Transformational Times
Words of Hope, Character & Resilience from our Virtual Community
Friday, July 30, 2021
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In This Global Health Issue: |
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Director's Corner
Perspectives/Opinions
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Poetry Corner
Your Turn
- Are you a cat or dog person? Vote in our poll!
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Share your pet pictures and be featured in an upcoming T. Times issue
- Read Responses to last week's prompt: How did you participate in or celebrate the Milwaukee Bucks' road to the NBA Finals and the big win?
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Respond to this week's prompt: What kind of animal do you think makes the best pet?
Announcements & Resources
- Congratulations to Arthur Derse, MD, JD
- Submit a speaker proposal to the Kern Institute Event Advisory Committee
- RFP for GME Connectedness/Wellbeing Program
- Save the Date: Value-Added Medical Education: Reimagining Learner Roles
- Kern National Network News & Events
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Director's Corner
Whether Here or Abroad, All Medical Education is Local
by Adina Kalet, MD, MPH
In this issue of the Transformational Times, Dr. Kalet reflects on an early international medical education experience and what it taught her about the universality of doctoring and the contribution medical schools make toward improving global health …
Eager for an adventure after we completed our residency training, my husband and I received a small travel grant from the New York Academy of Medicine to study international, innovative medical schools. Interested in how medical education influenced medical student career choice, we proposed to study medical schools within an international network of community-oriented health professions education schools. “Network schools” were founded, mostly in the 1970s, specifically to address severe physician shortages in areas with many health disparities. These schools, working within their own national frameworks for medical education, explicitly recruited students who expressed interest in Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC). COPC is an approach to health care provision, first demonstrated as effective by South African physicians Sidney and Emily Kark in the 1940s, which integrated individual, personalized medical care with public and population health practices in community-based health centers. In 1987, there were dozens of Network schools around the world.
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Global Health Perspective/Opinion
Global Summer Research at Home
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By Tifany Frazer, MPH
Ms. Frazer describes the reach that the Kohler Family Foundation support has provided to the Office of Global Health over the years. The traditional scholarships for medical students to work overseas has changed in the pandemic era, but the work continues …
The Wm. Collins Kohler Family Foundation has partnered with the Medical College of Wisconsin Office of Global Health for over ten years to provide our trainees access to unique and life-changing educational and research experiences. Their investment in future physician global change agents has provided our trainees an additional experiential learning platform to understand how the global community is connected by issues and challenges that face us all beyond our academic medical campus.
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Global Health Perspective/Opinion
Communicating Creatively Across Time Zones and Cultures
By S. Ryan Jacobus
Mr. Jacobus, a graduate student in Global Health, writes about how the pandemic has created opportunities that enhance communication with collaborators and partners around the world …
In August 2020, I began my master’s degree at the Medical College of Wisconsin. At the time, the world was still struggling to figure out how to function amid a global pandemic. MCW was no exception to this. With the majority of classes online, I relished the few that were in-person. Even with the COVID-19 protocols, there was a sense of solidarity in responsibly being on campus together, especially while learning about public health. Despite the distance between chairs, our cohort of four students grew together.
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Global Health Perspective/Opinion
Milwaukee - Our City of Nations
By Tifany Frazer, MPH
Ms. Frazer writes about the “Our City of Nations” conference held annually in Milwaukee and shares a Milwaukee-specific COVID-19 vaccination resource video translated into Arabic, Burmese, Karen, Rohingya, Malay, Somali, Spanish, and Swahili …
Since 2016, the MCW Office of Global Health has been the fiscal home of a multi-sector initiative called “Our City of Nations.” This multidisciplinary and dedicated group of academic, community-based, and governmental stakeholders are collaborating to make Milwaukee and our State of Wisconsin a more welcoming community for all. Following the inaugural conference, a Consensus statement on best practices for refugee care in Wisconsin was collaboratively written and published.
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Global Health Perspective/Opinion
COVID-19 Opened Local DOORs
By Ashley Pavlic, MD, MA
Dr. Pavlic writes about how COVID-19-related travel restrictions opened doors and provided new opportunities for the Emergency Medicine residents to engage with community organizations that support those who are most vulnerable …
Why do we do global health rotations and not just send money? Why do we encourage it in our student and resident learners? From a utilitarian perspective, would it not be better to save the money from their plane tickets and send it to someone already working abroad?
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Global Health Perspective/Opinion
Creating a Resource Website to Stay Connected During COVID-19
By Kellie C. Snooks, DO
Dr. Snooks writes about how COVID-19 forced her work to pivot from creating a predictive model of sepsis in Belize to helping create a widely utilized website, Chwpicu.wordpress.com, that collates and shares pandemic-related information for pediatric intensivists around the world …
In December 2019, I was excited to get started on my very first Global Health research project as a second-year fellow and the first recipient of the Steigleder Grant for Community and Global Health. The grant is awarded by the MCW Division of Pediatric Critical Care to support pediatric critical care fellows and to make an impact on children’s health through local or global clinical and/or educational-based opportunities.
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Global Health Perspective/Opinion
How Has COVID-19 Changed the Way That the World Shares Data?
By Jessica Miller and Melek Somai, MD, MPH
Ms. Miller and Dr. Somai review the initial problems and ultimate promise of applying data science principles to worldwide health challenges in the age of COVID-19 …
As the COVID-19 pandemic escalated internationally, comprehensive and real-time information about the state of the virus’s global spread and impact became invaluable. Data must be disseminated faster than the virus itself and transcend regional boundaries and public health offices. However, the current data “ecosystem” in global health is fragmented and relies heavily on organizations like the World Health Organization. Concerns about the way international organizations function, including potential influence by national ministries of health and funding interests, has been highlighted by researchers for decades. Murray suggested “that the only viable solution will be to create a new, independent, health monitoring organization.”
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Global Health Perspective/Opinion
The War on COVID-19: From Milwaukee to India and Beyond
By Bala Narayanan
Mr. Bala Narayanan shares his experiences organizing the donation and transportation of critical personal protective equipment to India during the COVID-19 pandemic…
8,000 miles never felt as far away as it did when the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in India during the summer of 2020. The uncertainty of the disease trajectory, population density and lack of access to high-quality treatment and therapies led the government to take multiple drastic steps to save as many lives as possible. The first wave of COVID-19 had a relatively small impact due to the intense multiple month-long lockdowns at major population centers, travel restrictions and strict enforcement of public health measures. India was prepared after seeing the devastating early impact of COVID-19 in China, Italy and the US.
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By Kirsten Dierking
It's summer, so
the pink gingham shorts,
the red mower, the neat rows
of clean smelling grass
unspooling behind
the sweeping blades.
A dragonfly, black body
big as a finger, will not leave
the mower alone,
loving the sparkle
of scarlet metal,
seeing in even a rusting paint
the shade of a flower.
But I wave him off,
conscious he is
wasting his time,
conscious I am
filling my time
with such small details,
distracting colors,
like pink checks,
like this, then that,
like a dragonfly wing
in the sun reflecting
the color of opals,
like all the hours
we leave behind,
so ordinary,
but not unloved.
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Are you a Dog person or a Cat person? Vote in the poll below!
Results will be published in an upcoming
issue focused on pets
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We would also love to share a picture of you with your pets in our upcoming issue! Please email Erin Weileder with your picture, your name and your pet's name to be included.
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I couldn't watch because when I did in the past, the Bucks would lose!
My whole lifetime coincides with the Bucks NBA championship drought and I didn't want to jinx that. Following the score on Twitter only in the 4th quarter helped them win, I'm sure.
So happy for my hometown team, the City of Milwaukee and all of us in the State of Wisconsin!
- Lynn Cummings, Staff
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We celebrated the Milwaukee Bucks' road to the NBA Finals by WATCHING every game with our family.
We put on Bucks' gear and rocked along with the team's theme songs. Each game sent us on an emotional rollercoaster (wins and losses), but believing that each member of our team just needed to go into that meditative place within themselves and BOOM!!!!
WE DID IT BABY!!!! WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS MY FRIENDS! (Queen, 1979).
- Dessie Levy, PhD, RN, APNP-CTSI, Faculty
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I am so excited for my new favorite team, the Bucks although I was conflicted when they creamed the Brooklyn Nets. All I can say is there is always next year, Brooklyn! Fear the Deer!
- Adina Kalet, MD, MPH, Faculty
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Respond to next week's reflection prompt: |
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What kind of animal do you think makes the best pet?
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Congratulations to
Arthur Derse!
Arthur Derse, MD, JD, has been awarded the 2021 Distinguished Service Award.
This award is the institution's highest faculty and staff honor.
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The Kern Institute Event Advisory Committee invites you to
Submit a Speaker Proposal
The Kern Institute is working to transform medical education to better align with the needs of the public on the basis of character, competence, and caring.
Please complete the form below if you have a speaker you would like to propose.
The Event Advisory Committee will review all proposals based on the following criteria:
- The speaker's qualifications
- Timeliness of the topic
- Relevance to the mission
If chosen, a committee member will extend the invitation to the speaker and open the line of communication.
*Please Note: While we greatly appreciate your enthusiasm, please do not initiate correspondence with the speaker directly. This will ensure that expectations are clear and confusion or misunderstandings are averted.
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RFP for GME Connectedness/Wellbeing Program
The Kern Institute’s GME Pillar and MCWAH are happy to announce a program to increase connectedness and 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 among GME programs.
Proposals should include at least TWO programs and up to $500 can be requested. A post-activity report is required. Please see the Request for Proposal (RFP) below for details and submit your proposals before August 2, 2021, below.
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Save the Date
Value-Added Medical Education: Reimagining Learner Roles
While traditional clinical teaching activities such as taking a history, performing a physical exam, writing notes, and giving oral case presentations are clearly effective educational tools, they often lead to inefficiency and duplication of work. Meanwhile, gaps persist between current state and optimal state for patient care and learning outcomes.
This session will include a panel discussion of opportunities to creatively reimagine student roles on patient care teams and participant reflection on how key concepts might be implemented in their sphere of influence.
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Save The Date: More Info Coming Soon
October 20, 2021
Live Virtual Panel Presentation
12:00 - 1:00 pm CT
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KNN Discussion Series
Social Justice, Health Equity and Human Flourishing: Are We all Included?
Over the past year, the disproportionate impact of the pandemic as well as national protests surrounding racial incidents have heightened attention to ongoing disparities—including those within healthcare. What responsibilities do healthcare professionals have to address root causes of health inequity? And what strategies can help dismantle structural barriers to human flourishing that exist across diverse populations?
In this panel discussion—moderated by Chris Stawski, PhD, senior fellow for the Kern Family Foundation—three speakers will share their lived experiences and professional journeys related to those themes. Audience Q&A will follow.
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August 3, 2021
Live Virtual Presentation
4:00 - 5:00 pm CT
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The Transformational Times publishes weekly, delivering stories of hope, character and resilience to our virtual community. |
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Editorial Board: Kathlyn Fletcher, MD, Adina Kalet, MD, Wendy Peltier, MD, Erin Weileder, Scott Lamm, Eileen Peterson, Sarah Torres, & Anna Visser
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