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IN THE NEWS:
Leading Effectively, the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) e-newsletter: The June issue includes articles on 10 Techniques to Handle Conflict and Learning to Adapt: A 360-degree View. http://www.ccl.org/leadership/enewsletter/current.aspx?pageid=303
WomensMedia includes a website and e-newsletter with some very effective, thought-provoking, and informative articles on working, leading, finding balance, money, coaching, etc. There also are a blog and podcast available. For instance, the article on Equality and Equity:
http://womensmedia.com/lead/85-equality-and-equity--equal-and-different.html
To see the current issue and sign up to subscribe to the e-newsletter, go to
http://womensmedia.com/
Information Technology: Not a Cure for the High Cost of Health Care: Advocates and policymakers often argue or assume that applying a new form of information technology (IT) will save money and improve the quality of health care. But there are some who are not so certain, especially about IT's cost-cutting promise. One Wharton professor argues that IT could actually raise costs because of culture clashes, training, the implementation of the systems and the labor required to maintain the new technology.
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/2260.cfm
Leaving 'Friendprints': How Online Social Networks Are Redefining Privacy and Personal Security: A generation is growing up with social networking web sites such as Facebook and MySpace, casually posting accounts of their lives for their friends -- and the world -- to see. Few of these users realize that the information they post, when combined with new technologies for gathering and compiling data, can create a fingerprint-like pattern of behavior. The information provides opportunities not only for legitimate businesses, but also for identity thieves and other predators, according to faculty at Wharton and elsewhere.
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/2262.cfm
Call for Abstracts and Applications: 2010 John E. Chapman Medal Award/Request for Nominations: The Chapman Medal seeks to encourage, support, and recognize leadership in the field of biomedical education. The winner of the Chapman Medal will deliver the annual Chapman Lecture at which time he/she will receive a bronze medallion, created and awarded by Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) in memory of Dr. John E. Chapman’s long and outstanding service in the field of medical education as well as his commitment to the life long education of all VUSM graduates.
A nominee must be a nationally recognized leader in the field of medical education--one who has made seminal and transforming contributions to bio-medical education. Submit your letters of nomination by July 31, 2009 to the address below. Please include supporting documentation including the nominee’s curriculum vitae if available. Note that nominees are not restricted to VUSM faculty or alumni.
Mail nominations to: The Chapman Medal Selection Committee, Office of Undergraduate Medical Education, VUSMedicine, 203 Light Hall, Nashville, TN 37232-0685
Or Fax to: 615-936-8475
Or Email: ann.price@vanderbilt.edu
Position Announcements from ELAM
Chief, Mental Health Service, Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System
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