Maximize your educational vision in healthcare. Given at the APGO 2016 Faculty Development Seminar Clerkship Director School

1. APGOAPGO Association of ProfessorsAssociation of Professors
of Gynecology & Obstetricsof Gynecology & Obstetrics

2. APGO Clerkship Directors’ School
Educational Leadership and Advocacy
Jodi F. Abbott, MD, MHCM
Vice Chair for Education
Department of Ob/Gyn
Co-Director: Patient Safety and Quality
Improvement Education
Associate Professor
Boston University School of Medicine
APGO Clerkship Directors’ School

3. APGO Clerkship Directors’ School
Educational Leadership and Advocacy
Jodi F. Abbott, MD, MHCM
Vice Chair for Education
Department of Ob/Gyn
Co-Director: Patient Safety and Quality
Improvement Education
Associate Professor
Boston University School of Medicine
APGO Clerkship Directors’ School A

4. Learning Objectives
• Recognize the clerkship director’s
responsibility to influence on behalf of
medical student education within your
department
• Understand the opportunities within your
role as clerkship director to advocate for
women’s health education in your
organization
• Establish elements in your clerkship that
effectively engage your students as women’s
health advocates

5. Rate your POWER in your
educational job at work
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6. Rate your INFLUENCE in your
educational job at work
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7. Change your perspective

8. Who do you teach?
1. Undergraduate students
2. Medical Students
3. Residents
4. Fellows
5. Nurses and Midwives
6. Administrators
7. Faculty
8. Patients
9. I’m a coordinator

9. Artificial Distinctions
Narrow our Perspective

10. Educators educate

11. Advocating for Medical Student
Education within your Department
• Write down 3 clinical or administrative
changes currently happening in your
department

12. Thought experiment
• Write down 3 changes currently
happening in your department
• Next to them write a PLUS if it is
GOOD for medical student education
and a MINUS if it is BAD for medical
student education

13. Thought experiment
• Write down 3 changes currently
happening in your department
• Next to them write a PLUS if it is
GOOD for medical student education
and a MINUS if it is BAD for medical
student education
• Consider an area of this change where
influencing others to implement your
idea would improve student experience

14. Thought experiment
• Write down 3 changes currently happening in
your department
• Next to them write a PLUS if it is GOOD for
medical student education and a MINUS if it
is BAD for medical student education
• Consider an area of this change where if you
had an idea to improve student experience you
could influence others to implement your
idea(s)
• Circle one of the changes and commit to
bringing ideas home to implement using your
influence

15. Bringing Women’s Health to the
Grown Ups Table

16. What brought you to this day?

17. Where OUTSIDE of your department can you
further Women’s Health Education?
Junior Fellow
ACOG
Community
Service
Projects
Develop
Educational
CME’s

18. Becoming an APGO resource
• APGO Scholars & Leaders program
• Share your experience: Roundtable
• Develop shared experiences (Find a
Friend): APGO Breakout sessions
• Educational scholarship: CREOG
annual meeting
• Publish your work: find the right place

19. Resident Led Advocacy

20. Resident Led Advocacy

21. Resident Led Advocacy

22. Programs to Develop your Educational
Leadership: Masters Programs

23. APGOAPGO Association of ProfessorsAssociation of Professors
of Gynecology & Obstetricsof Gynecology & Obstetrics
jabbott@bu.edu