Write Medicine

My guest on episode 16 of Write Medicine is Greselda Butler, a health education professional who works at Otsuka. Greselda lives her passion for educating and leading others toward their passion. IN this episode, we talk about mentoring—what is is, its benefits for both mentor and mentee, and how to find and structure mentoring opportunities.

Resources

Goldfarb Institute

Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions

Healthcare Business Women's Association

The Alliance’s Pilot Mentoring Program launched in October 2020

https://hbr-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/hbr.org/amp/2021/05/what-great-mentorship-looks-like-in-a-hybrid-workplace

Townsend B. Mentoring Virtually: A Timely Benefit for Alliance Members

Johnson-Bailey J, Cervero R. Mentoring in black and white: the intricacies of cross‐cultural mentoring. Sociology. 2007: 7-21

Connect with Greselda

Twitter: @aCMEstory

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/greseldabutler

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Host: Alexandra Howson PhD

Sound Engineer: Suzen Marie

Shownotes: Linzy Carothers

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Anne Jacobson MSPharm, CHCP is an independent writer who has been specializing in healthcare professional education since 1999.

We recorded our conversation in May 2021. For Anne and many colleagues in continuing healthcare education, the last 18 months or so has been a time of taking stock and reflection on what we want the next phases of our careers to look like.

We discuss this process of reflection and the path it leads to questions about how we find fulfillment in work and life.

As many guests on Write Medicine have shared, there are so many different stories of how we found our way into medical writing and medical education.

Anne observes that across all these different stories is a consistent theme: most of us didn’t follow a pre-existing passion for medical writing or continuing healthcare education; we discovered it while we were on the road to other things.

But what many people share in this space is what Cal Newport calls a craftsman mindset. 

We explore:

✔️ How does a person get good at what they do?

✔️What does craftsmanship look like?

✔️ How do we keep things interesting in our work and create the life we want?

Resources

✔️ Continuing Medical Education (CME)

✔️ American Medical Writers Association Conference

✔️ National Association of Science Writers

✔️ Cal Newport Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown

o Deep Work

o So Good

o Digital Minimalism

o Craftsman Mindset

✔️ International Society for Medical Publication Professionals

✔️ National Association for Health Care Quality

✔️ CME Palooza

✔️ UC San Diego Medical Writing Certificate Program

✔️ American Medical Association (AMA) Medical Writing Certificate Program

Connect with Anne: LinkedIn and Twitter

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My guest  is Dr. Elizabeth Franklin, Associate Professor in the School of Health Related Professions at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Elizabeth teaches research, communications, and health policy for the doctorate in health administration degree program.  Elizabeth shares her considerable knowledge about online learning and interprofessional learning in the state of Mississippi and draws on a deep well of teaching in high school, community college and university settings. She shares strategies to support engagement in online learning and gets into the nitty gritty of software integrations that make online interactions fun.

Resources

School of Health Related Professions
CEA Office
Alliance for continuing education in the health professions
Quality Matters
Alliance Learning Lab
Nearpod
Knowima
HCHAPS Scores
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
Journal of Applied Social Psychology 

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Karen Overstreet EdD, RPh, FACEHP, CHCP, Vice President, Scientific and Educational Affairs for Medical Learning Institute, Inc. is here to talk about her journey into educating health professionals and some of the things she thinks are important to support effective communication in the education field. 

These include:

* Skills you need for staying power in CME/CPD
* The science of learning
* Creative ways to measure outcomes
* Formats for delivering education to clinicians
* How to build interactivity into text
* Parsing education materials for specific kinds of clinicians
* The pressing need for wider professional development

 

Resources

Medical Learning Institute, Inc
Facebook: @mliace
Instagram: @medicallearninginstitute
LinkedIn: @medical-learning-institute-inc
Twitter: @mli_ace

Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) Standards

Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHSOIG) Guidance

Connect with Karen: LinkedIn
Connect with Alex: ThistleEditorial.com 

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Hello and welcome to Write Medicine. I’m your host Alex Howson and I use She/her pronouns. I wanted to jump in and introduce myself to those of you who may be new to the podcast and also share a summary of topics that you might have missed and season season one so that it’s easy peezy to go back and download those episodes for your library.

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As a yoga teacher who loves to share tools like mindful movement, breath awareness, and stillness to help people cultivate rest and resilience in their lives, I’m beyond delighted to share episode 12 of Write Medicine with you. 

My guest is Donna Gabriel, the Senior Director of Global Education at Med-IQ. Donna is currently pursuing doctorate in Mindful Leadership in Healthcare and is an advocate for mental health in general and reducing clinician burnout in particular. Donna talks about why so many clinicians are exhausted and discusses the importance of mindfully-designed education that not only supports clinician wellbeing but also boosts learning. 

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Martin Warters MA Ed. Tech, CHSE is Head of Education Development Management at Pfizer. Today he shares his expertise on how we can leverage simulation technology in clinical learning and continuing healthcare education. He talks about the power of narrative design to buttress the patient's story, and how to creatively craft pathways  for effective learning. 

Resources
High fidelity simulation
AR/VR
Lev Vygotsky and the zone of proximal development 
Narrative Medicine at Columbia
Narrative design
Conceptual frameworks in medical simulation
Simulation in adult learning
https://learninguncut.global/podcast/

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Adrienne Stevens, EdD, MBA, Vice President and Head of Scientific Strategy at Healio Strategic Solutions shares how her passion for dance, and her interest in the mechanics of movement, physical therapy, anatomy, and physiology has translated into a career as a medical communicator. Dance requires precision, and that’s what Adrienne practices in her work. 

Welcoming Adrienne Stevens, PhD in physiology, to the podcast 

[00:02] Some of the things Adrienne  learned in the process of writing her dissertation that fuel her approach in healthcare communication.

[00:04] Some of the key differences Adrienne sees between scientific writing and business writing. 

 [00:09] Key types of communication that work with physicians and other healthcare workers.

 [00:13:25] The importance of motivational interviewing.

[0015:29] Differences in the kind of education strategy and format that MSLs respond to compared with clinicians. 

[00:18:22]  Are we interactive enough in the education we design?

[00:20:36] Communication in obesity education.

Resources
Healio Strategic Solutions
Performing Health
Motivational interviewing 

Connect with Adrienne: LinkedIn
Connect with Alex: Thistleeditorial.com

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Introduction

Amanda Kaczerski, ATC, MS, CHCP is Vice Principal of Educational Strategy at the Academy for Continued Healthcare Learning. We first met at the beginning of 2020, feels like 100 years ago now, when we both co-presented as faculty in a prep course for the Alliance's CHCP exam. I'm delighted to have her on the show today, we're going to talk about instructional design, and geek out a little bit and some of those instructional design parameters.

Chapters
00:04:19 From field sales to learning design

00:06:11 Pay attention to clinician goals

00:11:00 Dealing with online fatigue

00:14:55 Addressing the "shiny objects"

00:19:46 Changes in how people approach education design

00:22:24 Leveraging a range of virtual learning approaches for CME/CPD

00:27:15 Key Take Aways

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Connect with Alex: Thistleeditorial.com

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Introduction
Monique Johnson MD is the Medical Director at Physicians' Education Resource and has more than 20 years in the CME field. Monique shares some of the challenges clinicians face when they're in the healthcare industry, why she's passionate about having better education within this field, and how to overcome common structural barriers in healthcare that block health professionals from learning.

Chapters

[02:03] A little bit about Monique and how she got started in the medical education field. 

[06:37] Monique shares some of the challenges she had on the administration side of things when she was in the medical field. 

[11:20] Monique gives an example of how education can address structural healthcare barriers. 

[14:54] Some 'common facts' that medical professionals use and reference all the time can actually be outdated or flat out not true.

[18:00] The value of education on social determinants of health.

[21:40] What has changed in 2020 and 2021 on how to best approach training clinicians? 

[27:22] How should the CME industry best help their clinicians?

Resources
Williams DR, Cooper LA. Reducing racial inequities in health: Using what we already know to take action. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019;16(4):606.

Brewer LC et al. Association of race consciousness with the patient-physician relationship, medication adherence, and blood pressure in urban primary care patients.  Am J Hypertens. 2013;26(11):14-152.

Connect with Monique: Gotoper.com & LinkedIn
Connect with Alex: Thistleeditorial.com

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Shownotes: Anna Codina

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