Professional Development & Education | Orthopaedic Surgery | Michigan Medicine

At Michigan Orthopedics, we realize that professional development and education are a continuum through advanced degrees, residency / fellowship (clinical or post-doctoral) and beyond. To assist in the continuing development and education of all of our advanced life-long learners, we are regularly engaging our robust University / Michigan Medicine resources, innovating with our collective initiative, and actively improving our professional lives by incorporating expert and evidence based ideas from orthopaedics, medicine and beyond.

Happy learning and improving!

- Jaimo Ahn MD PhD, Associate Chair for Education

- Michelle Caird, MD, Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery

Current Recommendations

For May, June and beyond, please see below. There are 2 opportunities related to Professionalism-DEI and 1 for your Educator’s Portfolio as well as sessions (including recorded) for Promotions.

MICHR – Starting a Clinical Trial? Take a look at the Participant Recruitment Toolkit.
RISE (Research, Innovation, Scholarship, Education) – Virtual Talking Circle.
- Innovations in Interprofessional Education | Mon, May 16, 2022, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | LEARN MORE & REGISTER HERE
- Health Science Education Innovation Vision Task Force findings | Mon, June 13, 2022, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | LEARN MORE & REGISTER HERE
Academy of Medical Educators – Holly J. Humphrey, MD, MACP, President of Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation
- Thu, Jun 9, 2022, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM | TBA
Office of Professional Development – Implicit Bias Training
- LARA compliant sessions at various times, dates | LEARN MORE HERE
Office of Professional Development – Promotion Packet Dos and Don’ts.
- Clinical Track | Previous Recording | VIEW HERE
- Tenure Track | Previous Recording | VIEW HERE
- Research Track | Wed, May 11, 2022, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | LEARN MORE & REGISTER HERE
Office of Professional Development – Introduction to Mindfulness Weekly Series.
- Wed's, May 11, 18, 25, 2022, 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM | LEARN MORE & REGISTER HERE
Office of Professional Development – Developing Your Educator's Portfolio.
- Thu, Jun 9, 2022, 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM | LEARN MORE & REGISTER HERE
Office of Professional Development – Facilitating Conversations for an Anti-Racist Workplace.
- Thu, May 19, 2022, 11:30 PM – 1:00 PM | LEARN MORE & REGISTER HERE
Looking forward from the Office of Professional Development – Leadership Academy (If you’re interested please reply to me for future, Jun 2022, nomination) | LEARN MORE

* For those continuing to follow, WorkLife

* Research topics under separate cover (but just because it’s Dr Alford on May 12, 4-5pm speaking on TSPs and bone https://umich.zoom.us/j/98285259279(link is external) Passcode: 957155 | Additional DEI specific topics under separate cover

* Our department just successfully completed the Faculty Educator’s Program at Michigan with AO educators. Thanks to all those who participated and made it work.

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Developing Your Educator's Portfolio

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Michigan Orthopaedic Surgery Initiatives

Improving your life at work:

As you may have felt or realized, there is so much more to “work” than your primary professional activity. Mastering some of these other aspects enhance our professional activities (eg, learning behavior change, negotiating) and others simply contribute to greater emotional satisfaction (eg, being engaged rather than lonely). Wouldn’t it be great to learn about these topics, be entertained and not feel like you wasted time doing it?

Let Michigan alumnus/luminary, NY Times best seller, Wharton professor and engaging human, Adam Grant, introduce you to some different ways of thinking and behaving in your work life He has helped millions of people understand nuances around give-and-take, thinking and learning. You can start by listening to his Podcast Work Life, in ~40min episodes. Academic enough to intrigue your science brain and easy enough I can listen, think and even exercise at the same time.

If this really instigates thought and action, great. If not, no problem. It will at least entertain you if it doesn’t teach you something; and it will give us a common language and group of topics to consider beyond the “work” of work. So with that said, please look beyond your next case, next patient, next grant, next experiment and engage in making work more fun and meaningful. You can find the thought-provokers here https://www.adamgrant.net/podcast/ or on any of your post cast players. After listening and considering, we will engage and further exchange ideas.

December 2020 - Reinventing the job interview
January 2021 - Authenticity is a double-edged sword
February 2021 - Burnout is everyone’s problem
March 2021 - How to love criticism
April 2021 - How to trust people you don’t like
May 2021 - Bouncing back from rejection
June 2021 - Become friends with your rivals

Educate OFTN (Orthopaedic Frequent-Feedback & Teaching Now)

Part 1 - Feedback in 4 behaviors and Grand Rounds

New Behavior 1 - after every half session of clinic / every surgical case with a resident (could be as your closing?), ask them “What do you think went well?” & “What do you think you did well?” When they answer, nod affirmingly, thank them and move on with your day. Resist the urge to discuss more.

New Behavior 2 - after their response, tell them if you agree or not and why; then, you tell them “I think [XYZ] went well and you did [ABC] well.” Thank them for participating and move on with your day. Resist the urge to discuss what went poorly or what you would change, do better.

New Behavior 3 - then ask “What would you do differently?” When they answer, nod affirmingly (or mysteriously), thank them and move on with your day. Resist the urge to discuss more.

New Behavior 4 - after their response, tell them if you agree or not and why; then, you tell them “I think you/we could have done [XYZ]. Next time, consider [ABC].” Then thank them for participating and go on with your day.

Grand Rounds - understand the evidence and science of feedback and the Pendleton Method with educationalist Chitra Subramaniam PhD (education), toward a better practice of formative feedback

Part 2 - Competency and the O-Score

New Behavior 1 - For the next short week, before each case you perform with a resident (A) ask them to rate their expected performance on the scale of 1-5 below and then (B) perform the procedure toward that rating and (C) discuss their performance relative to their rating after the case.

New Behavior 2 - For the next week, after each case you perform with a resident (A) ask them to rate their performance on the scale of 1-5 below and then (B) you rate them on their performance; and finally (C) compare and discuss.

Grand Rounds - understand competency based surgical education and the O-Score, towards a better practice of formative feedback with Markuu Nousiainen MD, MEd, FRCS

XR in Orthopaedic Surgery Education

While orthopaedic surgery is among the most demanding in medicine for exacting and sequence oriented technical execution, our learners remain focused on mentorship based hands-on learning in the real-time OR environment that is primarily supplemented by strong cognitive efforts outside of the operating room. Unlike other performance based disciplines such as sports or performing arts, rehearsals, practices, scrimmages and the like remain secondary. And unlike other life-or-death engaging fields like aviation, technology and innovation driven simulation is not forefront. Recently, however, there has been emerging interest in the implementation of XR to enhance orthopaedic surgical education and evidence to support it. Therefore, in 2021, we plan to:

Incorporate VR based simulation training into orthopaedic surgery Intern Education and structured curricula for trauma, arthroplasty and arthroscopy
Include orthopaedic surgery residents and their teachers as learners
Engage partner institutions for the comparative analysis of meaningful variables and outcomes (Duke, UCSF, HSS)
Collaborate with other surgical XR colleagues toward the development of a NSF proposal to advance XR-based medical education

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