Our support staff across the Health Sciences Center schools provide invaluable partners in the work that we do as faculty. Our staff need and deserve help with career pathways development. Listen in to Dr. Glen Gittings, Chief of Staff to the Dean at the School of Medicine, as he provides his insights into his own personal career journey, lessons learned, the SMART staff program at the School of Medicine, and his role in the development of the LOUMED.

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It is easy to allow the massive clinical enterprise of an academic health center to overshadow the value of the medical school as the place where education, research and clinical care come together around the primacy of the patients we are so privileged to serve. Join with us as our interim Dean, Dr. Jeffrey

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Drs. Christopher Jones, Professor of Surgery and Director of Transplantation and Keith Miller, Associate Professor, Division of Trauma Surgery team up to share the genesis and development of the Future Healers Program in collaboration with Game Changers to help youth in Louisville navigate the secondary trauma that comes from increasing gun violence in the community.

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Dr. In Kim joins us to discuss two medical student-focused programs at UofL that develop their business skills, the MD/MBA

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We’re continuing our conversation from last week with Dr. Kelvin Thompson, the Vice Provost for Online Strategy and Teaching at the University of Louisville. This week Kelvin discusses the transformational

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This week we talk with Dr. Kelvin Thompson, the Vice Provost for Online Strategy and Teaching at the University of Louisville. At the beginning of 2023 Kelvin began this new role, which aims to boost strategic teaching and online techniques throughout the university. In this episode, we discuss Kelvin’s transition from his position as the Executive Director for UCF's Center for Distributed Learning and explore his vision for UofL in this new role.

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On this episode of Faculty Feed, we talk with Dr. Kim Schatzel, just five months into her tenure as the 19th President of the University of Louisville. She brings a very unique perspective to the job since Dr. Schatzel is one of less than two percent of university presidents that have extensive business and private sector expertise, spending more than 20 years as a corporate leader and social entrepreneur in the technology and global advanced manufacturing sectors. Join us as she shares her perspectives on the principal issues facing the campus and her top priorities for UofL.

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When leaders are asked to engage in dispute resolution, what if we focused not on the broken rule but on the harm caused? In this episode, Dr. Cherie Dawson-Edwards (Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Professor for the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Louisville) discusses the tools of restorative justice and their application at work and home.

Link to her podcast: https://libraryguides.umassmed.edu/restorative-justice/academic-medicine

If you have heard rumblings about the coming of competency-based medical education to the School of Medicine curriculum, you won’t want to miss this episode in which Dr. Jennifer-Brueckner Collins and one of her graduate students, Emily Porta, discuss how CBME related to teamwork, communication and professionalism are being introduced into the gross anatomy lab curriculum at UofL. You will leave with a greater understanding of just how this looks at ground level as brand new medical students are introduced to this important set of lifelong learning skills. 

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For the past decade, Dr. Martin Huecker has intently focused on wellness for himself and his patients. He believes that healthcare providers ought to be role models for their patients and for the learners we are entrusted to train. We should be in the very best physical and mental shape so we can do the hard work of caring for patients, teaching and leading in an academic environment. If you want to change the trajectory of your life toward wellness, this episode will inform, equip and inspire you to take that next critical step toward a better, healthier life.

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