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Emory at Grady Professional Development

Emory at Grady
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Grady attracts a diverse and dedicated faculty committed to delivering quality health care for the community served by Grady, preparing learners for the future in which they will serve and lead and conduct high-impact scholarship that addresses unmet patient or societal needs.

In conjunction with the SOM's Office of Faculty Academic Affairs and Professional Development, the Emory at Grady Professional Development team supports programs and opportunities that develop, retain, engage and empower our faculty and staff. Importantly, we strive to build community and collaboration among faculty and staff on the Grady campus. The Emory at Grady Professional Development team hosts events that allow fellowship among our faculty and staff. 



Faculty Onboarding Guide

This interactive Onboarding Guide is designed to address questions as you begin your career as an Emory faculty member on the Grady campus. This guide contains Emory at Grady specific resource in addition to your unit specific resources.

Our Programs

Emory at Grady Awards

This awards program, created by the Emory at Grady Professional Development Committee, honors the community of Grady-based faculty members.

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Professional Development Lecture Series

Join us for this monthly lecture that highlights traditional faculty development topics, but will also feature content important to faculty and staff on the Grady campus. The events are aimed at faculty members, but open to all.

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Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Course

Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is an emerging patient assessment tool that can be utilized for diagnostic and procedural purposes. Clinicians in a wide variety of specialties can utilize POCUS to improve bedside diagnostic assessments as well as improved safety and efficacy for procedural guidance.

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Health Equity Advocacy Course

This 5-month multi-pronged educational intervention will bring faculty, learners, and community members from several institutions together to advocate around common health related priorities. This innovative course will go well beyond didactic instruction and include experiential learning that will leverage collaboration and, importantly, have tangible outcomes as a result. Participants will learn while doing.

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Emory at Grady Clinical Research Mentoring Program

This is a 4-month clinical research mentoring program for Emory faculty based at Grady. This program will provide resources, information and tools to develop clinical research projects. The course will have didactic sessions paired with mentoring and networking. Participants will have the opportunity to be paired with experienced faculty as mentors, with the specific goal of working through some of the hurdles to getting started on clinical research projects.

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Advancing Success through Coaching, Equity, Networking, and Development(ASCEND) Program

This 5-month longitudinal career development program will provide resources, information and tools important for academic and professional success. The course will feature didactic sessions, experiential components, along with peer mentoring and networking.

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Grady Faculty Development for Clinical Educators

This four-month career development course is designed especially for clinical teachers and is brought to you by two Stanford-trained facilitators, Reena Hemrajani and Richard Pittman. The Stanford Faculty Development Clinical Teaching program is a validated, internationally recognized method of training for medical teachers to enhance their skills to be more effective in any medical educational setting. The goals of each seminar are to enhance teacher versatility, provide educators with an opportunity to analyze teaching and to foster collegial exchange.

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Collaborative Learning Communities

The Collaborative Learning Communities provide a persistent, sustaining social network of individuals who share and develop knowledge, values and experiences focused on common areas of interest. Currently, there are communities in the areas of Education and Advocacy.

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Citizenship Opportunities

Emory at Grady Faculty Development Champions

The Emory at Grady Faculty Development Champions strives to build community and collaboration among faculty and staff on the Grady campus by hosting events that allow fellowship among our faculty and staff. 

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Emory at Grady Awards Committee

The Emory at Grady Awards Committee is charged with creating Grady-based faculty awards and developing recognition programs, including the annual Grady Faculty Awards Celebration and Ceremony. The committee is tasked to establish a process for identifying national, regional or local awards and nominating Grady-based faculty as candidates.

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Professional Development Leadership

Jada Bussey-Jones Associate Dean, Professional Development, Emory at Grady

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