Fall Faculty Development Sessions
Published on Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Fall Faculty Development Sessions
The Office of Medical Education and the Department of Advanced Biomedical Education are co-hosting a series of faculty development sessions throughout the year. The fall sessions are listed here. These sessions are led by University of Mississippi Medical Center faculty and offered virtually.
Mark your calendars for these sessions and anticipate calendar invites which will be sent on the SOM listserv. If you would like to be added to the SOM listserv, contact Robyn Herring.
Quality Improvement in Academic Medicine
Thursday, September 5 | 12:00 – 1:00 pm | Presented by Dr. Norma Ojeda
Quality improvement involves systematic and continuous actions that lead to measurable improvement. At an academic health center, quality improvement may address health care services, the health status of targeted patient groups, or the practices employed in an educational setting. Quality improvement is critical to enhancing the practices in which faculty and staff engage in educational and clinical settings to increase efficiency, effectiveness, performance, accountability, outcomes or other indicators in services or processes which achieve equity and improve health. Efforts may be for a defined period of time or it may be continuous occurring cyclically over time.
Responding to Student Feedback
Thursday, October 3 | 12:00 – 1:00 pm | Presented by Dr. Hanna Broome
Students provide feedback through multiple means including course or clerkship evaluations, national surveys such as the Association of American Medical Colleges Graduation Questionnaire, institutional surveys, and informally through comments and questions that they ask. This feedback can be valuable to continuous quality improvement for learning experiences, curricular materials, and the learning environment. Once student feedback is reviewed and utilized, it is also important to inform students of how their feedback has been used to support improvements.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Academic Medicine
Thursday, November 7 | 12:00 – 1:00 pm | Presented by Dr. Kristen Alston
The University of Mississippi Medical Center is committed to providing high-quality health care to all of the state’s citizens. It is challenged on multiple fronts including resources and a political context. This session provides insights and strategies for maintaining a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in academic medicine in the face of challenges.
2025 Medical Educators
Thursday, December 5 | 12:00 – 1:00 pm| Presented by Dr. Loretta Jackson-Williams
Learning is changing for medical students and residents as technologies such as adaptive strategies driven by learning analytics, virtual and augmented reality, gamification, and mobile/wearable technologies, continue to be integrated into learning experiences. How do these changes and new discoveries about diseases and treatments impact the role of the medical educator? The 2025 Medical Educator framework offers a framework for grappling with and adapting to changes in education, scientific discovery, and translational research.