Weekly Links September 15-19, 2008
EVENTS OF THE WEEK: Mentoring Program Related Events: Event Audience: WHCOE Mentoring Program participants only Brown Bag Luncheons: “Email Etiquette: How to Avoid Miscommunications & Misperceptions”, Dr. Ann Geiger September 17, 2008, 12:15 – 1pm Contact whcoe@wfubmc.edu to RSVP and for details. For the full 2008-2009 schedule, visit the mentoring page. Research Program Related Events: Event Audience: All Faculty Research Strategies Workshop September 22, 11:30 – 1, Cancer Center rooms 2A & 2B Tricks of the Trade: Things No One Ever Told You about Applying for a Grant - Linda Porrino, PhD, Physiology & Pharmacology and Mark Wolfson, PhD, Social Sciences & Health Policy Learn what to say in a cover letter, key agency contacts, what happens behind the scenes at NIH, what review committees are looking for and other important, yet unwritten rules to help get your grant funded. Lunch is courtesy of Jazzercise (http://www.winstonsalemjazz.com/). Contact whcoe@wfubmc.edu to RSVP.  For the full 2008-2009 workshop schedule, visit the research page.
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IN THE NEWS:   FALL 2008 "Be safe" CELL PHONE DRIVE - During the month of September, the WHCoE, in conjunction with Family Services, would like to collect your old cell phones and accessories. Review the flier for more information and a list of drop-off locations.   Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Classes Reduce and Manage Stress by: ·   Learning meditation practices to bring calmness into your life. ·   Living more fully and less on automatic pilot. ·   Being more present to yourself and others. Wednesday Mornings: September 24- November 12 (plus All Day Class Saturday November 1) Wednesday Evenings: September 24- November 12  (plus All Day Class Saturday November 1) Classes held at Reynolda Business Center. Sponsored by Northwest AHEC. For more information view the brochure, or call: Ann McCarty, M.S., PA-C at 908-1287 or Maggie Dailey, MPH, PhD at 414-1447. From InsideHigherEd.com: Study that anticipated professors’ satisfaction levels might sink to those of industry scientists gets surprising result: Academe is seen as a good place to work. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/08/06/satisfied%20   Center for Women’s Health Research Newsletter: http://www.cwhr.unc.edu/pdf/Newsletter_Aug08.pdf   The Chicago Tribune featured an article on a new report on the challenges of attracting and retaining women to the field of neurosurgery.  The report "highlights a potential problem of a shortage of neurosurgeons, given the increasing number of women in medicine, the authors say." According to the Tribune article, "Female board-certified neurosurgeons account for less than 6 percent of a neurosurgical workforce that numbers more than 3,000." http://tinyurl.com/6n4vac    An article in the Boston Globe discusses the impact of pregnancy on residents. The article reports that "There is little data on the number of female residents having babies, but program directors in many specialties believe childbirth is becoming more common, both because of the increase in female residents and because residents of both genders are demanding more balanced lives."  The article further reports, "In the last 10 years, most teaching hospitals have adopted maternity leave policies for residents. Even so, new moms face a range of difficulties beyond exhaustion, from time limits placed on maternity leaves by boards that certify physicians in their specialties to resentment from fellow residents who must shoulder extra work while they're gone." http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2008/09/01/doctor_mom/   Women begin post-Ph.D. careers with same success levels as men, but face significant differences in terms of work-family balance, new analysis finds. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/08/21/socsci   Survey of top research universities finds 36% of full-time faculty have academic partners, but study doesn’t find many formal hiring policies. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/08/20/dual   IU Researchers Launch Social Networking For Scientists Indiana University researchers have launched a Web-based solution to the complex problems of scientific collaboration called LABORATREE.    Inside Indiana Business, August 26, 2008   Paul Levy, the President and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, maintains a blog. He posted an entry which focuses on teaching hospital finances and will be of interest to anyone interested in academic medicine's fiscal future.  http://runningahospital.blogspot.com/2008/08/budget-time.html   The Summer 2008 issue of the AAMC's Faculty Vitae is now available. Faculty Vitae is a Web-based publication that brings resources for professional development to the desktops of faculty in medical schools and teaching hospitals. This issue focuses on issues related to the work of teams in academic medicine. http://www.aamc.org/facultyvitae   The Black Academic’s Guide to Winning Tenure -  Without Losing Your Soul:  Co-author of new book offers advice for both junior professors and the departments that hire them. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/08/08/black   Why ‘NonProfit’ does not mean ‘lose money’:  A budget analysis tool measures the degree to which individual programs, courses and even professors are profit-making or subsidized. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/08/11/budget     Burnout in Med School Linked to Suicidal Thoughts, Survey Says Doctors are more likely to take their own lives than are the rest of us. Their suicide rate is 40 percent higher for male physicians and 130 percent higher for female physicians than for other men and women.  Boston Globe and Boston.com, September 02, 2008   A former president discusses his new book in which he says colleges shouldn’t try to make their classrooms neutral. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/09/04/prince Position Announcements from ELAM ·         Chair, Dept of Pediatrics – Medical College of Georgia SOM ·         Chair, Dept of Medicine – Albany Medical College