scholarly journals Recommendations to guide Vice Chairs for Education in serving as effective leaders

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-26
Author(s):  
Kristina Dzara ◽  
Brittany Star Hampton ◽  
Maya Hammoud ◽  
Lori R. Berkowitz
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Faculty Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Obstetrics And Gynecology ◽  
Role Clarity ◽  
Clinical Learning Environment ◽  
Effective Leaders ◽  
Educational Initiatives ◽  
Gynecology And Obstetrics ◽  
National Body

Background: Vice Chairs for Education play an increasingly important role in academic medicine. They often serve in supportive roles overseeing educational initiatives and faculty development, ensuring that education remains prioritized. Literature in this area is limited, especially in obstetrics and gynecology. Prior literature has not been sufficiently directive in identifying best practices in role, mission, and scope for Vice Chairs for Education. Methods: We developed and facilitated a workshop at the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics - Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology (APGO-CREOG) annual meeting in February 2020. We brought together a national group of medical education faculty to elucidate the role of Vice Chairs and offer recommendations. After utilizing a previously described technique for gathering and reporting group recommendations, notes from small- and large-group discussions were collated, coded, and collapsed. Results: Four broad recommendations resulted. First, role clarity must be ensured, ideally with co-developed guidelines for responsibility. Second, the Vice Chair for Education should be charged with identifying departmental educational initiatives, including faculty development, utilizing best educational practices. Third, Vice Chairs for Education should implement and evaluate educational initiatives to enhance faculty well-being and promote a robust clinical learning environment. Finally, they should integrate with other Vice Chairs for Education within their institution and as part of national organizations to collaborate and develop best practices. Conclusion: These serve as guidelines to establish success and increase impact and suggest the potential for a national body of Vice Chairs for Education leaders to improve local and national educational outcomes.

Do Work Characteristics Mediate the Negative Effect of Transformational Leadership on Impaired Well-Being?

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 167-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvie Vincent-Höper ◽  
Sabine Gregersen ◽  
Albert Nienhaus
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Leadership Behavior ◽  
Workplace Health Promotion ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Related Factor ◽  
Work Characteristics ◽  
Role Clarity

Abstract: In recent years, transformational leadership as a health-related factor has become a focal point of interest in research and practice. However, the pathways and mechanisms underlying this association are not yet well understood. In order to gain knowledge on how or why transformational leadership and employee well-being are associated, we investigated the mediating effect of the work characteristics role clarity and predictability. The study was carried out on 618 employees working in the health-care sector in Germany. We tested the mediator effect using structural equation modeling. The results indicate that role clarity and predictability fully mediate the relation between transformational leadership and negative indicators of well-being. These results give credit to the notion that work characteristics play an important role in identifying health-relevant aspects of leadership behavior. Our findings advance the understanding of how to enhance employee well-being and have implications for the design of leadership-related interventions of workplace health promotion.

scholarly journals Using Participatory Design to Design an eHealth Well-Being Program

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (14) ◽  
pp. 7250
Author(s):  
Yannick van Hierden ◽  
Timo Dietrich ◽  
Sharyn Rundle-Thiele
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
End User ◽  
Ehealth Intervention ◽  
Pilot Intervention ◽  
User Friendly

In recent years, the relevance of eHealth interventions has become increasingly evident. However, a sequential procedural application to cocreating eHealth interventions is currently lacking. This paper demonstrates the implementation of a participatory design (PD) process to inform the design of an eHealth intervention aiming to enhance well-being. PD sessions were conducted with 57 people across four sessions. Within PD sessions participants experienced prototype activities, provided feedback and designed program interventions. A 5-week eHealth well-being intervention focusing on lifestyle, habits, physical activity, and meditation was proposed. The program is suggested to be delivered through online workshops and online community interaction. A five-step PD process emerged; namely, (1) collecting best practices, (2) participatory discovery, (3) initial proof-of-concept, (4) participatory prototyping, and (5) pilot intervention proof-of-concept finalisation. Health professionals, behaviour change practitioners and program planners can adopt this process to ensure end-user cocreation using the five-step process. The five-step PD process may help to create user-friendly programs.

Have we met the educational challenges of obstetrics and gynecology? A response to the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics Initiative of 1986

2002 ◽  
Vol 187 (5) ◽  
pp. 1405-1412 ◽  
Author(s):  
William P. Metheny ◽  
Joseph M. Ernest ◽  
Jay Bachicha ◽  
Jessica Bienstock ◽  
Mary C. Ciotti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Obstetrics And Gynecology ◽  
Gynecology And Obstetrics ◽  
Educational Challenges

Reducing child poverty by promoting child well-being: Identifying best practices in a time of great need

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (10) ◽  
pp. 1999-2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth K. Anthony ◽  
Bryn King ◽  
Michael J. Austin
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Well Being

scholarly journals Evidence-informed interventions and best practices for supporting women experiencing or at risk of homelessness: a scoping review with gender and equity analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Anne Andermann ◽  
Sebastian Mott ◽  
Christine M. Mathew ◽  
Claire Kendall ◽  
Oreen Mendonca ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Systematic Reviews ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Randomized Trials ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Exposure To Violence ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Homeless Population ◽  
Equity Analysis

Introduction While much of the literature on homelessness is centred on the experience of men, women make up over one-quarter of Canada’s homeless population. Research has shown that women experiencing homelessness are often hidden (i.e. provisionally housed) and have different pathways into homelessness and different needs as compared to men. The objective of this research is to identify evidence-based interventions and best practices to better support women experiencing or at risk of homelessness. Methods We conducted a scoping review with a gender and equity analysis. This involved searching MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO and other databases for systematic reviews and randomized trials, supplementing our search through reference scanning and grey literature, followed by a qualitative synthesis of the evidence that examined gender and equity considerations. Results Of the 4102 articles identified on homelessness interventions, only 4 systematic reviews and 9 randomized trials were exclusively conducted on women or published disaggregated data enabling a gender analysis. Interventions with the strongest evidence included post-shelter advocacy counselling for women experiencing homelessness due to intimate partner violence, as well as case management and permanent housing subsidies (e.g. tenant-based rental assistance vouchers), which were shown to reduce homelessness, food insecurity, exposure to violence and psychosocial distress, as well as promote school stability and child well-being. Conclusion Much of the evidence on interventions to better support women experiencing homelessness focusses on those accessing domestic violence or family shelters. Since many more women are experiencing or at risk of hidden homelessness, population-based strategies are also needed to reduce gender inequity and exposure to violence, which are among the main structural drivers of homelessness among women.

scholarly journals A methodological proposal for the estimation of the Standard Output of dog breeding. A study case from Italy

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Franco Mari
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Production Cycle ◽  
Agricultural Activity ◽  
Present Contribution ◽  
Good Opportunity ◽  
Agricultural Income ◽  
Breeding Technique ◽  
National Body ◽  
Standard Output ◽  
Dog Breeding

In countries with a post-industrial economy, where agriculture evolves towards rural development, canine breeding can be a good opportunity to integrate agricultural income. Despite this and despite being an agricultural activity in all respects, cynophilia is not contemplated among the productive activities for which the calculation of Standard Output is envisaged, an economic variable set by the EU to measure the economic size of farms aimed at the granting of aid. Considering the inconvenience that this causes to canine breeders, the present contribution proposes a methodology for estimating the variable under examination consistent with the community legislation and based on a method of breeding that meets theprinciples of animal welfare. As dog breeding is not intended for production of food or other material goods other than puppies, its production cycle is not suitable for a subdivision based on homogeneous categories of age or weight, as occurs in traditional farms. The consistency with the community legislation, which is realized in the quantification of the annual production of the breeding, has therefore been obtained by means of the financial discounting of the costs and revenues obtainable throughout the entire production cycle and in calculation of their annual share. The compliance of the breeding technique with the principles of animal well-being, on the other hand, stems from compliance with the rules laid down in the Ethical code of the breeder of dogs prepared by Enci – Ente Nazionale della Cinofilia Italiana (Italian National Body for Cynophilia). The data needed to estimate the costs and revenues associated with dog breeding are almost completely available online and the results obtained are congruous and very interesting.

Business Continuity of Critical Infrastructures for Safety and Security Incidents

2020 ◽  
pp. 413-449
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Apostolou ◽  
Danai Kazantzidou-Firtinidou ◽  
Ilias Gkotsis ◽  
George Eftychidis
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Business Continuity ◽  
Critical Infrastructures ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Practical Guidelines ◽  
Security Incidents

The chapter is an overview of important timely concepts with a focus on the safety and security of critical infrastructures (CIs). The content is a result of triangulation of sources from the fields of academia, best practices, legislation, and scientific research. The protection of CIs has been a popular topic of discussion through recent years but also a topic for initiative towards the undisrupted function, prosperity and well-being of nations in a world of interconnections and dependencies. In respect to that, the following content offers input which will assist in the understanding of the concepts surrounding the safety and security of CIs while combining theoretical approaches with practical guidelines for the composition of a business continuity plan. The chapter also discusses the factors contributing to the criticality of technical infrastructures as part of a nation or a cross-border network, the threats to which a CI can be exposed to whether these are natural or man-made.

The MORE Model for Faculty Development

2010 ◽  
pp. 505-516
Author(s):  
Walter Wager
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Faculty Development ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Learner Centered ◽  
Integration Of Technology ◽  
Improving Instruction ◽  
Faculty Success ◽  
Instructional Best Practices ◽  
Faculty Development Centers ◽  
Innovation And Change

For many faculty the integration of technology and learner-centered teaching strategies or the adoption of instructional “best practices” represents innovation and change. The author visited fifteen research intensive university faculty development centers, looking at what they considered best practices with regard to improving instruction. The practices and programs described had one or more of the following components: Motivation, Opportunity, Resources and Evaluation, what I am calling here the MORE model. This paper discusses these four factors important to instructional change agents. The paper ends with a list of implications, based on the model, for that would enable faculty development centers to have more control over the factors that are important to faculty success and systemic change.

Sweden

2019 ◽  
pp. 435-440
Author(s):  
Michael J. Bazyler ◽  
Kathryn Lee Boyd ◽  
Kristen L. Nelson ◽  
Rajika L. Shah
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Nazi Germany ◽  
Diplomatic Relations ◽  
World War ◽  
Policy Attitudes ◽  
Immigrant Policy ◽  
Economic Well Being

Sweden maintained a policy of uneven neutrality throughout World War II. While the Swedish government initially maintained a strict anti-immigrant policy, attitudes changed once World War II began. When Swedish authorities learned in 1942 that the Germans sought to deport Jews from Denmark and Norway, they aided in the rescue of thousands of Jews from the two neighboring countries. Throughout the war, Sweden maintained diplomatic relations with Nazi Germany. The Nazis sought to have Aryanization policy carried out in Sweden with respect to German-controlled companies operating in Sweden and also for Swedish companies with links to Germany. In the end, however, efforts to Aryanize property in Sweden were not very effective and did not have a major impact on the economic well-being of Swedish Jews. Sweden endorsed the Terezin Declaration in 2009 and the Guidelines and Best Practices in 2010.

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