Leadership in Health Professions Education

Objective: Demonstrate leadership in health professions education through innovation, mentorship, and reflective practice.

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Artifact 17: Digital Leadership: Characteristics of the New Digital Leader Paper from 

from Multimedia and Emerging Technologies for Learning in the Health Professions Course (HPTT 604)

 

Leadership skills and a growth mindset are essential for healthcare leaders in the new digital age. This assignment helped me reflect on my top leadership qualities of setting high standards, striving for continuous improvement, embodying a positive attitude, showing empathy, and having excellent organization and execution skills. These qualities can ultimately be linked to a digital mindset. Having a digital mindset emphasizes my desire for growth and my qualities of setting high standards and continuously striving for improvement helps explain my ambitions of learning new things both in the clinical and educational settings. I want my students and colleagues alike to not settle and to get away from the mentality of “don’t fix what isn’t broken.” Current technology and all the online tools we have at our finger tips digitally will be a huge benefit to us and it takes a leader to influence innovation and change. This assignment also allowed me to think about the great instructors at UNMC who have professionally influenced me throughout my both of my radiation science programs and master's program and am thankful for their mentorship. Two faculty members in particular have showed me what it's like to be innovative in healthcare education and continually set the bar higher and higher for themselves and those around them. 

 

 

 

Artifact 18: Temporary Instructor Evaluations from Junior Radiography Students in MITS 390R Digital Imaging & 402R Introduction to Radiation Physics 

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In the fall of 2021, I was given the opportunity to substitute teach for two online UNMC Radiography courses during a three-month maternity leave and allowed me to get my feet wet on the educational side of our field. It has been a few years since I had even taken an x-ray in a clinical setting, let alone teach 35 junior students an introduction to radiation physics course and digital radiography imaging course. To say I felt overwhelmed and nervous was an understatement. However, through great mentorship and instruction from the regular instructor and help when needed from other instructors in the Medical Imaging & Therapeutic Sciences department, I have increased confidence in myself to eventually teach a class of my own one day. The students evaluated my performance and I received an encouraging amount of positive comments to make me believe that I was successful in this temporary position. I also credit the knowledge and communication skills I learned through courses in the Health Professions Teaching and Technology Program to aid me when interacting with students and offering feedback on assignments.

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