What’s your greatest hope for this academic year?

Rachel Salas, MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

My goal this year is to become trained as a StrengthsFinder coach to become a better physician, mentor, and role model.  I believe that StrengthsFinder will help me better understand and connect with my mentees, peers, and patients.

I am also fascinated with learning more about the “shadow” side of our strengths, which can be helpful to know about ourselves when we find ourselves in a stressful situation.

Sometimes as physicians or teachers, we may also encounter and interact with others  while they are going through a tough time and we may be seeing their shadow side.

William Greenough, MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

I hope to see as the first phrase in each discharge summary I receive, a phrase that identifies something unique about the patient as an individual before the litany of what is wrong.

This sets up a more personal non-medical relationship and interaction between doctor and patient and introduces the patient on transfer as a unique person to the receiving team of doctors and nurses.

Margaret Chisolm, MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Launching an invitational longitudinal scholars program for Hopkins Medicine students.

Sam Kant, MD, University of Maryland Medical Center

Instilling the seven habits of highly effective interns with my new learners.

Michael Crocetti, MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

My greatest hope for the new academic year is to move through the promotional committee and become an associate professor. This is hard to do at a large university and it requires commitment, patience, and focus.

Cynthia Jin, MD, Mayo Clinic

As an intern, hoping to keep climbing the learning curve, stay as passionate as I am now, and make great friends along the way!

Laura Hanyok, MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

My hope for the academic year is that it will not fly by without a chance for me to take it in.

Rather, I hope to have a chance to appreciate all the good things at work and outside of work, and not have life happen so fast.

Michael Fingerhood, MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

I am active in an ambitious effort to decrease opioid overdose deaths in East Baltimore, and I look forward to teaming up with the community to implement innovative interventions to impact and save lives.