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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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:
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.
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 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 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
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.
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
Research
To be announced.