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Chanteau Ayers, JD, Director, Medical Education Administration, UnityPoint Health Des Moines and AIAMC 2023 Annual Meeting Planning Committee Chair, Co-Facilitator

W. John Yost, MD, VP for Medical Education and Research, UnityPoint Health Des Moines and AIAMC 2023 Annual Meeting Planning Committee Chair, Co-Facilitator

This workshop will be highly interactive and offers an excellent opportunity to begin networking with AIAMC colleagues before the Annual Meeting’s official kick-off mid-day.  Please note that seating is limited, and pre-registration is required.

Diana Singer, PhDc, RN, CCRN-K, CNE, C-TAGME, Executive Director, Academic Affairs, JPS Health, and 2023 Annual Meeting Planning Committee Member, Co-Facilitator

Caroline Diez, MBA, C-TAGME, Manager, Graduate Medical Education, JPS Health, and 2023 Annual Meeting Planning Committee Member, Co-Facilitator

“Great Mondays”, authored by our keynote speaker Josh Levine

Amazon Great Mondays Company Culture

Please note pre-registration is required and seating is limited.

Heather Z. Sankey, MD, MEd, FACOG, CPE, Burkman Endowed Chair of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Baystate Health, and AIAMC Board of Directors President

W. John Yost, MD, VP for Medical Education and Research, UnityPoint Health Des Moines and AIAMC 2023 Annual Meeting Planning Committee Chair

Josh Levine, Educator, Designer, and Best-Selling Author

Culture is a modern leadership discipline, and when done well, managers will lead with values-driven mandates, and executives can inspire action through a clearly defined why. Culture is how your people get work done across projects, teams, and locations.

Learn why corporate culture is more important than ever and how you can effectively lead using culture as a management platform. Using Silicon Valley startups and stalwarts as a lens, Josh discusses actionable methodologies for implementing and measuring culture change.

Session #1: Allyship is Important: Culture Change Requires We All be Upstanders:  Aurora Health Care 

Deborah Simpson, PhD. Director – Education

Jacob Bidwell, MD, DIO Aurora & VP, Academic Affairs, Pres AUWMG, Assoc Dean East Academic Campus UWSMPH

Nicole Salvo, MD, FACOG, Program Director, OB/GYN Residency

Victoria Gillet, MD, Associate Program Director for Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency

Kari Oliver, MD, Faculty, OB/GYN Residency

Creating an optimal clinical learning environment requires that we all learn to stand up to microaggressions consistent with the 2022 AAMC DE&I equity competencies! Why? The frequency of patient’s belittling comments, inquiries into one’s racial/ethnic origins, credentials and/or abilities are frequent experiences for residents and faculty per published reports across specialties. Over 75% of residents witness these microaggressions within a single year – providing an opportunity for action. Participants will experience a proven interactive, small group upstander microaggressions workshop framed using Robert Livingston’s PRESS model. In facilitated small groups, participants will enact several common patient microaggression scenarios with selected participants assuming various roles (eg, patient, attending/preceptor, residents one of whom will be the microaggression recipient). During the enactment one participant will use a simple upstander mnemonic (GRIT) with optional scripts and then re-run and/or debrief before trying another scenario.  References, training materials and evaluation results will be provided to conclude the session.

Session #2: What’s Your Number?: Using the Enneagram to Build Culture and Understand Your Multigenerational Team: JPS Health Network

Diana Singer, PhDc, RN, CCRN-K, CNE, C-TAGME, Executive Director, Academic Affairs

Caroline Diez, MBA, C-TAGME, Manager, Graduate Medical Education

Do you know YOUR number? What about your DIO’s? As medical education leaders navigate team management as we return to the office amidst the Great Resignation, attention to individual differences and communication preferences are more critical than ever. What started out as a social media trend, use of the Enneagram personality assessment in our Academic Affairs team is singlehandedly the most impactful culture change initiative we have undergone in the last several years. With a focus on predicted behaviors, triggers, and general perspectives on the world around us, the Enneagram allows leaders and teammates to approach each other with an expanded level of candor and empathy while overcoming generational differences. We will share our Enneagram journey which has led to zero turnover in our GME office throughout the entire COVID-19 pandemic and guide you through the beginning of yours!

Session #3: Implementing Systematic Culture Change to Improve Diversity in Graduate Medical Education:  Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center

David S. Kountz, MD, MBA, Co-Chief Academic Officer

Implementing systemic culture change to address diversity, equity, inclusion and justice (DEIJ) in graduate medical education is challenging but critical to eliminating health care disparities and increasing recruitment and retention of diverse residents and faculty.   But where does one begin?  How does one identify opportunities for short term wins and sustained change?

This session will be based on the presenter’s 2022 paper “Implementing Systematic Culture Change to Improve Diversity in Graduate Medical Education” published as a rip-out in the Journal of Graduate Medical Education.  After a review of the article participants will break out into small groups and work on vignettes using the change model to address systemic culture change.  At the end of the session participants will have increased their knowledge of an approach to successfully addressing systemic culture at their home institution. 

This is a NEW activity at the AIAMC Annual Meeting.  Explore the key points of Mr. Levine’s keynote address with your AIAMC colleagues in an atmosphere of fun and fast networking.