Please join us for an important training on the new Portfolio system. There will be three opportunities (repeated) covering the following:  Activity tracking, Curriculum Vitae, Expertise profile, Activity report, Teaching portfolio.

Three training dates to choose from, please REGISTER for one date only:

Tuesday, May 10, 2022, 12 - 1 p.m.,  https://vcuhealth.libcal.com/event/9171777

Wednesday, June 8, 2022, 12 - 1 p.m., https://vcuhealth.libcal.com/event/9172554 

Thursday, July 14, 2022, 12 - 1 p.m., https://vcuhealth.libcal.com/event/9172574

*Registration closes and reminder with Zoom link is sent 1 hour before the event at the email you provided during registration.

In these training sessions, participants will be able to:

• Manage their faculty profile data
• Create and manage their activity data
• Add new activities
• Edit activities
• Attach Documentation
• Import publication data from external sources such as PubMed
• Archive activities
• Create and export documents (e.g., curriculum vitae, activity report, and faculty expertise profile)
• Access how-to guides and system FAQ

Contact jody.hedstrom@vcuhealth.org for help after registration closes or with questions, Sponsored by the School of Medicine Office of Faculty Affairs. For a list of upcoming "Lunchtime Learning" and professional development workshops, go to https://vcuhealth.libcal.com/calendar/somofacal

Spending hours butting your head against PubMed without finding what you need? Learn ways to optimize your process for finding literature across disciplines, including a systematic approach to searching and tools that can help you manage the literature that you discover.

At the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Understand a systematic process for conducting a literature review
• Create a targeted search
• Identify tools to support the literature review process

Join us for this engaging and informative session to explore the impact of a positive approach to leadership.  During this session, a team of presenters will help you discover how positive psychology can impact your effectiveness as a leader and ways to transform your leadership style to one that is more authentic for you and that will help you lead others in a more impactful way.  The session will also explore the roles of gender and culture as they relate to leadership approaches and effectiveness.   

At the end of this session, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the difference between positive leadership and other approaches to leadership
2. Explain how positive leadership impacts employee success, team dynamics, and organizational culture
3. Respond to negative workplace encounters with a positive leadership approach
4. Apply positive leadership strategies to address power differentials

 Lunch will be provided. To guarantee a lunch, please register by noon on Tuesday, June 7th. 

Letter writing season for residency applicants will be here soon—are you ready to write LORs and populate MSPEs?  Join us for this informative session to help you craft effective letters to support your learners.  This Zoom session will provide you opportunities to write letter components, critique letters for improvement, and learn valuable approaches to ease the writing process.

By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Describe the MSPE, how it is populated, and used
• Apply national guidelines to create appropriate summative comments for students whom you assess
• Critique/modify language used in summative evaluation statements
• Outline components of an effective LOR free from biased language

Wondering what's new in the library? Have questions about how to get the most out of our tools? Come learn about some of our best resources VCU Libraries has to offer to support your teaching and research.

At the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Describe new library resources to enhance the learning experience
• Identify library resources that support research and funding
• Discover how to access recorded library content