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Invited Speakers from the 2022 Physicians-in-Training Leadership Conference

February 24, 2022 // Randy Glick

Did you miss the 2nd Annual Physicians-in-Training Leadership Conference in New Orleans, LA?

Check out the invited guest speakers from the conference! Abstract presentations are coming soon!

Defying the Odds: How to Succeed in Medicine

Presented by Dr. Mary Killackey

Dr. Killackey will review key turning points and decisions in her personal journey to leadership as well as basic leadership tenets, including:

  • The Beginning - Understanding why and motivation;
  • The Middle - Overcoming Fear, Taking Risks, and Managing Ambiguity;
  • The “Now” - Recognizing Opportunity for Impact, and Commitment to Something Greater than Oneself;
  • and How being a woman has made this harder and easier to achieve-the reality.

Scholarship for the Busy Physician

Presented by Christopher Jackson, MD

Dr. Christopher Jackson will provide guidance about finding research projects that are doable during training, examples of such projects, and the formula for starting and finishing projects.

By the end of this session, attendees should be able to:

  • Identify various opportunities for research/scholarship from your daily work;
  • Implement the five step formula that can help you turn any project into a scholarship;
  • Address common pitfalls that come up with research projects during training.
  • and How being a woman has made this harder and easier to achieve-the reality.

How I Made It Through: Navigating Residency & Childrearing

Presented by Safiya K. Lyn-Lassiter, MD

The goal for this lecture is for the audience to understand the current parental leave policy and how it impacts medical residents. Raise awareness of the physical and emotional effects that women physicians endure by having children at a later age. Offer medical residents effective strategies for navigating difficult conversations surrounding family-planning, pregnancy, parental leave, post-partum & return to work. Suggest feasible interventions designed to reduce discrimination against childbearing physicians.

Accelerating Change in Medical Education

Presented by Gerald Harmon, MD, AMA President

This message, which will impact all members of the healthcare community, will address advocacy, education, and important public health issues, as well as why association membership is so important.
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