Dear GFA Family and Friends: May the joy of the holiday season embrace you and yours! Please share the Faculty Factory (sponsored by Johns Hopkins Medicine, Office of Faculty) love with your faculty members – it’s a great community that we’ve all built together:
A). The “Best of….” Series dropped last Friday and today (on Mentoring and on Having Difficult Conversations) and next Friday will be another “Best of…” (see screenshots below).
B). Our 200th episode (released in November) featured a chat with Dr. Peggy Semingson where we chatted about the future of learning and online education, you can check that out here: https://facultyfactory.org/peggy-semingson/
C). Two free e-books are compilations of wisdom in a reflective, workbook format: Snippets for Success: An eBook Brought to You by the Faculty Factory Community and Habits and Hacks from Hopkins (H3). Download them here: https://facultyfactory.org/ebook/
D). Can YOU think of someone to sponsor who would love the opportunity to talk to the world on the podcast? Send them (including yourself) my way kskarupski@jhmi.edu! You can tell your proteges that as of today, the podcast has had more than 55,000 total downloads and YouTube views from listeners in 84 countries and the Faculty Factory website has drawn 30,000 web visits from users in 114 countries. They can also go to the Youtube channel and select episodes to listen to by topic (e.g., communication; P&T; self-awareness and management; leadership; networking; research and scholarship; mentorship and coaching, etc.).
p.s. Heather Brod and I launched a weekend career development coaching camp experience in October. We purposely designed it with the goal of catalyzing community support for clarifying career direction. We piloted it with 12 mid-career UIM women clinicians. They reported (statistically-significant) heightened awareness about: assumption-making tendencies; obstacles that get in the way of their goals; action plans/tactics; their wellness needs; and greater levels of inspiration, compassion, and feeling supported. The camp can be tailored to faculty by stage (early, mid, late-career, retirees), type (basic scientists, clinicians, PhDs in clinical departments), category (women, men, UIM, age), etc. Let us know if you want to learn more (kskarupski@jhmi.edu, heather@heatherbrod.com).
Kimberly A. Skarupski, PhD, MPH
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development, Office of Faculty Development, School of Medicine
Professor, Department of Medicine (Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology)
Professor, Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
410-925-0257 (cell)