3rd Pre-Faculty Career Development Conference Program
PREFAC Conf Oct 13-14 2023 (Rev Aug 13)
In-Person and Virtual Participation Available
Schedule (Day 1 ONLY Virtual)
Friday October 13, 2023
Time (EST) Session
8:30 – 9:00am Breakfast
9:00 – 9:30am Welcome
9:30 – 10:30am
Review and Update of the National Center for Pre-Faculty Development
Brutus N (a), Sánchez JP (a)
- List successes of the Center from 2020-present;
- Explain upcoming activities and innovations;
- Discuss expansion opportunities.
10:30 –11:15am
Review and Update of the Pre-Faculty Competencies and Milestones Project
Lee R (a), Dickerman J (a), Lucas R (a)
- Review the Pre-Faculty Competencies and Milestones project;
- Share early findings from the project;
- List next steps of the initiative.
11:30-12:30pm (2 Concurrent Sessions)
Session A. Luthria K., Kim D., A.B, Yuan D., B.A. – Deconstructing the Asian Monolith: A Topic Review of the Asian Diaspora in US Healthcare
Session B. Wang M., Zoumpou T., McManus C. – Communication With Cultural Humility in Surgical Care
12:30pm – 1:15pm Lunch
1:30 – 2:30pm
Addressing Tokenism
Yu G (a), Brewster C (a)
- Define tokenism;
- Explain consequences of tokenism to individual and institution;
- List strategies to avoid tokenism
2:45 – 3:45pm (2 Concurrent Sessions)
Session A Ogarro M., A Narrative Medicine Approach to Senior Medical Student Implicit Bias Training Medicine
Session B. Roca B., Mill E. – Opportunity for racial and ethnic diversity in Adult Gastroenterology Fellowship Pipeline
4:00 – 5:00pm
Advisor-Advisee Plenary – Defining and enhancing the role and responsibilities of chapter advisors and student leaders
Rodriguez D, Brutus N (a), Sanchez JP (a)
- Compare and contrast student leader and advisor roles across organizations;
- Most common challenges faced within respective roles;
- Explain approaches to addressing challenges.
October 14, 2023 – Day 2 (IN PERSON AND VIRTUAL)
Time (EST) Session
9:00 – 9:45am Breakfast
9:45 – 10:45am (2 Concurrent Sessions)
Session A – Poster Presentations
- Peraza C., Ogarro M. – Dissecting Diversity Trends Amongst General Surgery Residents
Session B Workshop
Cervantes J. – The problems and prospects of Artificial Intelligence for Today’s Medical Education
11:00 – 12:00pm (3 concurrent sessions)
Maximizing the relationship between chapter advisor and chapter student leaders/advisees to achieve organizational and professional goals
Sanchez JP (a), Galvis A, Trevino R (a)
- Understand how to assess the personal and professional goals of student leaders and advisors;
- Discuss an approach to align goals of advisors and student leaders;
- Learn strategies to align advisor/student goals with organizational goals
Balancing roles – “chapter advisor and faculty/staff member” or “student and chapter leader”
Osborne N, Deen J (a)
- List challenges to balancing dual roles – advisor and faculty member or student and chapter leader;
- List best practices to balancing dual roles;
- Apply best practices to common scenarios.
A Peek Behind the Curtain: Navigating Academic Medicine Offices to Enhance Your
Organization’s Influence on Diversity Education & Initiatives
Fowler J, Ally S (a), Sanchez JP (a)
- Describe the structure of student oversight at a medical school;
- Explain how chapter advisors support and enhance student oversight;
- Describe best strategies to coordinating student oversight between chapter advisors and student affairs.
12:00 – 1:00pm (2 concurrent sessions)
Harnessing institutional support for chapter goals and activities
Spencer D (a), Lucio F (a)
- Outline chapter goals and activities;
- Describe common forms of institutional support for chapters;
- List best strategies to maximizing allocation of resources from institutions
Managing microaggressions/discrimination/harassment by chapter advisee/leader and advisor
Deen J (a)
- Define microaggressions, discrimination and harassment;
- Discuss how these may occur between a chapter advisor and student leader;
- Discuss strategies to prevent and document microaggressions, harassment and discrimination
1:15pm – 2:15pm LUNCH and LEARN ABOUT PROGRAMS and PREFAC Networking (Kagetsu)
2:15pm – 3:00pm Keynote Presentation – Mekbib Gemeda EdD, Eastern Virginia Medical School |Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion
3:00 – 3:45pm PREFAC Awards and Pin Ceremony
3:45 – 4:00pm Closing Comments
Topics of Particular Interest In Relation to the Role and Relationship of Chapter Advisor and Advisee
- Defining and enhancing the role and responsibilities of chapter advisors and student leaders
- Maximizing the relationship between chapter advisor and chapter student leaders/advisees to achieve organizational goals and common professional goals
- Achieving management and leadership skills through advisor/advisee role that are foundational for continued success
- Transforming experiences and achievements to diversity capital and avoiding minority taxation
- Addressing Tokenism
- Balancing roles – “chapter advisor and faculty/staff member” or “student and chapter leader”
- Managing critical conversations between chapter advisee/leader and advisor
- Providing feedback to chapter advisee/leader and advisor
- Harnessing institutional support for chapter goals and activities
- Balancing student oversight between chapter advisor and student affairs, medical education, GME
- Managing microaggressions/discrimination/harassment by chapter advisee/leader and advisor
Suggested Topics
- Perceptions, knowledge, attitudes of college students, post-bacc, and graduate students towards academic careers
- Educating college advisors and family members about the value and benefits of pursuing academic careers
- Pathway/pipeline/scholarly concentration programs to promote academic career exploration
- Activities/best practices to promote underrepresented groups (e.g. women, racial and ethnic minorities, LGBT) exploration of academic careers
- Activities/best practices to promote trainees’ engagement in research work (e.g. biomedical, clinical, community-based) and completion of research scholarship
- Activities/best practices to promote trainees’ engagement in educational work and completion of educational scholarship
- Activities/best practices to promote trainees’ engagement in service work and completion of service scholarship
- Role modeling and mentoring as it relates to academic career exploration
- Institutional efforts and/or best practices to promote trainees’ awareness of, interest in, and preparedness for academic careers
- Considerations in selecting first academic position
- Financing an academic career
- Building a foundation for a future clinician-educator, clinician-researcher, professional practice/clinical track or another track
- Building a foundation for a future career as a senior academic leader (e.g. Center Director, Chair, Dean)
- Best practices to publishing your work