Independent Courses

Program in Educational Faculty Development On-Demand Courses

On-demand faculty development webinars build educators’ skills for teaching in classrooms and at the bedside.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Screen Media, Social Interaction and ASD: Connecting Theory and Research

Explores visual brain hyper-connectivity in autism and research on whether early-life digital screen exposure is associated with autism symptoms and diagnosis.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

EFD On-Demand: Critical Junctures: Creating High Impact Advising Conversations

Help medical educators create productive advising conversations through rapport-building, non-directive career advising, and powerful questioning.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Psychological Flexibility: Building a Pragmatic Model and Method of Intentional Change

Explore the philosophy, theory, practice, and research development underlying the psychological flexibility model through a functional contextualist perspective.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

TikTokTherapist: Understanding the Role of Social Media in Adolescent Mental Health

Explore research on how social media reshapes adolescents’ social experiences and affects mental-health risks and benefits, including suicidal thoughts and behavior.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

On-demand | Micro-interventions to Support Those Escaping Emotional Pain: Addressing Overlapping Substance Use and Suicide Risk

Learn how suicidal behaviors and substance use can provide emotional and physiological relief, and apply DBT-informed strategies to assess and stabilize suicidal clients.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

On-Demand | Lethal Means Counseling: Collaboration at the Patient- and Community-Level

A webinar on collaborative lethal means counseling that helps healthcare teams discuss firearm and medication safety with patients at risk for suicide.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Social (In)Justice and Mental Health

Explore how social injustice and social determinants shape mental health inequities and influence the field of mental health.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Finding the EHR Data to Tell Your Clinical Story: Early Experiences with Lifespan Pediatric Behavioral Health Emergency Services

Learn how to identify, extract, manage, and analyze EHR data to improve pediatric behavioral health emergency services.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

EFD On-Demand: From Abstract to Poster to Case Report: A Guide for Clinicians

A case-based guide to turning clinical cases into abstracts, posters, and case report submissions.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

EFD On-Demand: Getting Your Scholarly Projects “Unstuck”- A Reference Management Workshop

Learn to choose and use reference management tools to organize scholarly projects and improve research efficiency.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

EFD On-Demand: Practical Approaches to Applying Conceptual & Theoretical Frameworks to Medical Education Research

Apply conceptual and theoretical frameworks to design, conduct, and situate medical education research.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

On Demand | Demystifying Palliative Care

Learn to distinguish palliative care from hospice care and understand how interprofessional teams support people living with serious illness.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Medical Evaluation of the Sexual Assault Survivor: A Virtual Educational Curriculum

Trains clinicians to provide trauma-informed, victim-centered medical and forensic evaluations for sexual assault survivors.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Session 2: Compassion the new empathy? Taking the me out of empathy

An introduction to compassion as a way to stay present with patients’ suffering without becoming emotionally exhausted.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate