Social Media for Chairs: How to promote your dept on social media - Drs. Das & Willis (10/9/2021)
Release Date: 10/11/2021
How to fund the education mission with limited GME office support
AUPN's Leadership Minute
Graduate Medical Education (GME) funding often falls short of what is essential and/or optimal in neurology education, affecting trainees, program leadership and educators. This podcast will explore approaches to “stopping the squeeze”, allowing us to continue to enhance educational efforts, support our next wave of neurologists and clinical neuroscientists, and mitigate burnout and dropout.
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VA Neurology Research Opportunities
AUPN's Leadership Minute
The VA provides a wide range of research opportunities including basic sciences, clinical trials, epidemiology, and health services research. Unique to VA research are VA-specific funding mechanisms, centralized research infrastructures, the Million Veteran Program, the largest national clinical database, and others.
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VA Opportunities for Career Development
AUPN's Leadership Minute
This podcast explores ways in which the Veterans Health Administration, or VA, offers excellent opportunities for career development and advancement.
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Improving access to neurology care
AUPN's Leadership Minute
Access to care for patients with neurological disorders is extremely limited. What can academic departments do to improve access to care for neurology patients? This leadership minute discuss ways to address the neurology access problem through: Inspiration Incentivization Innovation
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What to do when you have too much to do?
AUPN's Leadership Minute
The potential amount of obligations for any leader in an organization is infinite. There is no perfect method for how to “protect” yourself to be able to do the best job possible in all things required of you. Key points: prioritize by: What is strategically important for your role? What is important to you personally? What is important to success of your team and cannot be delegated? Important take-away: Be honest to yourself and others.
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Funding Resident & Fellow Positions
AUPN's Leadership Minute
This leadership minute will provide an overview of how the U.S. Graduate Medical Education funding model works, including discussion of possible mechanisms to increase funding lines in your program.
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Supporting K Awardees
AUPN's Leadership Minute
K Awardees are in an exciting and pivotal period in their careers, building technical, communication, and mentoring skills to lead their own research teams. This period is also one of great vulnerability, with competing demands in their lives as scientists, clinicians, and teachers, as well as in their personal lives. The support of departmental leaders and faculty mentors is absolutely critical in helping K awardees navigate these potential barriers to develop their own creative and high-impact research program.
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Visa Issues for Faculty
AUPN's Leadership Minute
There is a significant shortage of neurologists in the United States. Much of the potential neurology workforce is non-US international medical graduates who have limitations based on the rules of the J-1 visa program. Understanding how to use the waiver system can be beneficial in improving recruitment of neurologists.
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International Physicians in Neurology
AUPN's Leadership Minute
As leaders in neurology, it is vital for our health care system to recruit and to retain and diverse workforce. Institutional advocacy for international medical graduates (IMGs) can improve retention efforts for a department both for patient care as well as for growth into global and diversified research networks. In this episode, we will discuss the pathway for an IMG to train and work in the US and some of the issues that it is important to know about to help promote the career success and satisfaction of international physicians.
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Faculty Retention
AUPN's Leadership Minute
While faculty recruitment is always an important job for department leadership, retaining high-performing faculty may have a greater impact over time. This Leadership Minute discusses some strategies to optimize faculty retention in an increasing competitive environment for neurologists.
info_outlineNumerous social media platforms are available to enable communication and engagement outside your department. A social media presence, if done well, is an invaluable tool for recruiting, education, networking, and enhancing visibility of the faculty and program’s accomplishments. A social media strategy must be intentional and dynamic. S1, E15