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All good teams and organizations change over time. This change is essential for growth and can also be quite challenging. Leading change can be more effective when anchored in the principles of adaptive leadership as well as Kotter’s eight-stage process of change management. This session will incorporate both knowledge and skill-building in an interactive format. It is designed for all faculty members who are contemplating leading change; both those with formal leadership positions as well as th...

This Conversation Café will provide participants the opportunity to engage in conversation and discussion. All interested welcome!  More Information Coming Soon!

This is part of a four-part series on the third Thursday monthly at 3pm from September through December, 2022.Objectives: Look at the impacts of uncertainty on our well-being, especially in a COVID and post-COVID era. Examine the shift in impacts of stress on our well-being through exploring both acute and chronic stressors in our environment. Explore the concept of radical acceptance as developed in dialectical behavioral therapy.Content: Look at models of post disaster recovery and emotional w...

This webinar series is only available for UW affiliated faculty, staff, and students.  Description of Series: Implementing effective, advanced active learning instructional methods into the classroom can be a challenge for health professions educators. Game-based teaching is a promising and increasingly popular learner-centered teaching approach that stimulates engagement, motivation, and effective learning. The Winter 2023 IAMSE Webinar Series will survey the use and benefit of games in...

This workshop will provide tools to help you learn principles of productivity and creativity. You will learn and practice strategies for managing your email as well as low-tech solutions to time management and organization.

Abstract: Providers (Nurse Practitioners, Physicians and Physicians Assistants) experience multiple transitions across the course of their career. The T3D model of transition suggests across the trainee-trained transition, physicians experienced changes in physical, cultural, psychological and social domains within workplace, role, educational and home contexts (Gordon et al. 2020). Retaining new providers is a particular challenge for rural communities (Bailey et al., 2016; McGrail et al.,...

Peer observation of teaching can improve teaching and is required for UWSOM educators. Yet, it is DIFFICULT to seek out observation, solicit feedback, and volunteer to observe a colleague. Please join us for a CLIME Conversation Café to explore barriers to peer observation and feedback, and brainstorm ways to overcome them.

Whether in the operating room, the clinic or the lab, the best results come when we are able to work collaboratively. Despite best intentions, making this happen can sometimes be challenging. In this workshop, part of our four-part leadership development series for all School of Medicine faculty, we will focus on a framework for leading and engaging teams in more effective ways. Leveraging off of your own current examples, you will have the opportunity to apply this framework, and associate...

Prior literature has shown that experiences of racism are pervasive in the professional lives of trainees who are underrepresented in medicine (URiM), particularly Black and African American trainees, often leading to professional dissatisfaction, feelings of disengagement, and unplanned changes in career trajectories. Understanding the unique experiences of Black and African American trainees is crucial to fostering an antiracist learning environment. In recent years, residency programs have in...

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