TEAM 1 - INCREASING THE VALUE OF ACADEMIC TEACHING

    Academic teaching is a core mission for ULSOM that is difficult to quantify in terms of scholarly recognition. The definition and documentation of good teaching are lacking. Our project proposes a structured way of accounting for teaching in an easily accessible system, and ideas for a culture shift towards recognition of teaching excellence as a critical mission for the university.

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    TEAM 2 - A BETTER PICC LINE

    This project focuses on the creation of a PICC line, which is tampered evident for use in patients who have a history of IV drug use and require long term antibiotic therapy for conditions such as bacterial endocarditis. The hope is that use of this PICC line will allow these patients to transition home for IV antibiotics in lieu of prolonged hospital stays to complete IV antibiotics.

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    TEAM 3 - MIND THE GAP: USING GENERATIONAL STRENGTHS TO CREATE FACULTY-STUDENT TEACHING PARTNERSHIPS

    Many UofL HSC faculty struggle to adapt their teaching to include new educational pedagogies due to lack of time, variable prioritization of teaching, and difficulty using new technology. We propose the creation of student-faculty partnerships where the faculty, our context experts, can use the technical savvy and availability to students to modify and improve their teaching. We plan to pilot this initiative as part of the Medical Students as Teachers elective for fourth-year medical students and measure change in course evaluations, student satisfaction, and faculty well-being.

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    TEAM 4 - FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT

    Leaders in academic medicine are frequently ill-prepared to make the financial decisions that are a necessary part of their jobs. There is currently a knowledge gap between finance officers at senior levels and leaders at lower levels who lead clinical, research, or education teams. Our proposed innovation is to provide local, focused, financial training to faculty leaders across the SOM. We propose to have a combination of SoftChalk and in-person training so that faculty will be empowered to make better financial decisions at the local level.

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