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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...

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 a...

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...

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...

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 prof...

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 fo...

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 an...

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 b...

You’ve downloaded a citation management software, but do you actually use it? This week the HSC Office of Educational and Professional Development talks about citation managers like EndNote, which faculty can use to organize their citations, journal articles, and other scholarly works. We discuss how this software automates citations to save time when writing manuscripts or grant proposals. If you...

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 an...

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....

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, opportuni...

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 th...

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 research shows that a majority of human trafficking victims come into contact with the healthcare system, which provides an opportunity for healthcare p...

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. Do you have any questions or com...

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 pr...

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 connecti...

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, Ad...

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...

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”...

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 Lib...

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   ed...

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 gene...