Faculty Feed: Recent Episodes
HSC Office of Faculty Development, University of Louisville
Welcome to Faculty Feed - a podcast for health professions faculty from the Health Sciences Center Office of Faculty Development at the University of Louisville. This podcast exists to engage, equip, and inspire health professions faculty to be learner-focused and to excel in teaching and academic leadership. If you want to up your game as a professional educator or to enhance your leadership skills in the academic setting, Faculty Feed is the place to be.
Today we are discussing the DIME program at the University of Louisville with co-directors Dr. Jennifer Brueckner Collins and Dr. Adam Patterson. They explore how the program, designed for medical students, fosters professional identity and teaching skills through a structured, competitive extracurricular track. The episodehighlights the program's positive impact on the medical curriculum and student development, showcasing examples of student projects that have advanced botheducational practices and individual career trajectories. Emphasis is placed on the importance of reflective practice for educators and learners to enhance professional growth and the broader educational environment.
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Listen to the director of the UofL School of Nursing’s Anesthesia training program describe the benefits of becoming a nurse anesthetist and what qualificationsit takes to be admitted into this highly competitive program. Dr. Cheryl Parker has two decades of experience as a practicing anesthetist and five years in the educational environment. This is a greatopportunity for critical care nurses who are ready to take their career to the next level. For CRNAs interested in becoming instructors in this program, Dr.Parker also describes how you can become a nurse educator in the anesthesia program.
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Dr. Jackson Williams, University of Louisville Department of Pediatrics shares his two-decade long journey and experience in global health, tracing back to his volunteer work in rural Kentucky and his transformative service trips to Calcutta, India, and Liberia, Africa.
This episode is part of a series dedicated to global health,marking a significant discussion point as the podcast explores this topic for the first time in its 115 episodes. Dr. Williams recounts his hands-on experiences in various countries, including a pivotal sabbatical year in Liberia where he contributed to the development of academic pediatrics amid post-civil war recovery.
Listeners will gain insights into the evolving nature ofglobal health engagements, the importance of humility and self-reflection in these settings, and the critical evaluation of short-term medical missions. Dr. Williams emphasizes the need for partnerships with local health systems and long-term impact over quick fixes.
Discover the challenges and rewards of global health work, the significance of bilateral exchanges, and how future healthcare professionals can thoughtfully and effectively engage in global health initiatives. Dr. Williams also discusses the influential book "MountainsBeyond Mountains" by Dr. Paul Farmer, which encapsulates the spirit of relentless perseverance in the face of ongoing global health challenges.
Tune in to this episode to be inspired by Dr. Williams'dedication and to learn how you can make a meaningful impact in the world of global health.
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Join Dr. Melissa Currie, a pediatric forensics expert at the University of Louisville, and Kosair for Kids Endowed Chair in Pediatric Forensic Medicine occupant, as she tells the story of the creation of this unit 17 years ago and the impact it has had on educating the community and all who interact with children to recognize and report child abuse before a death occurs. Her program has trained pediatricians who are interested in becoming forensics experts and has trained Kentucky’s pediatricians and family physicians to be better equipped to recognize early signs of abuse and neglect. Go to the website, Home - Face It (faceitabuse.org), to see the resources you need torecognize the signs of early child abuse...and report it when you see it.
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The Human Subjects Protection Program (HSPP) Office at the University of Louisville supports researchers and provides educational resources and compliance reviews to ensure research meets federal and university policies. Unlike the IRB, which approves research to ensure ethical standards, the office assists with the research proposal preparation and submission process. They also clarify whether projects qualify as research and help with submissions involving human subjects. They encourage faculty to reach out early in their planning stages and utilize available templates and tools. Regular updates and resources are provided through their website and listserv to facilitate research processes and maintain compliance.
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Join us on this podcast as we talk with Dr. Brian Schaefer from the Health Science Center’s School ofPublic Health and Information Sciences as he helps us understand how the Louisville 911 call system (several hundred thousand calls per year) works andhis team’s effort to get the right response to match the call for help; whether it is for a crime, a behavioral health issue, a fire, etc. Especially important is the designation of a CIT run (Crisis Intervention Team) for behavioral health that come through the 911 system (19,000 calls per year) in Louisville. This episode brings great insight into changes in the response system that serve the community better, and more safely. Do you have comments or questionsabout Faculty Feed? Contact us at FacFeed@louisville.edu. We look forward to hearing fromyou.
Resources:https://cclou.org/resources-for-navigating-mental-health-crises/
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In this episode of Faculty Feed, listen in asDrs. Hugh Shoff and Demetra Antimisiaris surface how interprofessional continuing education (IPCE) activities can drive quality improvement and patient safetyinitiatives. These two faculty members bring the perspectives of an emergency medicine physician with training in quality improvement and patient safety, anda pharmacist with years of experience teaching interprofessional education around polypharmacy. Don’t miss this episode because IPCE is coming to UofL verysoon.
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In this insightful episode, Dr. Sheridan Langford and Dr. Bethany Hodge, both from the University of Louisville, delve into the transformative journey of global health initiatives in the School of Medicine. They discuss the challenges and opportunities in global health education, the impact of COVID-19 on international programs, and the critical need for equity and decolonization in global health practices.
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David Aylor and Kent Gardner from the University of Louisville School of Medicine, discuss how artificial intelligence tools like Chat GPT have begun to impact our work in academic medicine. They predict that the impact of artificial intelligence in the educational environment will be as dramatic as the introduction of the internet and the iPhone. Check out Chat GPT
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Do you have to teach in a fast-paced clinical learning environment? Listen to Dr. Jennifer McGowan from the UofL Department of Emergency Medicine as she tells how she is using content from the UofL Masters in Health Professions Education degree in support of her roles as a practicing physician, Associate Residency Program Director, and as she travels around the world teaching and practicing wilderness medicine.
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Listen in as Dr. Bill Crump, Associate Dean for UofL’s principal satellite campus in Madisonville, describes how the uniquelongitudinal association with learners allows the faculty at that campus to track professional identity formation and the dreaded “empathy drop” that occurs early in their training. His research with family medicine residents has surfaced proven interventions that interrupt and reverse that drop in empathy. This is a must-listen episode for all medical educators.
Trover Campus
Pathways to Patients: Students Seaking Meaning WJ Crump
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Dr. Caroline Boswell from the UofL Delphi Center for Teaching and Learning meets with the Faculty Feed team to take a deep dive into the nuances of how faculty can work to create learning environments that are rooted in equity and to expand your knowledge of racial justice in higher education. If you are confused by terms like equity and equality, tune in to this episode to learn how to do this and why it is important.
Take time to look at the book, From Equity Talk to Equity Walk, by T. B. McNair and E.S. Bensimon (2020).
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In this week’s episode, Dr. Ron Paul reflects on leadership lessons learned over his three decades-long career at UofL as the founding division chief of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at UofL/ Kosair Children’s Hospital directing it to national recognition, and his past eight years as Vice-Dean for Faculty Affairs in the School of Medicine where he led innovation and process improvement efforts to enhance operational effectiveness. You won’t want to miss the end of this episode as he articulates his “Top Ten” lessons learned. Join us for a rich discussion around leadership challenges.
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Dr. Jeff Bumpous interviews Drs. Rabalais, Saner and Weingartner as he explores the history and evolution of key programs in the Office of Professional and Educational Development. If you are considering either the HPE or LIAM programs, you will want to listen to this episode to better understand the context for these two faculty developmentofferings.
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Program and Resource Center (accessible by UofL personnel only)
Health Professions Education Certificate and Masters Degree Programs
Planning Your Career Path Module
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Faculty Feed episodes will post every two weeks starting in January 2024. Thank you for listening!
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If you have struggled with the chore of writing learning objectives for a presentation, a course, a workshop, this episode is the answer for you to lift the veil of mystery and reveal just why and how to do this well.
Rise Module on Writing Learning Objectives
Bloom’s Taxonomy
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Atul Gawande M.D. Coaching in the Operating Room
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Dr. Choi’s career and family paths are woven together in a passionate informal conversation that culminates in her description of finding joy from within with her work and her family.
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Learn how dental educators are working at the national level to assure that faculty are implementing learning science into practice. Dr. James Harrison, Associate Professor, University of Louisville School of Dentistry is engaged in a facultymicro credentialing program through the American Dental Education Association. There are important lessons here for all health science educators.
Check out this link to the ADEA micro credentialing program.
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Dr. Multerer covers a wide range of concerns and pitfalls associated with the 10-year long process of mandated use of Clinical Competency Committees. She talks about the changes coming in CCC 2.0 and how she oversees the use of the “Think Aloud” method as a complement to the CCC process.
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Our support staff across the Health Sciences Center schools provide invaluable partners in the work that we do as faculty. Our staff need and deserve help with career pathways development. Listen in to Dr. Glen Gittings, Chief of Staff to the Dean at the School of Medicine, as he provides his insights into his own personal career journey, lessons learned, the SMART staff program at the School of Medicine, and his role in the development of the LOUMED.
SMART Staff Program LOUMED Ambassador Program
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It is easy to allow the massive clinical enterprise of an academic health center to overshadow the value of the medical school as the place where education, research and clinical care come together around the primacy of the patients we are so privileged to serve. Join with us as our interim Dean, Dr. JeffreyBumpous, shares his thoughts on this and the importance of alignment of all the university’s resources in the service of all our constituents.
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Drs. Christopher Jones, Professor of Surgery and Director of Transplantation and Keith Miller, Associate Professor, Division of Trauma Surgery team up to share the genesis and development of the Future Healers Program in collaboration with Game Changers to help youth in Louisville navigate the secondary trauma that comes from increasing gun violence in the community.
Future Healers Program
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Dr. In Kim joins us to discuss two medical student-focused programs at UofL that develop their business skills, the MD/MBAprogram in association with the College of Business and the Bluegrass Biodesign, a first in the nation innovative partnership between the students at the School of Medicine and the College of Engineering at the University of Louisville.BlueGrass Biodesign
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We’re continuing our conversation from last week with Dr. Kelvin Thompson, the Vice Provost for Online Strategy and Teaching at the University of Louisville. This week Kelvin discusses the transformationalpower of higher education. We explore the historical context of education access and how online/remote learning increases access to education. Kelvin will also discuss UofL’s current role and the opportunities he sees for the university to become a leader in lifelong learning.
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This week we talk with Dr. Kelvin Thompson, the Vice Provost for Online Strategy and Teaching at the University of Louisville. At the beginning of 2023 Kelvin began this new role, which aims to boost strategic teaching and online techniques throughout the university. In this episode, we discuss Kelvin’s transition from his position as the Executive Director for UCF's Center for Distributed Learning and explore his vision for UofL in this new role.
Kelvin’s 90 Day Report Out
https://louisville.edu/delphi/about/first90
TOPcast Home Page with multi-platform subscription options http://topcast.online.ucf.edu
TOPcast Episode #91: “Intermodal Learning”
http://bit.ly/topcast_s07e91
TOPcast Episode #111: "’Onlineness:’ Necessity, Not Convenience” http://bit.ly/topcast_s07e111
Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away
https://www.amazon.com/Quit/dp/1529146151/
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On this episode of Faculty Feed, we talk with Dr. Kim Schatzel, just five months into her tenure as the 19th President of the University of Louisville. She brings a very unique perspective to the job since Dr. Schatzel is one of less than two percent of university presidents that have extensive business and private sector expertise, spending more than 20 years as a corporate leader and social entrepreneur in the technology and global advanced manufacturing sectors. Join us as she shares her perspectives on the principal issues facing the campus and her top priorities for UofL.
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When leaders are asked to engage in dispute resolution, what if we focused not on the broken rule but on the harm caused? In this episode, Dr. Cherie Dawson-Edwards (Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Professor for the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Louisville) discusses the tools of restorative justice and their application at work and home.
Link to her podcast: https://libraryguides.umassmed.edu/restorative-justice/academic-medicine
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If you have heard rumblings about the coming of competency-based medical education to the School of Medicine curriculum, you won’t want to miss this episode in which Dr. Jennifer-Brueckner Collins and one of her graduate students, Emily Porta, discuss how CBME related to teamwork, communication and professionalism are being introduced into the gross anatomy lab curriculum at UofL. You will leave with a greater understanding of just how this looks at ground level as brand new medical students are introduced to this important set of lifelong learning skills.
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For the past decade, Dr. Martin Huecker has intently focused on wellness for himself and his patients. He believes that healthcare providers ought to be role models for their patients and for the learners we are entrusted to train. We should be in the very best physical and mental shape so we can do the hard work of caring for patients, teaching and leading in an academic environment. If you want to change the trajectory of your life toward wellness, this episode will inform, equip and inspire you to take that next critical step toward a better, healthier life.
ResourcesThe Drive podcast with Peter Attia M.D. https://peterattiamd.com/podcast/
Books:Outlive by Peter Attia MD, Body by Science by Doug McGuffDo you have comments or questions about Faculty Feed? Contact us at FacFeed@louisville.edu. We look forward to hearing from you.
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Listen to this episode to learn how one of our SOM faculty in the Department of Physiology, Dr. Daniela Terson de Paleville, created an award-winning, innovative approach to the team-based learning experience for students. She used a flipped classroom model with immediate feedback to learners and a unique adaptation of Bloom’s Taxonomy, adapting it to drive a focus on the application of the content the students were learning, while assuring student accountability.
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Competition for jobs in academic medicine is real. The addition of the Masters Degree in Health Professions Education to your curriculum vitae will be a differentiator as you compete for jobs in academic medicine or as you seek administrative educational leadership roles as you advance in your career. Consider investing in yourself to become a better educator to the benefit of your learners and their patients.
Find out more about the HPE program: https://louisville.edu/hsc/faculty-development/programs
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As healthcare professionals we have largely ignored the 2019 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guidelines on primary prevention of cardiovascular disease when we make choices about what we eat and how (or whether) we exercise. Dr. Kim Williams, Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at the UofL School of Medicine, and past president of the American College of Cardiology (2015-16) was one of the key authors of these guidelines. He joins us today on Faculty Feed to share the data and his insights on the impact of the choices we make on our own health, our patients’ health, the economy, and the health of the planet. Join us…and come hungry.
Heart and Soul Cookbook (ABC_Cookbook.pdf abcardio.org)
Healthy at Last (Eric Adams, mayor of New York) book with recipes Healthyat Last: A Plant-Based Approach to Preventing and Reversing Diabetes and OtherChronic Illnesses: Adams, Eric: 9781401962210: Amazon.com: Books
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In this previously run episode of Faculty Feed, we talk with Dr. Russ Farmer (Associate Professor, Department of Surgery) about how best to drive critical thinking skills in our learners. He highlights a tool that facilitates the use of strategic questioning strategies for our busy and chaotic clinical learning environments. Instead of defaulting to lower-order questions that require only fact-based answers, this tool, the Questioning Aid for Rich, Real-Time Discussion (QARRD), prompts faculty to craft higher-order questions that require the learner to apply, analyze, evaluate, and create solutions to clinical problems. Better questions drive the development of critical thinking skills in our learners. The app is now available on Apple and Android. Search in the app store for QARRD. For more information check out our publication in MedEd Portal or email HSCFacDv@louisville.eduto schedule training for your clinical educators.
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Have you ever struggled with giving feedback to a learner? Most learners feel that they don’t receive actionable feedback on their performance, and feedback often impairs performance by threatening self-esteem. In this episode of Faculty Feed, Dr. Jerry Rabalais and Dr. Staci Saner tackle the crucial topic of feedback with Dr. Sara Multerer, Residency Program Director, Department of Pediatrics. We review the latest research and discuss what we can do to promote feedback aimed at professional development by creating a feedback culture in our organizations.
Ramani, S., Könings, K. D., Ginsburg, S., & van der Vleuten, C. P. (2018). Twelve tips to promote a feedback culture with a growth mindset: Swinging the feedback pendulum from recipes to relationships. Medical Teacher, 41(6), 625–631. Promoting a FeedbackCulture Pt. 1Promoting a Feedback Culture Pt. 2
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Women and minoritized faculty have heard and experienced this “twice as good” advice in their careers. This is seen as a necessary effort for success at work that can lead to racial battle fatigue. Listen in to learn from Dr. Seals who has studied this phenomenon as an educational psychologist and how it relates to learning theory and motivation for women and minoritized faculty, and what you as an educator can do as you Notice-Empathize- Act in support of your marginalized students.
Listen to this TED talk by Carol Dweck to learn more about growth vs fixed mindsets in learning and consider how it relates to the “twice as” phenomenon. https://www.ted.com/talks/carol_dweck_the_power_of_believing_that_you_can_improve?language=en
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What could you learn from a 40-year faculty member who ultimately rose through the ranks to become the first woman dean of the UofL School of Medicine? This week we talk with Dr. Toni Ganzel, M.D., M.B.A., who is retiring from UofL after serving 12 years as Dean of the School of Medicine. We discuss the three phases of her career from clinician to Associate Dean of Student Affairs and then Dean of the School of Medicine and what she has learned along the way. Dr. Ganzel’s parting message has much to offer to all faculty members, but especially our women faculty. After listening to this episode, she wants you to choose to dance rather than sit out your time at UofL.
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How do we help our medical students handle the enormous volume of information they need to learn? In this week’s episode of Faculty Feed, we talk with Ashley Triplett, M.A, M.A-HEA, education learning specialist at the UofL School of Medicine. Ashley diagnoses just what the student needs and works with them to customize a learning plan. She takes challenges at school and at home into consideration to optimize their academic performance. Join us at this behind the scenes look into the importance of the learning specialist at our School of Medicine.
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Why do accomplished health professions students need to learn better study strategies? This week we talk with Dr. Cyndi Metz, PhD, who is Associate Professor, Vice Chair, and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Physiology at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. We discuss helping students develop study strategies for integrated, higher-level assessments in the health professions. Cyndi describes how faculty can purposefully help students become better test takers, and she describes a toolbox she created to help students develop metacognitive and critical thinking skills to answer test questions more effectively. After listening to this episode, Cyndi’s “One Thing” call to action is for faculty listeners to model critical thinking for their students by walking through their thought process to answer practice problems in class. Learn more about Cyndi’s work and educational resources on her YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/HowIMetzYourPhysio.
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Critical thinking skills are crucial for health professionals, especially in clinical settings. However, most health professions educators engage learners with only lower-level concepts such as definitions, fact recall, or basic explanations. Employing strategic questioning methods that require learners to use higher-order thinking can help develop clinical reasoning skills. The Questioning Aid for Rich, Real-time Discussion (QARRD) was created for health professions educators to purposefully implement concepts from Bloom’s taxonomy and hierarchical questioning in clinical settings. Listen to this episode of Faculty Feed as the team discusses Bloom's Taxonomy, the QARRD and the connection to critical thinking and clinical reasoning.
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This week’s episode showcases a current LIAM participant (class of 2022-23), Westley Covington, the Clinical Director the UofL Department of Family and Geriatric Medicine. Westley shares story after story of how he has been able to apply key communication skills around listening and having difficult conversations in his day-to-day work and at home. His stories are moving and reveal his humility and zeal for driving employee engagement as a servant leader.
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Employee engagement is more of a problem than ever post-pandemic. Listen to this episode, a collaboration between the Employee Success Center (Brian Buford) at UofL and the Office of HSC Professional Development (Drs. Rabalais and Saner), as we dive into the evidence that it is how managers behave toward employees that drives (or kills) employee engagement. So, we either retrain bad managers, or better yet, let’s change how we select managers in the first place.
UofL Employee Success Center, Gallup Workplace Engagement, Google Project Oxygen
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You’ve downloaded a citationmanagement software, but do you actually use it? This week the HSC Office ofEducational and Professional Development talks about citation managers likeEndNote, which faculty can use to organize their citations, journal articles,and other scholarly works. We discuss how this software automates citations tosave time when writing manuscripts or grant proposals. If you’re new to thecitation feature that will create and automatically reformat a referencesection, this will change your life! After listening to this episode, our “OneThing” call to action is for listeners to do something new with your citationmanager. Faculty at UofL have access to download EndNote for free andcan learn more about EndNote training classes through our library. See the EndNote website for additionalresources and best practices for using your citation manager.
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Have you ever needed to develop a survey for your learners, patients, or colleagues? This week we talk with Jason Immekus, PhD, MS, who is Chair and Professor of the Department of Educational Leadership, Evaluation, and Organizational Development at the University of Louisville College of Education and Human Development. We discuss survey development, which involves establishing the reliability and validity of instruments to help ensure that survey results are meaningful and actionable. Jason describes the (often unrealized) complexity of survey development and suggests some best practices that faculty can use to improve their instruments. After listening to this episode, Jason’s “One Thing” call to action is for listeners to consider tools being used in their departments and reflect on whether there is alignment between the purpose of the tool and how the data are used. Learn more about the scale-development resources that Jason mentions, including: The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing from the American Psychological Association, resources from The Council on Measurement in Education, and Duke’s Initiative on Survey Methodology. This primer article by Boateng et al. (2018) also provides a helpful step-by-step overview of the scale development and validation process for investigators. Do you have comments or questions about Faculty Feed? Contact us at FacFeed@louisville.edu. We look forward to hearing from you.
Our learners often complain that they do not get good feedback from us as faculty. Providing actionable, formative feedback in real-time while providing patient care in a busy inpatient setting is hard. This week we talked with three neonatologists who asked us to help them to give feedback better. Listen to them describe the two formative feedback models they are now using in a busy NICU setting. Their stories provide lessons that are applicable broadly to how we engage learners across the HSC campus.
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If you have wondered how to make asynchronous, cross-disciplinary teaching between physicians and nurses really work, this podcast provides a great model for you to consider. Listen as Dr. Becky Gesler from the School of Nursing and Dr. Natalie Henderson from the Department of Pediatrics Critical Care Division discuss an innovative way that they solved this problem using a collaborative, opportunistic approach to learning.
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Universities are no longer merely providers of information to learners, but also have a responsibility to serve the needs of the communities they occupy. The University of Louisville is committed to not only being “in the community” but to be “of the community”. Drs. Dwayne Compton and Doug Craddock describe key activities sponsored by the University and the School of Medicine in Louisville and throughout the state of Kentucky and why these are so important to the communities and our learners. Find out how you as faculty can get involved in this critical mission of the university.
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What does health care have to do with human trafficking? This week we talk with Olivia Mittel, MD, MS, who is Associate Dean for Medical Student Affairs and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. We discuss how researchshows that a majority of human trafficking victims come into contact with thehealthcare system, which provides an opportunity for healthcare professionalsto identify victims and provide support. Olivia describes efforts to teachmedical students and providers how to use trauma-informed communication withpatients and identify patients who are being trafficked. After listening tothis episode, Olivia’s “One Thing” call to action is for listeners to educatethemselves about the warning signs of trafficking. Review resources forproviders from Polaris, whichoperates the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline, become familiar with screening toolsto identify trafficking victims, and read the January 2023 Clinical Reportfrom Pediatrics on the healthcare needs of patients who have been trafficked.
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If you aren’t intentionally setting the stage for a safe learning environment, your effectiveness as an educator is likely compromised. This podcast with Dr. Kim Boland, Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at UofL, will show you how to create a safe learning environment for your HSC learners as you join them in partnership on their learning journey.
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Dear Esteemed Academic, we’re reaching out to you as an eminent scholar in your field! This week we talk with Dr. John Chenault, PhD, MA, MSLS who is a former medical librarian and currently Associate Professor & Director of Anti-Racism Initiatives in Undergraduate Medical Education at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. We discuss predatory publishing, which is an exploitative practice that charges authors to publish scholarly journal articles without providing important publishing services like peer review. Dr. Chenault suggests that listeners can work with librarians to identify such exploitative journals before publishing, and he describes resources that faculty can use to help identify predatory publishers. After listening to this episode, Dr. Chenault calls for listeners to be mindful of this industry and its negative impact to our profession. Learn more about predatory publishing with Retraction Watch, the Predatory Publishing blog, and see if your university has access to Cabell’s International. Also check out John’s previous Faculty Feed episodes on anti-racism in medical education and the crisis in biomedical publishing.
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We all work. Many of us have chronic work-related stress. Join us as Drs. Shuck and Keith describe the ground-breaking findings they are discovering through an interdisciplinary research group studying the toxicity of our work environments. Long-lasting, chronic physical health effects like hypertension can be the result of work-related stress. Join us as we explore this exciting new work connecting work and physical health.
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Today’s Faculty Feed features Jason Zahrndt, Program Manager at the Delphi Center for Teaching & Learning. Jason oversees the digital media suite. Learn about UofL’s resources the digital media suite can provide for you and your students/learners. Also, Jason is part of the Digital Transformation Center which can provide you with badges and certifications from companies such as Google, IBM, Adobe, and Microsoft. Check out all the resources you have at your fingertips.
https://louisville.edu/digitalmediasuite
https://louisville.edu/digital-transformation
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Historically, continuing medical education is a licensure mandate for physicians and nurses and increasingly for all healthcare providers. Join us as we talk with Dr. Demetra Antimisiaris, Director of the University of Louisville School of Medicine’s Office of CME about what the next generation of CME will look like in support of population health with interdisciplinary CME training, and how UofL is positioning itself as a national provider of CME to improve patient outcomes.
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Something for our listeners to do: View a video promoting a population health CME offering from Stanford CME. Notice the focus on health behaviors and physician engagement in this population health challenge. Introduction to Food & Health - YouTube
Is our healthcare system accessible for people with disabilities or just compliant? This week we talk with Dr. Priya Chandan, MD, MPH, who is Vice President of Healthcare Quality and Analytics at Kramer Davis and Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at the University of Louisville School of Medicine; and Dr. Emily Noonan, PhD, MA, who is Assistant Professor in Undergraduate Medical Education at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. We discuss disability and medicine, which touches all clinicians regardless of specialty. Priya and Emily describe how ableism and the lack of accessibility create barriers to care for people with disabilities, and they discuss their curriculum initiatives that engage self-advocates to teach students about disability and health care. Learn more about their work to improve health care for people with intellectual/developmental disabilities here.
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What if each of us could contribute to sustainability in our own way? This week we talk with Dr. Justin Mog, PhD, who is Assistant to the Provost for Sustainability Initiatives at the University of Louisville. We discuss initiatives at UofL and across Louisville that aim to advance environmental, social, and economic justice through sustainability. Justin describes how there is “no silver bullet” to becoming a sustainable community, but rather a diversity of solutions are required to achieve these goals. Listeners from UofL will learn about different initiatives on our Belknap and HSC campuses along with various opportunities to get involved with sustainability at UofL (https://louisville.edu/sustainability/). Also check out Justin’s podcast Sustainability Now! (https://www.forwardradio.org/sustainabilitynow), which focuses on how citizens are taking action to advance sustainability and recently marked its 300th episode!
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Don’t miss today’s episode with Dr. Rudy Clark; she is an Assistant Professor at UofL School of Nursing. This discussion examines the connection between art or other creative outlets and learning. Listen as Dr. Clark shares her passion for teaching nursing students in creative and thought-provoking ways to help them see content from multiple perspectives. And don’t forget to head to Kornhauser Library in the Health Sciences Center to see the HeART of Medicine Showcase from March 27th – April 7th 2023. Students of all HSC schools will display their art.
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For more information about the art show - https://library.louisville.edu/kornhauser/events/2023/heartofmedicine
You will love this episode! Learn how the pre-medical magnet program with JCPS has evolved with the arrival of Dr. Eddie Miller. Central High School students now take part in rotations at UofL School of Medicine and help them to develop confidence. Listen to this show and learn how you can help with the JCPS pipeline programs. For more information feel free to contact Dr. Eddie Miller at edward.miller@louisville.edu
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We all want our learners to develop critical thinking skills, but how do we formatively assess our learners to see if their critical thinking skills are improving over the course of a program. In this episode of Faculty Feed we talk with Dr. David Johnson, Assistant Professor at the School of Public Health and Information Sciences, as he describes the formative rubric he developed that can be generalized to multiple disciplines or products.
Johnson, D., Kakar, R., Zahrndt, R., & Walton, P. (2022). Student Evaluation Using an Intellectual Standards Rubric for Critical Thinking. Pedagogy in Health Promotion, 23733799211070544.
Johnson, D., Kakar, R., & Walton, P. (2019). Structured public health scenario analyses promote critical thinking in undergraduate students. Pedagogy in Health Promotion, 5(4), 261-267.
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This episode of Faculty Feed discusses the benefits of learning about teaching and learning if you are an educator in the health professions. We talk to recent MS HPE graduates, Russ Farmer, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery and Assistant Dean of Clinical Skills, University of Louisville School of Medicine and Wil Abshier, DMD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Comprehensive Dentistry, University of Louisville School of Dentistry about their journey to gain new knowledge. If you are interested in more information about the HPE program, please email HPE@louisville.edu or visit https://louisville.edu/online/programs/masters/online-master-of-science-in-health-professions-education
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Academia depends on the publishing world to disseminate scholarly work, but the current model is facing significant challenges. This week we talk with Dr. John Chenault, PhD, MA, MSLS, who is Associate Professor and the Director of Anti-Racism Initiatives at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Dr. Chenault is a former medical librarian, and we discuss both long-standing and emerging issues in biomedical research publishing. Dr. Chenault describes how research outcomes can be erroneous or deliberately falsified, and he suggests that more transparency—rather than our current system of peer review—will be needed to address emerging issues in plagiarism and post-production fabrication. Learn more about the work that Dr. Chenault describes by Freedman and the Global Biological Standards Institute as well as the Retraction Watch and PubPeer resources to help faculty evaluate published literature.
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Learner engagement is enhanced with technology. This week we talk with Kent Gardner and David Aylor, who are Co-Directors of Instructional Technology for the Academic Technology Office (ATO) at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Their roles involve helping faculty, staff, and students access technology to make learning happen. Kent and David discuss the future of academic technology and give us insight into making better use of Microsoft Teams, which became ubiquitous during the pandemic. Learn more about ATO, and UofL community members interested in the VR/AR interest group can search “Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality in Education” in Teams and join the channel.
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How do you use social media in your professional role? Learn how these School of Medicine faculty used Twitter to engage their colleagues and learners in a cross-disciplinary professional project. Check out these Twitter profiles –
Keri Marques @KeriMarquesMD & @UofLPedsNeo
Jessica Kline & the UofL OBGYN Residency @UofLObGynRes
Staci Saner - @SSaner
HSC Office of Professional and Educational Development - @HSCFacDev
Research experience is important for undergraduate pre-medical students, and there are ways to engage students beyond biomedical and clinical research. This week we talk with Dr. Emily Noonan, who is Assistant Professor in Undergraduate Medical Education, and Dr. Linda Fuselier, who is Professor and Chair of Biology at the University of Louisville. We discuss the Medical Education Research Award (MERA), which is a collaboration between the College of Arts & Sciences and the School of Medicine. This program engages pre-medical students in clinical skills research with medical educators, and we discuss how MERA benefits students while helping to create a pipeline for health professions education. Faculty on HSC can learn about cross-campus collaboration and engaging trainees across the continuum. Learn more about the MERA program and the Center for Engaged Learning mentioned in the episode.
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Leadership in the academy is hard work. Listen to Dr. Susan Ryan, Professor of English, and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in the College of Arts & Sciences at UofL, as she describes her own leadership journey and the lessons learned along the way about being confident to step into roles, presuming the good intentions of others, and the incremental rewards that come to leaders in academics.
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Could clinical research be a key driver of your job satisfaction, providing real meaning for your work in academic medicine, nursing, public health, or dentistry? If you are considering how get started, or how to rediscover the passion for discovery, then you won’t want to miss what Drs. Jan Sullivan and Michelle Stevenson have to offer in this week’s episode of Faculty Feed. The passion for research that they discovered in training pushed their career development. Hear how they are now working to help develop the next generation of clinical researchers to also find their passion in research.
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As academic educators, we should be in the information-exchange business, but rather to be in the learner transformation business. If you want to meet this new challenge, especially in the online learning space, this episode of Faculty Feed will drive you to reconsider how you teach in the online learning environment.
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ScholarRx a global, shared medical curricular ecosystem providing modular content for 70 medical schools across four continents.
The Great Upheaval: Higher Education's Past, Present, and Uncertain Future
Learning in the clinical environment is more that knowledge and procedures. Future health professionals need to be able to critically think about patient problems. Dr. Gay Baughman, Professor, from the University of Louisville School of Dentistry explains how she teaches dental students to improve their critical thinking skills. Gay utilizes the work of The Foundation For Critical Thinking and specifically the Paul-Elder framework to help her dental students develop these important skills.
Learn more about critical thinking –Patty Payette Podcast
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Clinical care involves input from many different health professions, so why don’t more care teams practice together? This week we talk about challenges and opportunities of interprofessional simulation with Dr. Hannah Fischer, MD, who is Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Neonatal Medicine at The University of Louisville School of Medicine and Adam Hall, RDH, MS, who is Assistant Professor of Dental Hygiene at the University of Louisville School of Dentistry. Hannah and Adam describe an innovative way to simulate patient care with different healthcare teams using the social e-reader Perusall, which addresses the common barrier of gathering interprofessional teams at the same time and place. Listeners can sign up for Perusall, join our HPE Journal Club on Perusall, and learn more about UofL’s Leadership and Innovation in Academics Matter (LIAM) program.
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Join us this week as we introduceour new Vice-Provost for Faculty Affairs at the University of Louisville. Dr. Cherie Dawson-Edwards provides an engaging, personal story about her leadership development with an energetic description of the challenges she has faced, especially how she accepted new opportunities to lead along the way to prepare her for this important role.
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How do we represent diverse gender identities in patient simulation? This week we talk again with Carrie Bohnert, MPA, CHSE, who is the Director of the Standardized Patient Program at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. We discuss how standardized patient programs portray patients who are transgender and nonbinary for clinical skills training. Carrie describes some of her work showing inconsistency in how programs teach and assess skills for gender-affirming care, but all educators can be purposeful in supporting gender diversity in health professions education. Want to learn more? Look at the training resources discussed in the interview, including: the Fenway Guide, the AAMC competencies, and UofL’s eQuality Toolkit clinical skills manual and free CME module. Listeners interested in patient simulation can learn more about Carrie’s research exploring how simulation programs portray gender diversity, perspectivesof gender diverse SPs, and SP case resources for educators.
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Out of the sharing economy we all experience now (Uber, VRBO, etc.), comes a global, shared medical curricular ecosystem built by Dr. Tao Le and his team at ScholarRx. This worldwide movement is now providing modular content for 70 medical schools across four continents by engaging students and faculty educators in content creation. Dr. Le joins us on Faculty Feed this week to bring this initiative forward to our audience. Questions or comments? Contact us at FacFeed@louisville.edu.
Link to ScholarRx.com application for an educator account https://scholarrx.com/rx-bricks/
Link to the Academic Medicine article mentioned "A Proposal for a Shared Curricular Ecosystem" https://scholarrx.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/A_Proposal_for_a_Shared_Medical_School_Curricular.20-1.pdf
Every process turns out the best if we begin with the end in mind, whether it is a car trip, baking a cake, developing a Grand Rounds presentation, or revising an entire curriculum. Decide what you want the outcome to be…in our case, determining what the learners should be able to do at the end of the presentation/curriculum. Join us as the Faculty Feed team (Drs. Saner, Rabalais, and Weingartner) discuss Understanding by Design, the “backwards” approach to developing a curriculum. We dive into the difference between knowing and understanding and provide practical lessons for all who deliver content to learners.
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How might learners get practice presenting scholarly work without doing a research project? This week we talk with Dr. Becky Gesler, EdD, MSN, RN, who is an Assistant Professor at the University of Louisville School of Nursing. We discuss her “Review of Literature Pediatric Evidence-Based Poster Session” assignment, in which nursing students examine current healthcare literature and disseminate their findings in an all-digital, conference-style poster session. Dr. Gesler describes how this innovative project engages students in scholarship practices and can translate to any discipline. Louisville community members are encouraged attend the next poster session on Monday, November 14. Stop by any time between 9:30am and noon in the School of Nursing.
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If you are looking for inspiration for why to consider getting additional training in health professions education strategies, this week’s podcast will fill that need. Join us as we interview Dr. Brian Williams, UofL neurosurgeon and director of the brain tumor program, as he recounts why he chose to complete the Health Professions Education Certificate Program at UofL and how what he learned drove better teaching for his students and residents. HPE Program: https://louisville.edu/hsc/faculty-development/programs
https://uoflhealth.org/provider/brian-williams/
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Looking for a way to increase learner engagement and critical thinking about clinical scenarios? This week we talk with Dr. Kennetha A. Williams, DNP, MS, APRN, PMHNP-BC, who is an Assistant Professor at the University of Louisville School of Nursing. We discuss her use of the Unfolding Case Study, which she developed for nursing students as part of the Seminar on Teaching for New Faculty. Dr. Williams describes how unfolding case studies incrementally reveal information to learners, which can help replicate the dynamics of the clinical setting while promoting critical thinking among student groups. Join us at the virtual Educator Grand Rounds at 12pm on Tuesday, December 13 for more unfolding case study resources from Dr. Williams (email HSCFacDv@louisville.edu for the Teams Meeting invite), and learn more about the Seminar on Teaching for New Faculty from the Delphi Center for Teaching and Learning.
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How do health professions education (HPE) students learn to work with patients? This week we talk with Carrie Bohnert, MPA, CHSE who is the Director of the Standardized Patient Program at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Carrie describes how patient simulation includes standardized patient encounters, which allow learners to practice communication, physical exams, and other clinical skills with trained educators who portray patients. This practice gives learners formative feedback in a clinical setting before working with actual patients. Learn more about UofL’s Standardized Patient Program and how to become an SP if you know someone who would be a good fit for standardized patient work!
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Join us as Dr. Chris Barton, Assistant Professor in Child Neurology, shares his perspective on what he came to understand about learning science through Health Professions Education coursework at UofL, the book, Neuroteach, and how he is using that new knowledge to be an even better educator. He provides practical tips that you too can implement tomorrow as you supervise clinical learners. Don’t miss this one.
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This week we talk with Dr. John Chenault, PhD, MA, MSLS, who is Associate Professor and the Director of Anti-Racism Initiatives at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. We discuss why anti-racism is critical for every provider and health professions educator. Dr. Chenault describes how systemic bias and persistent prejudice affect the assumptions that we all make, which means that anti-racism work is challenging but imperative for clinical and educational settings. Learn more about anti-racism resources and information at UofL.
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Have your learners done the reading? Are you tired of discussion board posts? This week your Faculty Feed hosts Staci Saner, EdD, MEd and Laura Weingartner, PhD, MS from the Health Sciences Center Office of Faculty Development talk about one of our favorite teaching tools. The social e-reader Perusall allows learners to interact with each other asynchronously through reading assignments and other course content. Staci and Laura describe different ways that faculty can incorporate this amazing tool into their teaching, with a specific focus on health professions education (HPE). Check out the research article studying Perusall mentioned in the episode.
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If you want to hear a story of transformation, we have a treat for you this week as we talk with Dr. Bindu Dukka from the University of Louisville School of Dentistry. Bindu shares her compelling story of personal and leadership development from her arrival in the U.S. in 2008 as a naïve young recent dental school graduate. She describes how she traveled from India to Indianapolis to meet her husband, obtain a master’s degree in public health, become a mother, and ultimately become the director of the periodontics residency program at UofL. You won’t want to miss this heartfelt and inspiring tale of her journey, and the wisdom that she gained along the way.
Podcasts mentioned in this episode are linked here: https://howleaderslead.com/podcast/ https://howleaderslead.com/tom-brady/
https://howleaderslead.com/molly-fletcher/
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We are finishing up summer break in the HSC Office of Faculty Development! Take a few minutes to learn about our team as we prepare great interviews for the fall. In this week’s Faculty Feed Bite, we’re talking with Dr. Jerry Rabalais, who is Associate Vice-President for HSC Faculty Development. Jerry brings the vital clinician perspective to our team’s work in teaching, learning, and leadership at the University of Louisville. UofL faculty can check out the education research resources on our Program and Resource Center that we discussed in the episode.
As we continue our summer break in the HSC Office of Faculty Development, take a few minutes to learn about our team as we prepare great interviews for the fall. In this week’s Faculty Feed Bite, we’re talking with Dr. Staci Saner, who is the Director of the HSC Office of Faculty Development and Program Director for the Health Professions Education (HPE) Graduate Programs. Staci helps you discover teaching and learning best practices to use with your HPE learners at the University of Louisville. UofL faculty can check out learning modules in the Program and Resource Center that we discussed in the episode.
Summer break continues in the HSC Office of Faculty Development! This month, take a few minutes to learn about our team as we prepare great interviews for the fall. In this week’s Faculty Feed Bite, we’re talking with Dr. Laura Weingartner, PhD, MS, who is the Director of Research for Health Professions Education (HPE). Laura helps faculty develop HPE research and produce scholarship at the University of Louisville. UofL faculty can check out the HPE Writing Group that we discussed in the episode.
We’re still on summer break in the HSC Office of Faculty Development! This month, take a few minutes to learn about our team as we prepare great interviews for the fall. In this week’s Faculty Feed Bite, we’re talking with Emily Carr, MA, who joined the team in July 2022 as the Faculty Development Program Manager. Emily is your first point of contact for all things Faculty Development at the University of Louisville Health Sciences Center. UofL faculty can check out the Educator Grand Rounds that we discussed in the episode.
School’s out for summer in the HSC Office of Faculty Development! This month, take a few minutes to learn about our team as we prepare great interviews for the fall. In this week’s Faculty Feed Bite, we’re talking with Rose Twagiramariya, MPD, who joined the team in 2021. Learn about Rose’s previous work with One Acre Fund which helps smallholder farmers in Rwanda, and wish her well on her next steps after HSC FacDev!
It turns out that cardiovascular disease, especially heart attacks and strokes, are not only impacted by your blood pressure, cholesterol level and family history, but by where you live. Join us to learn about the Envirome Institute at the University of Louisville, headed by Dr. Aruni Bhatnagar. You won’t want to miss this week’s podcast on Faculty Feed as we enjoy a vigorous discussion about how our environment (like the presence of trees in your neighborhood) impacts the incidence of cardiovascular disease. https://louisville.edu/envirome
Healthcare professionals must be advocates for their patients and faculty need to help learners develop these skills effectively. Dr. Fran Hardin, Professor at the UofL School of Nursing is conducting research to see identify ways of helping nurses become health advocates. List to this episode of Faculty Feed to hear about the research project and the tools she is using to help undergraduate and graduate nursing students develop these skills.
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Below are links to some of the resources we discussed in this episode.
https://www.thefire.org/get-involved/student-network/take-action/adopting-the-chicago-statement/
https://www.thecoddling.com/
In this episode, we discuss critical thinking and clinical reasoning with Dr. Patty Payette from the Delphi Center. Critical thinking and clinical reasoning are skills that can be learned and require practice. We discuss some specific strategies that you can use with your learners to help them develop these very important skills not only for their clinical practice but for life. We hope you enjoy this episode. If you have any questions or comments, please email us at FacFeed@louisville.edu
Did you know that the University of Louisville has a Digital Transformation Center with literally thousands of resources that faculty, students, and staff can access to acquire trophies, badges, micro-credentials, and certifications from corporations like IBM and Google? These resources provide an easy way for students to enhance their degrees, for staff to upskill their capabilities, and for faculty to continue to develop their own skills and enhance their courses. Join us as we talk with Dr. Sharon Kerrick, Director of UofL’s Digital Transformation Center, about her career journey that has culminated in this unique role.
For more information check out the following links. https://louisville.edu/digital-transformation/learn is the main link for Digital transformation for all vendors. The link for Microsoft badges https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/get-started-with-power-bi/ The link for IBM skills badge is - https://www.ibm.com/training/badge/c98fdc5c-b5f5-4c00-bd61-2db0efabedde and the link for LinkedIn Learning is the following https://www.linkedin.com/learning/excel-for-business-analysts/benefit-from-business-analytics?autoplay=true&u=70934012
Remember if you complete a badge - let us know for some free swag! Email us at - FacFeed@louisville.edu
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Holly Wei, Professor and Assistant Dean at the University of Louisville School of Nursing. Dr. Wei discusses her work with the Human Caring Theory from Dr. Jean Watson of the Watson Caring Science Institute. Holly describes a caring moment in the nursing profession and how caring provides an opening to help get knowledge to patients and families. She also discusses her new book, Visionary Leadership in Healthcare, and how leaders need to care for the environment and the individuals that work with them. Listen to this episode and digest what Holly has to say.
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Changing behavior is hard, whether it is at an individual level or at the organizational level. Therefore, most change efforts fail because they appeal only to our rational mind…but there is hope for us. Join us as Staci Saner and Jerry Rabalais walk through the book, Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard, (2010) by Chip and Dan Heath. It brings us insight into how we can increase the likelihood of success of change efforts. The book illustrates the change process with a rational rider atop an emotional elephant moving down a path. If you want to up your game in leading a change effort, you must listen to this podcast. If you don’t have time to read the book, check out this 8 -minute cartoonthat summarizes the book’s approach. Questions or comments? Contact us FacFeed@louisville.edu
What strategies are your students using to learn? This week we talk with Pascale Alard, PhD, who is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Louisville. We discuss her Educator Grand Rounds, in which she spoke on effective teaching and learning strategies. Dr. Alard describes how students often rely on ineffective strategies like re-reading, but faculty can help students develop more effective strategies with resources such as the Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve, Dweck’s work on Mindset, and McGuire’s excellent Teach Yourself How to Learn. Learn more about our office’s Leadership in Academics Matter (LIAM) and the Health Professions Education (HPE) programs as well. Questions or comments? Contact us FacFeed@louisville.edu
Have you heard of learning styles? In this episode of Faculty Feed, Dr. Staci Saner discusses the learning styles myth that permeates educational settings. We discuss the history of learning styles and some of the research that has been on the topic. If you would like additional information be sure to check out this blog post - https://louisville.edu/hsc/faculty-development/facultyfeed/is-learning-magical
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How do learners perceive feedback? This week we talk again with Dr. Josh Kurtz, who is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Cardiology at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. We discuss an article from our office’s Health Professions Education (HPE) Journal Club, which explored how to foster a feedback mindset with learners and their perceptions of receiving feedback from longitudinal coaches. We consider what we can do to provide better formative feedback to our learners. Learn more about the qualitative feedback study we discussed and how UofL faculty can join the HPE Journal Club.
How’d your class go last semester? This week we talk with Dr. Linda Fuselier, the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Louisville. We discuss peer evaluation, in which faculty get feedback about evidence-based practices from other faculty and staff who observe them teaching. Linda describes how peer observation and evaluation of teaching are critical to supplement traditional student evaluations. Learn more about the resources mentioned in the episode, including a field guide for peer observation, a study of the structured observation protocol COPUS, and the online observation tool GORP, which UofL faculty can sign up for here. Comment on Faculty Feed or ask a question at - FacFeed@louisville.edu
Peer obs - https://www.itlal.org/wp-content/uploads/pub/A-Field-Guide-to-Peer-Observation-of-Teaching.pdf
COPUS - https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aap8892
GORP - https://cee.ucdavis.edu/tools
Sign up here - https://gorp.ucdavis.edu/users/sign_up
Are you looking for a way to enhance learner engagement as you teach in the clinical environment? Join us as we talk with Dr. Jenn Hamm (UofL, Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Associate Dean for Resident Education and Work Environment & OB/GYN Residency Program Director) as she shares her personal experience with the power of gamification and teaching with technology to drive learning. She provides practical advice on how faculty of all generations can easily begin to use these technology tools to up their teaching power in a meaningful way.
Please contact us at FacFeed@louisville.edu for questions or comments.
The Faculty Feed podcast team had the wonderful opportunity to talk with Dr. Toni Ganzel, Dean of the University of Louisville School of Medicine, in her 10th year of service in this role. Dr. Ganzel is the first woman in this key leadership role in the 185-year history of our School of Medicine. She shares her perspectives on her own path to the Dean’s role and on the future of increasing leadership roles for women in academic medicine leadership. Please email us with questions or comments at FacFeed@louisville.edu.
What does Twitter have to do with health professions education? This week we talk with Dr. Josh Kurtz, who is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Cardiology at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. We discuss how to use Twitter for educational purposes, which has allowed Josh to engage learners and develop relationships with other medical educators all over the world. Learn more about the basics of Twitter chats or Tweetorials for health professions educators. Don’t forget to tag us! @hscfacdev | @ssaner | @jkurtz02
This week we talk with Dr. Matt Adamkin, MD, and Lynn Robbins, RN, about RETAIN: the Retaining Employment and Talent After Injury/Illness Network. Matt and Lynn tell us about this free program that connects Kentucky residents to coordinated health and employment-related services for staying/returning to work after injury or illness.We discuss the importance of rehabilitation and learn that anyone can make a referral to RETAIN. Providers across UofL HSC and external clinics can also make easy RETAIN referrals through EPIC, Cerner, and ITW.This is an amazing opportunity for every listener to help patients, friends, family, or even yourself, so learn more about making a referral to RETAIN.
Are you curious about how to process the racism tensions that have resurfaced so violently this past two years? Join us as we talk with Dr. Teresa Reed, Dean of the School of Music at the University of Louisville, and author of the 2021 book, You’re Not Likely to be a Racist: Answers for Curious White People. She weaves her personal experience and perspective on how to be compassionate while providing a safe space to discuss and explore this tension.
Please email us with questions or comments at FacFeed@louisville.edu
This week we talk with Dr. Chris Seals, who has recently joined the University of Louisville School of Medicine as an Assistant Dean for Faculty Affairs and Advancement. We discuss his new role, which will focus on recruiting and retaining minoritized faculty at the School of Medicine. Chris describes the challenges and opportunities for this charge and how his previous work has prepared him to come home to Kentucky for his new role. Learn more about Chris’s research here.
Enduring learning is hard. One of the key things we can do as faculty is to help our learners to learn more effectively, including the importance of strategic questioning, a growth mindset, and the power of passion and perseverance as it relates to learning. Join us as the faculty development team interviews Dr. Ashley Isles, Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Geriatric Medicine about study strategies, the role of a growth mindset, and grit in learning for enduring understanding, not just passing a test. For more, read Ashley's article on lessons in learning, Dr. Rabalais' article on nurturing a growth mindset, and check out our graduate programs in Health Professions Education.
Compassionate leadership is now more important than ever in healthcare as we have weathered a two-year-long pandemic. Join us as Wade Mitzel, Chief Operating Officer for the University of Louisville Physicians group, tells a personal story of how he was once the recipient of compassionate leadership at a critical time during his service as a paramedic. That event shaped how he is now working as COO to build trust, compassion, stability, and hope for employees throughout this large organization. You won’t want to miss this one. To learn more read this 2020 blog post about Compassionate Leadership. If you have questions or comments please email us at FacFeed@louisville.edu
Could our work culture affect our health? This week we talk again with Dr. Brad Shuck, Professor of Human Resources and Organizational Development and Co-Founder of OrgVitals, a culture management company for workplaces. We discuss his proposed model of work determinants of health, which are employment-related conditions that influence health and risk. Brad encourages us to be mindful of our work stress and consider how leading with compassion creates more supportive work cultures. Learn more about Brad’s work here.
Did you know that faculty leadership training can improve your professional and personal skills while you help drive organizational change? Our next Leadership and Innovation in Academics Matter (LIAM) cohort starts September 2022. Listen in as we interview two LIAM graduates, Drs. Hugh Shoff (Emergency Medicine) and Russ Farmer (Surgery), as they describe why they signed up and how they put lessons from LIAM into practice. We also discuss the value of completing leadership training locally with a cohort of colleagues from your own institution. UofL Health Sciences Center faculty can learn more and apply for LIAM here.
In this episode of Faculty Feed, we’re joined by Dr. Marie Brown, the Interim Associate Provost for Teaching and Innovation from the Delphi Center at the University of Louisville. We discuss the annual Celebration of Teaching and Learning, which serves as an opportunity to honor our institution’s education mission while learning from our peers. Catch some of the highlights from this year’s conference and access the Celebration materials here: https://louisville.edu/delphi/programs/celebration/celebration To contact Faculty Feed with questions or comments please email us at FacFeed@louisville.edu.
If you are curious about how to enhance your own or your staff’s success at work, you won’t want to miss this podcast as we interview Brian Buford, Director of the University of Louisville’s Employee Success Center, and how he uses Gallup’s Strengths Finder assessment to assure that each employee is able to bring their very best gifts and talents to their work. Learn what we can do to help each other learn about their strengths and how mentorship plays a critical role in professional development. Learn more about the UofL Employee Success Center (https://louisville.edu/employeesuccess) and Gallups Strength Finder.
Why does it take courage to lead with compassion? This week we talk with Dr. Brad Shuck, Professor of Human Resources and Organizational Development and Co-Founder of OrgVitals, a culture management company for workplaces. We discuss his research, which shows that leaders who demonstrate compassionate behaviors like dignity, empathy, and accountability improve employee engagement and performance. Brad challenges us to “lead above the line” and considers how we can combat compassion fatigue. Learn more about Brad’s research and access a recent article in Ed Surge where Brad was interviewed about faculty engagement.
We are often faced with a circumstance that requires us to engage in a difficult conversation with someone. It may be at work addressing a behavioral or job performance issue with a faculty or staff member, or it may be at home with your spouse or teenager. Difficult conversations like these are often delayed (hoping the problem will get better on its own) or avoided completely. Listen to our interview with Drs. Gale Rhodes and Mary Ashlock from the University of Louisville as they provide some tools to help you to prepare for and engage in difficult conversations to achieve productive outcomes. Check out this module on difficult conversations.
Why is it that we are naturally gifted to do some things and not others? This week we interview Brian Buford, the Director of the Employee Success Center at the University of Louisville. As a certified Strengths Finder coach, Brian discusses this tool from the Gallup Organization, which has been used by nearly 27 million people to maximize their potential at work and everywhere else. Brian talks about what you will learn about yourself, using that information to plan your work and career, and empowering others to succeed by focusing on strengths rather than shortcomings. Learn more about the UofL Employee Success Center and Gallups Strength Finder (https://www.gallup.com/cliftonstrengths/en/252137/home.aspx)
Between 10 and 20% of all first-time specialty board exam takers will fail the test. Just imagine the resulting shame and embarrassment that can accompany this, and the impact it can have on this faculty member’s confidence as they must continue to do their job while waiting two long years to retake the exam. Join us this week as one of our young faculty members in pediatric critical care shares her experience after failing her critical care board exams. In humility and blunt honesty, Dr. Natalie Henderson shares with Drs. Rabalais, Saner, and Weingartner how this impacted her work and family life as she studied and waited to take the exam, not just one more time, but two more times. We can all learn from how Dr. Henderson demonstrated her capacity to take action, handling this exam failure with courage and vulnerability. To read Dr. Henderson's entire article please visit our blog site.
In this time of the Great Resignation, the need for compassionate leadership is greater than ever. Employee engagement and motivation are all improved in organizational cultures that foster and promote the core leadership virtues of treating people with dignity, respect, authenticity, and empathy. Join us as we talk with Dr. Ryan Quinn, Associate Professor, UofL College of Business, and Director of the newly-created Project on Positive Leadership at UofL, as he shares his insights on the power of positive leadership, the mission of this project, and how positive leadership shapes organizational culture.
Or access the Project on Positive Leadership at the following URL: https://business.louisville.edu/about/learning-at-cob/ppl/
Inclusive spaces are critical for the health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ communities. On today’s episode, we talk with Bláz Bush, the former Director of the LGBT Center at UofL’s Health Sciences Center campus. Bláz joins Drs. Jerry Rabalais, Staci Saner, and Laura Weingartner as they discuss steps that health professions faculty can take to create supportive spaces for LGBTQ+ patients and learners. Since the recording of this episode, Bláz has taken a position at The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. However, UofL faculty can still access resources from the LGBT Center at HSC (https://louisville.edu/lgbt/hsc), including registering for The LGBTQ+ Affirming Healthcare Series that Bláz discussed. Listeners can also access the online LGBTQ+ Clinical Skills Training Manual (https://ir.library.louisville.edu/medicine_ume/1/) and complete the free CME/CE training (https://louisville.edu/medicine/cme/credits/eQuality19) mentioned in the episode.
Do you understand just how to teach our learners at the Health Sciences Center to become self-directed, lifelong learners? Well, the accrediting bodies for our HSC schools mandate that the faculty do so. This shift in focus from a teacher-directed to a learner-centered approach requires a change in mindset for us in our educator role. So, if you would like to learn more about how to accomplish this transition, you need to listen to this week’s podcast on self-directed learning (SDL) with Drs. Jerry Rabalais, Staci Saner, & Laura Weingartner as they discuss this shift, the observable behaviors of SDL, and how we can promote SDL with our learners
Citation: Grow GO. Teaching Learners To Be Self-Directed. Adult Education Quarterly. 1991;41(3):125-149. doi:10.1177/0001848191041003001
For more information email: hscfacdv@louisville.edu
Have you wondered just how much your teaching impacts your learners and how participation in faculty development programming can give you tools to enhance that impact? Join us as we talk with Drs. Imelda Wright and Paul Clark from the UofL School of Nursing as they describe how they have worked to bring more learner engagement to the classroom, generating the two-way conversation with their students so critical to their learning. Paul and Imelda also share how their participation in faculty development offerings has helped them continue to be lifelong learners as faculty. You won’t want to miss their personal insights on how they have become more impactful in their role as educators.
In this episode of Faculty Feed, we talk with Dr. Russ Farmer (Associate Professor, Department of Surgery) about how best to drive critical thinking skills in our learners. He highlights a tool that facilitates the use of strategic questioning strategies for our busy and chaotic clinical learning environments. Instead of defaulting to lower-order questions that require only fact-based answers, this tool, the Questioning Aid for Rich, Real-Time Discussion (QARRD), prompts faculty to craft higher-order questions that require the learner to apply, analyze, evaluate, and create solutions to clinical problems. Better questions drive the development of critical thinking skills in our learners.For more information check out our publication in MedEd Portal or email HSCFacDv@louisville.eduto schedule training for your clinical educators.
What does the movie Moneyball, the story of the 2014 Kansas City Royals professional baseball team’s adoption of small incremental practices that brought them from obscurity to the World Series, have to do with teaching more effectively? This movie was the inspiration for the book Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning by James Lang (2016). Like the incremental practices that got the Royals on base to score runs, the underlying principle here is the same. Small, incremental educational practices that increase learner engagement drive better learning than passive listening to the professor in the classroom or the faculty member telling students and residents things in the clinic or on hospital rounds. Join Drs. Jerry Rabalais and Staci Saner as they discuss easy, practical things that can be done by the faculty member in both the classroom or in the clinical teaching environment to increase learner engagement and therefore learning significantly.
For a deeper dive into this topic, check out our online module on these principles with practical suggestions that you can implement in your teaching at: https://rise.articulate.com/share/9e35Z1bUx6y-VYFKVrnskKDIBWxd8HyQ
Joining us this week on Faculty Feed, we have Dr. Mike Metz from the University of Louisville School of Dentistry to discuss his latest educational research. Learn about this great research study and how HPE faculty can help learners at all levels be more self-directed in their education. Take a listen!
Dr. Metz's research was also featured on a blog post by The Learning Scientists
Citation of the article in Journal of Dental Education:
Metz, M. J., Immekus, J. C., Lyle, K. B., & George, C. E. (2021). Effects of active engagement and spaced retrieval practice on knowledge and application of a self‐assessment rubric. Journal of Dental Education
Has a learner ever told you that they’re just not good at a certain subject? Many learners have this “fixed mindset,” in which they believe their abilities and talents are innate and thus cannot be improved. This contrasts a “growth mindset,” in which one believes that effort can develop talents and abilities—and thus challenges are viewed as an opportunity to improve rather than as a barrier. In this episode of Faculty Feed, Dr. Jerry Rabalais and Dr. Staci Saner discuss the crucial topic of mindset. We review the transformative mindset framework by Carol Dweck and discuss what we can do to promote a growth mindset for ourselves, our learners, and our organization.
Citation for the book we discussed: Dweck, C. S. (2008). Mindset: The new psychology of success. Random House Digital, Inc.
Have you ever struggled with giving feedback to a learner? Most learners feel that they don’t receive actionable feedback on their performance, and feedback often impairs performance by threatening self-esteem. In this episode of Faculty Feed, Dr. Jerry Rabalais and Dr. Staci Saner tackle the crucial topic of feedback with Dr. Sara Multerer, Residency Program Director, Department of Pediatrics. We review the latest research and discuss what we can do to promote feedback aimed at professional development by creating a feedback culture in our organizations
Citation for the article we discussed: Ramani, S., Könings, K. D., Ginsburg, S., & van der Vleuten, C. P. (2018). Twelve tips to promote a feedback culture with a growth mindset: Swinging the feedback pendulum from recipes to relationships. Medical Teacher, 41(6), 625–631. https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159x.2018.1432850
Additional links: Blog: Promoting a Feedback Culture Pt. 1
Promoting a Feedback Culture Pt. 2
In busy clinical learning environments, faculty often resort to telling learners information, but this passive activity (for the learner) does little to make learning stick. In this episode of Faculty Feed, Dr. Jerry Rabalais and Dr. Staci Saner discuss how to enhance the effectiveness of our teaching by asking good questions: open-ended questions that stimulate more than fact-based answers so that we can surface knowledge gaps and allow the learner to demonstrate their critical thinking skills. Join us to dive deeper into why telling alone is not sufficient and to learn how strategic questioning and waiting for answers make for better learning. Consider reading the blog of the same name to learn more. https://louisville.edu/hsc/faculty-development/facultyfeed/telling-is-not-teaching
Just how much formal training have you had to prepare you for your critical role as an educator in an academic medical center? Most of us have had little to no exposure to learning science, how to develop a curriculum or the best way to question learners. Yet there are evidence-based teaching and learning strategies that define how faculty can facilitate helping learners remember and apply what they have learned. In this episode of Faculty Feed, we interview Dr. Russ Farmer, a 2020 graduate of our Graduate Certificate in Health Professions Education (HPE), and an Associate Professor of Surgery, Assistant Dean for Clinical Skills, and Director of the Paris Simulation Center at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Together we explore how he acquired the learning science skills he now uses to magnify his impact in his various roles as a medical educator, and why you, too, should consider taking the HPE courses. For more information about the University of Louisville’s Graduate Certificate in Health Professions Education emailhpe@louisville.edu
How do you know if you have really learned something? With a doctoral degree in Health Professions Education, Staci Saner Ed.D, M.Ed, and Jerry Rabalais, M.D., M.H.A, a 35-year infectious diseases physician, dive into the learning science behind remembering as it applies to our role as educators. They push us to be more focused on getting information out of our learners’ heads than we are on putting information into their heads. Along the way, Staci and Jerry explore the key learning strategies in the 2014 book, Make It Stick, about how learning really works and what doesn’t work. Putting these lessons into our teaching will magnify your impact as a health sciences educator.
Want to learn more? Check out Telling is Not Teaching. UofL faculty can receive CME/CE credit by accessing this learning module through the HSC FacDev Online Library. Or you can access a 2019 Blog post by the same name.