Faculty Development Webinars

New for 2025! AOAO will offer free one-hour live webinars focused on topics of interest to member directors
and faculty of orthopedic residency programs.

UPCOMING WEBINARS

Reframing Distress: Why Moral Injury Matters
Speaker: Wendy Dean, MD

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 8:00 pm

Speaker bio:
Wendy Dean, MD is the CEO and co-founder of The Moral Injury of Healthcare, a nonprofit focused on alleviating workforce distress through research, education, advocacy, and consultation. She is widely published in both academic journals and lay media. She is the author of, If I Betray These Words: Moral Injury In Medicine and Why It’s So Hard For Clinicians to Put Patients First, and cohost of the Moral Matters and 43cc podcasts.

Before co-founding the nonprofit, Dr. Dean practiced as a psychiatrist, worked for the Department of Defense in research innovation, and as an executive for a large international non-profit supporting military medical research.

Dr. Dean graduated from Smith College and the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She did her residency training at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH.

Objectives:

Upon completion of this webinar, participants will:

  • Have a greater awareness of the invisible pressures shaping their practice
  • Have reviewed the tools and knowledge necessary to identify and address those forces
  • Have received ongoing resources that support systemic, regulatory, and legislative change


Accreditation and Credit Designation Information

The American Osteopathic Academy of Orthopedics is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association to provide osteopathic continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Osteopathic Academy of Orthopedics designates this program for a maximum of 1.0 AOA Category 1-A credits and will report CME and specialty credits commensurate with the extent of the physician’s participation in this activity.

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