Health Systems Science (HSS) Sessions

Continuing Medical Education (CME) Credit Instructions
  • Category 1 CME credit offered for these presentations. AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM has been approved for this enduring material from July 1, 2022 to July 1, 2023.
  • To receive Category 1 CME credit for videos viewed, complete the full CME Evaluation Form linked above the video. *Note: You will be required to answer two content questions covered during the video on this session evaluation.
  • Archived videos are no longer eligible for CME credit. (CME bylaws state no CME for enduring materials over 1-year-old.)

Health Systems Science

This series provides timely, health systems science content that addresses the needs of Carilion Clinic, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, and/or Radford University Carilion faculty and other health professions. Covered content includes health systems science domain-specific material and accompanying teaching/modeling strategies that are imperative for systemic implementation. Below are videos from our Health Systems Science series thus far. Each video will include presentation objectives and the PowerPoint that was presented at the session.


Health Systems Science Video Index

April 2023: Cognitive Diversity in Leadership Teams: A Deeper Exploration by Megan Seibel, PhD, RN

February 2023: Developing Systems Thinkers: Strategies for Effective Instructional Design by Hannah Scherer, PhD

December 2022: Systems Thinking and Systems Citizenry by Arthur Ollendorff, MD

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

Archived Videos (no CME credit)


Cognitive Diversity in Leadership Teams: A Deeper Exploration
April 2023

Presenter: Megan Seibel, PhD, RN, Director, Virginia Agriculture Leaders Obtaining Results (VALOR); Director & Co-Founder, Center for Cooperative Problem Solving (CCPS); Extension Specialist, Leadership & Decision Making; Department of Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education, Virginia Tech

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

  • Differentiate between adaptive and innovative preferences for generating ideas, utilizing structures, and responding to rules and group norms
  • Compare agent of change groups within organizations and teams to identify consensus groups and outliers
  • Define precipitating events, pendulum of change, and spiral of change
  • Value cognitive diversity to lead and manage change

As a continuation of the 2022 session, “Leveraging Cognitive Diversity in Addressing Complex Health Care Problems,” this presentation will further explore cognitive diversity from the standpoint of organizations and teams. Topics will include cognitive climate of an organization or unit, consensus groups and outliers relative to where ideas originate from, precipitating events and shifts that influence change, and leading and managing through such change. The value of each person’s cognitive style preference in addressing change and related problems is better understood relative to the tasks and people around us, and worthy of discussion.

PowerPoint [pdf]

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Developing Systems Thinkers: Strategies for Effective Instructional Design
Enhance your teaching of systems thinking through intentional design

February 2023

Presenter: Hannah Scherer, PhD, Associate Professor & Extension Specialist, Teaching and Learning, Department of Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education (ALCE), Virginia Tech

Facilitators:

  • Matthew Norris, PhD Student, Engineering Education, Virginia Tech
  • Dickson Otieno, PhD Student, ALCE, Virginia Tech
  • Kasey Owen, MS Student, ALCE, Virginia Tech

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

  • Describe approaches to instructional design for systems thinking
  • Identify strategies for supporting systems thinking effectively in their own instructional context

PowerPoint [pdf]

Handout [pdf]

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Systems Thinking and Systems Citizenry
December 2022

Presenter: Arthur Ollendorff, MD, Associate Dean, Graduate Medical Education, VTCSOM; Professor, Health Systems and Implementation Science and OB/GYN, VTCSOM; Designated Institutional Official, Carilion Clinic

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

  • Describe what systems citizenry is within academic medicine
  • Distinguish systems thinking from systems-based practice
  • Employ a systems approach into one aspect of your teaching or practice

PowerPoint [pdf]

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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

PowerPoint [pdf]

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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

PowerPoint

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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’s 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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Archived Videos

No CME credit for archived videos (CME bylaws state no CME for enduring materials over 1 year old).