Faculty Development Seminars
The Division of General Internal Medicine (DGIM) is committed to maintaining excellence in clinical care, education, scholarship, academic accomplishment and personal development. To foster this goal, the DGIM has developed a twice monthly hour-long faculty development seminar. Seminars are held virtually allowing faculty from across the campus to attend. Topics revolved around teaching skills, assessment and evaluation, and professional development. Topics for the 2023-2024 academic year included the following:
- How to Read a Letter of Evaluation
- Pearls, Pitfalls and Perks of Medical Education Research
- How to Accomplish Direct Observation of Residents in Clinic
- Tell Me What You Really Think: How to Provide and Receive Realtime Feedback
- Skills to Recognize and Respond to Discrimination and Harassment from Patients
- Mentoring
- Managing the Imposter Syndrome
- Remediation of Residents with Knowledge Based Deficits
- Perfectionism and People Pleasing
- Guidelines for Writing and Evaluating History and Physicals
- Review of a De-escalation Curriculum for Managing Challenging Patients
- Assertiveness vs Aggression
- Review of the GME Internal Medicine Residency Survey
Faculty Mentoring Program
The Division of General Internal Medicine has implemented a mentoring program for junior faculty designed to optimize the early experience in academic medicine and help new faculty chart a course for success. Junior faculty are assigned to a senior faculty member who meets with the new faculty member on a regular basis. The senior faculty mentor facilitates finding research collaborators, developing scholarly productivity and navigating academic advancement.