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Faculty Development SIG
Every learner deserves a well-developed faculty! If your roles or goals include
helping other faculty become more successful educators/academicians, the Faculty
Development SIG (FacDevSIG) is a good place for you to share ideas with other
faculty developers. The Faculty Development SIG is a group of educators committed
to learning more about faculty development and helping each other succeed in
this field. Attendance is open to anyone who is or wants to be a faculty developer.
The FacDevSIG will meet in Toronto on Saturday May 5, 12-3pm. Please make
plans to join us for a combined business meeting and workshop: “The Who,
How and Why of Effective and Exciting Faculty Development”. Bob Hilliard,
Lyuba Konopasek, Joe Lopreiato, and Ginny Niebuhr will lead participants through
a set of challenging cases to consider who leads faculty development, what
are effective formats, and what are the measurable outcomes to show why it’s
worth the effort.
2007 is about Canada! We offer you two ways to find out about faculty development
in Canada: read these articles and/or come to our FacDevSIG and talk to Bob
Hilliard, one of our Canadian members.
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Ten years old – but still interesting reading. McLeod PJ, Steinert Y,
Nasmit. Faculty development in Canadian medical schools: a 10-year update.
Canadian Medical Association Journal, 156 (10), 1419-1423, 1997.
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Highlights of a successful program at McGill University in Montreal. Steinert
Y, Nasmith L, McLeod PJ, Conochie L. “A Teaching Scholars Program to
Develop Leaders in Medical Education” Academic Medicine, 78(2):142-149,
February 2003.
And for good airplane reading, get yourself a copy of these before you leave.
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Wilkerson, L; Irby, DM. “Strategies for improving teaching practices:
a comprehensive approach to faculty development.” Academic Medicine.
73(4):387-96, April 1998.
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Menachery EP, Knight AM, Kolodner K, Wright SM., Conochie L. Physician Characteristics
Associated with Proficiency in Feedback Skills. Journal of General Internal
Medicine. Vol. 21 (5), 440, May 2006.
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Knight AM, Cole KA, Kern DE, Barker LR; Kolodner K; Wright SM. Long-Term Follow-Up
of a Longitudinal Faculty Development Program in Teaching Skills. Journal of
General Internal Medicine, 20 (8), 721–725, 2005. In this example of
how careful documentation of effects can yield evidence of success, we read, “Participation
in the longitudinal FDP was associated with continued teaching activities,
desirable teaching behaviors, and higher self-assessments related to giving
feedback and learner centeredness. “
One of you reading this is surely looking for a way to get more involved in
the APA organization and to test your national leadership skills. If you are
interested in possibly becoming a co-chair of the FACDEV SIG, let one of us
know of your interest before May 1st. Our SIG has a tri-chair model – serve
for three years, with increasing leadership over time.
Keep developing faculty and join us Saturday in Toronto.
Virginia Niebuhr, University Texas Medical Branch, Galveston TX Email: vniebuhr@utmb.edu
Lyuba Konapasek, Cornell Medical School, Ithaca NY Email: LYK2003@med.cornell.edu
Joe Lopreiato, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda,
MD Email: jlopreiato@usuhs.mil
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