Health Care Management (HCM)
PDW Chair: Sara Singer, Stanford University; ssinger@stanford.edu
2018 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 2018, we will convene our consortium for doctoral students and junior faculty in Chicago on Friday, August 10th, followed by a day of sessions open to all conference participants on Saturday, August 11th. 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, approaches for bridging across disciplines and between research and practice, 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 2018 "Improving Lives" theme. The theme is especially relevant for health care management scholars and practitioners as improving lives is core to what motivates the work of individuals, teams, and organizations in the health care industry and the health care management scholars who study them. The most important selection criteria for PDWs are the workshop's potential for addressing participants' learning needs and providing an interactive participant-centered format. Experiential learning and interaction should 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 Sara Singer (ssinger@stanford.edu) by December 1st to discuss their ideas. PDW submissions must be submitted online through the Academy of Management Online website: http://aom.org/annualmeeting/submission/. The submission system will open on Tuesday, November 28, 2017, and the closing date for submissions is Tuesday, January 9, 2018, 5 PM EST.
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