The Academy of Educators’ workshops cover a range of topics from promotion, remediation, social media and additional professional development topics to enhance educators at WUSM.

2023 Promotions Workshop: Instructors & Assistant Professors

Date: Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Time: 4pm – 5:30pm

Location: FLTC, 1st Floor, Holden Auditorium

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Overview: Educators play an essential role in supporting the scientific and patient care missions of academic medical centers. Despite their crucial role in training the next generation of scientists and clinicians, academic advancement is often slower for educators than for other faculty. Increased clinical productivity demands and financial stressors at academic medical centers add to the existing challenges faced by educators. This workshop will discuss progress in promotions criteria to support educators to more successfully navigate the promotions process. Educators’ products are diverse, and publication may not always be the primary currency. This workshop will share tips on how best to capture the impact of your teaching and medical education scholarship as well as the importance of developing a niche, mentorship and sponsorship, skill building, and developing a robust educator portfolio.

2023 Promotions Workshop: Associate Professors

Date: Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Time: 4pm – 5:30pm

Location: FLTC, 1st Floor, Holden Auditorium

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Overview: Educators play an essential role in supporting the scientific and patient care missions of academic medical centers. Despite their crucial role in training the next generation of scientists and clinicians, academic advancement is often slower for educators than for other faculty. Increased clinical productivity demands and financial stressors at academic medical centers add to the existing challenges faced by educators. This workshop will discuss progress in promotions criteria to support educators to more successfully navigate the promotions process. Educators’ products are diverse, and publication may not always be the primary currency. This workshop will share tips on how best to capture the impact of your teaching and medical education scholarship as well as the importance of developing a niche, mentorship and sponsorship, skill building, and developing a robust educator portfolio.

Building Inclusive Environments for Learners with Disabilities (BUILD) Workshops

Dates/ Time: June 1, June 8, June 15, 2023. All sessions will be from 5:00-6:30p

Location: Zoom

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Overview: BUILD offers health professions faculty the knowledge, skills, and resources to understand the barriers facing people and learners with disabilities and to create more inclusive didactic and clinical learning environments. Topics this 3-session series addresses include the history and different models of disability, barriers and challenges presented by ableism and stigma in community and educational settings, inclusion, receptivity, and belonging in the context of learners with disabilities in health professions education, strategies educators can use to minimize and prevent microaggressions, implicit bias, and stereotype threat in learning environments, ways to integrate growth mindset and universal design for learning as instructional approaches to enhance success of learners with disabilities, and inclusive teaching in terms of instruction, curriculum, learner and program assessment, and classroom policies and procedures.