Sharing Your Scholarship with the World: The Art of Writing and Getting Published
Publishing your work in a peer-reviewed journal helps disseminate important findings and ideas to a wide audience. Publications are key criteria for promotion and tenure decisions. Yet most journals receive large numbers of submissions and have low acceptance rates. What can you do to successfully navigate the publication process? In this webinar, staff from Academic Medicine and MedEdPORTAL discusswhat makes a good publication, the steps of the publication process, what editors look for in submissions, common reasons for rejection, and resources available to support authors as they develop, submit, and revise their work.
How to Begin and Continue the Conversation About Race at Your Institution
Many institutions have already initiated the conversation about efforts to address racism, whereas others are still in the beginning stages. This webinar focuses on how to become a leader at your institution in regard to initiating and/or continuing the momentum around the race conversation. The webinar focuses on how to propose efforts and interventions to address racism at your institution in a way that is impactful and sustainable.
Managing Bias in Medicine: Strategies to Identify, Address, and Regroup
Subtle bias can present in any workplace but can be particularly prevalent in health care and academic settings. The purpose of this webinar is to assist participants in managing such bias, particularly as it relates to decision-making skills as to if, when, and how to respond. Long-term strategies for regrouping are discussed, to address the weathering effect of persistent bias.
From Bystander to Upstander: Advocacy in Action
This webinar is aimed at identifying racism in the health care work environment and academic setting, and equipping trainees, faculty, and other health care providers to become responsible bystanders. The topics discussed include tangible tools to address real-time situations and facilitate a culture of actively addressing racism in the workplace.
Carving a Path to Leadership: Strategies and Interventions
Our Women of Color and Intersectionality webinar series kicks off with an inaugural conversation on Carving a Path to Leadership. This live event explores interventions and strategies immediately needed to support, develop, and sponsor women of color so they can thrive in the ranks of leadership in academic medicine.
Transforming Institutional Culture: Assessment and Intervention
In this webinar, Hannah Valantine, MD, National Institutes of Health (NIH)chief officer for scientific workforce diversity, joins David Acosta, MD, former AAMC chief diversity and inclusion officer, for a presentation on organizational approaches to effect culture change.
Community Conversation Between GIP and GDI: Building a Shared Commitment When Combating Racism at Institutions
The Group on Diversity and Inclusion (GDI) and the Group on Institutional Planning (GIP) gather for a community conversation on addressing racism. The groups convene in real time and discuss challenges and opportunities that arise when involved in efforts to address racism at an institution. The goal of this forum is to share approaches and best practices and to enhance institutional collaboration.
Understanding Intersectionality: Bringing Visibility to the Experiences and Perspectives of Women of Color
The AAMC Group on Women in Medicine and Science (GWIMS) and the Group on Diversity and Inclusion (GDI) host an informative and powerful webinar on defining intersectionality, the recognition of how different parts of someone's identity, like their race, gender, and class, combine to create unique experiences. During this first part of a longer webinar series on various concerns of women of color, speakers from both inside and outside academic medicine introduce foundational elements of intersectionality theory, share experiences, and create dialogue on how institutions can maintain an intersectional lens.
Integrating Disability Into the Medical School Curriculum: Practical Strategies and Resources
The best physicians are prepared to meet the needs of a diverse and ever-changing patient population. Medical advances and an aging population guarantee that all clinicians will interact with patients with disability. Building clinical knowledge and confidence working with people with disability can help medical students sensitively and respectfully meet the needs of all patients. This presentation provides specific, practical methods and tools to incorporate the treatment of those with disability into existing courses and clinical experiences for medical students.
Building an LGBTQ+-Informed Health Workforce: Facilitators and Barriers
This 90-minute webinar updates leaders and other parties at academic health centers on the facilitators and barriers to providing quality access to LGBTQ+-informed services and to building an academic medicine workforce in which LGBTQ+ individuals feel included and valued. The interactive webinar includes 45 minutes of Q&A and encourages institutions to facilitate group discussions.
Navigator to Excellence: Publishing the Results of Scholarly Work in Medical Education: The Art of Writing and Getting Published
This 60-minute webinar includes an overview of the review processes, essential components of scholarly articles and publications, and submission guidelines for both Academic Medicine and MedEdPORTAL.
Assessing Institutional Culture and Climate
This multimedia webcast, produced in collaboration with experts in the field of institutional culture, walks participants through the Diversity 3.0 Framework, explains what elements should be included in a comprehensive assessment of institutional culture and climate, and provides examples of how institutions might best utilize their findings to effect change.
Navigator to Excellence: Strategic Planning
What are some components of a successful strategic plan to create a culture of excellence that welcomes people of all backgrounds and perspectives? Should you integrate a new or existing equal opportunity plan into the institution’s main plan? The GDI Steering Committee produced this webinar to respond to questions and address key elements for strategic planning.
Creating Diverse Cultures: Transforming Ourselves, Our Faculty, and Our Institutions
To help raise awareness of the importance of fostering an equal opportunity environment in academic medicine, the AAMC hosts a webinar featuring Scott E. Page, PhD, a leading scholar in the role that ensuring a broad range of backgrounds and viewpoints plays in organizations and society.
Health Equity and the Social Determinants of Health: Connecting the Dots
In this short video, the AAMC shines a spotlight on the social determinants of health and how they shape an individual’s opportunity for quality health and health care.
A Leader's Role in Addressing LGBTQ+ Health in Academic Medicine
This session aims to empower leaders to ensure LGBTQ+ individuals have an equal opportunity to thrive. The session provides an overview of LGBTQ+ health disparities and their cost to health care, increases awareness of the current gaps in LGBTQ+-informed health care in academic medicine, highlights the role of leadership in LGBTQ+ initiatives and outlines ways for leadership to integrate and evaluate LGBTQ+ initiatives at their institutions.