Faculty Factory

It has been nearly three years since we last heard from our friend Neda Gould, PhD, on the Faculty Factory Podcast. When she last joined us, it was a downright scary and uncertain time. It was March 2020, and the COVID-19 pandemic was just starting to sweep across our nation and globe. This week she joins our show so we can catch up with her and learn about more helpful self-care tools, tips, and wisdom in another very memorable episode of our podcast with Dr. Gould. In March 2020, Dr. Gould joined the Faculty Factory Podcast (remotely, of course) and delivered two very memorable episodes to help our community cope with the emerging anxiety of the time. Learn More: https://facultyfactory.org/neda-gould 

Joining us this week for his second ever appearance on the Faculty Factory Podcast is Daniel Barnett, MD, MPH. Dr. Barnett is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Health & Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. He first joined our program earlier this year for a spirited discussion about preparedness, resiliency, and the wisdom he has gained throughout his career in academic medicine and research. You can revisit that episode here: https://facultyfactory.org/daniel-barnett/. “We need to be more rigorously focused on tools and approaches that are peer reviewed on best practices for self-care for health care providers,” he told us. Dr. Bartnett brings us consistently strong insight throughout today’s discussion on workforce wellness and self-care. “I truly believe that everyone in healthcare and frontline response needs to – and can benefit from – getting trained in psychological first aid,” he added.

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. 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. You can also visit our website to learn more: https://facultyfactory.org/ 

When it comes to online learning and spreading education through video, smart phone tools, and social media, our guest this week on the Faculty Factory simply gets it. Peggy Semingson, PhD, is a wealth of information when it comes to these modern developments in education. We are excited to have her join our program this week to share what she has learned with our community. Dr. Semingson currently serves as Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington. With a background in educational technology, online course development, adult education, curriculum development, and online course design, she is on the cutting edge of the future of online learning. Learn More: https://facultyfactory.org/peggy-semingson/ 

Visiting the Faculty Factory podcast this week is our friend Rachel Salas, MD, MEd. Dr. Salas has plenty of pearls of wisdom for us when it comes to coaching, strength-based approaches for growth, and mentorship. “I am on the coaching bandwagon and I think it's much needed in academia, not just for faculty, but for residents, fellows, nursing students, medical students, everything,” she said. Dr. Salas is Assistant Medical Director with Johns Hopkins Center for Sleep and Wellness and serves as Professor of Neurology with Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore. Today’s chat is a reunion episode where we visit with past guests and friends of the Faculty Factory community. You may remember Dr. Salas from her first appearance with us here on the Faculty Factory. She last joined us in October 2020 for Faculty Factory Podcast No. 92. The interview was called The Practical Use of Strength-Based Psychology and you can check it out here. “Next week I'll be a different person because I'm constantly thinking about who I am, how can I be better, and I'm really in a growth mindset,” she said. Learn More You can reach Dr. Salas here: rsalas3@jhmi.edu Find Dr. Salas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RachelSalasMD More on Faculty Factory Coaching: https://facultyfactory.org/coaching/  Visit us on the Faculty Factory website: https://facultyfactory.org/ Visit the Faculty Factory on Twitter: https://twitter.com/faculty_factory

Making her first ever visit to the Faculty Factory Podcast this week is Penny S. Edwards, MS, BS. Penny currently serves as Faculty Development Program Manager in the Office of Faculty Development at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Greenville. As the title of today’s episode implies, there are plenty of great nuggets on relationship building and utilizing transferable skills to attain professional growth in this interview. “To do the things that you are passionate about and to be promoted, sometimes you have to leave the institution you're at,” Penny told us. Change is a major theme of today’s show. As we learn, there might be many different skills you have earned over the years that are transferable to a new position you have your eye on. Through listening to Penny’s story, we get some great examples of this in today’s chat. “I think sometimes we need to take a step and understand there are aspects of the work that we’re doing that are the same characteristics you need in any sort of relationship-building enterprise,” she said. There are qualities relevant to many different environments in this profession and taking a step back for some good old fashioned reflection can help us better identify these qualities. Please make sure to visit the Faculty Factory to learn more about today’s conversation; you can visit our website here: https://facultyfactory.org/  You can also follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Faculty_Factory  And learn About Faculty Factory Coaching here: https://facultyfactory.org/coaching/ 

We could not be more excited to welcome Cynthia Rand, PhD, back to our program this week. Many of you may remember that Dr. Rand joined us in the Spring of 2020 as we were on the initial outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic. She makes her highly anticipated return this week to chat with us about imposter syndrome and how it can impact leadership roles in academia. With a joint appointment in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Dr. Rand serves as Professor of Medicine in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Department at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She also serves as Senior Associate Dean for Faculty. Today’s episode is another installment of our Faculty Factory reunion series where we visit with guests from yesteryear. As longtime listeners to our show can attest, Dr. Rand is passionate about the strength of a profound mentorship. In fact, her three previous appearances on our show have surrounded that topic. You can listen to the previous Faculty Factory episodes featuring Dr. Rand: Meaningful Mentorship with Cynthia S. Rand, PhD: https://facultyfactory.org/meaningful-mentorship/    Best of the Faculty Factory: Discussions on Mentorship, Part I: https://facultyfactory.org/best-of-mentorships/  Best of the Faculty Factory: Discussions on Mentorship, Part II: https://facultyfactory.org/mentorship-part-2/  It’s been a pure joy to catch up with folks on how they’ve been doing in these reunion shows. With the pandemic and other game-changing events taking place since our initial chats, there is no shortage of wisdom to be gleaned from these conversations. Learn more: https://facultyfactory.org/ 

Making her highly anticipated return to the Faculty Factory Podcast this week is Ann Brown, MD, MHS. Dr. Brown serves as Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Professionalism in the Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, NC. She first joined out show nearly three and a half years ago. In today’s reunion discussion, she utilizes a powerful lattice metaphor when discussing building a strong framework for career development. “Part of the job of a faculty member is to be conscious of building that lattice framework as you go through faculty development and coaching conversations, through investing in yourself to build the scaffolding, the lattice,” she said. This is another Faculty Factory Reunion episode where we visit with past guests to listen to what they have been up to since we last interviewed them on the show. Want to listen to Dr. Brown’s first visit to the Faculty Factory? You can check that interview out here: https://facultyfactory.org/dr-brown-receives-2019-gfa-carole-j-bland-phronesis-award/ If you would like to contact Dr. Brown, you can reach her here: Ann.brown@duke.edu To learn more about the Faculty Factory: https://facultyfactory.org/

**As mentioned in the intro of today’s podcast, please make sure to follow the Faculty Factory on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Faculty_Factory **  The world is a far different place than it was back when our guest this week last joined our podcast roughly 3 and a half years ago. Patrick O. Smith, PhD, ABPP, joins us this week to catch up on everything that has changed, developed and remained since we last crossed paths in 2019. Dr. Smith is the former president of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Group on Faculty Affairs (GFA). He currently serves as Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Chief Faculty Affairs Officer at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. As we chat about in today’s podcast, the first time he joined our program we talked about the following important topics:   Pain points High-velocity culture change Seeking a purpose-driven life Dealing with conflict/challenging situations If you’d like to check that out, you can listen to it here: https://facultyfactory.org/patrick-smith/ Today’s episode is focused on the significant accomplishments, changes, and challenges at his Mississippi institution since the global COVID-19 pandemic captured our attention and energy in 2020. It’s an inspiring chat that you will not want to miss. Please visit us on the Faculty Factory website for more great resources and content: https://facultyfactory.org/  

Our guest this week is Jessica Kahn, MD, MPH. Dr. Kahn brings us a powerful list outlining ten key strategies for success in an academic career. Long time listeners will know that we love lists here on the Faculty Factory Podcast and we have a great treat for our audience today. While today’s presentation is geared a lot towards more junior level faculty, there are nuggets in this conversation that can benefit those at any stage of their career. Dr. Kahn serves as Division Director of Adolescent Medicine and Associate Chair of Academic Affairs and Career Development at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Ohio. “The first strategy for success is to create an individual development plan and a developmental network plan,” she told us. “I really think that those are roadmaps for our success as faculty.” As outlined in today’s discussion, having an individual development plan or an IDP empowers us to take ownership of our own career development. There is no question that by following the strategies as presented in this masterful talk from Dr. Kahn, our faculty will be on the path towards building that much needed resiliency to achieve their career goals. Learn More: https://facultyfactory.org/