Faculty Development

Title: Chalk Talks That Stick: How to Build High-Impact Mini-Lectures

Speakers: Nathaniel Adjei, MD, FACP & Allysia Houser, DO, MPH

Objectives: 

1. Describe key features and educational value of the chalk talk format.
2. Apply the principles of cognitive load management, active recall, and visual scaffolding when designing and delivering chalk talk.
3. Identify opportunities for AI integration in preparation and delivering of chalk talk.

Title: Be Your Best Bedside Teacher

Speakers: Michelle Huddleston, MD & Emily Mallin, MD, FACP, SFHM

Objectives: 

1. Discuss the advantages and obstacles to effective bedside teaching.
2. Develop a strategy to improve bedside teaching technique.

Date: November 14, 2025

Title: Same Team, Different Lingo

Speaker: Jennifer Nelson, DO, and Allysia Houser, DO

Objectives: 

1. Identify common generational stereotypes and discuss challenges with intergenerational communication in medicine
2. Describe the components of the Minnesota Arc framework for alliance-based interviewing
3. Apply the Minnesota Arc to difficult conversations in medical education
4. Formulate strategies to promote collaboration during difficult conversations

Date: September 25, 2025

Title: Feedback is Not a Dirty Word

Speaker: Paul Tran, MD

Objectives: 

1. Illustrate traditional and current approaches to feedback.
2. Discuss aspects of feedback conversations that seem "dirty" and propose ways to "clean them up."

Date: April 5, 2024

Title: IM Faculty Dev Tips to improve performance-related feedback and narrative comments in trainee evaluations.

Speaker: Michelle Huddleston, MD

Objectives: 

1. Differentiate feedback from assessment.
2. Discuss barriers to providing feedback.
3. Discuss common challenges in writing evaluations.
4. Review and critique sample evaluations.
5. Apply a set of guidelines to improve written evaluations.

Date: September 27, 2023

Title: Implicit Gender Bias and Microaggressions

Speaker: Arghavan Salles

Date: February 4, 2022