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  • 1.  Community Poll: What is your biggest professional challenge right now?

    Posted 06-24-2020 02:06:00 PM
    What is your biggest professional challenge right now? Use the poll function on the Academic Medicine Open Forum community homepage (appears on the bottom right of the page) to share your feedback. 

    We welcome your comments and feedback, including any additional challenges not listed here, in the comments section of this thread.
    • Altering our standard business or teaching practices due to the COVID-19 pandemic
    • Inability to predict what my job will look like 6-12 months from now in uncertain times
    • Financial challenges for my institution (related to recession or impact of the pandemic)
    • Meeting the needs of my staff, colleagues, and/or students of color
    • Impact of burnout/stress on my staff, colleagues, and/or students


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    Stephanie Weiner
    Manager of Digital Strategy
    Association of American Medical Colleges
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  • 2.  RE: Community Poll: What is your biggest professional challenge right now?

    Posted 06-24-2020 02:52:00 PM
    My biggest professional challenge is preparing for our accreditation survey site visit while our medical schools is making adjustments due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our leadership is very taxed with altering practices due to COVID-19, especially on such short timelines, and adding all of the time required for adequate accreditation preparation is extremely difficult and will likely lead to burnout/stress for those in which it has not already occurred.

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    Lori DeShetler
    Assistant Dean for Assessment and Accreditation
    The University of Toledo
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  • 3.  RE: Community Poll: What is your biggest professional challenge right now?

    Posted 06-29-2020 12:55:00 PM
    There are several challenges.  The response to the first major wave of COVID-19 caused a lot of economic, educational, and personnel upheaval.  The challenge has been to manage through that upheaval while anticipating upcoming challenges as the spread of the virus in the community continues.  Now there are fewer individuals available to share an increased workload and that workload has the potential to be redistributed again.  This shifting landscape has lead to the need to also manage increased anxiety.  Understandably, people are not just stressed about their work; they are also stressed about their parents, childcare, finances, etc.  All of this has been has reminded us to focus on resources not just for students and patients, but resources for faculty and staff as we navigate this uncertainty.

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    Loretta Jackson-Williams
    Vice Dean for Medical Education
    University of Mississippi School of Medicine
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