ELUM News 

Articles of Note

ADEA's Charting Progress, June 2013:

ADEA President and CEO Rick Valachovic's monthly e-newsletter focuses again on Interprofessional Education (IPE). In this issue, Rick relates a discussion with Carol Aschenbrener, AAMC Chief Medical Officer and longtime ELAM consultant. He also continues to explore the dental schools that are developing IPE initiatives. This time, he turns to the University of Missouri-Kansas City's School of Dentistry, in a conversation with Dean Marsha Pyle, D.D.S., M.Ed. (ELAM '04), and the University of Michigan's School of Dentistry, in a conversation with Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Carol Anne Murdoch-Kinch, D.D.S., Ph.D. (ELAM '13). The article also includes links to numerous IPE resources.

ASPH Friday Letter #1782, June 14, 2013:

Yale Research Helps Support Indoor Tanning Restriction Legislation

A measure to protect minors from the potentially harmful rays emitted by indoor tanning devices is now state law after Governor Dannel P. Malloy signed the legislation this week. Public Act 13-79 will make it illegal for people under 17 to tan indoors. The law goes into effect October 1, 2013. Susan T. Mayne, Ph.D. (ELAM '09), the C.-E. A. Winslow Professor of Epidemiology and a cancer epidemiologist at the Yale School of Public Health, was the senior epidemiologist on the study and testified on the bill's behalf in March during a public hearing that stretched into the early morning.

Center for Creative Leadership's Leading Effectively, June 2013:

Don't Create an Innovation Department (aka the ''Innovation Ghetto'')
If you want to show your commitment to innovation, here's a piece of advice. Don't create an innovation department.

Redefine the Blend: Stop Ignoring 90% of Leadership Development
 Blended learning isn't changing the leadership development equation as much it seems. Here's a look at a better blend.

Delegating: Beyond ''Getting it off your desk''
 If you struggle with delegation, CCL's Clemson Turregano has a process that can help.

Fast Company, June 7, 2013:

Do You Use Intel Or Intuition? The Psychology Of Tough Decisions

Let's face it, when forced to make a difficult call, we often just go with our gut. But up against a tight deadline, that approach can blind us to the best decision. Here are some ways good leaders can avoid bad moves.

AAMC CAS-CFAS Mail, June 9, 2013:

"Lessons Learned: Stories from Women in Medical Management," a new book by editor and author Deborah Shlian, MD, MBA, profiles "24 exceptional female physicians who have defied the odds."

Fast Company, June 12, 2013:

6 Ways to Create a Culture of Innovation

Reward employees with time to think, while providing them with the structure they need.

AAMC CAS-CFAS Mail, June 13, 2013:

UCSF has posted an article about its current curriculum reform effort. Titled the "UCSF Bridges Curriculum Redesign," Catherine Lucey, M.D. (ELAM '06), vice dean for education at UCSF School of Medicine, said, "The curriculum is being redesigned from the perspective of what kind of doctor we need to meet the demands of practice in the 21st century...We're looking specifically at education to address some of the pressing and unmet needs that have been vexing us as providers and as institutions."

Fast Company, June 13, 2013:

Beyond IQ: 5 Ways To Reframe Success And Smarts

Some of the most successful people were "ungifted" according to traditional measures of intelligence. Here, insight from Scott Barry Kaufman and his book, Ungifted, on reevaluating your intellectual strengths and weaknesses and assumptions.

Fast Company, June 17, 2013:

11 Simple Tips For Having Great Meetings From Some Of The World's Most Productive People

Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Branson, Nilofer Merchant, Clay Shirky, Valentina Rice, Guy Kawasaki, and others know about getting things done, being productive, and keeping a crowd engaged. So when they talk, we should listen. Until the meeting is happily adjourned.

Salt Lake Tribune, June 17, 2013:

Few Women in Utah Corporate Boardrooms

"Even as more women are engaged in the workforce, women holding board positions are few and far between. Worldwide, 11 percent of corporate board positions are held by women, according to a 2013 report by GMI Ratings. An analysis by The Salt Lake Tribune shows that women occupy just 7.4 percent of board seats for the publicly traded companies on the Bloomberg Utah Index....Mary Beckerle, Ph.D. (ELAM '06), began her career in a lab studying cell movement. She worked up through the ranks of academia and research and eventually made her way to the boardroom. She now serves as chief executive of the Huntsman Cancer Institute and as a director for a number of associations including Huntsman Corp., where she's been a board member since 2011. Beckerle credits her fellow board members for 'being broad thinkers' and making her 'feel very comfortable.' But the fact is, she's the only woman on an 11-member board at Huntsman."

AAMC Wing of Zock, "Pattern Analysis," June 18, 2013:

Life in the '"Crease:'' Academic Medicine-Where the Knowledge Industry and the Health Industry Meet

The "crease" is what [author James Lewis] calls the interface between the academic world (part of the "knowledge industry") and the health care delivery world (part of the "health industry"). It is where academic medicine lives and, in my opinion, misunderstanding of that fact is the root cause of many conflicts between medical schools and their clinician faculty, and the teaching hospital. Those conflicts arise when medical schools and teaching hospitals seek individual greatness for the clinical and academic enterprises rather than greatness for the academic medical center in which they are inextricably intertwined. I stress, "inextricably intertwined."  Nearly everything done in the academic medical center, whether teaching, research, or clinical care, is a "joint product" created through inseparable efforts and components.