BEING STRATEGIC ABOUT FACULTY DEVELOPMENT

Using Cases about Teaching for Faculty Development

Query about Faculty updated UKMEC.

dynamically than could ever be displayed on paper. Video consultations demonstrate communication aspects powerfully. The introductory emphasis on the law, the client perspective and young people places contraception and sexual health within its psychosocial context. Links to referenced sites are well chosen and accessible. The interactive self-assessment is challenging and – dare I say – fun, a...

Faculty attitudes about interprofessional education

BACKGROUND Interprofessional education (IPE) is an important component to training health care professionals. Research is limited in exploring the attitudes that faculty hold regarding IPE and what barriers they perceive to participating in IPE. The purpose of this study was to identify faculty attitudes about IPE and to identify barriers to participating in campus-wide IPE activities. METHOD...

Being Realistic about Reasons

In my first lecture I listed seven questions about reasons that seemed to require answers. These were: Relational Character: Reasons are reasons for an agent. How is this relational character to be understood? Ground of Truth: In virtue of what are claims about reasons true, when they are true? Does the idea that claims about reasons are true or false, independent of our opinions about them, an...

Being Positive about Selection

H ow has language developed in humans and what genetic changes underlie our unique cognitive abilities? Accounts of positive selection that lead to such abilities in humans fascinate us because of the insight they provide into our own evolution, and into the many genetic differences that distinguish us from other apes. The genes that became fi xed in our lineage as a result of positive selectio...