Faculty Feed

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 wilder...

Listen in as Dr. Bill Crump, Associate Dean for UofL’s principal satellite campus in Madisonville, describes how the unique longitudinal 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 a...

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 e...

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 development offerings. Do you have comments or questions about Facul...

Faculty Feed episodes will post every two weeks starting in January 2024. Thank you for listening!

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 Do you have comments or questions about Faculty Feed? Contact us at FacFeed@louisville.edu . We look forward to hearing fr...

Atul Gawande M.D. Coaching in the Operating Room Do you have comments or questions about Faculty Feed? Contact us at FacFeed@louisville.edu . We look forward to hearing from you.

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. Do you have comments or questions about Faculty Feed? Contact us at FacFeed@louisville.edu . We look forward to hearing from you.

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 faculty micro credentialing program through the American Dental Education Association. There are important lessons here for all health science educators. Check out t...

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. Do you have comments or questions about Faculty Feed? Contact us at ⁠FacFeed@louisville.edu⁠ . We look forward...

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 M...

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. Jeffrey Bumpous, shares his thoughts on this and the importance of alignment of all the university...

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   Do yo...

Dr. In Kim joins us to discuss two medical student-focused programs at UofL that develop their business skills, the MD/MBA program 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 Do you have comments...

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 transformational power 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 th...

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 Lea...

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 entr...

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://lib...

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 w...

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...

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 conten...

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 th...

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 Cardiolo...

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-bas...

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