Description: This 60-minute presentation, followed by a 30-minute Q&A, is a great introduction to the Associate Professor promotion process for faculty members at the rank of Assistant Professor contemplating or preparing for promotion. Topics include selecting an Area of Excellence and Significant Supporting Activities, evaluation criteria, and requirements for the dossier. We encourage attendees to review relevant sections of the Faculty of Medicine handbook and/or Promotion Profile Library before arriving to better facilitate engagement and allow more time to ask questions. Sessions are not recorded, please plan accordingly.

Intended Audience:

• Current HMS/HSDM faculty at the Assistant Professor rank

• Administrative professionals who assist in preparing faculty promotions

To register, please click here.

Goal: The goal of this webinar is to introduce participants to approaches to mitigate cognitive bias in clinical evaluation and grading while having them reflect on their own evaluation and grading practices.

Description: At this webinar participants will have an opportunity to reflect on their experiences evaluating and grading clinical trainees and appraise the influence of cognitive bias in evaluating and grading trainees. Participants will also be introduced to interventions intended to mitigate cognitive bias in evaluation and grading.

Objectives: By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
• Define cognitive biases.
• Complete short in-session exercises exemplifying at least 3 cognitive biases.
• Identify the potential impact of cognitive biases on clinical grading.
• Name 3 interventions that could mitigate the impact of cognitive bias on grading.

Access via Zoom: Presenter, Deborah Erlich, MD, MMedEd, FAAFP

This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits TM

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Description: This 60-minute presentation, followed by a 30-minute Q&A, provides an overview of the Assistant Professor promotion process for faculty members at the rank of Instructor. Topics include selecting an Area of Excellence and Significant Supporting Activities, evaluation criteria, requirements for the dossier, and the Longer Service pathway. We encourage attendees to review relevant sections of the Faculty of Medicine handbook and/or Promotion Profile Library before arriving to better facilitate engagement and allow more time to ask questions. Sessions are not recorded, please plan accordingly.

Intended Audience:

• Current HMS/HSDM faculty at the Instructor rank

• Administrative professionals who assist in preparing faculty promotions

To register, please click here.

Goal: The goal of this webinar is to have participants reflect in the changing landscape of academic medicine and identify leadership roles that are needed as a result of these changes.

Description: This webinar will describe the changing landscape of academic medicine and the evolving and new leadership roles that are a result of the evolution.

Objectives: By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
• Identify 3 new leadership roles in academic medicine.
• Identify 2 areas for expansion and change in academic medicine.
• Describe the skills and experiences needed for these new leadership roles.

Access via Zoom: Presenter, Linda Chaudron, MD, MS

This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits TM

Description: This 90-minute presentation, followed by a 30-minute Q&A, highlights some of the best practices for anyone maintaining a Faculty of Medicine CV. Participants will better appreciate how to use the standardized format to their advantage. The session covers the narrative as well as common questions about how to list various activities and achievements. We strongly encourage attendees to review our online resource guidelines before arriving to better facilitate engagement and allow more time to ask questions. Sessions are not recorded, please plan accordingly.

Intended Audience:

• Current HMS/HSDM faculty at the Instructor, Assistant, Associate and Full Professor ranks

• Trainees who have been officially proposed for appointment to the HMS/HSDM faculty

• Administrative professionals who assist in preparing faculty CVs

Please note that this CV format is unique to the Harvard Faculty of Medicine and may not be ideal for trainees or for applications for positions outside of the Harvard Faculty of Medicine.

To register, please click here.

The Harvard Medical School Daniel D. Federman Teaching Awards Ceremony includes the the Sandra and Arnold Gold Award for Humanistic Teaching which is presented annually to an inspirational Harvard Medical School (HMS) faculty educator at Cambridge Health Alliance who models compassion, integrity, respect and service in teaching HMS students, residents, fellows or peers. The award was established in 2019 in honor of Drs. Sandra and Arnold Gold and their remarkable decades-long contributions to humanistic medical education nationally and locally. 

Goal: The goal of this webinar is to introduce participants to approaches to mitigate cognitive bias in clinical evaluation and grading while having them reflect on their own evaluation and grading practices.

Description: Clinical responsibilities often seem in direct conflict with learner education. This presentation will review three common challenges to clinical education and actionable solutions to these problems.

Objectives: By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
• Identify specific barriers to providing high quality clinical education.
• Choose 2 specific teaching techniques that may improve the efficiency of teaching in the clinical setting.
• Create a plan for improving teaching efficiency that includes at least two specific teaching techniques.

Access via Zoom: Presenter, Jason Hine, MD

This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM

Goal: The goal of this webinar is to help health sciences educators support student’s evolution from novice to expert learners while fostering the activation and integration of knowledge.

Description: This webinar explores the science of learning and discusses how key principles from this important discipline can help medical educators support students’ evolution from novice to expert learners. In particular, the difference between novice and expert learners will be explored and the importance of the development of robust mental schemas will be presented. Finally, the webinar will discuss pedagogical strategies that can help students activate their prior knowledge and then integrate new knowledge into mental schemas.

Objectives: By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Differentiate between novice and expert learners.
• Identify the relationship between mental schemas and clinical reasoning.
• Assess the importance of activating prior knowledge in the classroom and clinical settings.
• Describe pedagogical strategies that facilitate the activation of prior knowledge and the integration of new knowledge into mental schemas.
• Formulate how insights from the science of learning can be utilized by faculty to improve pedagogical practices and develop students’ clinical reasoning skills.

Access via Zoom: Presenter, Michael Minutello, Ph.D.

This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM

Description: This 60-minute presentation, followed by a 30-minute Q&A, provides an overview of the Assistant Professor promotion process for faculty members at the rank of Instructor. Topics include selecting an Area of Excellence and Significant Supporting Activities, evaluation criteria, requirements for the dossier, and the Longer Service pathway. We encourage attendees to review relevant sections of the Faculty of Medicine handbook and/or Promotion Profile Library before arriving to better facilitate engagement and allow more time to ask questions. Sessions are not recorded, please plan accordingly.

Intended Audience:

• Current HMS/HSDM faculty at the Instructor rank

• Administrative professionals who assist in preparing faculty promotion

To register, please click here.

This year’s CHA Academic Council Award Ceremony & Reception will be held September 17th from 6:00-7:30pm at the Cambridge Hospital Campus (2nd Floor Atrium, Healy building). Refreshments will be served.

We hope you will join us in celebrating our honorees:

• Arundhati Ghosh, MD, FACS - Department of Surgery

• Jessica Santos, PhD - Leah Zallman Center for Immigrant Health Research

• Bonni Stahl, MD - Department of Medicine

We will also be honoring those who have been promoted to associate and full professor.