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The 2018 National Academies report  “The Next Generation of Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences Researchers: Breaking Through” addresses the core challenges that early and mid-career scientists encounter throughout the biomedical research enterprise in the U.S., putting at risk their critical contributions in the areas of health and innovation. The report makes recommendations that aim to support the next generation of America’s biomedical researchers as they seek to identify and pursue the independent research career path that best serves them and the research community, whether in an academic, industry, government, or other setting, as well as promote a robust biomedical research community consisting of diverse and innovative researchers.

To discuss these core challenges and provide practical recommendations for addressing them at the organizational and institutional levels, join study director Lida Beninson, PhD, in the fourth webinar of the series. She will focus on the implementation of two essential recommendations: 1) providing every postdoctoral researcher with a high-quality training experience that prepares them for success in their chosen career and 2) developing mechanisms to increase the number of individuals in staff scientist positions. This webinar will also feature examples of institutional implementation of these two recommendations.

Webinar participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and interact with the presenters and other participants during the presentation.

Speaker:

Lida Beninson, PhD
Program Officer; Board on Higher Education and Workforce; Policy and Global Affairs
NASEM

This is the fourth part of the series “The Impact and Implementation of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 2018 Reports on the Biomedical and Medical Workforce.” If you would like information on the full series, please click here.

Please join us for a panel discussion about retirement options and a live demo of WebAdMIT for AMCAS.

Attendees will hear from AMCAS Medical School Engagement Senior Specialist and WebAdMIT Project Manager, Steve Goldbeck, along with Jerrod White, AMCAS Service Delivery Supervisor, about how to prepare for the upcoming retirement of AMCAS legacy products. They will lead you through key transition milestones, recommended next steps for connecting to the AMCAS Data Exchange Service (DES), and more. Rachel Shore, AMCAS Medical School Engagement Specialist, and Steve will discuss the assessment questions you need to ask now and provide a live demo of key WebAdMIT features. 

There will be time for questions and answers at the end.

Steve Goldbeck

AMCAS Medical School Engagement Senior Specialist and WebAdMIT Project Manager

Jerrod White

AMCAS Service Delivery Supervisor

Rachel Shore

AMCAS Medical School Engagement Specialist

In this webinar, NIH Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity Dr. Hannah Valantine will join Dr. David Acosta, AAMC Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, for a presentation on organizational approaches to effect culture change. NIH’s current approach and activities to achieve inclusive excellence in the scientific workforce center on monitoring, tracking, and implementing equity measures, as well as on increasing faculty diversity through a cohort-hiring model that creates a critical mass of diverse talent. As described in a previous webinar, NIH developed the NIH Scientific Workforce Diversity Toolkit, a free, downloadable interactive resource institutions can use to help advance their own faculty diversity and inclusion. Putting these tools to use requires institutional engagement and accountability, which is driven by collection of diversity and inclusion metrics, such as provided by the NIH Equity Committee, implicit-bias education, recruiting diverse talent, and proactive outreach to potential candidates.

Undergirding those efforts is assessment of institutional culture and climate. The AAMC has developed a number of institutional culture/climate assessment tools.   The AAMC Foundational Principles of Inclusion Excellence (FPIE) toolkit was developed to provide academic medical institutions (AMI) with a practical set of tools to help address institutional culture and climate and provide AMI with a roadmap for achieving inclusion excellence in the learning & workplace environment. The FPIE toolkit provides a set of nine benchmarks of inclusion excellence, an institutional assessment survey, scorecard, and a database of identified effective practices for each benchmark accompanied by a set of resources that will assist the process of developing strategic action plans (including target goals and metrics) to achieve these benchmarks. Practical application on how this tool can be utilized and rolled out in an AMI will be shared. 

After this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Understand the value of assessing culture and climate in institutional settings.
• Understand which approaches are effective in assessing institutional culture and climate.
• Understand the importance of an integrated approach to promoting inclusive excellence through targeted interventions that promote equity.

In this one-hour webinar, you will learn about how to implement your strategic plan and measure success. Content will include understanding ways to monitor progress, ensuring accountability and transparency in communicating progress. The speakers will also discuss how implementing a strategic plan requires varying degrees of institutional change and offer change management suggestions.

Speakers:

Walter Douglas
Chief Operating Officer
Rutgers, New Jersey Medical School

Linda Reimann
Chief of Staff, Strategic Initiatives
University of California, Riverside School of Medicine

This January we welcomed a new Congress. Learn how the Project Medical Education (PME) program can be used to educate external audiences – including new and returning members of Congress – on about how medical schools and teaching hospitals bring together medical education, clinical care, and research.

Participants will learn:

• What Project Medical Education (PME) is and how to access tools and resources to help them in planning a PME event
• What audiences PME can be used to engage
• How other institutions have used PME in the past and what the results of those events have been both qualitatively and quantitatively

Erica Froyd, MPA
Senior Director of Advocacy and Engagement - AAMC

Erica Froyd is the new AAMC Senior Director of Advocacy and Engagement. She comes to the position with more than two decades of extensive experience in professional advocacy at the federal level, including direct lobbying, policy development, and grassroots and grasstops advocacy, focused on issues affecting healthcare, research, and academic medicine.  Prior to rejoining the AAMC government relations and public policy staff in January, Ms. Froyd managed the biomedical and health research policy practice for the consulting firm Lewis-Burke Associates, LLC in Washington, DC.  In that capacity, she chaired the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) Council of Government Affairs Biomedical Research Taskforce.  She also oversaw and represented the Washington Office of the Association of Independent Research Institutes and served on the Ad Hoc Coalition for Medical Research, as well as represented a variety of clients in the education and research communities.
Previously, Ms. Froyd had been a government relations director for the AAMC and director of government relations and public affairs for the Society of Neuroscience, as well as a grassroots representative for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.  Ms. Froyd received her master’s degree in public administration from The George Washington University, and her bachelor’s degree in political science from Carleton College.

Audrey Goodnight
Director Events and Protocol, Advancement and Engagement – University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine

Audrey is the Director of Events and Protocol at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine and Division of Health Sciences. With over a decade of academic event experience, Audrey is dedicated to enhancing relationships through sustainable goal-oriented and constituent-centered experiences. Her favorite aspect of producing events is seeing how every thoughtful detail comes together to witness guests in authentic moments - their expressions when they push their comfort zones or when they’re lifted by an experience which they share with friends and family in turn. Audrey advises on event protocol and oversees the school’s portfolio of more than 200 events ranging from Project Medical Education, community engagement opportunities, donor recognition events, formal graduations, appreciation events, recruitment and retention events, Speaker Series, professional development opportunities, formal dinners, ceremonies and galas.

Mark Brieve
Director, Community Engagement and Outreach – Michigan State University College of Human Medicine

Mark Brieve is the Director for Community and Government Relations at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. His duties include developing positive relationships with business and community leaders, as well as, university officials in order to promote and encourage visibility for the college through coordinated events. Additionally, Mark provides analysis and research on state and federal legislation with potential impact to the College. His role includes frequent visits to the college’s community campuses in Flint, Grand Rapids, Lansing, Marquette, Midland, Southeast Michigan and Traverse City. Prior to joining MSU College of Human Medicine in August of 2012, Mark worked in the Michigan Legislature for nine years in both partisan and non-partisan roles. A graduate of Calvin College, Mark lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Jared Dashoff
Public Affairs Specialist - AAMC

Jared Dashoff serves as a public affairs specialist at the AAMC, assisting in communicating the association's advocacy and regulatory efforts to a broad audience including the media, constituents, and the general public. He leads the organizations efforts on Project Medical Education (PME) and assists member institutions in planning and hosting PME events. Mr. Dashoff holds both a master’s in public policy and a BA in political science from American University in Washington, D.C.

Please join Chris Cooney, AMCAS Outreach and Engagement Director, for a webinar about the new AMCAS “Choose Your Medical School” (CYMS) tool.

During this 60-minute presentation, pre-health advisors will:

• receive an in depth understanding of the new tool
• learn the timeline for actions and data
• understand the importance of school policies and procedures
• hear about the importance professionalism during the process
• see new tools and resources developed by AMCAS

Chris Cooney

AMCAS Outreach and Engagement Director

Rachel Shore

AMCAS Medical School Engagement Specialist

Brandon Hunter

AMCAS Director of Student Affairs

Patrick Fritz

Senior Director of AMCAS

PJ Kania

Director of AMCAS Product Management

Part I: SHPEP Kickoff Webinar- An Inside Look into the Summer Health Professions Education Program

Part II: Steps to Success with the SHPEP Application

Part III: A Week in the Life of a SHPEP Scholar

What SHPEP program site(s) will you be applying to this summer? It’s time for applicants to get the inside scoop about what the SHPEP initiative includes for its 2019 scholars.

The SHPEP program sites, including University of Florida, University of Texas Health Science Center and Western University will share what the six-week SHPEP experience includes for its scholars. Webinar attendees will learn about extracurricular activities and the educational resources available at specific program sites.  

Register and tune in to part-three of the webinar series and learn what a week looks like in the life of a SHPEP scholar! There will also be an opportunity to ask questions, particularly to the program sites that will be presenting.

Please join PJ Kania, Director of AMCAS Product Management, as he previews the launch of the new AMCAS for Schools platform with a live demonstration of its reports and features. Moderated by Rachel Shore, AMCAS Medical School Engagement Specialist, this 90-minute webinar will provide admissions officers and IT staff a comprehensive training session of the new AMCAS platform that will go live on February 12, 2019. 

Attendees will learn:

• How the collaboration with, and input from, the admissions community influenced development 
• Details on the new management features for users
• How to use the new tool, including what admissions data will be available and when
• The importance of submitting admissions action data on a timely basis
• The importance of including Choose Your Medical School in school-specific policies for applicants
• What AMCAS resources will be available for training 

There will be time at the end of this live demonstration to ask questions. 

We encourage your admissions and technical teams to attend this webinar to ensure you are prepared for the live launch of AMCAS for Schools on February 12, 2019.

PJ Kania
Director of AMCAS Product Management 

Rachel Shore
AMCAS Medical School Engagement Specialist

This webinar will provide an update on VA Contracting Changes and Navigating the VA Contracting Resources available on the Office of Academic Affiliation website for contracting with the VA.  Caroline Peabody will address sole source contracting, updates to VA policies and some new contracting items that will help ease the contracting process.  VA’s OAA will be online to provide additional information about VA affiliation and the resources available on the Office of Academic Affiliation website that will help make contracting easier.

Q&A to follow.