Upcoming Development Sessions
Please mark the following dates on your calendars! Faculty should be excused from clinic and pager duty during the sessions. Please email Dr. Moran at moran001@umn.edu with your ideas and comments so that the program can be developed to be as useful and as meaningful as possible.
Assistant Professor Meetings
Assistant Professor Meetings
All Assistant Professor meetings are from 12:00 - 4:00pm. Lunch is provided.
February 25th - Location TBD
May 7th - Location TBD
September 17th - Location TBD
Associate Professor Meetings
Associate Professor Meetings
All Associate Professor meetings are from 12:00 - 4:00pm. Lunch is provided.
March 4th - Location TBD
October 1st - Location TBD
Professor Meeting
Professor Meeting
All Professor meetings are held from 5:00-8:00pm.
TBD
PhD Meeting
PhD Meeting
TBD
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Sessions
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Sessions
Keeping It All Together
Priya Verghese & Johanna Scheurer
In this session the facilitators intend to guide an open discussion about living and working resiliently as academic pediatricians. Through sharing personal stories and evidence- or anecdotally-based resources, the following topics will be addressed:
- How to say yes without saying no
- Work-life integration
- Maintaining a reflective practice
- Diversity issues that affect well-being
Monday, March 11th, 12pm
Friday, April 19th, 12pm
Monday, June 3rd, 12pm
Is This Thing On? Easily Implementable Public Speaking Skills to Make Your Grand Rounds Grander
Mike Pitt
Jerry Seinfeld once pointed out that since more people are afraid of public speaking than dying, that means more people would rather be in the casket than giving the eulogy. Part of being an academic is skillfully disseminating your message, however, which often involves public speaking. In this session we’ll discuss several proven strategies to improve public speaking hitting on topics including when to use a script, when and how to use slides, and how to establish a cadence that promotes audience engagement. We’ll also review the seven deadly sins of public speaking and review how to avoid falling into temptation to commit them.
Tuesday, February 19th, 12pm
Wednesday, March 20th, 12pm
Thursday, April 18th, 12pm
Polishing Your CV: How to Best Capture your Academic Persona on Paper
Toni Moran
If seeing "send me your CV" in an email puts a pit in your stomach, or you find navigating University templates a frustrating exercise, than this session is for you. For as often as we are asked to maintain our CV - literally translated as our life's work - we are rarely given any advice on what kinds of work should be represented there and how. What is a visiting professorship? Did that talk I gave residents "count?" How far back should I go? Was that person technically a mentee? In this session, we'll discuss these questions and more including strategies to curate, refine, and maintain your CV as a way to showcase your academic persona on paper.
Tuesday, February 12th
Friday, April 12th
This P2P Will Be Epic - Epic Tips and Tricks for Providers
Rich Vehe
One of the most requested topics for faculty development is for providers to share tips and tricks to improve efficiency in Epic. Well request no more, the Epic P2P is here! In this sessions, we will discuss and share simple strategies to streamline your Epic experiences and shave clicks off your EHR time. Novices to experts welcome for this interactive discussion.
Thursday, February 21st, 12pm
Thursday, March 28th, 12pm
Thursday, April 25th, 12pm
RSVP to One or More of These Sessions and Receive a Calendar Invite
Drop in Writing Groups
Drop in Writing Groups
Several faculty who have been part of our peer writing group pilot suggested that having a drop in space on each side of campus would be helpful, as finding a quit place to write and blocking off the time on the calendar has proven invaluable.
Accordingly, we have reserved a room on each bank for drop in writing groups, where we can block off some time to show up periodically and work on getting projects to the next level.
We have reserved (here is a link to all dates and times) for these drop in writing groups
East Bank (717 Delaware, 370B)
Every other Monday Morning (9-noon) starting October 1
Every other Thursday Afternoon (1-4) starting October 4
West Bank (MB 624 East Building)
Every other Friday from 10-noon
If you'd like a calendar invite so the drop in times are on your calendar (no commitment necessary), please email which day/location you'd prefer to pedsfacdev@umn.edu. For those of us who have been doing peer writing groups, having the time on your calendar certainly helps.
If we see this resource is being used, we'll start to order coffee/snacks for the sessions.
Finally, if you'd like to join a dedicated peer writing group where you meet periodically with the same people to move projects along, please indicate so on this survey and we'll work on matchmaking.