With the ever-changing career opportunities for dental hygienists, integrating leadership education in dental hygiene curricula is imperative for preparing future dental hygienists to lead effectively within their profession. However, despite the acknowledged importance of leadership skills for healthcare professionals, a significant gap exists in…

Population growth and the COVID pandemic have stretched healthcare to its limits. There are not enough current and future healthcare professions available or in the pipeline, especially in medically underserved areas. To create a pipeline, many community hospitals have started residency programs, as 57.1% of doctors went into practice in the state…

Medical school faculty often lack formal training in effective teaching methods, posing a challenge to their ability to deliver high-quality education. To facilitate high-quality teaching and help medical faculty grow professionally, academically, and scholarly, the burden for training faculty was placed on each medical school's faculty…

Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) face many challenges, which can lead to financial constraints. For AMCs to remain sustainable in today's healthcare system, the literature presents a compelling case for expansion to mitigate their financial burdens. Expansion often requires quick decision-making, and as a result, scholars repeatedly discuss the…

Purpose: In 2016, the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) created a new accreditation criterion to address faculty instructional effectiveness. This criterion asks schools and programs in public health to document their systems, policies and procedures to ensure faculty are current in their area of instructional responsibility and in…

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to explore the early career pathways of women who are deans in academic medicine to understand how they perceived their developed leadership skills and how they identified strategies to advance women into dean leadership roles. Theoretical Framework: Social role theory states that societal expectations of…

This research is necessitated as Black women continue to face unique and significant challenges in educational leadership. Supported by Black Feminist Theory, this study explores the successful leadership pathways of Black women in medical higher education while navigating barriers. The goal is to promote the inclusion of Black women in medical…

Black, Indigenous, (and) People of Color (BIPOC) medical student wellness has been studied almost exclusively by utilizing quantitative research methods. Few studies have looked at BIPOC medical student wellness through qualitative research methods. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was utilized to study BIPOC medical student wellness…

The purpose of this qualitative narrative analysis was to understand how individual and environmental factors shape women's interest in seeking higher-level leadership positions within Canada. A need to understand the individual and environmental barriers that influence female academic physicians' lack of advancement beyond middle management was…

Increasing applications to U.S. osteopathic and allopathic medical schools requires admissions offices and committees to continual seek new evaluative measures to identify and selective the most qualified applicants for interviews and ultimately admission to their institutions. The use of situational judgement tests (SJTs) help identify applicants…

This quantitative study examines the outcomes of the Pre-Matriculation program at the University of Kansas Medical Center's School of Medicine, a pipeline initiative designed to equip students from historically underrepresented groups in medicine (HURM) with the skills and knowledge necessary for success in medical school. A student is considered…

Medical schools throughout the United States have admission committees that explore student applications using a multitude of criteria when choosing students for admissions into medical school. A great deal goes into the criteria that each medical school utilizes in selecting potential students to enroll in their school. Even though there has been…

The study sought to understand the experiences of faculty engaged in curriculum reform to integrate social determinants of health in medical education. The continuing disparities in health are in part a result of lack of education at U.S. medical schools on social and structural inequities as root causes of health disparities. The study used a…

Curricular reform in medical education is a process that has been ongoing for quite some time. Major revision of medical curricula has been occurring since the early eighteenth century. In recent decades, curricular reform has had a monumental impact on the anatomical science subjects. This research investigated how specifically the anatomical…

Many departments seek to improve their equity, diversity, and inclusion using data-informed methods; however, not much is known about how closely department leadership aligns their review practices with appropriate theory. This dissertation seeks to explore four areas: 1) how are equity, diversity, and inclusion are being conceptualized (implied…