What pathways can we forge to address gender leadership and pay disparities in pediatric leadership?
Dr. Valerie Opipari brings together an esteemed group of female leaders to discuss solutions, experiences and predictions for the future in this special episode of Pediatric Insight.
Listen to hear how they’re challenging inequities and charting a new path forward for the next generation of female leaders.
Joining the Child Health Advisory Council as a special guest, Dr. Rivara shares four strategies that support a new vision for a high-quality pediatric workforce.
This special Pediatric Insight episode is filled with excellent data, workforce solutions and an informative Q&A you don’t want to miss. CareerPhysician and the Child Health Advisory Council would like to thank AMSPDC for leading and bringing the workforce issue to the forefront.
Colleagues and faculty members who are outliers can be positively disruptive because they bring innovation. On the other side of the spectrum, some outliers aren’t serving your department well, due to poor behavior or performance.
A real challenge for leaders is identifying these outliers and either supporting them through guidance and course correction or finding a new career path.
In the latest Pediatric Insight conversation, pediatric leaders tackle this topic head-on, sharing their experiences.
Moderated by Robert Sawin, MD, Pediatric Surgeon, Emeritus Professor and Surgeon in Chief at Seattle Children’s Hospital and the University of Washington, topics discussed include:
Knowing when an outlier is a catalyst or a problem
Building objective measures to assess faculty performance
Using evaluations and feedback systems to guide course correction
Distinguishing between system issues and individual behavior
Colleagues and faculty members who are outliers can be positively disruptive because they bring innovation. On the other side of the spectrum, some outliers aren’t serving your department well, due to poor behavior or performance.
A real challenge for leaders is identifying these outliers and either supporting them through guidance and course correction or finding a new career path.
In the latest Pediatric Insight conversation, pediatric leaders tackle this topic head-on, sharing their experiences.
What should a candidate think about when looking for a position when there is an interim chair?
Data shows interim chair appointments are growing. Transitions can be tough and interim leadership presents its own set of challenges when filling open positions.
In this latest Pediatric Insight conversation, the Child Health Advisory Council (CHAC) members talk about setting expectations with candidates, effectively defining the culture and broadening the interview pool to get a sense for the entire department during the recruitment process.
Hear more, including answers to the tough questions candidates may have during a time of transitional leadership, in this latest conversation.
Inspiring the Next Generation of Academic Pediatricians: We All Play a Role in the Solution
Workforce shortages are real and solutions addressing the causes are years in the making.
In this critical conversation by the Child Health Advisory Council (CHAC), members discuss:
– the obvious and obscure issues impacting student and resident decisions
– sharper declines in MD vs DO students
– Foreign Medical Graduate subspecialty decisions
At the end of this conversation, you’ll have strategies and best practices to incorporate into student and trainee experiences to help mitigate some of the issues impacting shortages.
A critical conversation by the Child Health Advisory Council, work force shortages are real and solutions that impact the causes and enable programmatic solutions are years in the making. The obvious and obscure issues impacting student and resident decisions, sharper declines in MD student vs DO and FMG graduate subspecialty decisions, and strategies and best practices for leaders to incorporate into their student and trainee experiences are all address in this Insight.
How should you adapt your communication style to fit your team?
Successful communication is about listening, being open and maintaining confidentiality, according to Dr. Arnie Strauss.
Listen to the Child Health Advisory Council members discuss their experiences and learn how to build trust with your teams using the communication tactics that matter most.
Time can’t be managed, we can only manage ourselves, according to Dr. Bruder Stapleton, the moderator of the latest Pediatric Insight discussion, “Time Management: Using Your Work Time Efficiently.”
Everyone is too busy and burnout is often a result of too much to do and not enough time to tackle it all. Hear from the Child Health Advisory Council (CHAC) about how they managed time in each of their healthcare settings, where crises are the norm. Learn from their successes and mistakes along the way.
They talk about how to own your day, prioritizing projects, creating a productive work environment, the art of delegating and ensuring you take the time to look ahead too.
Leaders are increasingly stressed by the amount of work and responsibilities. Time management and the need to develop work-life balance are a common challenge. Today’s conversation, by a group of experienced leaders, reflects on how they utilized time to maximize efficiency. The discussion highlights that one can’t managetime; we can only manage how we usethe 24 hours in a day that is available to us. The importance of developing a strong leadership team and learning to delegate decisions were highlighted. The leaders emphasized the importance of owning your day and prioritizing the most important tasks required for successfully leading and for meeting one’s personal goals. Areas that usurp time include: the volume of emails, interruptions, meetings, emergencies and social media. Practical approaches that were developed during their careers were discussed.
Host: Wesley Millican, MBA
Moderator: F. Bruder Stapleton, MD
Council in attendance: Arnold Strauss, MD; Robert Sawin, MD; Danielle Laraque-Arena, MD; Craig Hillemeier, MD
