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| Programs and Resources for your Professional Development - July 2024
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In This Issue of the CFE Newsletter
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Call for Applications: Fundamentals of Leadership Program
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Register for the CFE Teaching Essentials Series
- Call for Faculty Presenters: CFE Fall Workshop Series on Faculty and Technology (with a focus on AI)
Faculty Focused Resources:
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Call for Applications: Fundamentals of Leadership Program for SMHS Faculty and Staff
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Want to enhance your leadership competencies?
Ensure the success of a new project?
This nine-month cohort-based program is designed to support full-time SMHS faculty and staff with new or expanded leadership responsibilities. The program includes self-study, monthly half-day classroom sessions with the cohort and mentoring by an experienced leader within SMHS. You must have a defined work project to focus on during the program. This could be a new initiative, program or service you are leading in your division/department or across several departments and/or organizations.
Up to 10 faculty and staff members will be accepted. Support from your department/division chair or supervisor is required. Please click here for more details on the program and the class meeting schedule and to submit an application.
Applications are due on or before August 30, 2024
Applicants will be notified of acceptance by September 13, 2024
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Register for the CFE Teaching Essentials Series
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The Teaching Essentials Series program is a series of one-hour workshops for scientists, clinicians, researchers, post-docs, and graduate students who want to learn more about key aspects of teaching & learning. Each session has an online component consisting of short videos and brief exercises to do on your own prior to the session. Participants then attend a 1-hour interactive virtual workshop session to apply concepts and get feedback from peers.
Sessions are held monthly from August 2024 - December 2024 as indicated above from 12:00 - 1:00 pm via Zoom.
Upcoming Topics:
- Monday, August 19, 2024 - Learning Objectives: August 19
- Monday, September 16, 2024 - Assessment
- Monday, October 21, 2024 - Designing Instruction
- Monday, November 18, 2024 - Writing Questions
- Monday, December 16 - Balancing Teaching, Research, and Service
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Call for Faculty Presenters: CFE Fall Workshop Series on Faculty and Technology (with a focus on AI)
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Do you use Artificial Intelligence (AI) or related tools and technology in your teaching and professional endeavors? Do you want to share your expertise with colleagues across GW Medicine? We are looking for exemplary faculty to lead or co-lead workshops in our upcoming Fall Workshop Series focusing on the intersection of Faculty and Technology, with a special emphasis on Artificial Intelligence (AI). We are open to all topics, but possible workshop ideas include:
- Developing assessments and/or teaching material (e.g., cases)
- AI use in narrative and letter writing
- Slide Design and Image Generation
- Enhancing productivity and efficiency in academic and professional tasks
To suggest a topic and volunteer to present, please email the CFE at cfe@gwu.edu.
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Faculty Focused Resources
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AI in Medical and Residency Applications
Medical schools and residency programs can advance toward more efficient, effective, fair, and informed admissions and selection processes by thoughtfully applying AI. To help schools and programs leverage AI tools to streamline their operations and promote equity, the AAMC – in collaboration with a multidisciplinary technical advisory committee (including GW Medicine’s Associate Dean of MD Admissions, Dr. Ioannis Koutroulis) – developed six key principles to guide the design and use of AI-based selection systems.
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SMHS Impact Team: Quality Matters Workshop
The SMHS Impact Team will be running the online, two-week asynchronous version of the Applying the Quality Matters Rubric (APPQMR) workshop September 4-18, 2024. All faculty and staff are invited to participate at no cost. Although the workshop is asynchronous, there are two firm deadlines. Participants can expect a 10-12 hour time commitment throughout the two weeks.
Haven’t heard of Quality Matters? It is an independent organization that publishes research-based standards in course design in higher education.
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AAMC Mid-Career 2024 Mid-Career Minority Faculty Leadership Seminar
The AAMC Mid-Career Minority Faculty Leadership Seminar addresses the needs of associate level faculty who are historically underrepresented in medicine through knowledge sharing, skill building, and strategy development for career advancement in academic medicine. Using a culturally responsive approach, this program offers networking opportunities, career development planning sessions, and small group consultations with senior faculty and leaders. Interested applicants can visit the registration page for more information and fees.
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Register for Webinar: Community-Centered Approaches to Eliminating HIV, PrEP/PEP, and COVID-19 Vaccine Stigma and Discrimination
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FREE webinar event, Community-Centered Approaches to Eliminating HIV, PrEP/PEP, and COVID-19 Vaccine Stigma and Discrimination, set for August 8, 2024, from 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM EDT. The event will address efforts to shift public health focus from personal decision-making to the structural inequities that racially and ethnically minoritized communities face. The panel features experts in the field whose findings will appear in a special supplement being published simultaneously on August 8 in HPHR Journal / BCPH Review, the peer-reviewed journal of BCPH. These scholarly papers debunk theories that maintain people as problems as opposed to the conditions they live in. Register for the webinar here.
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Upcoming Medical Education Grants and Deadlines
The AAMC Group on Educational Affairs (GEA) seeks to encourage and support research and innovation that address important problems, answer timely questions, and drive the practice of medical education forward. These grants aim to advance the work of all those engaged in improving academic medicine. Additional information about past grant award winners, their research and innovations, and the outcomes of their work is available upon request from gea@aamc.org
Below is a link for the GEA national & regional grant page. The deadlines for submissions have not been posted but typically the national grant pre-proposal & the NEGEA full proposal grant deadline is around September 30th each year. The NEGEA offers two types of grants: Mini-Grant & Scholars Grant. The latter is a career development grant for an individual. Dr. Samanani received the grant last cycle. Additionally, if you have ideas and collaborators in other regions you can also be part of the other regional grants.
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Upcoming Medical Education Conferences
AAMC Lead Serve Lead Conference November 8-12, 2024 in Atlanta Georgia
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CFE Faculty Education Technology Support Office Hours
Wednesdays from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Do you need help designing an educational session or using a new teaching technology? Teddy Hristov, the CFE Senior Instructional Designer, holds weekly office hours to support faculty.
These office hours are designated for discussing and practicing the best use of educational technology and pedagogical teaching/learning methods. If you have questions about completing a session design worksheet, do not hesitate to contact her.
If Wednesday at noon does not work for you, please schedule an appointment directly with Teddy: teddy.hristov@gwu.edu.
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The AAMC IDEAS Learning Webinars are free resources for registered members. AAMC membership is also free. The IDEAS Learning Webinars are led by experts to provide "comprehensive, reliable information." These educational series are helpful to health and medical faculty, staff, and students who want to be proactive in their efforts to foster inclusive environments and promote equity in medical schools. The Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-racism Series page outlines all recorded webinars, upcoming sessions, and additional resources.
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National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity
The George Washington University is an Institutional Member of the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD). The NCFDD is an independent faculty development center dedicated to supporting academics in successful career transitions. For more information and to activate your free personal NCFDD membership, click on this link.
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