TEACHING
TRAINING AND SUPPORT:
TEACHING PORTFOLIO - DEVELOP - LONG-TERM GOALS
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Long-Term Goals
Example |
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| Associate
Professor (Clinical Track) |
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| The
first of my goals is to continue to strengthen the fellowship
program at the University of Iowa. The need for academic rheumatologists
is beginning to be more widely recognized. In order to attract
top-quality people to the University of Iowa, we need to identify
promising internal medicine residents and students from within
our own program (and from without) and encourage their interest
through a mentoring process throughout their residency. Letting
a resident know we value their skills and see a bright future
for them in rheumatology can be a powerful tool. We also need
to market rheumatology as an intellectually stimulating and
rewarding profession. |
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| I
would also like to expand on my arthrocentesis project. We
are in the process of exploring ways to measure outcomes of
injections (patient satisfaction, observer documentation of
"adequate skill", operator confidence, efficacy
of injections and lack of side effects). Once these are in
place we can measure outcomes for skilled, staff physicians
and explore how much training is necessary for a trainee to
reach this level. |
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plan to work hard this year learning about the residency programs:
the organizational structure, recruiting, its problems and
its strengths. The key faculty for the residency program will
need to be organized into several focus areas: VA, recruiting,
and inpatient activities. |
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