Health Care Management (HCM)
PDW Chair: Tim Vogus, Vanderbilt University, hcmpdw2017@gmail.com
2017 HCM Division Professional Development Workshops: Call for Proposals
The Health Care Management Division has a rich history of innovative and engaging Professional Development Workshop sessions (PDWs). In 2017, we will convene our consortium for doctoral students and junior faculty in Atlanta on Friday, August 4th, followed by a day of sessions open to all conference participants on Saturday, August 5th. We seek proposals from AOM members who wish to organize a PDW session for either the doctoral and junior faculty consortium on Friday, or the Saturday program for all members.
At the consortium on Friday, experienced faculty will interact with doctoral students and junior faculty. Discussion topics include dissertation preparation, finding the right first job, generating publications, the tenure process, and balancing the competing demands placed on emerging scholars. These sessions encourage networking, mentoring (both traditional and peer) and the development of new insights about career options and how to pursue them.
Saturday sessions should have a broader appeal to conference attendees at various stages in their careers. The goal with the Saturday workshops is to give attendees the opportunity to make new personal and intellectual connections that can enhance their research, teaching, and practice. Examples of past PDW topics include (but are not limited to) theory building in health care management, innovative research methods, studying new organizational phenomena (e.g., accountable care organizations), exploring new teaching methods, career development, grant writing, international research issues, effective publishing strategies, and mentoring.
We welcome new PDW session ideas and encores of successful sessions from prior years. Additionally, we encourage sessions that incorporate the 2017 "At the Interface" theme. The theme is especially relevant for health care management scholars and practitioners as our work is at the interface of governments, organizations, and communities as well as, more than many divisions, at the interface of theory and practice. The most important selection criteria relate to participants' learning needs and an interactive participant-centered format. Experiential learning and interaction must be promoted in every proposal. Additionally, clear and feasible logistical plans and firm commitments from all presenters are necessary proposal components. The standard session length is two hours; however, please indicate if you would like more or less time for your proposal. It is expected that two hours should be sufficient.
Individuals interested in organizing a session during either the consortium or the Saturday PDW program are encouraged to contact Tim Vogus (hcmpdw2017@gmail.com) by December 19th to discuss their ideas. PDW submissions must be submitted online through the Academy of Management Online website: http://aom.org/annualmeeting/submission/. The closing date for submissions is January 10, 2017, 5 PM EST.