Navigating Career Uncertainty and Maintaining Purpose

Today’s episode of the Faculty Factory is a “Best of” show that includes highlights from past interviews of our show about navigating tough conversations and difficult issues. While these snippets may prove most helpful to those in academic medicine, the takeaways can really be applied to any workplace environment. A few weeks ago we released the first part in this series, and you can catch up on it here:

• Episode 201 - Best of the Faculty Factory, Part 1: Difficult Conversations

Today’s “Best of” show includes highlights from the following episodes:

• Episode 79 – Managing Difficult Issues with Charles G. Irvin, Ph.D., DE, ATSF, FERS (Faculty Factory Snippet No. 29)
• Episode 75 – How to Handle Conflict with Dave Yousem, MD, MBA (Faculty Factory Snippet No. 25)
• Episode 72 – The Art of Navigating a Difficult Conversation with Dave Yousem, MD, MBA (Faculty Factory Snippet No. 22)
• Episode 46 – Prioritizing and the Art of Saying No with Jennifer Haythornthwaite, PhD (Faculty Factory Snippet No. 1)

Interested in hearing the full conversations from any of these episodes? Click on the links above to explore each episode in-depth.

Are you finding these "clip shows" useful? We would love to know if you are (or are not) finding these highlights and "best of" shows useful. Please contact us here or email us at FacultyFactoryKim@gmail.com and let us know.

Jennifer Haythornthwaite, PhD, has joined the Faculty Factory for memorable episodes over the years with important feedback for our audience when it comes to time management and much more. Dr. Haythornthwaite is a professor in the department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md.

Charles G. Irvin, PhD, DE, ATSF, FERS, was the first ever guest on the Faculty Factory Podcast in a recording that dates back nearly four years ago. Dr. Irvin is a Professor of Medicine, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Vice Chairman for Research Department of Medicine and Director of the Vermont Lung Center at the University of Vermont. He was named Associate Dean for Faculty for the College of Medicine in 2012.

Dave Yousem, MD, MBA, is a frequent contributor to the Faculty Factory Podcast. He serves as Associate Dean for Professional Development at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He is also the Vice Chairman of Program Development at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institution.