Lunch & Learn

For more information on workshops or suggestions for workshop topics, contact us.

Skills-Building Workshops

OFDD’s skills-building workshops are designed to teach the skills needed to develop faculty careers. Offered free of charge, these cover a range of topics necessary for advancing faculty careers.

These workshops are held throughout the year and have covered the following topics:

  • Acting with Power
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Delegation Strategies
  • Delivering Dynamic Presentations
  • Design Thinking
  • Effective Time Management
  • Effective Virtual Presentations
  • Giving and Receiving Feedback
  • How and When to Say "No and "Yes" in Career and in Life
  • Knowing and Using Your Strengths
  • Negotiation Skills
  • Overcoming Unintended Bias and Other Cognitive Errors

Professional Education

OFDD also provides professional education through an “On-Demand Series” of workshops on topics including mentorship, teambuilding, and leadership to departments and groups across Stanford Medicine upon request, as well as a series of asynchronous online courses.

Other skills-building workshops are offered across Stanford from the main campus’ Office of Faculty Development, Diversity, and Engagement and from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
 

Connecting the Dots For Culturally Competent Education

Please see the following articles for more information on culturally competent education in the biomedical sciences and healthcare.

Centering Belonging to Empower Trainees in Academia

In this session for both PhD and MD faculty, leading educators in the PhD and MD spaces Jennifer Cohen, PhD,  Takudzwa Shumba, MDLatishya Steele, PhD, and Lahia Yemane, MD, discussed how different life experiences can influence the ways PhD and MD trainees navigate academia. Learn how to apply strategies to empower marginalized trainees in research, education, and clinical environments.