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Transformational Times
Words of Hope, Character & Resilience from our Virtual Community
Friday, August 5, 2022
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In This Special Issue from the Kern Institute GME Pillar: | |
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Guest Director's Corner
Perspective/Opinion
Take 3
Poetry Corner
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Jennifer Healey: Glimpsing the heart
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Your Turn
Upcoming Events/Announcements
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Guest Director's Corner
The Small Moments in Medical Education Shape Our Identities
By Kathlyn E. Fletcher, MD, MA and Alicia Pilarski, DO
Co-Directors, GME Pillar of the Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Institute
Drs. Pilarski and Fletcher remind us to notice the small moments of meaning in our daily work and invite you, our readers, to share the small moments that have had a big impact on you.…
“In the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.” -Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Medical education is made up of big moments. Each trainee experiences many firsts: Their first anatomy examination, their first time interviewing a patient, their first time delivering a baby, the first time a patient they cared for dies. There are also standardized examinations: USMLE Steps 1, 2 and 3, the certifying and recertifying examinations. And occasions: The white coat ceremony, Match Day, graduation. In fact, in residency education, we specifically refer to the skills we expect our residents to achieve as “milestones” which suggests times of goal achievement.
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Perspective/Opinion
Mentoring Dilemmas
By Amy H. Farkas, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Medicine
Answering common mentoring dilemmas, one question at a time, “Dear Abby” style ...
The mentor is running out of capacity
My mentee, Janice, for whom I am a research mentor, is great. She's dedicated, organized, and prompt and I enjoy working with her. However, my clinical and administrative responsibilities are exploding and I'm planning to cut down on my research time. I want to keep working with her, but I'm not sure that I have the time. Should I break my research mentor-mentee relationship? If so, how?
Signed,
Overcommitted
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Perspective/Opinion
Closing a Residency Program: An Exercise of Practical Wisdom in the Midst of Uncertainty
By Ted Christou, MD
Reflecting on the closure of a residency program that had trained residents in an underserved inner-city area for 168 years, a former Program Director of the Internal Medicine residency program at Mercy Hospital in Chicago shares lessons of leadership and practical wisdom he learned through a time of immense uncertainty for the program…
I arrived for work around 9 a.m., on what began as a typical day as director of an Internal Medicine residency program located in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago. Starting a bit later than my colleagues forced me to park in whatever spot remained open. This day it was between two massive SUVs - not how I wanted to start my day.
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Perspective/Opinion
Interns as Educators – Interdisciplinary Workshop to Turn New Residents Into Education Experts
By Zachary Schoppen, MD, PGY-4 and Education Chief Resident in Ob/Gyn
You wake up on July 1 and all of a sudden you’ve transitioned from learner to teacher. You feel unprepared for this moment in so many different ways. Three brand new third-year medical students follow you like ducklings into each patient’s room, frantically writing down every word you and the patient say. You start to wonder if it is possible to be a learner and a teacher simultaneously…
July 1. Doesn’t that date just strike fear into your heart? New students, new interns, new senior residents, new faculty, new nurses. There are few experiences scarier than walking into the hospital on July 1 as a new intern, somehow expected to be an actual doctor for the first ever. You remember the residents that you worked with as a medical student—some of those residents may have even inspired you to enter the specialty you have chosen. They seemed so intelligent, so put-together, so… doctor-y! Yet here you are. The impostor syndrome is setting in, and you realize that not only are you expected to be a doctor, but you have a group of medical students on your team that is looking to you as their teacher.
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Take 3
Take 3 With Erica Forbes
Reflections from Emergency medicine resident Dr. Erica Forbes, PGY-1, following the teaching session on feedback and mattering…
Forbes answers the following questions:
- Briefly describe a situation in which you had to give feedback in your July rotation.
- Briefly describe how you used the Kern session during orientation to help give that feedback.
- If you could incorporate the idea of mattering into your work in July, please briefly describe how you did.
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Take 3
Take 3 With Steven Malouff
Reflections from Dr. Steven Malouff, PGY-1 in the Anesthesiology Residency program following the teaching session on feedback and mattering…
Malouff answers the following questions:
- Briefly describe a situation in which you had to give feedback in your July rotation.
- Briefly describe how you used the Kern session during orientation to help give that feedback.
- If you could incorporate the idea of mattering into your work in July, please briefly describe how you did.
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Glimpsing the heart
By Jennifer Healey
When you can see through
Your own reflection,
You have traveled far.
When you see yourself
Reflected in the trees and stars,
You have traveled deep.
When your reflection gleams from
The face of an other,
You have glimpsed the heart.
May these glimmers of memory
Stay with you while you sleep, and
Wake you to the wisdom that
Every soul keeps.
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For this week's reflection prompt, please answer the following question:
What are the little things that have shaped you? Were some of them fails? What was one that was a success? How can you make those small moments happen for others?
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Please Join Us!
Kern Grand Rounds: The Pursuit of Advocacy: Power, Purpose, Perseverance, Patience and PATIENTS
Presented by Walter J. Lanier, JD, MDIV
As a pastor, lawyer, teacher, lecturer and leader, Pastor Lanier says he has been advocating for himself and others since he was a young child in the classroom.
Having successfully navigated many systems but also having stumbled under the weight of others, Lanier believes effective advocacy for self and others is central to successfully moving communities forward.
Come and learn about the pain, power, patience and perseverance that he learned on his advocacy journey.
Thursday, August 25, 2022
9:00 - 10:00 am CT
Live Via Zoom
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KNN Discussion Series
Human Flourishing 2030: Flourishing in Healthcre Spaces
Imagine it’s 2030 and we live in a healthier world where healthcare learners, practitioners and patients are flourishing. What does that future look like, and what will it take to get there? We need your voice and participation to chart that future. This series will examine influences, micro to macro, that shape and drive the vitality of healthcare students, professionals and broader society.
During August’s session, leaders will explore how factors such as hierarchies and interpersonal dynamics affect the flourishing of practitioners, staff, patients and learners in care settings. Danny O. Jacobs, MD, MPH, FACS; Linda D. Scott, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FNAP, FAAN; and moderator Kimara Ellefson, MBA, will discuss how individual agency and the ability to act on one’s values has an influence, as well as how collaborative practice approaches can help those within care settings flourish.
August 23, 2022
4:00 - 5:00 pm CT
Live Virtual Event
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This series is presented by the Kern National Network for Caring & Character in Medicine through an investment from the Kern Family Trust and Kern Family Foundation. | |
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Congratulations Dr. Chris Decker and Ms. Julia Schmitt!
Congratulations to Dr. Chris Decker and Ms. Julia Schmitt. Their oral presentation at the 2022 CGEA meeting entitled Engaging Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) Residents to Co-Create Well-Being Solutions in their Residency Program was selected as the top scoring (tied) IME oral presentation by a faculty member!
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Apply for the Kern Institute GME Pillar Social Connections and Well-being Award
The Kern Institute’s GME Pillar and MCWAH are happy to announce a program to increase connectedness, resident flourishing, well‐being across MCWAH’s GME programs.
Residency and fellowship programs are invited to submit proposals for programming/activities that would enhance connectedness and well‐being between various GME programs.
Applications are being accepted through August 5
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New School of Medicine Curriculum: Facilitator Recruitment for Fall 2022 Pilots
The Curriculum Innovation team is recruiting small group facilitators for our Patient-based Discussions in the 2022 fall semester. These pilots will occur in both the M1 and M2 curriculum and take place during various dates and times. An electronic sign-up sheet has been compiled and can be accessed below. Please review the available sessions and add your name as available.
Our Patient-based Discussions will be student-led, small group discussions, wherein students will apply basic science principles to a patient scenario. Ten students will be assigned to each group and each group has one faculty facilitator. The facilitator supports student-led discussion of the learning objectives, makes connections between the foundational science concepts and clinical features of the case and encourages students to ask questions and seek out answers from trusted resources. In this role, faculty will serve as facilitation experts rather than content experts; therefore, mastery of the content is not required. Facilitators will be provided with detailed facilitator guides, a facilitator checklist and a 30-60 minute preparatory session prior to the discussion.
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Promoting Equity in Heath Care through Human Flourishing, Justice, and Solidarity
Read this article by Fabrice Jotterand, PhD, MA; Ryan Spellecy, PhD; Mary Homan, DrPH and Arthur R. Derse, MD, JD just published in the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
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The Transformational Times publishes weekly, delivering stories of hope, character and resilience to our virtual community. | |
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Bruce Campbell, MD, Editor-in-Chief
Editorial Board: Kathlyn Fletcher, MD, Jeff Fritz, PhD, Adina Kalet, MD, Wendy Peltier, MD, Erin Weileder, Nabil Attlassy, Julia Bosco, Ana Istrate, Scott Lamm, Sophia Neman, Wolf Pulsiano, Eileen Peterson, Neehal Shukla, Sarah Torres, Anna Visser, James Wu, Serena Zacharias & Emelyn Zaworski
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