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Opportunities for Leadership: Education of a Foreign Medical Graduate

Opportunities for Leadership: Education of a Foreign Medical Graduate. Surendra K. Varma, M.D. Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education Ted Hartman Endowed Chair in Medical Education University Distinguished Professor and Vice-Chairman of Pediatrics

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Opportunities for Leadership: Education of a Foreign Medical Graduate

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  1. Opportunities for Leadership: Education of a Foreign Medical Graduate Surendra K. Varma, M.D. Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education Ted Hartman Endowed Chair in Medical Education University Distinguished Professor and Vice-Chairman of Pediatrics Professor of Physiology and Health Services Research Residency Program Director Department of Pediatrics Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

  2. Coming to America • Goals • Further education • Desire to excel

  3. Beginning • You are an ambassador for your country. If you do good, people will appreciate it. If you have no good work ethic, people will say that all Indians are like it. - My Father

  4. Boston

  5. Learning Curve • Culture • Language • Adjustment to Environment

  6. “Nothing is as necessary for success as the single minded pursuit of an objective” Frederick W. Smith

  7. “The starting point of all achievement is desire” Napoleon Hill

  8. Stay in mainstream. Do not migrate/flock to your ethnic group at workplace • Be proud of your heritage

  9. Influence • Mentors • Peers

  10. “Six essential qualities are the key to success: sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity” Dr. William Menninger

  11. Lubbock

  12. “He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom” English Proverb

  13. Work Ethic • Diligence • Drive • Collegiality • Respect Cultural & Religious Diversity

  14. Balance • Clinical Skills • Education • Research • Administration

  15. Protected Time • Research • Personal Development • Family

  16. Balance between family and work

  17. Involve yourself in but do not over commit • Involve in: • Departmental Activities • Institution’s Activities

  18. “Make service your first priority, not success, and success will follow” “Secrets of Effective Leadership”

  19. THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX

  20. Community Service • Child Advocacy

  21. Community Service • Opportunities • Resources • e.g. Diabetes Camp for Children with Diabetes • Resource – Rotary Club

  22. “All politics is local” Tip O’Neill

  23. Start at local level • Regular Participation Is Essential • “Eighty Percent Success is Showing Up” • -Woody Allen

  24. Volunteer your time and services • Fulfill Commitments with Sincerity and Integrity

  25. Next Step – Participate in State Society Leadership as your local representative • - Listen, Observe and Volunteer - Avail Leadership Opportunities • “Many People Have Gone Further Than They Thought They could Because Someone Else Thought They Could.” • - Unknown

  26. Child Advocacy • Need Based • Personal Commitment • e.g. – Newborn Screening for congenital Hypothyroidism in Texas • Resource – State Senator • Target – State Legislature • Bill – Passed 1977 • – Money Appropriated 1979

  27. Next Step – Avail Opportunities for Leadership at National Level. • Keep focus of your expertise. Do not overspread yourself

  28. National Level • - Listen, Observe & Volunteer • “You Can Observe a Lot By Watching” • - Yogi Berra • - Keep your Ego in check

  29. “The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated” William James

  30. “No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.” -Archibald Wavell “London Times” February 17, 1941

  31. Do your home work “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” -Unknown • Volunteer your services for things you can do effectively.

  32. Express your opinion in a gentle fashion • “Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless” • - Mother Teresa • Listen to other points of views • “In a Room Full of People There May be Persons Wiser Than You.” • - My Father

  33. ‘It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.” - Mahatma Gandhi

  34. Success vs Failure Success is that old ABC – “Ability, Breaks, and Courage” - Charles Luckman In my case add luck as well

  35. “Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.” -Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

  36. Failure • Do not blame others • Do not take shelter behind Ethnicity Bias • Try to get over it • “But man is Not Made for Defeat. A Man Can Be Destroyed But Not Defeated.” • - Ernest Hemingway

  37. “No man fails who does his best” Orison Swett Marden

  38. WHAT NEXT?

  39. IS THERE A GLASS CEILING?

  40. I DO NOT KNOW

  41. “The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.” -Theodore Hesburgh

  42. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” - Anon

  43. “No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed” -Harold MacMillan, 1963

  44. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” -Robert Frost

  45. Mentors • Raghubir P. Varma (My Father) • Charles Janeway, M.D. • John F. Crigler, Jr., M.D. • John B. Stanbury, M.D. • John D. Crawford, M.D. • Deceased

  46. “I want to thank you for making this day necessary” - Yogi Berra

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