Calendar of Events
The Office of Faculty Development offers an assortment of programs every year based on the needs and feedback of our faculty and staff. Unless specifically noted, all events are free of charge to UNMC faculty.
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2024-2025 Programming
We've arranged a diverse array of learning opportunities to help you grow as an educator, researcher, clinician, and whole person. Additional details may be added throughout the year, so check back regularly!
Featuring expertise from:
Sasha Shillcutt, MD, MS, Vice Chair, Strategy, UNMC Department of Anesthesiology
Founder/CEO of Brave Enough
AI in Education Skillbuilding Webinar Series
From foundational concepts and ethical considerations to hands-on strategies for prompting, evaluating outputs, curriculum design, clinical education, and scholarly work, this series will equip participants with practical competencies for responsible and effective AI use. Led by experienced educators and thought leaders in medical education, each monthly session offers actionable insights and tools to help you integrate AI into your teaching, assessment, and professional development. Whether you're just getting started or looking to deepen your expertise, this series offers a supportive and structured path toward AI literacy and leadership. AAMC account required for access (available free to UNMC faculty).
Prompting for Educators: Effective Communication with AI
Thursday, June 26, 2025 | 11:00AM CST
Ready to unlock the true potential of AI in your work as an educator? It all starts with knowing how to ask the right questions. In this lively, hands-on session, you'll discover practical frameworks like TRACI, CREATE, and RHODES that can help you craft smarter prompts and get better, more reliable results from AI tools. We'll dive into what shapes AI outputs—like bias, data quality, and prompt structure—and practice techniques to sharpen your communication for different educational tasks. Along the way, we'll tackle common pitfalls and ethical challenges, including how to spot misinformation and bias in AI responses. Walk away with easy-to-use strategies that will boost your AI fluency and immediately enhance your teaching, assessment, and scholarship.
Evaluating AI Outputs: Ensuring Accuracy and Relevance
Thursday, July 17, 2025 | 12:00PM CST
AI for Efficiency and Automation
Thursday, August 21, 2025 | 12:00PM CST
Using AI with Data and Scholarship
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | 12:00PM CST
Developing AI-Enhanced Curricula
Thursday, October 16, 2025 | 12:00PM CST
Personalizing Learning with AI
Thursday, November 20, 2025 | 12:00PM CST
AI for Assessment and Evaluation in Medical Education
Thursday, December 18, 2025 | 12:00PM CST
Preparing for AI Integration in Clinical Education
Thursday, January 15, 2025 | 12:00PM CST
Continuous Professional Development in AI: Building a Lifelong Learning Plan
Thursday, February 19, 2025 | 12:00PM CST
Fall 2025 Sessions
How do you get to extraordinary? By getting a little bit better today, tomorrow, and every day. We've arranged learning opportunities to help you grow as an educator, researcher, clinician, and whole person. Additional details may be added throughout the year, so check back regularly!
Interprofessional Education (IPE) for Today
Your work in the larger healthcare ecosystem.
Are patients experiencing your work as one piece disjointed from the whole? IPE activities aim to promote collaborative practice across all of healthcare. Gather ideas, resources, and collaborations to not reinvent the wheel and to boost the relevancy of your interprofessional education activities today.
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
12:00-1:00PM
Zoom
Leading Engaging Meetings
Don't count your meetings. Make your meetings count.
Tired of meetings that could’ve been emails?
Learn simple, effective strategies to lead meetings that are focused, relevant, and energizing. Boost your skill in setting meaningful agendas, fostering real engagement, and transforming meetings into powerful tools for progress.
Thursday, September 25, 2025
12:00-1:00PM
Live from MSC 4053
Newland Faculty Development Room
Zoom Simulcast for state-wide campuses
Legal Implications of Teaching
Like a true-crime documentary, academia style.
From copyright confusion to classroom conduct, the legal landscape of higher education can be tricky to navigate. A panel of experts will break down common legal issues faculty may encounter in teaching—and how to handle them with confidence.
Thursday, October 9, 2025
11:30AM-1:00PM
Live from MSC 4053
Newland Faculty Development Room
Zoom Simulcast for state-wide campuses
How to Get What You Want
Speaking your CFO's Language
For an idea to come to fruition, you must do something completely foreign to many faculty—speak like the business gurus. Turn “no” into “yes” for your next “big ask” to your CFO, Dean, or philanthropic foundation.
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
11:30AM-1:00PM
Live from MSC 4053
Newland Faculty Development Room
Zoom Simulcast for state-wide campuses
Promotion & Tenure Essentials
Hear from institutional experts on how to succeed in the promotion and tenure process at UNMC. We’ll review the need-to-know, the good-to-know, and answer your questions. This session is open to all faculty of any rank, and is the ideal refresher to make sure you’ve got the basics covered.
Thursday, November 13, 2025
11:30AM-1:00PM
Zoom
Seeing the Signs: Mental Health Distress
Learn to recognize signs and symptoms of common mental health concerns and better understand the resources available for students, faculty, and staff.
Thursday, December 11, 2025
12:00-1:00PM
Live from MSC 4053
Newland Faculty Development Room
Zoom Simulcast for state-wide campuses
Spring 2026 Sessions
How do you get to extraordinary? By getting a little bit better today, tomorrow, and every day. We've arranged learning opportunities to help you grow as an educator, researcher, clinician, and whole person. Additional details may be added throughout the year, so check back regularly!
Saving Time & Energy with AI
10 real tips from 10 real UNMC AI users
Overwhelmed by the AI information saturation??
Sift through the noise and gain practical, immediately-actionable tips to integrate AI into your work.
Thursday, January 8, 2026
11:30AM-1:00PM
Live from MSC 4053
Newland Faculty Development Room
Zoom Simulcast for state-wide campuses
Digital Teams
Sync, Store, Share, Simplify
Your digital workspace doesn’t have to be a digital headache! Take one step toward a more organized, collaborative workflow using often-overlooked features of Microsoft Teams and the Microsoft Office Suite. This productivity session is perfect for faculty looking to simplify their day-to-day.
Thursday, February 12, 2026
12:00-1:00PM
Zoom
Learner Agency
Your goal goes beyond dispensing technical knowledge. Empower your learners to develop agency and intrinsic motivation to recognize their own knowledge gaps, engage in problem solving, and independently direct their learning
Thursday, March 12, 2026
12:00-1:00PM
Live from MSC 4053
Newland Faculty Development Room
Zoom Simulcast for state-wide campuses
A Story Worth Telling, an Idea Worth Spreading
The art of telling a good story depends on one crucial fact: who’s listening? Inside every good story is the idea worth spreading, Joe will unpack his experience as a scientist, a patent lawyer, and a TEDx speaker to provide some practical tips on finding and spreading that idea.
Thursday, April 2, 2026
12:00-1:00PM
Live from MSC 4053
Newland Faculty Development Room
Zoom Simulcast for state-wide campuses
GET GOOD AT THIS: Networking
Introverts, Extroverts, and Ambiverts all face the same reality: Professional opportunities are born from connections with other humans. Learn from the best to: Improve your professional introduction, enhance your presence at national meetings, leverage your connections to take yourself and your team farther.
Thursday, May 14, 2026
12:00-1:00PM
Live from MSC 4053
Newland Faculty Development Room
Zoom Simulcast for state-wide campuses
Clinical Feedback in a fast-paced environment
Demands are high. Time is scarce. The patients keep coming. All the while, you must provide (constructive, appreciative, relevant, just-in-time, direct, and meaningful) feedback to your learners. How do you do it?
Thursday, June 11, 2026
12:00-1:00PM
Live from MSC 4053
Newland Faculty Development Room
Zoom Simulcast for state-wide campuses
AAMC Webinars
The AAMC offers frequent webinars for Academic Health Sciences Faculty. A AAMC online account (free to UNMC faculty) is required for access.
Past Event Reference
Featured Recent Faculty Development Programming
Recordings of many past sessions can be viewed on iLearn. Log-in with UNMC credentials at go.unmc.edu/ilearn
Past Event Recordings: iLearn Online
Missed an event? Visit iLearn Online, a library of past Faculty Development events, to watch past sessions and access resources.
Additional Learning: Go2Knowledge
Go2Knowledge is an online training platform designed to provide on-demand instruction on a wide array of topics including technology, student success, teaching & learning, institutional effectiveness, and campus safety. Go2Knowledge is free for UNMC Faculty!
Programming Model
We believe the most important resource at UNMC is our dedicated people. We also recognize the demands faculty face to be not only productive but innovative leaders as well. The Office of Faculty Development aims to help faculty deal with the rapid changes and evolving paradigms in education, clinical practice, and health care systems.
To meet these ever-changing needs, Faculty Development offers an assortment of different programs every year based on the feedback of our faculty and staff. These events are carefully planned and designed to help UNMC faculty reach their full potential as a:
- Teacher
- Leader
- Scholar
- Coach/Mentor
- Creator
- Collaborator