Diana
McNeill,
MD, MACP
Associate Dean, Professor of Medicine
Duke AHEAD - Duke University School of Medicine
Dr. McNeill oversees the development and implementation of all programs of Duke AHEAD. She reports to the School of Medicine's Vice Dean for Education and brings more than 35 years of teaching and clinical practice experience to this role. She is a graduate of Duke University and Duke School of Medicine and completed an Endocrinology and Metabolism Fellowship at Duke and joined the Duke faculty in 1989. She's currently Professor of Medicine and Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the School of Medicine, specializing in endocrinology with a focus on Type 1 diabetes, diabetes in pregnancy, and thyroid disease.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Description: This session will describe a year-long professional development program for experienced educators from multiple health professions and disciplines. This program provides both didactics on adult learning principles and practical instruction on curriculum development through a team-based project. Instructional methods for this virtual program included interactive presentations, small group discussion, mentoring, and project-driven activities. Instructional content includes a stepwise approach to curriculum design and implementation as well as professional development around…
The Covid pandemic has had a profound effect in many ways. For health professions educators, the stress of caring for their patients, each other, and often finally themselves and their families, has left little time to consider professional development. Resources for such development have also been limited more than in the past. Duke AHEAD, an academy of interprofessional educators at Duke University Health System has the mission to support and promote health profession educators with opportunities for education innovation and faculty development. With over 950 members, this can be a…
Duke AHEAD (Academy for Health Professions Education & Academic Development) is an interprofessional education academy with over 950 members from the health professions programs at Duke University designed to offer faculty development, highlight education research and innovation and promotion and recognition of our health professions educators. Entering the second year of the pandemic, the academy continued to explore ways to achieve our mission remotely. An education expo was held to promote the ongoing work of our community of educaors. A call was forwarded to members to share…
Using the framework known as SBAR, situation, background, assessment and recommendation, Duke AHEAD(Academy for Health Professions Education and Academic Development), an interprofessional academy established in 2014 with over 950 members developed a pilot mentorship process that will be offered to health professions educators. This method of program development is unique as the SBAR framework is often used in clinical decision making and as a quality and safety guide for process improvement and not as often for mentorship programs. In this particular situation(S), a need for a formal…
Imposter syndrome was identified in 1978 by Dr. Pauline Rose Clance and Dr. Suzanne Imes as “Intellectual Phoniness”. Often associated with high performing leaders, it has been highlighted to be more common in women (“Lean In” By Sheryl Sandberg). Recently, there has been increasing conversations led by business leaders and organizational psychologists such as Adam Grant (”Think Again”) that suggest reframing the imposter syndrome to be a motivating leadership development skill. Dr. Grant refers to this reframing as the establishment of “competent humility.”
This seminar will encourage…