Workplace Based Faculty Development Approaches

Effective Approaches to Faculty Development

My job is to start us off by addressing these questions: What is effective faculty development? And how does one achieve the goal of providing effective faculty development? These are critical questions and ones that I suspect you have been asking yourself. In fact, these questions may have served as the impetus for coming to this meeting. I hope, in the next 30 minutes to begin to answer these...

Rights - Based Approaches to Development

Focuses on the current issues highlighted in the African Peer Review Mechanism report involving Rwanda and Ghana. Firm and concrete actions sought by the very least donor countries to stop fiscal indiscipline or impropriety and human rights violation; Aim of Ghana President John Kufuor to correct the path in terms of governance and good leadership for economic development; Optimism of Rwandan P...

What difficulties do faculty members face when conducting workplace-based assessments in undergraduate clerkships?

OBJECTIVE Workplace-based assessments are based on the principle of providing feedback to medical students on clinical performance in authentic settings. In practice, however, the assessment often overshadows the feedback. The aim of this study was to determine what problems faculty perceived when performing workplace-based assessments and what solutions they suggested to overcome these difficu...

Faculty Development Roundup

Making Your Candidate Statement March 31, 3:30-5 p.m., Swede Johnson Building, Room 205, RSVP here[1] Candidates will work in small groups with senior faculty in related fields to discuss sample candidate statements. Candidate statements [2] are vital to outlining the impact of candidates' service, teaching and research. They play an especially important role in documenting the sorts of communi...

Faculty and Instructional Development