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

  1. 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