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Register here This one-hour interactive workshop will explore cynicism and how it is often leveraged as a protection mechanism during challenging and overwhelming times. We will also delve into the concept of radical acceptance and how it allows us to accept what is happening around us in a way that opens us to intentionally choosing
Register The keynote speaker for the 2025 UW School of Medicine Women Faculty Day will be Provost Tricia Serio. The theme for the day will be "Thriving in Community: Advocacy and Allyship in Academic Medicine"
Register here Please join us for an engaging presentation on cultivating a trauma-informed workplace at UW Medicine. We’ll discuss on our present-day workplace realities, with a focus on healthcare and research, and offer tangible tools for re-building trust and promoting work environments that support individual and collective well-being for our staff, faculty, learners, and patients.
Register here This is a repeat of the session held in late May 2025, and focuses on everything that needs to be done before gathering applications, including: search committee formation, effective charge messaging from hiring leaders, drafting job ads, and creating assessment rubrics.
Register here Overview This workshop provides an overview for all faculty on healthcare finances. Topics covered in this event include how we as a health system get paid, with a focus on fee-for-service, fee-for-value, and Medicare payment processes. Healthcare Finance 3-part Series Objectives: Learn how UW Medicine gets paid including fee for service, fee for
Register here Overview This workshop offers an overview of promotions and the promotion process for faculty in the School of Medicine, as well as tips from recently promoted faculty. It is relevant for physician scientists, clinician teachers and basic scientists. This program does not cover the promotion process for clinical faculty with annual appointments as
Transforming Your Career is a one-day, in-person, professional development workshop for UW School of Medicine faculty using Design Thinking. This workshop was created for faculty who might be considering new directions, different responsibilities, feel “stuck”, or are exploring transitioning into a next phase of their career. Participants will leave with clear goals, several visions of
Register here This session focuses on best practices for assessing applications, designing assessment rubrics, and effectively navigating search committee dynamics.
Register here Week 1: What is Self-Compassion - Definition and Science of Self-Compassion Training will include brief instructive talks, experiential exercises, and interactive small group discussions for application to daily challenges. In this 6-part series, participants will learn tools to: Care for oneself while caring for others Be aware of present moment experience (mindfulness) Listen
Register here Dr. Abby Hussein and Dr. Allison Lambert were sponsored to attend the 2024 AAMC Early Career Women Faculty Leadership Development Seminar. In this workshop they’ll share tips for how to identify your core values as a leader as well as strategies for integrating those values into your communication in authentic, confident ways.
Register here Join your colleagues for the first session of this year’s New Faculty Development Program. An Introduction to University Administration will help you understand how the University is structured, how decisions are made, and how you can navigate these systems as a new faculty member. The New Faculty Development Program offers regular workshops and
Register here Week 2: Practicing Self-Compassion with Mindfulness Training will include brief instructive talks, experiential exercises, and interactive small group discussions for application to daily challenges. In this 6-part series, participants will learn tools to: Care for oneself while caring for others Be aware of present moment experience (mindfulness) Listen with compassion Handle difficult emotions
Register here Identify Kotter’s 8-step change management framework, apply these steps to your personal change initiative, and how to overcome roadblocks and obstacles in your efforts to create a change initiative.
Register here Week 3 - Stress and Burnout: Understanding Empathy vs. Compassion; Self-Compassion for Caregiver Fatigue Training will include brief instructive talks, experiential exercises, and interactive small group discussions for application to daily challenges. In this 6-part series, participants will learn tools to: Care for oneself while caring for others Be aware of present moment
Register here Register by October 19, 2025. Registration includes a lecture reception with heavy hors d'oeuvres and beverages. Reception 5pm, Lecture 6pm. This annual event, established in 2005, recognizes faculty whose nationally recognized research advances diversity and social justice. Named for the UW's first vice president for the Office of Minority Affairs.
Register here This session focuses on practical tips and recommended practices for preliminary and secondary/final interviews.
Register here Week 4 - Motivating Ourselves with Caring and Fierce Compassion vs. Criticism Training will include brief instructive talks, experiential exercises, and interactive small group discussions for application to daily challenges. In this 6-part series, participants will learn tools to: Care for oneself while caring for others Be aware of present moment experience (mindfulness)
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Register here Week 5: Self-Compassion and Resilience - Strategies for Meeting Difficult Emotions Training will include brief instructive talks, experiential exercises, and interactive small group discussions for application to daily challenges. In this 6-part series, participants will learn tools to: Care for oneself while caring for others Be aware of present moment experience (mindfulness) Listen
Transforming Your Career is a one-day, in-person, professional development workshop for UW School of Medicine faculty using Design Thinking. This workshop was created for faculty who might be considering new directions, different responsibilities, feel “stuck”, or are exploring transitioning into a next phase of their career. Participants will leave with clear goals, several visions of
Register here Week 6: Making it Count: Reconnecting to Core Values Training will include brief instructive talks, experiential exercises, and interactive small group discussions for application to daily challenges. In this 6-part series, participants will learn tools to: Care for oneself while caring for others Be aware of present moment experience (mindfulness) Listen with compassion
Register here Overview This event is open to UW School of Medicine faculty only. This workshop is geared toward mid-career faculty who are interested in career advancement, and promotion from associate to full professor. There is practical advice about making five- and ten-year plans, how to be a mentor, and steps to promotion. You will
Register here Effective communication is an essential skill for all of us. In this interactive workshop learn the different types of communication, practice approaching a difficult discussion with a case study, and recognize biases and patterns in human behavior that may impact communication success. Best practices will be shared for various modes of communication as well as
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Register here Overview This course is designed to provide skills, strategies, and tools for faculty to use to better manage their time and keep their work organized. It includes creative productivity tips as well as email inbox management tools and settings. Objectives Learn mindsets and strategies for creatively increasing your productivity at work. Learn tools
Transforming Your Career is a one-day, in-person, professional development workshop for UW School of Medicine faculty using Design Thinking. This workshop was created for faculty who might be considering new directions, different responsibilities, feel “stuck”, or are exploring transitioning into a next phase of their career. Participants will leave with clear goals, several visions of
Register here Objectives Understand the requirements and different CV templates required for annual review and promotion at the SoM and Department level. Identify timeline and resources needed to create and maintain a CV on annual basis. Create strategies to create a CV that meets requirements for promotion while highlighting faculty work specific to academic medicine.
Register here Overview This workshop covers finance models blending value-based care with fee-for-service. Learn about what we do today, plus how disintermediation of insurance companies, bundle payments, and site of service work in a blended model. Healthcare Finance 201 Learning Objectives: 1. Understand the right profile for UW Medicine in blending Fee-For-Service (FFS) and Value-Based-Care (VBC) 2.
Register here Review tools and strategies for working through interpersonal conflicts in the workplace with colleagues. Learn about your own personal approach to conflict and communication, and set ground rules and intentions for difficult conversations with others. Learn the building blocks of conflict dialogue, conflict and power hierarchy, and prepare for conflict dialogue. This session
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Register here Overview Are you thinking about retiring from the faculty in the next few years? What do you need to know to prepare? Learn about the basics from the UW Benefits Offices (UW, UWP, and CUMG), including timeline and where to find out about health insurance and financial basics. You will also hear from
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Transforming Your Career is a one-day, in-person, professional development workshop for UW School of Medicine faculty using Design Thinking. This workshop was created for faculty who might be considering new directions, different responsibilities, feel “stuck”, or are exploring transitioning into a next phase of their career. Participants will leave with clear goals, several visions of
Register here Objectives Understand how the Teaching Portfolio is part of the promotions process but differs from the CV. Identify what information to include and emphasize in a Teaching Portfolio. Identify and review examples of Teaching Portfolio content beyond teaching and publications such as educational administration and other teaching activities. Understand and identify Teaching Portfolio
Register here Overview This course is designed to explain set up and navigation features of the Epic In Basket and provide tools and settings for clinical faculty to improve workflow and understand time spent in the Epic In Basket. This is a hands-on interactive workshop designed intentionally to be in a small group, in-person computer
Register here Explore critical components of the Stress First Aid model—initially designed to support the military and later customized for healthcare—and its invaluable tools for navigating stress in the workplace, no matter your role. Discover practical techniques and strategies aimed at providing immediate support and intervention during times of stress for yourself or for someone
For additional events from the following groups, please visit their calendars:
CLIME (Center for Learning and Innovation in Medical Education)
IPCE (Interprofessional Continuing Education)
ITHS (Institute of Translational Health Sciences) Faculty Development Career Series
UW GME Office (Graduate Medical Education)