictors of success into remediation plans
Guide to Remediation of Learners presentation
Teaching Skills and Discipline Content
Trauma and Its Impact on Health Disparities (2021)Presenter: Maria Morgan, J.D.
Objectives:
Understand the elements of Trauma, how people experience Trauma, and when it can occur
Gain understanding how Trauma manifests Itself – in patients and beyond – and how it is responsible for many health disparities
Appreciate the importance of Compassionate and Trauma Informed Care
Trauma and Impact presentation
Teaching Skills Panel Discussion (2021)Presenters: Darla McCarthy, Ph.D., Jennifer Quaintance, Ph.D., Michael Wacker, Ph.D.
Panel Discussion Facilitator: Christine Sullivan, M.D
Objectives:
Learn about the teaching philosophies of teaching exemplars, including how you might enhance your current teaching values
Through examples, learn how you can enhance your learners’ success by incorporating multiple active learning opportunities
Further enhance your skills to identify and approach the struggling learner
Teaching Skills panel discussion
Leadership
A Seat at the Table: Physicians as Advocates in Today’s Health Care Environment (2023)Presenter: Joanne Loethen, M.D.
Objectives:
Understand the vast opportunities and various forms of physician advocacy
Explore how to optimize your impact when advocating for patients and your profession
Learn simple ways to integrate advocacy into medical education and inspire learners to identify advocacy opportunities
A Seat at the Table presentation
What Type of Leader Do You Aspire to Be? (2022)Presenter: Christine Sullivan, M.D. and Phil Byrne, Ed.D.
Objectives :
Understand different types of leadership
Identify how your personal strengths/talents can be incorporated into your leadership style
Type of Leader presentation
Leading Lessons: A Leadership Panel Discussion (2021)Presenters: Mary Anne Jackson, M.D.; Jeanne James, M.D.; Mark Steele, M.D.
Panel facilitator: Christine Sullivan, M.D.
Objectives:
Learn about the leadership styles of successful leaders and how you can utilize their experiences as you approach leadership roles.
By learning how successful leaders have addressed challenges, be able to adapt their approach to your issues.
Learn from leaders how to successfully build an effective team.
Leading Lessons panel discussion
Career Development/Promotion
Where’s the Map? Finding Mentors to Advise Your Journey (2022)Presenters: Christine Sullivan, M.D. and Jennifer Goldman, M.D.
Objectives:
Determine how to choose mentors
Review productive mentor/mentee relationship behaviors
Identify your desired outcomes from a mentoring relationship
Where's the Map presentation
Coaching for Faculty Promotion Success — Part I: Setting a Strategy for Promotion Success (2021) Coaching for Faculty Promotion Success — Part 2: Preparing and Writing an Effective Curriculum Vitae for Academic Promotion (2022) Moving on Up at UMKC School of Medicine (2020)Presenter: Prakash Chandra, M.D. and Bini Moorthy, M.D.
Objectives:
Discuss and understand what the UMKC School of Medicine promotion packet requires and timeline for the process.
Be able to outline the steps necessary to put together the promotions packet, for e.g. evaluations, external reviewers, up-to-date Curriculum vitae.
Learn about examples of teaching, service, clinical practice and research scholarly activity.
Moving on Up presentation
Well Being
Navigating for Career Success and Well-Being Workshop (2024)Note: When viewing, the theater camera did not capture speaker view but rather the audience. If you are UMKC faculty and cannot view the Box link (must use UMKC SSO), email Dr. Sullivan .
Session 1: Career Satisfaction and Value Congruence
Presenter: Carlie Nikel, Psy.D.
Objectives:
Outline the concept of value congruence
Connect value congruence with career satisfaction
Evaluate your values as it relates to career
Engage in planning to find congruence
Session 1 presentation
Session 2: When to Say Yes and How to Say No
Note: The video did not capture the title slide, learning objectives.
Presenter: Christine Sullivan, M.D.
Objectives:
Assess your current professional commitments and how they align with your academic goals
Reflect on commitments that you want to keep, start/stop doing, and how to maintain balance
Develop your approach to considering opportunities
Develop skills in how to say “no”
Session 2 presentation
Session 3: Incorporating Values in Leadership Including How Team Member Values Can Guide Intrinsic Motivation
Presenter: Dr. Meg Gibson
Objectives:
Identify different leadership styles
Explain the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation
Apply 3 components of intrinsic motivation for yourself and your teams
Session 3 presentation
Well-Being Workshop (2023)Download the following document, which contains links to presentations and PowerPoints conducted during the Well-Being workshop held in 2023.
Well-Being Workshop Presentation videos and PowerPoint links
How the Well-Being Index Can Benefit You, Your Learners, and Your Faculty (2023)Presenter: Sara Gardner, M.D.; Christine Sullivan, M.D.
Objectives:
Enhance your understanding of your individual WBI score.
Learn how to access and utilize local and national resources to improve well-being.
Learn how to incorporate WBI scores and resources into your curriculum and/or faculty development.
Well-Being Index presentation
Physician Suicide: Helping Those Who Help Others (2021)Presenter: Doug Burgess, M.D.
Objectives :
Become familiar with unique risk factors and warning signs associated with suicide in physicians
List at least 3 barriers physicians face in addressing mental health concerns
Explore solutions to address increasing rates of burn out and suicide among physicians
Physician Suicide presentation
Research
To be announced.