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Most people dislike change.
Well, guess what?
GITT means change, so get ready
for at least a
little resistance from peers and
higher-ups.
How do you deal with it? Well,
everyone's different,
but we've found that heading
straight to the top
early is the best approach. Get
your dean on board
first, have him or her publicly
announce that
GITT's going to happen at the
next staff meeting,
and that'll go a long way toward
bringing the
rest of the staff on board.
Here
are some other
tips:
Building Support Across The
University
To develop GITT, a site must
have an idea of how
to enhance interdisciplinary
interaction across
the university and a structure
to operationalize
relations among different
schools or departments
such as medicine, social work,
nursing, and others.
Since few universities have a
commitment to interdisciplinary
collaboration, it is likely that
in developing
a GITT program, you will be
forging a new model
for clerkship or clinical
rotation. As such, it
is essential to involve
academic, clinic, and
system administrators in the
early planning of
a GITT program and obtain their
support and interest.
Organizational support at the
highest levels,
including support of deans
across schools prior
to program development, is
essential to program
success. Furthermore, planning
should also include
consideration of sustainability
of the program
over time. GITT sites found that
a lack of consideration
of sustainability as the program
was being developed
hindered both the development of
the program and
the ability of the program to
recruit interested
students.
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