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Critical thinking skills are crucial for health professionals, especially in clinical settings. However, most health professions educators engage learners with only lower-level concepts such as definitions, fact recall, or basic explanations. Employing strategic questioning methods that require learners to use higher-order thinking can help develop clinical reasoning skills. The Questioning Aid for Rich, Real-time Discussion (QARRD) was created for health professions educators to purposefully implement concepts from Bloom’s taxonomy and hierarchical questioning in clinical settings. Listen to this episode of Faculty Feed as the team discusses Bloom's Taxonomy, the QARRD and the connection to critical thinking and clinical reasoning.

This week’s episode showcases a current LIAM participant (class of 2022-23), Westley

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Employee engagement is more of a problem than ever post-pandemic. Listen to this episode, a collaboration between the Employee Success Center (Brian Buford) at UofL and the Office of HSC Professional Development (Drs. Rabalais and Saner), as we dive into the evidence that it is how managers behave toward employees that drives (or kills) employee engagement. So, we either retrain bad managers, or better yet, let’s change how we select managers in the first place.

UofL Employee Success Center, Gallup Workplace Engagement, Google Project Oxygen

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You’ve downloaded a citation management software, but do you actually use it? This week the HSC Office of Educational and Professional Development talks about citation managers like EndNote, which faculty can use to organize their citations, journal articles, and other scholarly works. We discuss how this software automates citations to save time when writing manuscripts or grant proposals. If you’re new to the citation feature that will create and automatically reformat a reference section, this will change your life! After listening to this episode, our “One Thing” call to action is for listeners to do something new with your citation manager. Faculty at UofL have access to download EndNote for free and can learn more about EndNote training classes through our library. See the EndNote website for additional resources and best practices for using your citation manager.

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Have you ever needed to develop a survey for your learners, patients, or colleagues? This week we talk with Jason Immekus, PhD, MS, who is Chair and Professor of the Department of Educational Leadership, Evaluation, and Organizational Development at the University of Louisville College of Education and Human Development. We discuss survey development, which involves establishing the reliability and validity of instruments to help ensure that survey results are meaningful and actionable. Jason describes the (often unrealized) complexity of survey development and suggests some best practices that faculty can use to improve their instruments. After listening to this episode, Jason’s “One Thing” call to action is for listeners to consider tools being used in their departments and reflect on whether there is alignment between the purpose of the tool and how the data are used. Learn more about the scale-development resources that Jason mentions, including: The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing from the American Psychological Association, resources from The Council on Measurement in Education, and Duke’s Initiative on Survey Methodology. This primer article by Boateng et al. (2018) also provides a helpful step-by-step overview of the scale development and validation process for investigators. 

Our learners often complain that they do not get good feedback from us as faculty. Providing actionable, formative feedback in real-time while providing patient care in a busy inpatient setting is hard. This week we talked with three neonatologists who asked us to help them to give feedback better. Listen to them describe the two formative feedback models they are now using in a busy NICU setting. Their stories provide lessons that are applicable broadly to how we engage learners across the HSC campus.

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If you have wondered how to make asynchronous, cross-disciplinary teaching between physicians and nurses really work, this podcast provides a great model for you to consider. Listen as Dr. Becky Gesler from the School of Nursing and Dr. Natalie Henderson from the Department of Pediatrics Critical Care Division discuss an innovative way that they solved this problem using a collaborative, opportunistic approach to learning.

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Universities are no longer merely providers of information to learners, but also have a responsibility to serve the needs of the communities they occupy. The University of Louisville is committed to not only being “in the community” but to be “of the community”. Drs. Dwayne Compton and Doug Craddock describe key activities sponsored by the University and the School of Medicine in Louisville and throughout the state of Kentucky and why these are so important to the communities and our learners. Find out how you as faculty can get involved in this critical mission of the university.

What does health care have to do with human trafficking? This week we talk with Olivia Mittel, MD, MS, who is Associate Dean for Medical Student Affairs and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. We discuss how research

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If you aren’t intentionally setting the stage for a safe learning environment, your effectiveness as an educator is likely compromised. This podcast with Dr. Kim Boland, Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at UofL, will show you how to create a safe learning environment for your HSC learners as you join them in partnership on their learning journey.

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