2025 education retreat highlights
The approach for team building and planning this year is a series of retreats for each program/focus area. Education program leaders had a very successful gathering last month featuring these main topics and key takeaways. The next all-faculty retreat is slated for spring 2026.
May 15, 2025
Fifth Floor Gallery, MSB
Main topics:
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- Pediatric workforce trends and challenges
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- DoP efforts to organize and expand educational leadership
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- Program evaluation and accreditation
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- Curriculum innovation
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- Recruitment and digital presence
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- Next steps
Key takeaways:
- Ongoing collaboration to strengthen UTHealth Houston standing as a leader in pediatric education
- Opportunities to get involved with medical students/residents/fellow education to be shared more regularly
- Increase program coordinator perspective
- Identify local professional development opportunities around education
- The importance of the Educator Portfolio