The School of Business Administration will present an information session on its Executive M.B.A. Program in Palm Beach on Wednesday, January 19 at 6 p.m. at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach. The Executive M.B.A. Program in Palm Beach starts in April. Classes meet on Saturdays, enabling students to earn the UM M.B.A. in Palm Beach without interrupting their careers. Classes are taught by the same world-renowned faculty as those who teach on UM’s Coral Gables campus. Partial scholarships are available to admissible employees. To RSVP for the free event or for more information regarding the Executive M.B.A. program and admissions process, call Aurora Goicochea at 305-284-2510 or e-mail [email protected].

The Performance Improvement Management (PIM) Series consists of three CBLs with corresponding ILT sessions, as well as a final ILT session at which participants reflect on the experience they had in utilizing the skills learned through PIM.

• PIM I: Creating a Performance-Based Culture focuses on the fundamental skills required of a leader entrusted with our greatest assets: our staff.

• PIM II: The Process of Performance Improvement Management focuses on the leader’s ability to coach an employee to improve performance and productivity. This module provides tools to ensure that sound job descriptions are created and expectations are set for both the manager and the employee in order to improve performance.

• PIM III: Documentation focuses on the importance of documenting employee performance—for both reward and recognition, as well as for disciplinary action. This session allows participants to see the impact of sound documentation for the employee and the University.

• PIM IV: Applying Performance Management provides an opportunity for participants to reflect on their personal experiences, using the skills acquired through the PIM Series.

You must complete each corresponding online CBL prior to enrolling and must register for all four parts of the session to receive credit. To register for the sessions, visit ULearn.

Start Date: Wednesday, January 19
Time: 1 to 5 p.m.
Location: Miller School of Medicine campus, Dominion Parking Garage, Suite 155

For assistance, call the Professional Development and Training Office at 305-243-3090.

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and The France Foundation will host Schizophrenia Grand Rounds on Wednesday, January 19 from 12 to 1 p.m. at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Retter Auditorium. Joel Kleinman, chief of the Section on Neuropathology at the National Institute of Mental Health/National Institutes of Health, will present “Allelic Variations and Splice Variants in Human Brain Development and Schizophrenia.” The France Foundation designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This activity will provide 1.0 CE to social workers, marriage and family therapists, and mental health counselors who attend Note: This activity will not provide CEUs to psychologists. For more information, call Carmen Bou-Crick at 305-355-9073, e-mail [email protected], or visit the departmental website.

The Department of Epidemiology and Public Health will host grand rounds on Wednesday, January 19 from 12 to 1 p.m. at Broad-Bussel Auditorium, Clinical Research Building, first floor. Mark Helfand, staff physician at Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center and professor of medicine and medical informatics and clinical epidemiology at Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine, will present “Methodological Challenges for Comparative Effectiveness Research.” For more information, e-mail Jane Brooks at [email protected].

Are you submitting a National Institutes of Health proposal soon? Are you submitting electronically? Learn how to use the InfoEd Proposal Development system to prepare and submit your proposal electronically to the NIH. InfoEd streamlines the proposal development process, is Web-based, and is accessible almost anywhere by Mac and PC users. No additional software is required. InfoEd pre-fills agency forms, includes built-in agency validations, stores proposals in a secure environment, and provides a database of all proposals submitted.

In this interactive hands-on computer workshop, participants will learn how to create, route, submit, and track a proposal using the InfoEd Proposal Development system. The workshop is scheduled for Wednesday, January 19 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Dominion Towers, tenth-floor Training Room, on the Miller School of Medicine campus. Registration is required through ULearn. For more information, e-mail [email protected] or call 305-243-5092.