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10:00-11:00am
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Morning Sessions (Choose One)
Session A: How to Boost Your Emotional Intelligence for More Effective Leadership and Develop Your Leadership Style
Patti Adelman and Dr. Andrew Menzin
In this skill-building session, attendees will learn why Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is now considered the yardstick for leadership and how it shows up in the workplace. Through engaging scenarios and activities, attendees will have an opportunity to reflect on their own EQ and opportunities for development. Participants will practice various EQ-building skills, including active listening, self-reflection, and displaying empathy for others.
Session B: Making Mentoring Work – for the Mentor and Mentee
Drs. Alice Fornari and Michael Esposito
During this session, participants will learn about the theoretical background of humanistic mentoring. We will also work on understanding how mentoring and role modeling are unique, but linked skills. We will talk about the necessity of both mentor and mentee having pre-established goals and we will work on setting some goals. We will discuss the pros and cons of a diverse mentor-mentee relationship. Finally, we will reflect on how the concepts presented can support humanistic mentoring within your department.
Session C1: The Art of Self-Advocacy
Drs. Linda Shore-Lesserson and Joseph Conigliaro
Session C2: The Art of Self-Advocacy
Drs. John Pellerito and Stacey Rosen
Experts in the art of self-advocacy will lead this informative and engaging session on how to promote yourself gracefully. During this session, participants will learn about how to develop their own personal brand and use that brand to advocate for themselves. We will discuss the role authenticity plays in self-advocacy and illustrate the difference ineffective and effective self-advocacy within your department and beyond!
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11:15am-12:00pm
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Breakout Session I (Choose One)
Bridging Hospital to Home: Reflections on Work-Life Integration
Drs. Jean Cacciabaudo, Judith Brenner, Ellen Pearlman
The journey in medicine is a very personal one. Choices are made at various points can result in enhanced fulfillment or tension between work and home life. Building the bridge from hospital to home takes courage and honesty. From finding the right mentors to managing personal insecurity and challenging personalities encountered along the path, the power of personal authenticity must be underscored. By creating the space for honest discussion, the goal of this session is to engage with others about the challenges of balancing work and life and to actively work toward greater satisfaction. A self-assessment tool will be introduced to heighten awareness of behaviors that allow the bridge from hospital to home to be satisfying or need immediate action for change. The faculty members will share their stories demonstrating divergent paths from residency to current day, with an honest revelation of strategies that have worked and others that did not. Through the final discussion and sharing of ideas, a concrete action plan can be crafted. Narrative writing can solidify the plan and participants will emerge with greater clarity on what steps to take to achieve their personal balance between work and home life.
Chair Yoga
Lisa Bondy, ERYT 500, INHC
A representative from The Center for Wellness and Integrative Medicine will introduce this form of yoga that is tailored toward people who spend long periods of time sitting at a desk or on long flights. Chair yoga offers many benefits including a happy mental state, improving flexibility, and relieving cramps and stiffness. No yoga experience needed!
Contract Negotiation Skills for Women in Medicine
Amy Stein and Drs. Lauren Block and Ankita Sagar
The year is 2019, and women in medicine still face a gender pay gap in the workforce. Studies suggest that women as compared with men display a lower propensity to initiate contract negotiations and negotiate less competitively. This highlights a need for a training on this topic to help level the playing field for female physicians. In literature review we observed scant evidence of publications on contract negotiation training for resident physicians, or physicians in general, further highlighting this need. Here we provide an innovative, learner-centered workshop, with a mini-didactic delivering key negotiation concepts and microskills, followed by an interactive contract negotiation style role-play, and guided-reflection. Join us to help learn the skills you need to master your role at the negotiating table.
Fostering a Culture of Inclusion Critical to Success in Healthcare
Drs. Robert Roswell, Jennifer Mieres and Michael Wright
Learn from our leaders on diversity and inclusion on Northwell’s strategy on how to foster inclusive culture.
Mastering Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace and at Home
Dr. Annabella Salvador-Kelly
Resolve to make this the year to invest in yourself and develop one critical single skill in your life, Emotional Intelligence (EQ). EQ is the foundation for all other skills like Communication, Anger Management, or Stress Tolerance. Unlike Personality and IQ, EQ is flexible and increasing your score can improve your performance and your quality of life both in the workplace and at home.
How to Build your CV for Academic Promotion
Drs. Mangala Narasimhan, Gulrukh Zaidi, Adey Tsegaye
In this breakout session we would like to do activities to help people choose activities to help build their CV. Choosing wisely is key as time is limited and many of us waste a lot of time doing activities that do not help with CV building in a meaningful way. We can provide a list of activities that are commonly offered to academic physicians. Some will be time killers and some will be activities that will help with promotion. The next part of the session will be how to find sponsors and what to do to have a sponsor understand how to promote you. It will be a discussion on speaking to sponsors, dealing with sponsors and how to improve your CV through a sponsor. The last part of the session will be to a discussion on how to get involved in your national organizations in a meaningful way. To move up in the organizations and to develop national and international reputations so that when it comes to promotions you will be able to find people nationally to write you letters of support.
Research Here, Research There, Research Everywhere!
Dr. Priscila Goncalves
Opportunities for research can be identified everywhere in the medical field. One does not need to be a full-time bench-researcher to be able to develop and conduct meaningful research projects. One however needs to able to identify a mentor (preferably mentors) that will help guide you during the process. I am a medical oncologist who focused my career on early drug development. During my career I worked with several mentors from different areas of the medical field to gather all the skills necessary to be able to conduct clinical trials. This session will help you identify the opportunities and give practical tips on how to choose a good mentor, recognize opportunities for research in Medicine, offer some ideas on time management and make you see that really there is “Research here, research there, research everywhere!”
There is a LEADER Among Us
Drs. Rosanna Sabini, Susan Maltser, Ona Bloom
The notion that there is the notion of being an "imposter syndrome" masks the notion that women are natural born leaders. The goal of this session is to understand that leadership has attributions and definitions that can in itself intimidate. The goal of this session to identify that all women have qualities that can allow to make successful leaders. Identification of the qualities and how to maximize the leadership abilities will be discussed.
Using Social Media in Medicine and Healthcare
Drs. Maria Carney & Frank Cacace
@cacace_frank and @MariaTCarney will share thoughts on their social media and #medtwitter experiences, trying to highlight how engaging with learners, peers and the public in this way has enriched their professional identities and ability to reach others, network, support and sponsor. This session will describe how social media can enhance academic community, appreciate how to discover and network with medical colleagues in social media, and obtain three ways to get difficult to find information and guidance.
WE Too: Women Educators (WE) Addressing Pressures in the Workplace
Drs. Dana Kaplan, Cynthia Chang, Eleny Romanos-Sirakis
Recently, the #metoo movement has empowered women to start a discussion on situations previously kept hidden. Women educators (WE) are in a unique position to support one another and mentor colleagues and trainees who may encounter pressures in the workplace. By discussing this we are adding a voice to this movement.
Wellbeing for Female Physicians
Drs. Jacqueline Moline & Penny Stern
Physician burnout is a topic that is all over the news - not only in the medical journals but also in the lay press. This session will explore some of the factors that contribute to burnout and steps one can take to prevent burnout. The main focus of our breakout session will be to explore practical ways to improve wellbeing, with an emphasis on the unique stressors that female physicians face. The session will include a brief presentation of some of the seminal studies on physician wellbeing and burnout, but the main focus of the session will be an interactive conversation between participants, which might include some case anecdotes where participants will discuss the case to identify perceived barriers to wellbeing and practical solutions.
Through an informal conversation, we hope that participants will share ideas about what they feel might have worked for them to improve their wellbeing, and what has been ineffective. After participating in this breakout session, we hope that participants will recognize that wellbeing can mean very different things to each clinician, and the goal is to maximize strategies that will increase overall wellbeing and satisfaction.
Work Life Integration and Time Management Skills
Drs. Nancy LaVine & Lyndonna Marrast
Integrating work and home domains is a constant challenge for medical professionals. Only half of physicians report positive work-life satisfaction, implying that negotiating the inherent conflicts between work and home may not be intuitive. In this workshop, participants will outline priorities across the work life spectrum and apply the concepts of alignment and control to allow focus on these priorities. Participants will have the opportunity to build skills and strategies in time management and boundary control. Teaching of such skills focused on professional sustainability may best prepare physicians to navigate conflicts between work and home domains and achieve success in priority areas. |
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3:15-4:15pm
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Breakout Session II (Choose One)
Academic Promotion Workshop: Part II
Drs. Linda Shore-Lesserson, Karen Friedman, Marina Frimer
This session is a continuation of the pre-conference academic promotion workshop. Attendees will hear from colleagues who have recently been promoted. Members of the Appointments and Promotions Committee will share practical tips for navigating through the promotions process. This session is targeted to Assistant Professors and Associate Professors who have not been through to the promotions process at our Zucker School of Medicine.
Building a CV with a Village
Drs. Razia Jayman-Aristide & Sadia Arshad
This session will discuss the barriers that are present in building a CV at various points throughout a career. As junior or mid-level faculty, an important aspect of medicine that we are rarely taught is how to plan ahead a few years at a time. What is a career trajectory? Can it change? If it changes, have you lost the time and effort you have put into your profession? In reflecting on these questions, we discuss the importance of choosing mentors throughout your career. In the same manner that people often say that "it takes a village to raise a child', we talk about how it takes a village to build a resume. In teaming up with colleagues and assisting with papers/posters, for example, within a short period of time, you can have 3 publications whereas you may have otherwise had only one. Building contacts through mentors will be a valuable resource in resume enhancement. Actively looking for feedback on areas of improvement is another way to build a CV in a medical field that is competitive irrespective of the field within medicine.
Contract Negotiation Skills for Women in Medicine
Amy Stein and Drs. Nancy LaVine and Sreekala Raghavan
The year is 2019, and women in medicine still face a gender pay gap in the workforce. Studies suggest that women as compared with men display a lower propensity to initiate contract negotiations and negotiate less competitively.1 This highlights a need for a training on this topic to help level the playing field for female physicians. In literature review we observed scant evidence of publications on contract negotiation training for resident physicians, or physicians in general, further highlighting this need. Here we provide an innovative, learner-centered workshop, with a mini-didactic delivering key negotiation concepts and microskills, followed by an interactive contract negotiation style role-play, and guided-reflection. Join us to help learn the skills you need to master your role at the negotiating table.
Fighting Burnout with Humanism
Drs. Susan Maltser, Alice Fornari, Michael Esposito, Kristen Demertzis, Naomi Kaplan
Burnout in health care professionals has gained significant attention over the last several years and has been reported to affect half of practicing physicians. It is defined by the three components of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and diminished feelings of personal accomplishment. There is evidence that burnout can affect the physician/patient relationship by decreasing physicians’ effectiveness and availability. For doctors, it is associated with higher rates of depression and suicide, while for patients it is associated with increased medical errors. Gender differences exist between male and female physicians, with one study reporting women having 1.6 times the rate of reporting burnout compared with men. Fighting burnout must begin early in the medical education process. Maintaining empathy during medical school is possible through educational interventions focused on humanism. Such humanistic interventions can include self-reflection, a focus on connection with patients, mentoring and exploring the arts.
In this session, we will describe four programs at Northwell Health designed to encourage the humanistic approach to doctoring. These include the Medical Humanities Elective for 4th year medical students; MAPIT, a Mentoring and Professionalism program adapted for residents; the Finding Meaning In Medicine Program, designed to promote reflection and meaning in residents’ work and a departmental Book Club focusing on fostering empathy through reading.
How to Provide Great Clinical Care and Provide Transitional Research
Drs. Alisha Oropallo, Ona Bloom, Amit Rao
This breakout session involves the specifics of integrating your office-based practice with clinical research. How clinical research in your practice can change the quality of care and impact on how you manage your patients will be discussed. Concrete examples will be provided of how to fit your office workflow into this new dimension of research opportunity. The impact of additional revenue, improvement of patient quality of care, and increased physician satisfaction in your practice will be explored.
Impostor Syndrome
Drs. Gulrukh Zaidi, Adey Tsegaye, Mangala Narasimhan
In 1978 Psychologist Pauline Rose Clance together with colleague Suzanne Imes, studied the pervasive feelings of fraudulence in female college students and faculty. They described the Impostor Syndrome phenomenon as a constellation of findings in high achieving women who did not experience feelings of success despite external evidence of achievement. Impostor Syndrome is now known to occur in both men and women and has affected famous public figures such as Maya Angelou, Albert Einstein and Michelle Obama. This session will focus on the identification of Impostor Syndrome, its overall prevalence in the medical field, specifically in women in medicine. At the start of the breakout session all participants will take the Clance Impostor Syndrome Scale Survey to help determine if they have impostor syndrome and establish the extent to which they may be suffering from this. The participants will not have to share their results. Through a brief review of literature and a series of interactive exercises, we will establish how the feelings of self-doubt created by impostor syndrome can result in emotional paralysis which then prevents people from achieving their fullest potential. The association of impostor syndrome with higher stress levels, perfectionism, burnout and the effect on wellness as well as career trajectory will reviewed. The latter half of the session will focus on strategies and resources to help overcome impostor syndrome and to pave the way for a culture change.
Managing Your Anger Constructively in the Era of #MeToo
Dr. Karina Davidson
There is a science to anger experience, expression, and management, but this science is underfunded for interesting political reasons. There is also a clinical art to experiencing, expressing, and managing anger, but this clinical skill set is infrequently taught, also for interesting political reasons. Professional women leaders gain from learning about both of these anger information sources. Identifying how to constructively experience, express, and manage your own anger as a woman leader is crucial to the success of our enterprise. Learning how to manage it in your staff and trainees is also crucial. We will in interesting times. Conversations about our anger and the anger of others are needed. This session will provide such a forum.
Self Advocacy: Goal Setting, Career Planning and Self-Assessment for Trainees and Early Career Faculty
Drs. Lyndonna Marrast & Lauren Block
Residency training and fellowship are structured environments with specific professional development goals associated with each stage. After these training periods have ended, physicians may experience a lack of clear direction in pursuing their career and most important, may not find mentorship in this early part of their career exploration. Career planning, i.e. a 5- and 10-year trajectory, helps to navigate the opportunities available in an academic career as well as ensure work/life integration. As one transitions from being a medical resident to fellow to faculty, it is necessary to reflect on one’s current skill set and values, set goals for the next stage and outline a clear path to accomplish stated goals. Completing, reviewing and revising an individual development plan (IDP), which includes setting and writing down time measured goals, can help ensure decisions are made and steps are taken to further one’s personal and professional goals as an early career professional. This workshop will allow trainees and early career faculty to: (1) reflect on their career trajectory; (2) practice the process of setting SMART goals; (3) complete an IDP; (4) and lastly, create systems of accountability (i.e. self, peer and senior mentors) and time for reflection and course re-direction leading to success. To this end, the facilitators will define and provide examples for setting goals, will allow time to complete and IDP and allow time for reflection on career trajectory.
Successfully Navigating Organizational Culture
Dr. Kathy Gallo
To Tweet or Not to Tweet? Why You Should Join the Healthcare e-Conversation
Drs. Nina Vincoff & Sandeep Kapoor
This interactive workshop will provide an overview of social media for the healthcare professional. Best practices, lessons learned, and potential pitfalls will be discussed. @NinaVincoffMD and @KapoorMedEd will provide tips for the novice user, and also discuss more advanced features for those who are already active on #SoMe. Specific considerations for women in medicine, and those interested in using social media for education and advocacy will be highlighted. The session will include an opportunity to have your online profile picture taken by a professional photographer! #DontMissThisWorkshop #SoMeDocs #WomeninMedicine #MedEd
Work/Life Integration: Time is Perishable…Use it Wisely
Drs. Payal Sud & Isabel Barata
Work-life integration is the new catch phrase for successful individuals in the 21st century, with ‘integration’ rather than ‘balance’ being the buzzword. Balance implies that something has to give, forever tipping towards either work or personal life. Integration implies that not only can work and personal life coexist, but in fact their symbiosis is vital to success in each domain. Whether we like it or not, technology has blurred the distinction between work and personal time. We all get emails at 8 pm while we do the dishes after dinner. Similarly, we all have run to the post office to mail out a package during our lunch hour. When asked how we are doing, our answer is frequently “so busy” or “so tired” as we envision ourselves as master jugglers. We all feel we work too hard, ignore our families too much and sleep too little. We are all scientific-minded individuals who believe in facts and evidence-based medicine. What if there is a way to objectively check if our busy schedule is as saturated with work as we believe? Is our daily agenda filled with essential steps or is there non-valued added fluff? Simultaneously, can we revamp our perspectives to view the cards we are dealt with through new lenses? In this workshop we will explore our priorities and schedules, and work towards the nirvana of work-life integration that seems to be the talk of the millennium. Time is a perishable resource...use it wisely. The only variable available to us is the use we make of this invaluable resource. Effective time management should be guided by our values, and the goals based on our values, followed by an action plan to achieve those goals. This breakout session will help you identify your greatest time-management needs and develop a personal time-management strategy by learning to prioritize your values, and goals. Effective time management has the potential to not only increase your productivity and professional advancement but also increase personal satisfaction and limit burnout. |
