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This series of conversations will include lunch and discussion and
is open to all faculty, residents, fellows, and staff.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
It's All Too Much: Coping with Change-Discussion over Lunch (1.5 CME credits)
12:00 noon-1:30 p.m.
G1/G2, JHCC
Facilitated by David B. Waters, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine.
Academic medical centers are rife with changes and new demands: 80-hour work week pressures, declining research grant funding, changing expectations among medical student and patient populations, increasing administrative requirements, etc. all add stress and strain to already harried physicians and researchers. This session will focus on strategies to deal with an ever-changing environment. This session will also provide a framework for communication with colleagues and patients and their families in similar circumstances.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Having Your Cake and Eating It Too: Life Planning for Early- and Mid-Career-Discussion and Lunch (1.5 CME credits)
12:00 noon-1:30 p.m.
G1/G2, JHCC
Facilitated by David B. Waters, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine.
This session will focus on the importance of planning in the early- to mid-phases of academic careers. Discussion will include considerations about tenure, time management, juggling home and work, finding balance, etc. and how our values can help clarify our choices. The session will also provide a framework for communication with patients and their families faced with similar issues.
Tuesday. November 11, 2008
No One Told Me It Would Be This Hard: Parenting and the Challenges of Child Care-Discussion over Lunch (1.5 CME credits)
12:00 noon-1:30 p.m.
G1/G2, JHCC
Facilitated by David B. Waters, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine.
What happens when the babysitter doesn't show up before work? Come learn about your colleagues' strategies and what the University and Health System are doing about expanding child care possibilities. This session also provides a framework for communication with colleagues and patients and their families in similar circumstances.
Tuesday. December 16, 2008
Doing the Two-Step: Dual Career Families-Discussion and Lunch (1.5 CME credits)
12:00 noon-1:30 p.m.
G1/G2, JHCC
Facilitated by David B. Waters, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine.
The dynamic of dual careers poses interesting and sometimes challenging situations for couples. This discussion will focus on strategies for creative partnerships and communication for successful relationships. These discussions will provide a framework not only for personal development but can also serve as a framework for communication with patients and families in similar situations.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
The Doctor Is In: Coping with Illness in the Family-Discussion over Lunch
(1.5 CME credits)
12:00 noon-1:30 p.m.
G1/G2, JHCC
Facilitated by David B. Waters, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine.
Illness in the family causes great stress, whether it's your own illness or that of a family member. This session will focus on strategies others have adopted to help deal with that stress and what resources are available to help support faculty/staff through such difficult times. This session also provides a framework for communication with colleagues and patients and their families in similar circumstances.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Be Careful What You Wish For: Taking on New Responsibilities-Discussion over Lunch
(1.5 CME credits)
12:00 noon-1:30 p.m.
G1/G2, JHCC
Facilitated by David B. Waters, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine.
As our careers advance, we look forward to taking on new, more challenging responsibilities. But there's never enough time to do it all in academic medicine. How do you determine:
1. which to take on
2. which to decline and how to do it gracefully
3. what to give up and how to negotiate to maintain your balance. This session also provides a framework for communication with colleagues and patients and their families in similar circumstances.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Make Way for the Future: Life Planning for Late Career-Discussion and Lunch (1.5 CME credits)
12:00 noon-1:30 p.m.
G1/G2, JHCC
Facilitated by David B. Waters, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine.
This session will focus on the importance of planning for the later stages of academic careers and will focus on planning for retirement, choices about where and how you want to live, what you are retiring to, how to practice what you will do in advance of retirement, and how these choices are interlinked with your values.The session also provides a framework for communication with patients and their families in similar circumstances.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
What's Your Work Style?: Generational Differences in the Work Place-Discussion over Lunch
(1.5 CME credits)
12:00 noon-1:30 p.m.
G1/G2, JHCC
Facilitated by David B. Waters, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine.
Like all big systems, academic medicine is learning to embrace the best of the sometimes seemingly incompatible values, styles, and choices of different generations of workers. Come learn from your colleagues how they are integrating these changes into their daily routines. The session will also provide a framework for communication with colleagues and patients and their families faced with similar circumstances.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Caught in the Middle: Parenting Up & Down-Discussion and Lunch (1.5 CME credits)
12:00 noon-1:30 p.m.
G1/G2, JHCC
Facilitated by David B. Waters, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine.
Sometimes referred to as "The Sandwich Generation," many in the workforce are balancing the challenges of parenting their children while also providing care for aging parents or other family members. The discussion will highlight common themes and frustrations and how they affect professional practice and development. The session will also focus on the implications for effective communication with patients and families in similar circumstances.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Vive la Difference! The Changing Face of Medicine-Discussion and Lunch (1.5 CME credits)
12:00 noon-1:30 p.m.
G1/G2, JHCC
Facilitated by David B. Waters, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine.
This session will focus on cultural diversity in academic medicine, how it impacts how we train the next generation of physicians and researchers, how we meet the demands of a changing patient population and respond sensitively to cultural differences, needs, and expectations. The session will also focus on the implications for effective communication with patients and families in similar circumstances.
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