New Faculty Scholars Webinars

The STFM New Faculty Scholars webinar series was developed as part of the STFM New Faculty Scholars Program, which develops leadership and scholarship skills in a cohort of early career faculty. The webinars were originally presented directly to the New Faculty Scholars, but the entire series is now available.

The STFM New Faculty Scholars webinar series was developed as part of the STFM New Faculty Scholars Program, which develops leadership and scholarship skills in a cohort of early career faculty. The webinars were originally presented directly to the New Faculty Scholars, but the entire series is now available to the STFM membership for free. Nancy Pandhi, MD, MPH, PhD, as part of the scholarly coaching arm of the New Faculty Scholars, along with Suzanne Minor, MD, STFM Foundation Trustee, developed and coordinated the webinar series to be relevant and inclusive across academic or community family practice settings and applicable regardless of prior experience with scholarship.Faculty leaders across the country generously provided the webinar content on the potential for and practical aspects of scholarship in an academic family medicine career. Click on the tabs below to view webinar recordings and resources.

Past Webinar Recordings

Webinar #1: Aligning Scholarship With Our Work
Webinar #2: Turning Your Presentation Into a Publication
Webinar #3: Thinking About Publication: Advice from Family Medicine Journal Editors
Webinar #4: Combining Scholarship and Advocacy
Webinar #5: Bringing Scholarship to Quality Improvement and Clinical Innovation Efforts
Webinar #6: Leading Change
Webinar #7: The Scholarly Mindset
Webinar #8: Publishing With Efficiency
Webinar #9: Approaching Research Design
Webinar #10 How to Build Research Skills With CERA
Webinar #11: Patience, Persistence, and Partnership: Stories of Two Seminal Articles in Family Medicine Research
Webinar #12: Time Management Strategies for Academic Success
Webinar #13: Health Policy as Advocacy
Webinar #14: Situational Leadership and Adaptability
Webinar #15: The Promotion Process, Telling Your Story
Webinar #16: Mentoring in Medicine to Achieve Academic Promotion
Webinar #17: Communicating Research and Scholarship in Uncertain Times
Webinar #18: Avoid the Burn: Strategies to Protect Your Wellbeing

Aligning Scholarship With Our Work

Recorded September 17, 2020

In this webinar, John Frey, III, MD, offers guidance for early and mid-career faculty on how to align their scholarly work with their academic career and unique interests and skills.

Content covered in the session includes:

  • How the type of institution determines the type of training
  • How to build a career anchor
  • Determinants of an academic career

Presenters

Presenter: John Frey, III, MD

What You Need to Know About ACGME and ABFM Expectations for a Shift to Competency-Based Medical Education

Recorded October 9, 2020

Suzanne Minor, MD, FAAFP, talks about how to turn a presentation into a publication through understanding the types of scholarship, noting the required elements of submission, and organizing submission for the correct journal. 

Objectives for the session include: 

  • Recognize that using a scholarly approach will build a foundation for transforming work into presentations and publication
  • Recognize that Glassick's Criteria can be used to assess scholarship and is a framework for creating one's own scholarship
  • Create a SMART plan for your next step in working on your own scholarship

Presenters

Presenter: Suzanne Minor, MD

Thinking About Publication: Advice from Family Medicine Journal Editors

Recorded December 2, 2020

 

PRiMER and Family Medicine journal editors Christopher P. Morley, PhD, MA, CAS, and John Saultz, MD, give advice on how to prepare for publication. They cover practical tips on how to think about the purpose of your manuscript, identify the appropriate journal, understand journal guidelines, respond to a reviewer, publication timelines, and more.

Presenters

Presenters: Christopher P. Morley, PhD, MA, CAS; John Saultz, MD

Combining Scholarship and Advocacy

Recorded November 12, 2020

 

Tanya Anim-Fowler, MD, describes how local and national advocacy work can be turned into scholarly work. Areas such as population medicine, social determinants of health, systemic racism and more can all be developed into presentations or publications, in part through collaboration with professional associations.

Objectives for this session are that learners will be able to: 

  • Cite the ACGME requires for faculty scholarly activity
  • List their passions which they can turn into ideas for scholarly work
  • Develop a plan to pursue their advocacy work
  • Prepare manuscripts, posters, or other publications to publicize their advocacy work

Presenters

Presenter: Tanya Anim-Fowler, MD

Bringing Scholarship to Quality Improvement and Clinical Innovation Efforts

Recorded January 21, 2021

 



 

Sally Kraft, MD, MPH, delineates key differences between traditional research and quality improvement efforts while explaining how to produce scholarly work from your quality improvement. Excellent quality improvement empowers action while fixing and improving something in the real world.

Presenter

Presenter: Sally Kraft, MD, MPH

Leading Change

Recorded March 18, 2021

 

 

Richard Roberts, MD, JD, FAAFP, FCLM, describes the challenges of research in terms of strategy and influence. He covers the types of leaders and decision-making styles and describes the key aspects of transformational leadership.

Presenters

Presenter: Richard Roberts, MD, JD, FAAFP, FCLM

The Scholarly Mindset

Recorded January 2022

 

 

In this webinar, Suzanne Minor, MD, offers guidance for early and mid-career faculty desiring to participate in scholarship in their academic careers. 

Content covered in this session includes:

  • Identifying the barriers to scholarship
  • Approaching scholarship
  • Defining the types of scholarship
  • Finding a research mentor
  • Practical tips for participating scholarship

Presenters

Presenter: Suzanne Minor, MD

Publishing With Efficiency

Recorded February 2022

 

 

In this webinar, Nancy Pandhi, MD, MPH, PhD, gives resources for publishing your academic writing including choosing a journal and finalizing your project for submission. Dr Pandhi also provides practical resources for those looking to start a project of their own or assemble a writing team. 

Questions to consider include:

  • What audience is interested in the conversation I want to have?
  • How quickly do I want to get this in print?
  • What is my tolerance of rejection?
  • Do I have resources to pay for open access journals?

Presenters

Presenter: Nancy Pandhi, MD, MPH, PhD

Approaching Research Design: Practical Steps and Considerations

Recorded April 2022

 

 

In this webinar, Nancy Pandhi, MD, MPH, PhD, discusses the scholarly mindset necessary to design a research project. Dr Pandhi also compares the potential methodologies for conducting research. 

Overview:

  • Creating interesting and answerable research questions
  • Practical tips for completing a literature review
  • Comparing study designs

Presenters

Presenter: Nancy Pandhi, MD, MPH, PhD

How to Build Research Skills With CERA

Recorded June 2022

 

 

In this webinar, Heather Paladine, MD, MEd, shares the vision and mission of CERA to provide excellent family medicine research and provide training and mentorship in educational research roles. She gives practical tips for the proposal process for contributing questions to a CERA survey.

Overview:

  • Overview of the five CERA surveys
  • Examples of CERA survey topics
  • The CERA proposal process
  • Developing a good research question and hypothesis

Presenters

Presenter: Heather Paladine, MD, MEd

Using Electives Effectively to Help Residents Attain Competency in the Core Outcomes

Recorded January 2023

 

In this webinar, John Frey III, MD, shares ways of turning a series of leadership opportunities into a career while overcoming the pressure of promotion.

Overview:

  • Developing a career anchor
  • Choosing a supportive institution for your career
  • Learning from failure

Presenters

Presenter: John Frey III, MD

Time Management Strategies for Academic Success

Recorded May 2023

 

 

In this webinar, Susan Johnson, MD, MS, dispels the myth that you need large blocks of uninterrupted time before you can work on important projects by teaching key time management strategies for your projects, days, and weeks.

The agenda includes:

  • Defining and organizing project work
  • Tactical planning: the week and the day
  • Finding time for project work and writing

Presenters

Presenter: Susan Johnson, MD, MS

Health Policy as Advocacy

Recorded June 2023

 

 

Health begins where you live, learn, work, and play. In this webinar, Renee Crichlow, MD, explains how public health policy affects patients and the impact of advocacy on shaping those policies.

Overview:

  • Importance of the social determinants of health
  • Improvements in public health from 1900-1999
  • Bardach's Health Policy Checklist

Presenters

Presenter: Renee Crichlow, MD

Situational Leadership and Adaptability

Recorded February 2024

Natalia V. Galarza Carrazco, MD, discusses the evolving healthcare landscape which puts physicians in leadership positions. She describes the attributes and skills of effective leaders as well as the model of Situational Leadership.

Learning Objectives:

  • Outline the paradigm shift for successful leadership in medicine.
  • Discuss the role emotional intelligence plays in physician leadership.
  • Describe the model of Situational Leadership and how adaptability can reinforce leading strong teams.

Presenters

Presenter: Natalia V. Galarza Carrazco, MD

The Promotion Process, Telling Your Story

Recorded April 2024

 

 

Kendall M. Campbell, MD, discusses promotion within academic family medicine. This webinar is part of the STFM Foundation New Faculty Scholars Scholarship Series, offering guidance for early and mid-career faculty on how to align their scholarly work with their academic career and unique interests and skills.

By completing this webinar, participants will be able to:

  • Discuss seven basics of promotion
  • Define a story as it relates to a career in academic medicine
  • Define two flows for shaping scholarship
  • Learn how to add CV entries that promote career growth and story development

Presenters

Presenter: Kendall M. Campbell, MD

Mentoring in Medicine to Achieve Academic Promotion

Recorded June 2024

 

 

Juan Robles, MD, shares path to academic family medicine as well as his passion for mentoring in medical education. This webinar is part of the STFM Foundation New Faculty Scholars Scholarship Series, which offers guidance for early and mid-career faculty on how to align their scholarly work with their academic career and unique interests and skills.

Presenters

Presenter: Juan Robles, MD

Communicating Research and Scholarship in Uncertain Times

Recorded February 2025

 

 

This webinar is part of the STFM Foundation New Faculty Scholars Scholarship Series. Offering guidance for early and mid-career faculty on how to align their scholarly work with their academic career and unique interests and skills. 

Content covered in the session includes:

  • Communicating research and scholarship
  • What to write
  • How to choose a journal
  • How to find journals
  • Types of scholarship
  • Misconduct in research and publishing

Presenters

Presenter: John Frey, III, MD

Avoid the Burn: Strategies to Protect Your Wellbeing

Recorded June 13, 2025

 

 

This webinar is part of the STFM Foundation New Faculty Scholars Scholarship Series. Offering guidance for early and mid-career faculty on how to align their scholarly work with their academic career and unique interests and skills. 

Objectives:

  • Define burnout and discuss consequences of burnout
  • Discuss individual and workplace factors that contribute to burnout
  • Describe how to identify burnout in self and others (e.g. mentees, trainees)
  • Discuss ways to combat burnout and protect wellbeing

Presenters

Presenter: Alesia Jones, PhD

Watch More STFM Webinars

Want to watch more webinars hosted by STFM? We have webinars not all specific to one topic and covering academic family medicine as a whole. There are also other topic-specific webinar series available to view.

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