Faculty Feed

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, Uni...

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, Associate Professor, 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 des...

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...

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 Education...

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 (...

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...

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 resea...

As academic educators, we should not solely 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.  Do you have comments or questions about Faculty Feed? Contact u...

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 spe...

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...

Join us this week as we introduce our 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. For more information, ema...

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 initiativ...

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)...

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 th...

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 drov...

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. Wil...

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 clinica...

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...

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...

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 husb...

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...

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 discove...

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 Unive...

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 Univ...

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 s...