So You’ve Just Become the So You’ve Just Become the Boss…Boss…
Skills to Deal with Difficult Skills to Deal with Difficult SituationsSituations
Virginia M. Miller, MBA, PhD
Professor, Surgery and Physiology
Director, Office of Women’s Health
April 4, 2005
ASPET/APS Women's Breakfast Workshop
ObjectivesObjectives
• Leaders Role
• Guidelines for Effective Communication
• Legal Issues
• Case Presentations
Mistakes Leaders MakeMistakes Leaders Make
Conflict Avoidance
Waiting too long to intervene
Fear of tough decisions
Criticism without enough praise
Lack of creativity
Creative OPTIONSCreative OPTIONS
• Retreat
• Accommodate
• Battle
• Negotiate
• Problem solve
CustomizeCustomize
FIVE Step planFIVE Step plan
What is your goal?
Determine the setting
Emotions - control them
Practice what you will say
AVOID email and voice mail
Discussion TemplateDiscussion Template
• Describe the problem
• Impact - consequences
• Listen
• Options: Discuss or Dictate
• Follow-up
• Encourage
Legal/Ethical IssuesLegal/Ethical Issues
Publish or PerishPublish or Perish
• Authorship
• Conflict of Interest
• Protection
• Copyright
• Intellectual Property
• Plagiarism
Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to
Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication
Updated November 2003
International Committee of Medical Journal Editors
http://www.icmje.org/http://www.icmje.org/
Consider the CostConsider the Cost
Forgive others and yourselfForgive others and yourself
Move onMove on
Is this the final answer?Is this the final answer?
AuthorshipAuthorship
• Substantial contribution
• Drafting and revising article for intellectual content
• Final approval
Conflict of InterestConflict of Interest
• Dual or competing commitments
• Financial and/or personal relationships
• Real or perceived
ProtectionProtection
• Governing principles for human rights and animal welfare
• Privacy and confidentiality
CopyrightCopyright
• Journal or Open access; who owns it?
• How do you transfer it?
• What is the protection for intellectual property?
Intellectual PropertyIntellectual Property
• Who’s idea is it anyway?
• Material transfers
• Patent protection/copyright
PlagiarismPlagiarism
• Copying other’s work
• Copying your own work
• Duplicate publication
• How do you know?
Useful Tool Useful Tool
““How to review a paper”
Adv Physiol Edu 27:47-52, 2003
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