Lisa Caplan, MD |
Kathleen Chen, MD, MS |
David Young, MD, MEd, MBA |
Lisa Caplan, MD |
Kathleen Chen, MD, MS |
David Young, MD, MEd, MBA |
L. Jane Easdown, MD
A few years ago, the SEA Board of Director’s launched an outreach program to contact other anesthesiology societies to offer workshops and share resources and educational material. This outreach program is led by Dr. Deb Schwengel. One of the advantages of the outreach has been learning about the other societies and what they create and offer to members. The Society of Neurosurgical Anesthesia and Critical Care (SNACC) is one of the societies with a strong education focus. SEA members may benefit from familiarity with SNACC’s offerings, which can help both training programs individual trainees.
SNACC membership comprises neuroscientists, neurointensivists and neuroanesthesiologists. The society was founded in 2007 and has traditionally had a one-day meeting ahead of the ASA, which made it very difficult to SEA members to attend. SNACC had its first freestanding meeting in September 2019, which allowed for additional days of programming. For the first time, a group of SEA members could attend the full meeting! SNACC leadership was keen to work with SEA to provide new experiences for their membership. Through this relationship we have learned that SNACC has many educational resources for use for the general public.
SEA/SNACC Workshop- SNACC invited SEA members to conduct a workshop for the September 2019 meeting, and from several topics offered they chose curriculum development. Deb Schwengel organized a workshop with Karen Souter, Shobana Rajan and me as presenters and. The workshop was fully subscribed including many of the SNACC officers. Several attendees were developing a new rotation, so this workshop was very timely. We presented the Kern system for curriculum development. This was highly successful, and we have been asked to provide other topics in the future.
The SNACC website- For those of us that teach in neuroanesthesia rotations there is a wide variety of educational material to be found on the SNACC website, and it is open to the public. Three sections are worth highlighting:
Barbara Orlando, MD
When I moved to the United States and decided to go back to work after an eight-year break to take care of my kids, I did not imagine how tough it would be to enter the workforce the second time around. As an attending I took interest in wellness after going through a pretty rough residency and reading more and more stories about burnout and suicide among our lines. Having a daughter interested in going into medicine was another reason to try to improve this growing problem.
2020 SEA Fall Meeting Preview: "Advancing Your Educational Scholarship"
Susan M Martinelli, MD FASA
SEA Fall Meeting Chair |
Robert S Isaak, DO FASA SEA Fall Meeting Co-Chair |
Fei Chen, PhD, MEd
SEA Fall Meeting Co-Chair |
The SEA Duke Award for Excellence and Innovation in Anesthesia Education was created back in 1996, thanks to a generous gift from the Department of Anesthesia at Duke University. The purpose of the award is to recognize people who have had a long commitment to teaching and have contributed positively to the advancement of teaching anesthesia to medical students, residents, and faculty. Because we at the SEA are at the forefront of spearheading educational efforts in our specialty, past recipients have tended to come from within our midst.
Membership in SEA is not necessary for consideration, though the nominating individual does have to be a SEA member.
The SEA Nominating Committee (Chaired by Immediate Past-President Michael R. Sandison, MD) has identified the following candidates to run in this year’s election for the Society for Education in Anesthesia Board of Directors:
Vice President / President-Elect (One Position – Two Year Term)
The Society for Education in Anesthesia (SEA) is deeply saddened by the recent events that have impacted our nation, culminating with the inhumane deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor. Our society supports equitable justice, education resulting in awareness and tolerance, and most importantly respect for humanity.
SEA values an inclusive community, and as such we celebrate diversity and the richness it brings to our organization and our practice. SEA firmly rejects racism in any form.
The Society for Education in Anesthesia (SEA) is creating a task force on Diversity and Inclusion. The goal of this task force is to inform and educate the society on how to integrate diversity and inclusion as core operating principles of the SEA and its work.
The SEA welcomes applications from any active member of the society who has an interest in diversity and inclusion to serve on the Task Force as either the chairperson or as a member.
Chairperson
The SEA Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion chairperson will have a record of sustained service to the SEA and experience in diversity and inclusion work.
The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) and Society for Education in Anesthesia (SEA) today announced a call for nominations for the new ASA-SEA Distinguished Educator in Anesthesiology award. The award recognizes mid-career physicians who have demonstrated a substantial commitment and achievement as educators in the field of anesthesiology.
“We’re excited to collaborate with SEA on this effort, an organization that shares our values regarding the importance of education to improve patient care,” said ASA President Linda J. Mason, M.D., FASA. “It’s important for mid-level career physicians, those who have been in practice 5-15 years, to be recognized for their contributions and achievements in anesthesiology education. Recognizing these individuals helps to move the profession forward and serves as an opportunity for networking and continued mentorship of young educators and residents.”
This was another successful year for the SEA/HVO Fellowships. We received 22 applications and awarded 8 Fellowships. See the HVO announcement below. The new Fellows will be traveling to Vietnam, Rwanda or Ghana for their month of teaching anesthesia residents, anesthesia nurses or anesthesia clinical officers. Congratulations to them all.
Health Volunteers Overseas (HVO), in collaboration with the Society for Education in Anesthesia (SEA), is pleased to share that eight anesthesia residents will receive a 2019 SEA-HVO Traveling Fellowship.
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Book Review: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Book Author: Patrick Lencioni
Publisher: Jossey-Bass, an Imprint of Wiley
Review Author: Herodotos Ellinas
High-performance teams are not the result of sheer luck. During a crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders must assemble effective multidisciplinary teams or adapt existing ones. Leaders who assemble such teams should base membership on a careful evaluation of talents, which includes assessing members’ interactions and evaluating their critical thinking when they navigate rapidly changing terrains. Although Lencioni does not discuss an extreme crisis in The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, the reader can extrapolate from the author’s key concepts. Lencioni narrates a fable of an organization that hires a new CEO, Kathryn, to revive a struggling company. The author, in this easy-to-read book, cleverly walks the reader step by step through Kathryn’s challenges in putting together a “high-functioning” team.
An old-school executive hired at a high-tech Silicon Valley company, Kathryn arrives at her first day of work and discovers that her staff of seven talented executives have total inability to work well together. Their constant disagreements and incapacity to take responsibility for their actions impart negativity to the workplace, further contributing to the existing chaos. As an experienced leader, Kathryn quickly realizes the dysfunction of these executives and subjects them to a pair of off-site retreats to identify the underlying issues that led to the company’s current situation. In the process, some of her decisions make her unpopular, but her persistence prevails in creating a high-performance team.
Thirty years ago HIV/AIDS still held thrall of the world.1 I wrote the following as I switched careers from law to medicine:
It was the call I received regarding the HIV positive man whose will I had executed one week earlier which made me reflect on the difference between the power of words and the fight for life. The news of his death recalled the irritation I had felt at trying to get him to meet with me to devise ways to settle an estate of which the greatest asset was the eleven-year-old son he would leave behind alone. The moment that I heard of his death, all of the work, all of the time, all of the trouble was absolutely meaningless...trite.
Emuejevoke Chuba, MD |
Major Stephanie Parks, DNP, CRNA |
We look forward seeing you at the SEA 33rd Spring Meeting, which will be held next week at the Hyatt Regency Louisville. To tie into the ACGME’s initiative on wellness, the theme is “Training Professional, Humanistic Anesthesiologists.” This theme is especially relevant to our fast-paced, technologically advanced world which, according to some academic gurus and observers, is experiencing a crisis of humanism and professionalism in the practice of medicine.
The meeting will open with a plenary address by Dr. Thomas J. Nasca, MD, MACP, CEO of the ACGME, professor of medicine at Thomas Jefferson University and senior scholar in the Department of Medical Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Medicine. Several nationally known speakers will address issues relevant to humanism as panel discussion. Friday will conclude with dynamic and interactive workshops that relate to professionalism and humanism. Dr. David Chestnut, MD, Professor and Chief of Obstetric Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and senior editor of Chestnut’s Obstetric Anesthesia: Principles and Practice will be the plenary speaker for Saturday. The issues relevant to professionalism will be addressed in two TED-style panels discussion followed by additional workshops.
SEA members are invited and encouraged to submit workshops for the 2020 Spring Meeting to be held May 8-10, 2020 at the Lowes Philadelphia Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In developing workshop proposals, SEA members must review the overall theme and educational goals of the meeting for which they are submitting their workshop.
The theme of the 2020 Spring Meeting is: Defining the Path to Workforce Readiness
Book Author: David Brooks
Publisher: Random House
Do you remember your first SEA meeting? For many of us, it was several years ago. There was something special that drew us to be long term SEA members. Perhaps it was a spark ignited through the meeting theme or content. Maybe we met a kindred spirit in education at the dine around. We are interested in how our members became invested in SEA.