Institutional challenges posed by faculty development

A Multi-Institutional Longitudinal Faculty Development Program in Humanism Supports the Professional Development of Faculty Teachers

The authors describe the first 11 academic years (2005-2006 through 2016-2017) of a longitudinal, small-group faculty development program for strengthening humanistic teaching and role modeling at 30 U.S. and Canadian medical schools that continues today. During the yearlong program, small groups of participating faculty met twice monthly with a local facilitator for exercises in humanistic tea...

New HDL Research Challenges posed by Dynamically

Dynamically re-programmable hardware (e.g. Field Programmable Gate Arrays or FPGAs) change many of our basic assumptions of what hardware is. Normal hardware design focuses on the development of a static circuit of xed size, topology and functionality. The static nature of the target design entity is re ected in the design of CAD tools, hardware description languages, net-list representations a...

Public health challenges posed by chemical mixtures.

Approximately 40 million people live within a 4-mile radius of waste sites that the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) has assessed to date. Human populations living in the vicinity of such sites are often subjected to complex chemical exposures that may contribute to the total body burden of oxogenous chemicals. Apart from the contaminants found at waste sites, exposure m...

Therapeutic challenges posed by bacterial bioterrorism threats.

The events of the autumn of 2001 in the United States made it clear that the spectre of the use of microorganisms to intentionally harm humans is a reality. The current strategy to control disease outbreaks caused by the intentional release of bacteria is to use antimicrobial agents, both therapeutically and prophylactically. However, multidrug-resistant strains of bacterial bioterrorism agents...

The Relationship of Institutional Planning and Institutional Research to Faculty Development