As part of the Center for Institutional, Faculty, and Student Success, our team supports 6VµçÓ°Íø faculty and staff in the areas of teaching effectiveness, research, scholarship, service, and career and life management by offering seminars, workshops, and individual mentoring throughout the academic year. We believe a robust professional development program enhances and sustains the vitality necessary to foster excellence in medical education. Importantly, we promote a culture that values faculty members’ accomplishments.
Goals
- To support faculty in finding their own most effective approaches to teaching and to work to identify and disseminate good teaching practices.
- To inspire and teach faculty to develop new learning and teaching strategies that engage a diverse student body.
- To collaborate and provide feedback and consultation with faculty to help them identify methods for improving classroom performance.
- To educate faculty and assist them to integrate formative assessment strategies into curriculum design.
- To orient new faculty and provide them with the resources needed to begin instruction and to fully develop their style of teaching.
- To design and conduct professional development activities, including those driven by College instructional initiatives and faculty interests.
- To support faculty and administration in educational research and to assess the success of new curriculum or curriculum delivery methods.