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Challenges with professional identity among faculty of Independent Academic Medical Centers

Session TypeWorkshop

Is this submission from an ASE Committee, Task Force, or Working Group?

Yes

Which Committee(s)/Task Force(s)/Working Group(s)?
  • Membership
Session Information

Session Description

Background:

A sense of professional identity, or alignment of professional roles, responsibilities, knowledge beliefs, and skills, is an essential component of developing in one’s surgical practice. However, competing priorities and interests in the healthcare field can at times make this alignment challenging.

As a higher portion of healthcare in US is delivered by large corporations, a higher proportion of surgical education is offered by surgeons who are not affiliated with an academic center.  Such professionals are involved with the education of close to 50% of our trainees and form about 30% of the membership of the Association for Surgical Education.  This group often struggle with professional identity and face unique challenges meeting the teaching and scholarly requirements of training programs while balancing ever present productivity concerns.

This workshop will focus on professional identity formation and challenges faced by the teaching faculty who are not directly associated with the universities.

Who should attend?

Educators who are part of Independent Academic Medical Centers, as well as all educators who are interested in this topic.

Structure of workshop:

  • Large group session: sharing of stories of Professional Identity Formation and Challenges from members of the Independent Academic Medical Center Workgroup in the whole group format (15 min)
  • Small group discussions: Facilitated discussions about identity formation and challenges (15 min)
  • Wrap up and reflection (10 min)

Workshop schedule:

Time Focus
0 – 5 minutes Introductions and background
5 – 20 minutes Professional identity formation and Challenges faculty presentations
20 – 35 minutes Small groups facilitated by faculty from independent institutions
35 – 45 minutes

 

 Summary: Each moderator briefly shares 1 key insight/reflection from their small groups

a)     Professional identity formation

b)     Summary of challenges

 

Intended Outcomes:

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Appreciate the process of professional identity formation of teaching faculty at independent programs
  • Understand challenges uncounted in fulfilling the requirements / teaching obligations as required by training programs
  • Consider strategies to better align the roles of teaching faculty without compromising their productivity
Workshop Length

45-minute workshop

If a similar workshop is submitted, would you be willing to combine workshops into one session?

Yes

Would you be open to presenting a workshop of a different duration than selected above if needed?

Yes

Session Objective 1

Recognize how professional identity formation may impact teaching faculty at independent programs

Session Objective 2

Identify challenges to identity development as educators and propose potential solutions

Session Objective 3

Develop strategies to better align professional roles

Session Outline
Activity Order Title of Presentation or Activity Presenter/Faculty Name Presenter/Faculty Email Time allotted in minutes for activity

1
Introduction, Background, and Content Presentation
V. Prasad Poola
[email protected]
20

2
Small Groups Facilitated by Faculty from Independent Institutions
Mohsen Shabahang
[email protected]
15

3
Summary: Each moderator briefly shares 1 key insight/reflection from their small groups
Sarah Jung
[email protected]
10