We Heard You! Discover How Your Input

is Shaping the KNN's Upcoming Online Community

This past spring, we asked you to weigh in on the possibility of the KNN launching an online community—how it might fit into your digital habits and routines and, most importantly, how it could create a meaningful experience and space.

Many of you were gracious enough to share perspectives through surveys or brief focus interviews. Your feedback is forming the foundations of our upcoming online community slated to launch this fall.

What did we learn from those conversations?

Here are just a few priorities you shared that we are keeping at the forefront:

• Conversation on meaningful topics not often covered elsewhere. A place to reconnect with joy and beauty in medicine and put concepts of caring, character and practical wisdom into action to advance human flourishing.

• Connection and collaboration. A way to form communities of practice locally and with peers from other institutions. Space to find others with similar interests as well as to seek new, diverse perspectives and explore common ground. Opportunities to discover collaborators for research or initiatives. 

• Inspiration and creative space. Practical ideas and innovations to implement, as well as creative outlets for storytelling, art, photography or other forms of self-expression and reflection on KNN foundational concepts.

• A streamlined way to engage. A single entry point for conversations, resources, events and more. Ability to access, discuss and evolve resources/tools designed to drive transformation in the profession.

These themes and insights continue to inform the community development process.

What’s next?

In the near future, we’ll issue a limited number of early invitations to faculty, staff partners and students to join the community pre-launch and share input.

Would you be interested? Please let us know! Click the button below to send a note.

We look forward to connecting with each of you in a new way and accelerating positive change in the profession of medicine.

With gratitude,

Sarah

Sarah Williams

Senior Communications Consultant,

KNN Program Office

KNN Updates

Emily Blake of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine has transitioned from program assistant to student services coordinator and is a new KNN staff leader for VUSM.

Are you attending AMEE/OTTAWA 2022? The hybrid conference takes place August 26 to August 31. Visit the KNN at booth 55!

Starting this fall, student chapter pilots will begin and a new season of the Becoming student series will resume. Do you know, or are you, a learner interested in getting involved with the KNN? Those interested can sign up to receive student updates.

Through the Women Leaders Flourishing Project, the KNN Women’s Leadership Group in partnership with the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) Center for the Advancement of Women in Science and Medicine (AWSM) will explore the concept of life flourishing with women leaders, and particularly the relationship between flourishing and leadership opportunities. The group has recently received approval from the institutional review board for this project.

Have an update to share? Please email us.

Upcoming Events 

August 23, 4–5 pm CT | Human Flourishing 2030: Flourishing in Healthcare Spaces

In this session, healthcare leaders will delve into how factors such as hierarchies and interpersonal dynamics affect the flourishing of practitioners, staff, patients and learners in care settings. In panel format, they will discuss how individual agency and the ability to act on one’s values influences levels of flourishing, as well as how collaborative practice approaches can help those within care settings flourish.

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September 29-30 | KNN National Conference | Milwaukee, WI

The KNN is holding a national conference to share achievements while planning future innovations. View the preliminary agenda and register today!

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October 28, 10 am–2 pm CT | The Transition to Residency Symposium

Hosted by the Night-onCall Consortium, learn about the impact of simulation from medical schools with a virtual interactive discussion on communication and clinical competency during the transition to residency.

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Resources



• Evaluating the Seven Components of Wisdom | Dilip Jeste, MD, of the University of California, San Diego, explores the concept of wisdom, how it can be assessed and what it means for our health.
• NAM's Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience (Video) | The National Academy of Medicine hosted a National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being Public Event in Washington, D.C. Watch as leaders in healthcare discuss cultivating a health system that better supports our care providers and patient care.
• This One Goes Out to the M3s! (Audio) | On this episode of the "Well, Well, Well..." podcast, hear from MCW student British Fields on her M3 experience and how she took care of herself during the first year of clinical rotation.