Faculty for Tomorrow Webinars

This free webinar series, developed by the Faculty for Tomorrow Task Force, provides fundamental knowledge and skills that new faculty and residents as educators need to thrive in a career in academic family medicine.

The Faculty for Tomorrow Webinar Series, which was developed by the Faculty for Tomorrow Task Force, provides fundamental knowledge and skills for new faculty and residents as educators to thrive in a career in academic family medicine. The 10-part webinar series began in 2016 and concluded in 2018.

Faculty for Tomorrow Webinar Recordings

Webinar 1: What Is Academic Family Medicine?
Webinar 2: Structure and Funding of Residency Programs
Webinar 3: Professional Identity and Boundaries
Webinar 4: Optimizing Learning: Styles and Strategies
Webinar 5: Essential Presentation Skills
Webinar 6: Effective Clinical Teaching
Webinar 7: Giving Feedback and Making It Stick
Webinar 8: How to Get Started Producing Scholarly Work
Webinar 9: Using the Brain Rules to Blow Up Your Lectures
Webinar 10: How to Give an Awesome Grand Rounds Presentation

Webinar 1: What Is Academic Family Medicine?

April 12, 2016

Panelists: Natasha Bhuyan, MD; Rob Freelove, MD; Annie Rutter, MD, MS

In this webinar, participants were able to ask current faculty questions and discuss career opportunities in academic family medicine. The 60-minute webinar provides vital tips on how to choose a focus and find a good career fit.

Webinar 2: Structure and Funding of Residency Programs

June 14, 2016

Panelists: Wendy Biggs, MD; Tom Miller, MD

In this webinar, residents and new faculty can learn about the structures and roles within family medicine residency programs and leave with an understanding of how funding affects a residency program as a whole as well as an individual faculty member.

Some of the topics covered include:

  • Basic financial skills that new faculty need
  • Common funding sources for residency programs and common major expense
  • How understanding residency program finances can help you advance your career

Webinar 3: Professional Identity and Boundaries

October 4, 2016

Panelists: Timothy Daaleman, DO, MPH; Sarah Marks, MD; Randall Reitz, PhD

In this webinar, residents and new faculty can learn how to balance multiple roles in professional and social spheres, navigate conflicts in practice, and avoid common pitfalls during a transition into a faculty role.

Some of the topics covered include: 

  • The unique professional identity of academic medical faculty
  • Roles as a supervisor and mentor
  • The balancing of personal and professional responsibilities

Webinar 4: Optimizing Learning: Styles and Strategies

December 9, 2016

Panelists: Julie G. Nyquist, PhD; Jeffrey Ring, PhD

In this webinar, our panelists offer expert tips on optimizing learning in medical school students and residents to an audience of faculty and residents as educators. Topics covered include how to:

  • Utilize principles of learning to promote learning
  • Identify barriers to learning
  • Cultivate a growth mindset in learners

Webinar 5: Essential Presentation Skills

March 8, 2017

Panelist: Jennifer Middleton, MD

In this webinar for faculty and residents as educators, Jennifer Middleton, MD, offers expert tips on creating engaging didactic presentations for effective medical education. Topics covered include how to: 

  • Design presentation content for maximum visual impact
  • Develop effective presentation delivery skills 
  • Align content with objectives and appropriate instructional strategies

 

Webinar 6: Effective Clinical Teaching

June 13, 2017

Panelists: Tracy A. Rydel, MD and Kenya Sekoni, MD

In this webinar for faculty and residents as educators, panelists Tracy A. Rydel, MD, and Kenya Sekoni, MD, offer expert tips on clinical teaching skills for effective medical education. Topics covered include how to: 

  • Teach effectively in the presence of patients
  • Provide a supportive clinical learning environment
  • Evaluate learners using direct observation methods

HANDOUTS
Download Effective Clinical Teaching Skills Resources (DOC)

Webinar 7: Giving Feedback and Making It Stick

October 6, 2017

Panelists: Cathleen Morrow, MD, and Roshini Pinto-Powell, MD

In this 1-hour webinar for residents, faculty, and educators, our panelists Cathleen Morrow, MD, and Roshini Pinto-Powell, MD, FACP, explain how to provide specific, constructive, and meaningful feedback to learners. Learn how to: 

  • Identify the qualities of effective feedback
  • Use effective structures or models for giving feedback
  • Engage learners in collaborative feedback 

HANDOUTS

Download Webinar Feedback Scenarios (DOC)

Webinar 8: How to Get Started Producing Scholarly Work

December 12, 2017

Panelists: Christopher Morley, PhD and Col. Dean Seehusen, MD, MPH

This interactive 1-hour webinar, "How to Get Started Producing Scholarly Work," was presented by panelists Christopher Morley, PhD, and Col. Dean Seehusen, MD, MPH. 

Learn how to:

  • Identify the four categories of scholarship defined in Boyer's Model
  • Evaluate a scholarly idea or hypothesis before developing a project
  • Gather resources for completing and disseminating scholarly work

This webinar recording is no longer available.

Webinar 9: Using the Brain Rules to Blow Up Your Lectures

April 13, 2018 | Presenter: Michael Tuggy, MD

Move beyond traditional didactic teaching. Employ strategies to keep your learners engaged and motivate them to retain and apply what they’ve learned. This presentation, based on John Medina’s book Brain Rules, identifies shortcomings of traditional teaching methods and offers alternative models for enhanced memory retention and improved understanding of core concepts. 

 

Webinar 10: How to Give an Awesome Grand Rounds Presentation

October 4, 2018

Presenter: Randi Sokol, MD, MPH, MMedEd 

This webinar covers some simple yet important tools and approaches for delivering a robust, useful, and engaging Grand Rounds.  

Learn how to: 

  • Use Gagné’s 9 Events of Instruction as an organizing framework for your Grand Rounds presentation
  • Create a focused Grand Rounds presentation with a few clear and succinct learning objectives that meet learners' needs
  • Implement various techniques for creating interactive learning sessions that play to the different ways people learn

HANDOUTS

Download Presentation Checklist (Doc)

Watch More STFM Webinars

Want to watch more webinars hosted by STFM? We have webinars not all specific to one topic and covering academic family medicine as a whole. There are also other topic-specific webinar series available to view.

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