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 questions and to provide a framework for you to take advantage of all the outstanding sessions at this conference as you design an effective faculty development program for your site.