Faculty Feed

Academia depends on the publishing world to disseminate scholarly work, but the current model is facing significant challenges. This week we talk with Dr. John Chenault, PhD, MA, MSLS, Associate Professor, University of Louisville School of Medicine. Dr. Chenault is a former medical librarian, and we discuss both long-standing and emerging issues in biomedical research publishing. Dr. Chenault describes how research outcomes can be erroneous or deliberately falsified, and he suggests that more transparency—rather than our current system of peer review—will be needed to address emerging issues in plagiarism and post-production fabrication. Learn more about the work that Dr. Chenault describes by Freedman and the Global Biological Standards Institute as well as the Retraction Watch and PubPeer resources to help faculty evaluate published literature.

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Learner engagement is enhanced with technology. This week we talk with Kent Gardner and David Aylor, who are Co-Directors of Instructional Technology for the Academic Technology Office (ATO) at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Their roles involve helping faculty, staff, and students access technology to make learning happen. Kent and David discuss the future of academic technology and give us insight into making better use of Microsoft Teams, which became ubiquitous during the pandemic. Learn more about ATO, and UofL community members interested in the VR/AR interest group can search “Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality in Education” in Teams and join the channel.

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How do you use social media in your professional role? Learn how these School of Medicine faculty used Twitter to engage their colleagues and learners in a cross-disciplinary professional project. Check out these Twitter profiles –

Keri Marques @KeriMarquesMD & @UofLPedsNeo

Jessica Kline & the UofL OBGYN Residency @UofLObGynRes

Staci Saner - @SSaner

HSC Office of Professional and Educational Development - @HSCFacDev

Research experience is important for undergraduate pre-medical students, and there are ways to engage students beyond biomedical and clinical research. This week we talk with Dr. Emily Noonan, who is Assistant Professor in Undergraduate Medical Education, and Dr. Linda Fuselier, who is Professor and Chair of Biology at the University of Louisville. We discuss the Medical Education Research Award (MERA), which is a collaboration between the College of Arts & Sciences and the School of Medicine. This program engages pre-medical students in clinical skills research with medical educators, and we discuss how MERA benefits students while helping to create a pipeline for health professions education. Faculty on HSC can learn about cross-campus collaboration and engaging trainees across the continuum. Learn more about the MERA program and the Center for Engaged Learning mentioned in the episode.

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Leadership in the academy is hard work. Listen to Dr. Susan Ryan, Professor of English, and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in the College of Arts & Sciences at UofL, as she describes her own leadership journey and the lessons learned along the way about being confident to step into roles, presuming the good intentions of others, and the incremental rewards that come to leaders in academics. 

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Could clinical research be a key driver of your job satisfaction, providing real meaning for your work in academic medicine, nursing, public health, or dentistry? If you are considering how get started, or how to rediscover the passion for discovery, then you won’t want to miss what Drs. Jan Sullivan and Michelle Stevenson have to offer in this week’s episode of Faculty Feed. The passion for research that they discovered in training pushed their career development. Hear how they are now working to help develop the next generation of clinical researchers to also find their passion in research.

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As academic educators, we should not solely be in the information-exchange business, but rather to be in the learner transformation business. If you want to meet this new challenge, especially in the online learning space, this episode of Faculty Feed will drive you to reconsider how you teach in the online learning environment. 

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Learning in the clinical environment is more that knowledge and procedures. Future health professionals need to be able to critically think about patient problems. Dr. Gay Baughman, Professor, from the University of Louisville School of Dentistry explains how she teaches dental students to improve their critical thinking skills. Gay utilizes the work of The Foundation For Critical Thinking and specifically the Paul-Elder framework to help her dental students develop these important skills.

Learn more about critical thinking –Patty Payette Podcast

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Clinical care involves input from many different health professions, so why don’t more care teams practice together? This week we talk about challenges and opportunities of interprofessional simulation with Dr. Hannah Fischer, MD, who is Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Neonatal Medicine at The University of Louisville School of Medicine and Adam Hall, RDH, MS, who is Assistant Professor of Dental Hygiene at the University of Louisville School of Dentistry. Hannah and Adam describe an innovative way to simulate patient care with different healthcare teams using the social e-reader Perusall, which addresses the common barrier of gathering interprofessional teams at the same time and place. Listeners can sign up for Perusall, join our HPE Journal Club on Perusall, and learn more about UofL’s Leadership and Innovation in Academics Matter (LIAM) program.

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Join us this week as we introduce our new Vice-Provost for Faculty Affairs at the University of Louisville. Dr. Cherie Dawson-Edwards provides an engaging, personal story about her leadership development with an energetic description of the challenges she has faced, especially how she accepted new opportunities to lead along the way to prepare her for this important role.

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