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Academic health centers across the country face significant challenges and opportunities in all of their mission areas. The pressures to succeed are pushing academic health center leaders and their leadership teams to explore new organizational structures, redesign strategic plans, and examine new ways of doing business. In response to these needs, the Leadership Institute of the Association of Academic Health Centers was created in 2006 to assist leaders of academic health centers in developing and executing strategies designed to help their institutions perform at the highest levels possible.
The AAHC, through a collaborative effort with the Vanderbilt Center for Better Health at Vanderbilt University, convenes workshops specifically targeted for senior academic health center teams on topics that leaders have reported as priority areas. These team-based workshops, featuring an accelerated learning and action environment, allow participants to work with both their own team and teams from other institutions to explore opportunities and ideas, design strategies, and ultimately develop concrete action plans to implement at their home institution.
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General Overview of the Workshop Format:
The workshops offered by the AAHC Leadership Institute are unlike most educational events or traditional workshops. Working in an accelerated learning and action environment, participants apply new information as it is generated over the two day period to specific plans for their own institution. This work speeds critical thinking about the content, and results in a product to take home to initiate action on what has been learned.
The workshops utilize the methodologies and tools of the Vanderbilt Center for Better Health (VCBH), an entity that has teamed with the Association of Academic Health Centers to develop and offer active learning programs focused on leaders of academic health centers. The sessions utilize individual, team, and large-group modes as participants are guided by the VCBH staff. Facilitators guide teams of senior leaders from different institutions as they work together to explore and share information and ideas, to develop strategies to implement at their institution, to make decisions where possible, and to develop concrete plans. This work speeds critical thinking, resulting in a take-home product that enables participants to initiate action immediately on their return to their home institution.
For individual or team registration for any of the Workshops, please call or email Audra Franks at the AAHC at (202) 265-9600 or afranks@aahcdc.org.