Are you emotionally intelligent? In this new episode Drs. Temara Hajjat and Jason Silverman sit down with Dr. Brian McFerron to review what emotional intelligence is, and how it applies to medical training, healthcare practitioners and everyone as individuals. We also discuss ways to improve and resources to consider.

Dr. McFerron is the Director of the Fellowship Training Program for the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at Indiana University School of Medicine/Riley Hospital for Children. Dr. McFerron has clinical interest in pancreatic diseases and has been involved in clinical research involving acute recurrent and chronic pancreatitis, collaborating with colleagues nationally within the INSPPIRE consortium. He was awarded the NASPGHAN Terri Li Young Educator Award in 2022.

Learning objectives

1. Review the components of emotional intelligence and how gaps in these components may present
2. Discuss the importance of emotional intelligence in a variety of professional and personal domains
3. Review strategies for improving dimensions of emotional intelligence

Episode links

1. Learning the Lasso Way
2. How to Use Emotional Intelligence as a Career Catalyst
3. Assessment of Medical Students' Emotional Intelligence
4. Emotional Intelligence and Academic Performance in First and Final Year Medical Students
5. The Best Leaders Aren't Afraid to be Vulnerable (HBR)
6. The Power of Vulnerability (TED Talk by Brené Brown)

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This episode is eligible for CME credit! Once you have listened to the episode, click this link to claim your credit. Credit is available to NASPGHAN members (if you are not a member, you should probably sign up). And thank you to the NASPGHAN Professional Education Committee for their review!

As always, the discussion, views, and recommendations in this podcast are the sole responsibility of the hosts and guests and are subject to change over time with advances in the field.

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In this episode, hosts Drs. Peter Lu and Jennifer Lee talk to Dr. Ruba Abdelhadi about enteral nutrition and feeding tubes.

Dr. Abdelhadi is a pediatric gastroenterologist at Children's Mercy in Kansas City, MO where she is the Director of Nutrition Support Program. She is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine.

Learning Objectives:

1. Define enteral nutrition and patient populations who may benefit from enteral nutrition therapy.
2. Understand the types, use cases, and complications of enteral feeding tubes.
3. Review troubleshooting and treating common clinical scenarios related to feeding tube such as redness and leaking

Support the Show.

This episode is eligible for CME credit! Once you have listened to the episode, click this link to claim your credit. Credit is available to NASPGHAN members (if you are not a member, you should probably sign up). And thank you to the NASPGHAN Professional Education Committee for their review!

As always, the discussion, views, and recommendations in this podcast are the sole responsibility of the hosts and guests and are subject to change over time with advances in the field.

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In this episode, hosts Drs. Peter Lu and Temara Hajjat talk to Dr. Tanaz Danialifar about diagnosing and treating disaccharidase deficiencies in children, including lactase deficiency and congenital sucrase-isomaltase deficiency (CSID).

Dr. Danialifar is a pediatric gastroenterologist at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, where she is Associate Director of their Gastroenterology Fellowship Program, and an Assistant Professor at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

Learning Objectives:

1. Recognize aspects of a child's clinical presentation that would raise concern for a disaccharidase deficiency.
2. Understand the roles of the various diagnostic tests available for disaccharidase deficiencies.
3. Understand the treatment and prognosis of disaccharidase deficiencies in children.

Support the Show.

This episode is eligible for CME credit! Once you have listened to the episode, click this link to claim your credit. Credit is available to NASPGHAN members (if you are not a member, you should probably sign up). And thank you to the NASPGHAN Professional Education Committee for their review!

As always, the discussion, views, and recommendations in this podcast are the sole responsibility of the hosts and guests and are subject to change over time with advances in the field.

Check out our merch website!

Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram for all the latest news and upcoming episodes.

Click here to support the show.