Archived Health Systems Science (HSS) Sessions

Archived Video Index

October 2022: Medical Students, Stress and Coping Skills: Taking a Look by David Musick, PhD, Tracey Criss, MD, and Mariah Rudd, MEd

August 2022: Moving Upstream: Addressing Social Determinants of Health by Aaron Boush, MHA

June 2022: Enhancing Patient Health Literacy: Universal Health Literacy Approaches by Kathleen Porter, PhD, RD

April 2022: Leveraging Cognitive Diversity in Addressing Complex Healthcare Problems–Part 1

December 2021: Digital Identify and Wellness: Who You Are Determines How Well You Are by Keel Coleman, DO, MBA, FACEP

October 2021: Leading and Influencing with Impact by Mark H. Greenawald, MD and Jennifer Havens, MBA, ACC

August 2021: Patient Safety and Quality Improvement – Systems Perspective and Applied Approaches by Suzy Kraemer, MD, FACP, and Tananchai A. Lucktong, MD

June 2021: Population Health and Social Determinants in Health and Healthcare by Cynthia Morrow, MD, and Aaron Boush, MHA

February 2021: Health Systems Science: What is it and Why is it Important in Medical Education? by Natalie Karp, MD, Cynthia Morrow, MD, MPH, and Sarah Hendrickson Parker, PhD


Medical Students, Stress and Coping Skills: Taking a Look
October 2022

Presenters:

  • David Musick, PhD, Senior Dean, Faculty Affairs, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
  • Tracey Criss, MD, Associate Dean, Clinical Science Years 3 and 4, Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
  • Mariah Rudd, MEd, Director, Office of Continuing Professional Development, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine & Carilion Clinic

Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Define burnout, stress and coping in the context of medical student education
  • Identify medical students’ ability to cope compared to others
  • Identify various types of coping skills
  • Explain VTCSOM coping study results to date

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Moving Upstream: Addressing Social Determinants of Health
August 2022

Presenter: Aaron Boush, MHA, Director, Community Health and Outreach, Carilion Clinic

Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Identify major determinants of health including behavioral, social/ economic, environmental, and clinical care determinants of health
  • Describe the role of healthcare systems and the role of physicians in addressing health and healthcare disparities to improve population health
  • Provide examples of how Carilion Clinic’s Community Health and Outreach Partnerships improve health in the Roanoke Valley

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Session Resource: Request services from Community Health and Outreach

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Enhancing Patient Health Literacy: Universal Health Literacy Approaches
June 2022

Presenter: Kathleen Porter, PhD, RD, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Virginia

Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Recognize the impact of health literacy on patient behaviors and health
  • Identify the different types of literacy that influence an individual’s health literacy
  • Appreciate the importance of a universal health literacy approach
  • Describe the attributes of a health literate organization
  • Identify strategies to enhance patient health literacy at the patient, clinician, and system levels

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Leveraging Cognitive Diversity in Addressing Complex Healthcare Problems
April 2022

Presenter: Megan Seibel, PhD, RN, Director, Virginia Agriculture Leaders Obtaining Results (VALOR) and Director/Co-Founder, Center of Cooperative Problem Solving (CCPS), Virginia Tech

Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Discuss Adaption-Innovation Theory as it relates to cognitive problem solving preference.
  • Differentiate between cognitive effect and affect, and style and level/capacity.
  • Compare adaptive and innovative preferences of individuals relative to task and team.
  • Define cognitive gap and aspects for coping and bridging across gaps.
  • Examine implications for leadership and management of cognitive diversity in health systems.

As a continuation of this session, please view “Cognitive Diversity in Leadership Teams: A Deeper Exploration (April 2023),” during which Dr. Seibel further explores cognitive diversity from the standpoint of organizations and teams.

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Digital Identity and Wellness: Who You Are Determines How Well You Are
December 2021

Presenter: Keel Coleman, DO, MBA, FACEP, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, VTCSOM

Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Recognize that technology is both a boon and a curse
  • Identify how lost autonomy has a negative effect on wellness
  • Describe the 3 current forms of identity
  • Discuss the current state of professional identity and the negative effects on wellness
  • Recognize current solutions and what the future may hold

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Leading and Influencing with Impact
October 2021

Presenters:

  • Mark H. Greenawald, MD, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Carilion Clinic and Medical Director, Carilion Clinic Institute for Leadership Effectiveness
  • Jennifer Havens, MBA, ACC, Senior Director, Carilion Clinic Institute for Leadership Effectiveness

Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Describe a framework for regenerative leadership
  • Recognize ways to apply a leadership framework to one’s career
  • Outline a plan to apply a concept from the framework

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Patient Safety and Quality Improvement – Systems Perspective and Applied Approaches
August 2021

Presenters:

  • Suzy Kraemer, M.D., FACP, Chief Quality Officer, Vice President Clinical Advancement and Patient Safety, General Internal Medicine, Carilion Clinic
  • Tananchai A. Lucktong, MD, General, Minimally Invasive, and Bariatric Surgery, Co-Director of Surgical Quality, Carilion Clinic and Professor, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine

Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Describe the quality improvement and patient safety structure of Carilion Clinic health system.
  • Identify some of the essential routine processes that permit action or execution of patient safety and quality improvement priorities.
  • Recognize common quality issues within healthcare.
  • Identify examples of how clinicians and teams impact patient care at the bedside.
  • Describe approaches to teaching Quality Improvement in the clinical learning environment.

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Population Health and Social Determinants in Health and Healthcare
June 2021

Presenters:

  • Cynthia Morrow, MD, MPH, Health Systems Science and Interprofessional Practice Domain Co-Leader, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine; Health Director for the Roanoke City and Alleghany Health Districts, Virginia Department of Health
  • Aaron Boush, MHA, Director of Community Health and Outreach, Carilion Clinic

Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Define health equity, health disparities, and disparities in health care
  • Identify major determinants of health including behavioral, social/ economic, environmental, and clinical care determinants of health
  • Describe the role of healthcare systems and the role of physicians in addressing health and healthcare disparities to improve population health
  • Provide at least two examples of how Carilion Clinic’s Community Health and Outreach Partnerships improve health in the Roanoke Valley

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Health Systems Science: What is it and Why is it Important to Medical Education?
February 2021

Presenters:

  • Natalie Karp, MD, Health Systems Science and Interprofessional Practice Domain Co-Leader and OBGYN Clerkship Director, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
  • Cynthia Morrow, MD, MPH, Health Systems Science and Interprofessional Practice Domain Co-Leader, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine; Health Director for the Roanoke City and Alleghany Health Districts, Virginia Department of Health
  • Sarah Hendrickson Parker, PhD, Chair, Department of Interprofessionalism, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine; Senior Director, Center for Simulation, Research, and Patient Safety, and Director, Human Factors Research, Carilion Clinic

Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Explain Health Systems Science (HSS): What does HSS mean?
  • Identify the core functional, foundational, and linking domains and illustrate their applications in medical education and healthcare
  • Recognize the new four-year Health Systems Science and Interprofessional Practice curriculum
  • Describe Systems Thinking and understand its importance in healthcare

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