Multitasking for the Neurology Leader: Keeping All the Balls in the Air & Lessons Learned
AUPN's Leadership Minute
Leaders often have to complete multiple tasks in a short period of time. This episode provides strategies and tips to improve your multitasking skills while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
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What is Brain Health & Why You Should Care About It!
AUPN's Leadership Minute
The notion of brain health draws attention to the burden of brain disease; the fact that nearly half of brain disease is preventable; and that brain health can be improved through healthy diet, exercise and control of blood pressure, among other measures. Research opportunities in brain health are growing, including from the American Heart Association.
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How to Support Education and Research
AUPN's Leadership Minute
This podcast will provide suggestions that may help departments support education and research. The ability to fund these activities varies and is institutional specific. Examples of funding sources will be discussed.
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Securing Your Future: How to Negotiate a Start-Up Package as a New Chair
AUPN's Leadership Minute
Explore the critical steps to securing a chair position and negotiating your ideal package. From conducting thorough research to knowing your bottom line, this episode equips you with the tools to advance your career confidently.
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Simulation in Neurology Education
AUPN's Leadership Minute
Simulation-based medical education holds deep roots in clinical neurology. In this Leadership Minute, Dr. Nicholas Morris details the history of simulation in neurology, describes the current state including barriers, and presents a vision for the future.
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So, you want to be a Chair? Pros, Con, Joys and Tribulations
AUPN's Leadership Minute
Being a Neurology department chair can be a wonderful experience, but is also filled with challenges, obstacles and struggles. This podcast will explore the pros, cons, joys and tribulations of being a chair, hopefully setting new or prospective chairs up for success.
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Getting along with other Chairs
AUPN's Leadership Minute
In this leadership minute, we discuss the importance of, and strategies for, getting along with other chairs, including neurology chairs nationally and chairs from other specialties at your own institution. Advantages of this teamwork approach are detailed, focusing on benefits to your leadership and your department.
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Financial Planning & Budgeting - Best Practices
AUPN's Leadership Minute
This session will delve into essential strategies for crafting a robust budget, tailored to the unique needs and constraints of various departments. Specific examples will be explored to demonstrate how different departments can optimize their financial planning. Regardless of department size, practical knowledge will be provided to refine the budgeting process and drive financial success within any team.
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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.
info_outlineThere 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.