Perceptions on faculty development among dental faculty in Andhra Pradesh

Building nurse education capacity in India: insights from a faculty development programme in Andhra Pradesh

BACKGROUND India faces an acute shortage of nurses. Strategies to tackle the human resource crisis depend upon scaling up nursing education provision in a context where the social status and working conditions of nurses are highly variable. Several national and regional situation assessments have revealed significant concerns about educational governance, institutional and educator capacity, qu...

Faculty development for underrepresented minority dental faculty and residents.

This report describes the implementation and evaluation of the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center Dental Faculty Development Program (DFDP) for fifteen participants: five advanced dental education faculty members and ten residents. The 100-hour DFDP, designed in the longitudinal immersion model for faculty development, was conducted in four phases at the Bronx-Lebanon Department of Dentistry in the ...

The Development of Faculty in Dental Education.

Minority dental faculty development: responsibility and challenge.

Over at least the last twenty years, the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) has given attention and priority to increasing the number of underrepresented minority (URM) dental school applicants, enrollees, and faculty members and to meeting the challenges of achieving diversity in the oral health workforce of the future as racial and ethnic minorities continue to grow and are expected...

Faculty perceptions and practice impact of a faculty development workshop on emergency medicine teaching.

BACKGROUND Faculty development initiatives to improve emergency department (ED) teaching are compromised by the paucity of information about what behaviours and characteristics are desirable in an emergency medicine (EM) teacher. OBJECTIVES To design and evaluate a learner-centred, interactive faculty development workshop based on original ED teaching research. METHODS Registrants for a uni...