Faculty Development Workshops for Health Professionals

Offered to the staff of healthcare organizations throughout the Northeast.

James J. Deary, EdD
The Institute for Urban Family Health
16 East 16th St.
New York, NY 10003
212.989.3814

jdeary@institute2000.org

Leadership and Management
Increase your understanding of how to influence people and how "situational leadership" can be used to develop strategies for increasing productivity of providers and administrators;

Increase your understanding of how the behavior of 'followers' can have an impact on the style they receive from their 'leaders';

Include discussions on the relative mix of skills as individuals change their levels of responsibility within an organization;

Organizational Development
Drawing on models used in industry as well as in the not-for-profit world, this workshop will take participants through the beginning steps of an organizational analysis and diagnosis of their own programs. Residency Directors and Program Administrators who are faced with growth issues such as managing change, developing teams, and initiating new organizational structures will benefit from this workshop.

Group Dynamics

Psychosocial Issues in the Medical Treatment of Inner-City Families

Dealing with the Difficult Resident
Participants will learn to: recognize dysfunctional faculty responses; apply a set of functional strategies; and apply evaluation and feedback to the difficult resident within the framework of these strategies.

Teaching Family Assessment and Family Systems
This workshop focuses on the family systems-oriented interview:
The genogram in primary care
The family of origin
Sibling position
Ritualized behaviors in systems
Death and dying

Practice Management
This workshop focuses on both the development and functioning of primary healthcare delivery in a variety of settings within the changing health care environment. Topics include:

Practice Options
Market Research
Practice Promotion
Patient Volume
Revenue Sources
Practice Finance
Billing and Accounts Receivable

Advanced Precepting Techniques
This workshop is designed for physicians, nurse practitioners, mid-wives and physician assistants who precept in a primary care environment. Participants will identify and become familiar with the teaching and learning behaviors associated with productive precepting.

Presentation Skills
This workshop defines the skill and "art" of making presentations to groups of all sizes and for a wide variety of purposes, and is essential for all medical practitioners.

Teaching the Primary Care of HIV Infection

Complementary Medicine
A general introduction to the ways in which aspects of Chinese Medicine, herbology, hypnotherapy, relaxation and breathing training, and yogic therapy may be used as adjuncts or alternatives to patient centered primary care. Both explanatory and experiential material from all these disciplines will be presented.

The Telephone in Primary Care
Fifteen to twenty percent of all primary medical contacts occur on the phone. This workshop identifies five core issues as the basis for effective telephone encounters.