STFM PODCAST - Academic Medicine Leadership Lessons
What separates a good leader from a great one? These in-depth interviews with some of family medicine's most influential leaders provide insight into pivotal experiences that boosted leadership skills and provided unprecedented opportunities for personal growth. This series of podcasts explores the development of leadership skills, including clarity, courage, decisiveness, humility, and passion, as a means to facilitating growth during times when healthcare professionals are addressing:• Motivation and Mentorship• Burnout and Transitions• Milestones and Meaning• Barriers and BureaucracyThis series of podcasts is sponsored by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM), the academic home for family medicine educators.
STFM PODCAST - Academic Medicine Leadership Lessons
ADFM Lifecycle of Leadership Series Part 3 - Cultivating Other Leaders with Dean Seehusen, MD, and Elisabeth "Beth" Wilson, MD, MPH, MS-HPEd
The final installment in our leadership series with the Association of Departments of Family Medicine (ADFM) explores how to cultivate new leaders and guide your department forward toward collective growth. In this episode of The STFM Podcast, Dean Seehusen, MD, and Beth Wilson, MD, MPH, MS-HPEd, unpack the distinctions between coaching, mentoring, and sponsoring, as well as how to use each effectively to build a diverse culture of resilience and development within your institution. They also share strategies for identifying emerging talent, fostering inclusive pipelines, and supporting growth across all career stages.
Hosted by Omari A. Hodge, MD, FAAFP and Jay-Sheree Allen Akambase, MD
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Resources:
- Emerging Leaders Fellowship
- ADFM Leader Development Committee - Resources from the Leader Development Committee for New & Interim Chairs
- ADFM LEADS Fellowship
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck
- Harvard School of Public Health Program for Chairs of Clinical Services
Guest Bio:
Elisabeth "Beth" Wilson, MD, MPH, MS-HPEd
Elisabeth Wilson, MD, MPH, MS-HPEd is Chair of the Department of Community & Family Medicine at Dartmouth Health and Geisel School of Medicine. As Chair, Dr. Wilson is responsible for the advancement of Dartmouth’s academic and clinical mission. She leads a system-wide primary care leadership committee, oversees the oldest Practice-Based Research Network in the country, and recently launched a new regional primary care research and policy center. She also has the honor of working with Dartmouth medical and public health students committed to serving under-resourced communities. Dr. Wilson is a member of the Primary Care Centers Roundtable and recently served on the board of the Association of Departments of Family Medicine.
Prior to joining Dartmouth in 2022, Dr. Wilson held the position of Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at Maine Medical Center for five years. During that time, she served as the Executive Director of the Preble Street Learning Collaborative, an academic-community partnership to address unmet needs of people experiencing homelessness in the Portland area. Dr. Wilson spent the first two decades of her career at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) where she completed her residency and research fellowship, after receiving a dual MD-MPH degree at Tufts University School of Medicine. While at UCSF, she held the positions of Vice Chair of Education in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Director of the Northern California Faculty Development Fellowship, Dean’s Diversity Leader for the Differences Matter initiative, and founding Director of the Program in Medical Education for the Urban Under