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The DOM Office of Education is excited to bring back Roads to Success for faculty educators following last year’s highly successful workshop.

Matt Freer, MD, explains a paracentesis procedure to fourth-year medical students in the capstone course at the Howard and Joyce Wood Simulation Center in the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center on February 19, 2020. MATT MILLER/WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

This 1.5-day seminar will lead faculty through foundational aspects of teaching successfully in modern-day medical education. Join us to receive practical and actionable guidance for building an educational career path, enhancing teaching skills, supporting learner and educator wellness, and understanding patient safety & quality improvement education within the WashU/BJH system.

Breakfast and lunch will be provided each day. Participants that complete both days of the seminar will receive a course certificate.

Contact/Questions: Julie Byington (jbyington@wustl.edu)

Course Objectives

After completion of this course, participants should be able to:

1. Career Paths to Success

Outline different roads to career success within academic hospital medicine
Summarize career advancement strategies and promotion requirements
Draft a 1- and 5-year career plan
Identify ways to find a mentor
Discuss the habits of a successful mentee

2. Teaching Success

Illustrate techniques used by effective teaching team managers
Demonstrate techniques to foster a positive learning environment
Utilize effective low-inference feedback strategies
Create an effective miniature lecture (ie, ‘chalk talk’)

3. Wellness Success

Describe strategies to improve job satisfaction, personal wellness, and work-life integration

4. QI/Patient Safety Success

Outline steps to starting a QI project at Barnes-Jewish Hospital (BJH)
List active QI projects within the Division of Hospital Medicine

Course Outline

Thursday, February 13, 2025 – 8:30am – 3:30pm

Time	Title	Description	Speaker
8:30 AM	Introductions	Introduction to course	Faculty Development Committee
9:00 AM	Creating a Learning Environment / Team Management	In this session, you will learn how to create a comfortable and inclusive learning environment through stage setting and expectation setting. As well as the most effective ways to manage your team.	Alex Thomas
10:00 AM	Activity: Creating Expectations	In this session, you will create your own expectations for various members of your team residents to interns to students. You will have the opportunity to get feedback and refine your expectations	Faculty Development Committee
10:30 AM	Belonging and Wellness	Underlying all academic success, is the ability to take care of yourself. In this session, led by our Vice Chair of Education and our Vice Chair for the Advancement of Women’s Careers you will learn some important tools on belonging and wellness	Rakhee Bhayani, MD, Vice Chair for the Advancement of Women’s Careers, Dept. of Medicine Abby Spencer, MD, MS, FACP, Vice Chair of Education, Dept. of Medicine
11:30 AM		LUNCH
12:00-1:15 PM	Promotions Process and Visions of Success Writing 1 yr and 5 yr plans	In this session, you will learn about the current Wash U promotions process and help you craft your goals to have success.	Eileen Lee, MD
1:15 to 2:15 PM	How to do QI projects/ Ways for scholarship	In this session, you will learn how to take an idea to a QI project	Safa Farrag, MD
		BREAK
2:30 PM -3:30 PM	How to Create Effective Mini Lectures	In this session, you will learn the techniques needed to create an effective lecture as well as learn effective public speaking skills	Zachary Morgan, MD

Friday, February 14, 2025 – 8:00am – 12:00pm

Coffee and Snacks

Time	Title	Description	Speaker
8:00 AM	What We Learned and Introduction to the Day	Introduction to course	Faculty Development Committee
8:15 AM	How to give Effective Feedback	In this session, you will learn tools to give effective feedback to learners of all levels	Dennis Chang, MD
9:00 AM	Activity: Mini Lectures Breakout Rooms	In this session, you will have 5 minutes to present any clinical topic to a facilitator and peers. You will be given feedback on your presentation content and delivery	Faculty Development Committee
10:15 AM		BREAK
10:30 AM	Being an effective Mentee	In this session, you will learn the keys to be an effective mentee and how to find a mentor	Dennis Chang, MD
11:00 AM	Learning after Residency	In this session, you will explore how to continue learning after residency to be an effective physician and teacher	Kieran Patel, MD
11:30 – 12:00 PM	Next Steps & Lunch to Go	Along with lunch, we will discuss what we learned and next steps on your roads to success	Faculty Development Committee

Speakers

Rakhee Bhayani, MD
Professor of Medicine

Safa Farrag, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Zachary Morgan, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Eileen Lee, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine