Professional Development Resources
The following contains resources to help members build upon their clinical knowledge base and/or enhance their procedural skills, enhance their leadership skills, improve presentation and teaching skills, advance their careers in academic medicine, and maintain wellness.
The following resources include weblinks to conferences that will help members build upon their clinical knowledge base and/or enhance their procedural skills. Weblinks to Maintenance of Certification (MOC) and other CME-accredited activities are also included in this section.
Conferences
- NASPGHAN Annual Meeting and Postgraduate Course
- Digestive Disease Week
- Crohn's and Colitis Foundation
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- American Neurogastroenterology & Motility Society (ANMS)
Endoscopy workshops
Initial and Maintenance of Certification
CME Activities
This section includes weblinks to websites and slide presentations containing information pertaining to improving presentation and teaching skills, giving formal feedback to learners, and designing curricula.
Workshop and Presentation Skills: Websites
- AAMC Workshop and Presentation Skills
- Workshop Preparation and Presentation: A Valuable Form of Scholarship for the Clinician-Educator - ACGME
- Seminars for Professional Writing, Speaking and Teaching Skills - University of Iowa
Teaching and Feedback skills: Websites
- Giving Helpful Feedback
- Stanford Faculty Development for Medical Teachers
- Harvard Macy Institute - Program for Educators in Health Professions
- Harvard Macy Institute - A Systems Approach to Assessment in Health Professions Education
- Harvard Macy Institute - Leading Innovations in Health Care & Education
- International Association of Medical Science Educators
- COMSEP
- AAMC MedEd PORTAL
Curriculum design: Websites
- Emory University - Course Design
- AMA - UME Curriculum Design
- Johns Hopkins Programs in Curriculum Development
Distance Teaching and Learning during COVID-19
- AAMC Resources for Medical Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- AAMC -No classrooms, no clinics: Medical education during a pandemic
The following contains resources to help members enhance their leadership skills. Also included are professional societies within which leadership positions can be sought.
Project Management
Personnel Management
Developing leadership skills
- Physician Leadership
- AAMC - Leadership Development
- Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine Program
- AGA Leadership Initiatives and Programs
Local/National level leadership opportunities
- AAP
- AASLD
- NASPGHAN- Professional Development Committee symposium, Women in medicine breakfast
- AGA- Women Symposium during the annual meeting
- Physician panels in communities ( e.g. school opening task forces)
- GWC Annual symposium during DDW
This section contains resources for members aspiring to enhance their skills developing and conducting basic science, clinical, and/or translational research studies. Resources to further develop manuscript preparation and writing skills are also included.
Members hoping to advance their careers in academic medicine and/or help others do the same should find the following resources helpful.
Promotion
Peer mentoring
Performance coaching
Literature on coaching in academic medicine
Academic coaching programs online
- UC Davis Academic Coaching Program
- Georgetown University Executive Certificate in Leadership Coaching
- AASLD Coaching Program
Physician wellness is essential to all aspects of professional development. The following websites contain information regarding physician wellness and combating burnout. Members can consider enrolling in the physician wellness classes included.
