Faculty Feed

Dear Esteemed Academic, we’re reaching out to you as an eminent scholar in your field! This week we talk with Dr. John Chenault, PhD, MA, MSLS who is a former medical librarian and currently Associate Professor & Director of Anti-Racism Initiatives in Undergraduate Medical Education at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. We discuss predatory publishing, which is an exploitative practice that charges authors to publish scholarly journal articles without providing important publishing services like peer review. Dr. Chenault suggests that listeners can work with librarians to identify such exploitative journals before publishing, and he describes resources that faculty can use to help identify predatory publishers. After listening to this episode, Dr. Chenault calls for listeners to be mindful of this industry and its negative impact to our profession. Learn more about predatory publishing with Retraction Watch, the Predatory Publishing blog, and see if your university has access to Cabell’s International. Also check out John’s previous Faculty Feed episodes on anti-racism in medical education and the crisis in biomedical publishing.

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We all work. Many of us have chronic work-related stress. Join us as Drs. Shuck and Keith describe the ground-breaking findings they are discovering through an interdisciplinary research group studying the toxicity of our work environments. Long-lasting, chronic physical health effects like hypertension can be the result of work-related stress. Join us as we explore this exciting new work connecting work and physical health.

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Today’s Faculty Feed features Jason Zahrndt, Program Manager at the Delphi Center for Teaching & Learning. Jason oversees the digital media suite. Learn about UofL’s resources the digital media suite can provide for you and your students/learners. Also, Jason is part of the Digital Transformation Center which can provide you with badges and certifications from companies such as Google, IBM, Adobe, and Microsoft. Check out all the resources you have at your fingertips.

https://louisville.edu/digitalmediasuite

https://louisville.edu/digital-transformation

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Historically, continuing medical education is a licensure mandate for physicians and nurses and increasingly for all healthcare providers. Join us as we talk with Dr. Demetra Antimisiaris, Director of the University of Louisville School of Medicine’s Office of CME about what the next generation of CME will look like in support of population health with interdisciplinary CME training, and how UofL is positioning itself as a national provider of CME to improve patient outcomes.

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Something for our listeners to do: View a video promoting a population health CME offering from Stanford CME. Notice the focus on health behaviors and physician engagement in this population health challenge. Introduction to Food & Health - YouTube

Is our healthcare system accessible for people with disabilities or just compliant? This week we talk with Dr. Priya Chandan, MD, MPH, who is Vice President of Healthcare Quality and Analytics at Kramer Davis and Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at the University of Louisville School of Medicine; and Dr. Emily Noonan, PhD, MA, who is Assistant Professor in Undergraduate Medical Education at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. We discuss disability and medicine, which touches all clinicians regardless of specialty. Priya and Emily describe how ableism and the lack of accessibility create barriers to care for people with disabilities, and they discuss their curriculum initiatives that engage self-advocates to teach students about disability and health care. Learn more about their work to improve health care for people with intellectual/developmental disabilities here.

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What if each of us could contribute to sustainability in our own way? This week we talk with Dr. Justin Mog, PhD, who is Assistant to the Provost for Sustainability Initiatives at the University of Louisville. We discuss initiatives at UofL and across Louisville that aim to advance environmental, social, and economic justice through sustainability. Justin describes how there is “no silver bullet” to becoming a sustainable community, but rather a diversity of solutions are required to achieve these goals. Listeners from UofL will learn about different initiatives on our Belknap and HSC campuses along with various opportunities to get involved with sustainability at UofL (https://louisville.edu/sustainability/). Also check out Justin’s podcast Sustainability Now! (https://www.forwardradio.org/sustainabilitynow), which focuses on how citizens are taking action to advance sustainability and recently marked its 300th episode!

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Don’t miss today’s episode with Dr. Rudy Clark; she is an Assistant Professor at UofL School of Nursing. This discussion examines the connection between art or other creative outlets and learning. Listen as Dr. Clark shares her passion for teaching nursing students in creative and thought-provoking ways to help them see content from multiple perspectives. And don’t forget to head to Kornhauser Library in the Health Sciences Center to see the HeART of Medicine Showcase from March 27th – April 7th 2023. Students of all HSC schools will display their art.

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For more information about the art show - https://library.louisville.edu/kornhauser/events/2023/heartofmedicine

You will love this episode! Learn how the pre-medical magnet program with JCPS has evolved with the arrival of Dr. Eddie Miller. Central High School students now take part in rotations at UofL School of Medicine and help them to develop confidence. Listen to this show and learn how you can help with the JCPS pipeline programs. For more information feel free to contact Dr. Eddie Miller at  [email protected]

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We all want our learners to develop critical thinking skills, but how do we formatively assess our learners to see if their critical thinking skills are improving over the course of a program. In this episode of Faculty Feed we talk with Dr. David Johnson, Assistant Professor at the School of Public Health and Information Sciences, as he describes the formative rubric he developed that can be generalized to multiple disciplines or products. 

Johnson, D., Kakar, R., Zahrndt, R., & Walton, P. (2022). Student Evaluation Using an Intellectual Standards Rubric for Critical Thinking. Pedagogy in Health Promotion, 23733799211070544.

Johnson, D., Kakar, R., & Walton, P. (2019). Structured public health scenario analyses promote critical thinking in undergraduate students. Pedagogy in Health Promotion, 5(4), 261-267.

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This episode of Faculty Feed discusses the benefits of learning about teaching and learning if you are an educator in the health professions. We talk to recent MS HPE graduates, Russ Farmer, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery and Assistant Dean of Clinical Skills, University of Louisville School of Medicine and Wil Abshier, DMD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Comprehensive Dentistry, University of Louisville School of Dentistry about their journey to gain new knowledge. If you are interested in more information about the HPE program, please email [email protected] or visit https://louisville.edu/online/programs/masters/online-master-of-science-in-health-professions-education

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