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Faculty Development of Education Researchers in Academic Anesthesiology

Here is a great article on faculty development of education researchers in anesthesia which may interest some WELI members!

Leading Effective Interdisciplinary Teams

This is a nice review article on interdisciplinary teams and team management

Social Media Engagement and the Critical Care Medicine Community

Social media has transformed how we communicate in the medical community. Common uses of social media in medicine include dissemination of information, knowledge acquisition, professional networking, and patient advocacy. This review summarizes the history and current status of health-care social media and provides a primer for those new to it.

An institution is not required to choose between mentoring and coaching. Each one enhances your program and the ability of its members to contribute to your institutions’ goals. These articles explain how mentoring and coaching can fulfill the expectations of individuals, while simultaneously accomplishing the institutions’ employee development and succession planning goals.

Berenstain Physician Coaching

The practice of anesthesiology requires comprehensive medical knowledge, a robustclinical skill set, and the ability to navigate complex social situations on a daily basis. While medical school and residency training serve as preparation for the first two, training in emotional intelligence, conflict management, negotiation skills, and leadership is often deficient or nonexistent. Additionally, professional development is not always adequately emphasized, resulting in a lack of professional fulfillment for many

Coaching for the pediatric anesthesiologist: Becoming our best selves

Anesthesiologists must balance demanding clinical workloads with career development goals. Leadership, conflict management, and other skills can improve medical outcomes, reduce stress at work, and increase career satisfaction

Why Mentoring Matters, and How to Get Started – The New York Times

“It’s very much reciprocal, and there’s so much to be learned from the younger generation. Both sides are meeting different types of people, understanding different experiences, and really growing their own network of young, up-and-coming professionals to be able to support or to be able to offer opportunities.”
-Jenni Luke, Chief Executive of the National Teen Mentorship Organization StepUp

Women Mentoring Women in Academic Medicine: Pathways to Success

While a career in academic medicine can be difficult to navigate, mentorship by an experienced guide has been shown to help career development by improving confidence in the workplace and helping to lower barriers to academic success.

How to Cold Call Your Future Mentor

You can get a meeting with an influential person you have never met by doing research ahead of time, showing hustle and remembering to ask, ‘What can I do for you in return?’

Women Mentoring Women in Academic Medicine: Pathways to Success

Weavind L, McGrane TJ. Women Mentoring Women in Academic Medicine: Pathways to Success. International Anesthesiology Clinics 2018; 56(3):110-120.

Gender equality in academic medicine remains an elusive but crucial goal for women in medicine today. Mentorship of an experienced teacher / guide has been shown to facilitate career development, improve confidence and personal satisfaction, lower barriers and provide a road map to personal achievement. The authors review the 3 main types of mentorship relationships, discuss the attributes of a good mentor and a good mentee. They propose an approach to building a successful mentoring program for female faculty and include a mentorship agreement. The article is well written, practical and certainly worth a read if you are looking for or already engaged in a mentoring relationship.

Making the Most of Mentors: A Guide For Mentees

Zerzan JT, Hess R, Schur E, Phillips R, Rigottia N. Making the most of Mentors: A Guide for Mentees. Academic Medicine 2009; 84(1), 14-144

Effective Mentorship is likely one of the most important determinants of success in academic medicine and research. This article gives guidance specifically to mentees on forging these critically important relationships. “Managing up” requires the mentee to take responsibility for his/her part in the collaborative alliance and to be the leader in the relationship by guiding and facilitating the mentor’s efforts to create a mutually satisfying and productive relationship. Specific and very practical suggestions including a checklist for mentees empower the mentee to develop mentoring relationship that really work.

The 2018 Joseph W St. Geme, Jr. Leadership Award Address: Reflections on Mentorship

Schuster MA. The 2018 Joseph W. St. Geme, Jr. Leadership Award Address: Reflections on Mentorship. Pediatrics 2019; 143(2):e20182957

Mentors matter. Research supports that statement. Studies have shown that physicians who have been mentored are more productive, more likely to receive grants and publish, more likely to be promoted and tend to have greater career satisfaction. The author recommends 6 characteristics to look for in a mentor. A good mentor is someone you feel comfortable with, looks out for your best interests, is accessible, direct, forgiving and doesn’t have to be perfect, understands you and your needs. The author makes a strong case for turning mentorship into an expected and routine part of academic medicine and suggests 6 action items for encouraging, supporting and reward mentorship.

Great Mentors Focus on the Whole Person, Not Just Their Career

Rick Woolworth

Aspiring leaders need more and better mentoring than they’re getting today. More than 75% of professional men and women want a mentor, only 37% have one. Current mentors are too narrowly focused on career advancement and thereby limit their impact. Mentoring the whole person extends beyond career to include discussions about behavior, values, relationships, parenting, finances and even spiritual life. The author believes strongly that this more holistic approach is dramatically more effective in helping people fulfill their true potential. He offers 6 practices for holistic mentoring.

How doctors can be better mentors

Sanjay Saint, M.D. Vineet Chopra, MD

In the same way that physicians have an ethical duty to act in the best interests of their patients, mentors have a similar duty towards their mentees. Practicing mindfulness – being patient, focused on the moment, accepting events as they unfold – is an important skill for effective mentoring. Incorporating mindfulness allows the mentor to focus on what is best for the mentee and his or her career. The authors offer four guiding principles for mindfulness in the mentoring relationship: be available, know your role, try to be objective, put yourself in their shoes. Being mindful as a mentor is a foundational practice that unlocks successful interactions with mentees.
Articles reviewed by Eric Wittkugel, MD April 11, 2020
Leadership | Professional Development Coach Hudson Certified Coach

In most professions, the employees who exhibit strong leadership skills are the ones who take on greater leadership responsibilities throughout their career. Effective leadership within the medical industry can make an important difference in healthcare outcomes, experiences, and financial sustainability.

From aggressive to assertive

Let’s agree that this double standard is unfair, and our workplaces need massive cultural change. This article is about how women can navigate through this double standard and still stand up for themselves

Achieving Equity in Healthcare – Dr. Joanne Conroy

“We don’t want to simplify the challenge by asserting that women make better leaders than men. Instead we want to stress that greater representation by women and attention to the environment at the top of an organization allow everyone to be empowered, engaged, included and respected in their pursuit of improving health and healthcare for the greater community. This is how, collectively, we begin breaking bias. “
-Dr. Joanne Conroy

How to Close the Gender Gap in Medicine

Indefensible differences in salary between women and men persist in medicine, with female primary care and specialist doctors earning 25% and 36% less, respectively, than their male counterparts. These differences are especially egregious given that female physicians actually outperform male physicians in some areas. It’s hard to imagine by what calculus a health care organization would pay women less than men for their better outcomes. The solutions to this unacceptable state including transparency around salary data, focused coaching and sponsorship, and equitable promotions.

How Successful Women Manage Their Networks

Given that men occupy most of the positions of power within organizations, the key to gender diversity efforts is the ability of men and women to build positive working relationships. But this has proved to be a challenge. Decades of research on organizational networks have shown that who you know—and who knows you—is critical to performance and career success.

Top 10 Things Women Anesthesiologists Must Do for Academic Promotion

The process of academic promotion is complex, even more so when gender is taken into consideration. This article discusses this gender gap and includes a list of the top 10 things women anesthesiologists must do in the promotion process.

Know Yourself, Know the System: Developing a Successful Career and Being Promoted as an Academic Anesthesiologist

Here is a “how-to” for promotion that starts at the basics. A great resource for those getting started.

Leadership in Academic Anesthesiology: Theories and Practice

Here is a different take on leadership….the quotes and overall message are interesting and worth a read.

13 Things that Mentally Strong People Don’t Do” by Amy Morin

“In her book, ’13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do,’ author Amy Morin writes that developing mental strength is a “three-pronged approach. It’s about controlling your thoughts, behaviors, and emotions.”

The Best Leaders Are Versatile Ones – Robert B. Kaiser

It is not an overstatement to say that versatility is the most important component of leading effectively today. To cope with the rapid pace of change, leaders must develop the ability to consider opposing needs and avoid maximizing one at the expense of the other simply because their current skill set makes them more attuned to it. To help leaders understand how to build versatility, this practical model emphasizes the opposing but complementary behaviors that are required: It makes the distinction between, on the one hand, how you lead (in terms of interpersonal behaviors for influencing and interacting with other people) and, on the other hand, what you lead (in terms of the organizational issues you focus them on).

Why the First Second of a Job Interview Can Make or Break You

To make those first few moments of you job interview count, follow these rules career experts say are crucial.

Job Interview Tips

Here is a quick guide on interview tips and a book recommendation.

Common Interview Questions

Here are some common job interview questions

When You Start a New Job, Pay Attention to These 5 Aspects of Company Culture

Understanding the culture of your workplace is key to success. This article nicely summarizes the things that require your attention about workplace culture.

As every working parent knows, the challenges and pressures that are faced on a daily basis are never 100% resolved. They can, however, be preempted, mitigated, and managed. Check out the articles below for tips on how to manage a healthy work/life balance and prevent burnout from happening.

Working Parent’s Survival Guide – The five big challenges and how to deal with them

“Working parenthood isn’t easy. It’s a big, complex, emotional, chronic, and sometimes all-consuming struggle. But as with any challenge, the more you break it down, the less daunting it becomes. With a clearer view of the issues you’re facing, and with specific strategies for managing them, you’ll be better able to succeed at work—and be the mother or father you want to be at home.”
-Daisy Dowling

Gender Composition and Trends of Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia Editorial Board Membership: A 33-Year Analysis, 1987-2019

The results demonstrate that the proportion of women serving on the JCVA editorial board has steadily increased over the journal’s history. Nevertheless, women continue to be underrepresented on the JCVA board compared with the percentage of US female academic cardiothoracic anesthesiologists, and gender gaps between first and last authorship and board composition also persist.

3 of the Most Common Challenges Women Face in Negotiations

Researchers interviewed 84 women about how they experience everyday negotiations. They discovered three unique challenges women face during these interactions: balancing agentic and communal concerns, managing emotions, and overcoming resistance. Such challenges acknowledge that women and men experience negotiations differently, and show that gender stereotypes underpin women’s experiences (both in how they perceive negotiations and are perceived as negotiators). But they are not insurmountable. With careful advance planning, women can learn to better manage difficult emotions, come to the table resistance-ready, and actually get what they want.

12 Strategies to Improve Your Job Negotiating Skills

Negotiating your contract can be nerve-racking. Here are some strategies to help through this difficult process.

How to Handle a Disagreement on Your Team

When you manage a team of people, you can’t always ensure that they’ll get along. Given competing interests, needs, and agendas, you might even have two people who vehemently disagree. What’s your role as the boss in a situation like this? Should you get involved or leave them to solve their own problems?

Managing Your Boss

A quarter-century ago, John Gabarro and John Kotter introduced a powerful new lens through which to view the manager-boss relationship: one that recognized the mutual dependence of the participants.