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

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

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

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: 

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

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

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

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

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

 

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)

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

 

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

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

 

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


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

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

 

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

Presentation: Christine Sullivan, M.D. and Jacqueline Hill, Ph.D., MPH

Objectives:

  • Describe promotion criteria for physicians and non-physicians at UMKC
  • Recognize your strengths and areas to focus on to increase the likelihood of successful promotion by using the UMKC Scholarly Activity Worksheet for physicians and non-physician faculty
  • Review the promotion process including strategies for proceeding with your promotion application

Faculty Promotion Success  Part 1 presentation

Faculty Promotion Success  Part 1 PowerPoint

Supplemental materials:

Scholarly Activity Worksheet (Clinical Physicians)

Scholarly Activity Worksheet (Non-Physicians or Non-clinical Physicians)

Presentation: Valerie Mateescu, M.D. and Tyler Smith, M.D., MPH

Objectives:

  • Discuss the sections and information included in the curriculum vitae
  • Formulate plans for revising the curriculum vitae in preparation for academic promotion

Faculty Promotion Success  Part 2 presentation

Supplemental materials:

American Medical Colleges (AAMC) CV template

CV tips and guide

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

 

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

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

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

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.