Tag: culture
“Say What?!” What to say & how to say it (when the temperature is high)
Your classroom, your clinic, and your workplace are not insulated from the hot-button issues of American politics and culture. When tensions rise, it can be difficult to know whether to say something, what to say, and when and how to say it. This session will empower you to create psychologically safe environments (in your classroom, […]
Oct 3, 2024
Thinking Outside the Box: Building a Culture of Workplace Flexibility
Growing a culture of flexibility to support faculty work-life satisfaction, recruitment and retention, and support academic and clinical productivity requires a multi-prong approach. This includes raising awareness of the “flexibility stigma,” addressing conflict of expectations associated with the ideal worker and gender stereotypes, and creating policies and processes on the department and institutional level that […]
Jun 6, 2018
Cultural Competence Education for Students in Medicine and Public Health
With the increasing cultural diversity of the nation, there’s a necessity of updated knowledge, skills, and attitudes for addressing changing health care needs. A new report from the AAMC and the Association of Schools of Public Health, Cultural Competence Education for Students in Medicine and Public Health, presents recommendations for training students from both disciplines on […]
Feb 20, 2018
Legal Implications for Teaching
The legal responsibilities and guidelines for teachers can sometimes seem overwhelming. This enlightening development seminar provides you with an easily digestible and understandable look at the legal roads that responsible educators must travel. Participants are asked ethical questions and given scenarios that can often be found in educational environments, resulting in emergent problem-solving techniques in […]
Dec 21, 2016
Assessment in Health Care Education
The word, “assessment,” can be a vague and misunderstood term in education, especially when the standard model of higher learning is centered around a “culture of assessment.” But, what is a culture of assessment? What does this give us as educators and part of an institution? Where do evaluation, accountability, feedback, and accreditation fit in […]
Dec 12, 2016
