Instructors
Connie Evashwick, ScD, FACHE, CPH, CAE
Dr. Connie Evashwick is an experienced healthcare
executive and academician who thrives at the nexus of management and academia,
health care delivery systems and public health, long-term care and acute care.
Dr. Evashwick holds a bachelor's and a master's degree from Stanford University
and a master's and doctoral degree from the Harvard School of Public
Health. She has been credentialed in
public health (CPH) and association management (CAE) and is a Lifetime Fellow
of the American College of Healthcare Executives (LFACHE). Her expertise includes the continuum of care,
long-term care delivery systems and health professions education. More recently has focused on hospital
community benefit, public health systems, and international public health. Dr. Evashwick’s multifaceted career has
included positions in academia, consulting, association leadership, direct
healthcare operations management, and international public health. She has been vice president of long-term care
for two major health care systems and consulted with health systems, hospitals,
and long-term care organizations across the nation. On the international scene, she has worked on
the education of health professionals at universities in Malaysia, Ghana, Bhutan,
Italy, Finland, and Vietnam. Dr. Evashwick has been active in professional
societies, including being a Regent of the American College of Healthcare
Executives (FACHE) and chair of the (then) Gerontological Health Section of the
American Public Health Association.
Positions Dr. Evashwick has held include the Archstone Foundation
Endowed Chair at California State University Long Beach, Dean of the SLU School
of Public Health and Professor of Health Management & Policy, Senior Director
of Academic Programs for the Association of Schools of Public Health, Provost
of St. John International University and Professorial Lecturer at George
Washington University. She has authored
over 115 publications, including fourteen books. Dr. Evashwick was the founding editor of
Frontiers in Public Health Education and
Promotion
. She has generated and managed over $10 million in grants from
private and public sources.
Leonard Friedman, PhD, MPH, FACHE
The George Washington University
Leonard
Friedman is a Professor of Health Policy and Management and is director of the Executive
Master of Health Administration degree at the George Washington University. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of
Southern California, School of Public Administration in 1991 where his
dissertation examined technology acquisition in hospitals in Southern
California. Dr. Friedman’s scholarly work
has concentrated on the mechanisms of organizational change and strategic
decision-making in health service organizations. Dr. Friedman has been the
chair of the Health Care Management Division of the Academy of Management and
Association of University Programs in Health Administration. He is a Fellow of
the American College of Healthcare Executives and is a past-president of the
National Capital Healthcare Executives Chapter of ACHE. In 2015, Dr. Friedman
was inducted into the StuderGroup Fire Starter Hall of Fame. Dr. Friedman is the
editor of the Journal of Health Administration Education.
Duration
3.5 Hours
This course will be offered immediately following AUPHA's Annual Meeting in National Harbor on Sunday, July 2, 2023, 8 AM - 12 PM. This includes a 30-minute mid-morning break to allow individuals to check out of their hotel.
This course will be offered immediately following AUPHA's Annual Meeting in National Harbor on Sunday, July 2, 2023, 8 AM - 12 PM. This includes a 30-minute mid-morning break to allow individuals to check out of their hotel.
Learning Objectives
- Apply accepted theories and practices of successful team behavior and performance to healthcare management education.
- Analyze team-based activities that leverage diverse skill sets, backgrounds and perspectives leading to yield successful team performance.
- Explore approaches for scaffolding, coaching and holding students accountable to their teams and the course objectives, with consideration paid to the level of student.
- Manage team dynamics (high performing, establishing leadership, addressing dysfunction, and bad actors).
- Examine tools to evaluate student team performance (e.g. peer evaluation, rubrics, reflective writing) and enable students to critique their own teams to understand factors that inhibit or promote success.
Course Description
This course introduces participants to exemplary practices for establishing clear and purposeful learning objectives; selecting appropriate team-based learning activity design(s); and creating/choosing appropriate assessment tools that best support student learning and enable meaningful measurement of learning. These same principles will be modeled by the instructors throughout the workshop itself.
Goal: Use teams as a pedagogical tool to teach health management subjects.
Outcome: As a result of attending this seminar, participants will acquire knowledge and tools to use teams as a tool to teach health management and policy topics.
Secondary Outcome: As an additional benefit, the content can be extended by instructors to help students grasp the essential principles of working in and managing a team effectively for both academic and healthcare management purposes.
Goal: Use teams as a pedagogical tool to teach health management subjects.
Outcome: As a result of attending this seminar, participants will acquire knowledge and tools to use teams as a tool to teach health management and policy topics.
Secondary Outcome: As an additional benefit, the content can be extended by instructors to help students grasp the essential principles of working in and managing a team effectively for both academic and healthcare management purposes.
Additional Team Members
The following individuals contributed to the development of this course and may serve in an instructional capacity in future iterations.
Andrew Wiss, PhD, EdM
The George Washington University
Andrew is the Assistant Dean for Academic Innovation and a Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Health Policy and Management. His professional work, research, and teaching centers on the use of emerging technologies to enhance learning and the roles that design, motivation, and organizational structure can play in supporting individual and team performance.
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