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Setting Yourself Up for Success: Tips to Avoid and Navigate Burnout
Have you ever been burned out? When I led wellness groups in the past, I used to open with this question. Since the pandemic, I skip ahead to “How do you know when you are burned out?” Nearly everyone has experienced some form of burnout over the past 2.5 years,...
Tips and Tricks for Giving Engaging Large Group Lectures
No matter how much we pivot towards simulation-based education or asynchronous learning, the traditional large group lectures still make up a core of any fellowship training program. Therefore, it is imperative for educators to acquire, maintain and develop the skills...
Leveraging Educational Videos as Learning Tools
Is it time to delete PowerPoint and sign up for TikTok? The landscape of medical education is changing, and with increasing use of virtual learning, asynchronous content and self-directed curricula, the traditional “PowerPoint presentation-at-a-podium” might be moving...
Tips for Maintaining Your Curriculum Vitae and What It Says About You
Whether you are looking for a new job or a promotion, your curriculum vitae (CV) will be the backbone of your application. A prospective employee’s CV is often the first document an employer sees. Not only does it highlight your achievements, but it can also frame...
Lighting up the Screen: Tips for Trainees for a Successful Virtual Interview
There is a difference between seeing a picture of a great painting and studying it right before your eyes, smelling a plate of pasta vs eating it, and similarly, interviewing for fellowship virtually rather than in-person. For the past two years applicants and...
Best Practices for the Concurrent Classroom Educator
For over a decade, health professions educators have called for a pedagogical revolution to disrupt traditional medical education curricula with tech-enhanced innovations. When compared to traditional face-to-face (F2F) models, high-quality tele- and web-based...
Faculty Development: What Is Out There and How To Decide What Is Worth Your Time
Have you been feeling like something is missing from your academic life? Are you trying to get to the next level in your career? If you answered yes, you’re not alone. Indeed, your division and department heads are probably wanting more for all their faculty members....
Recognizing and Celebrating Fellows and Faculty: The Value of a Simple “Thank You”
Many large corporations have systems in place to recognize and celebrate employees beyond monetary rewards and in ways that promote recruitment and retention, such as enabling an informal recognition culture. Examples include bringing attention to accomplishments...
Critical Care POCUS (Point-of-Care Ultrasound) Education: A Structured Approach to Identifying and Overcoming Barriers
We sit on the cusp of the POCUS revolution! Though diagnostic ultrasound has been in clinical use for more than half a century, only in the past two decades has miniaturization and affordability put this technology within the grasp of clinicians at the bedside. Not...
Tips to Receiving and Integrating Feedback to Enhance Your Professional and Personal Growth
In the broadest sense, feedback is how we learn about ourselves from our interactions, experiences, and engagements with other people. Receiving feedback often challenges how we perceive our self. Reflection and potential integration of feedback can truly help us...
