Introduction: Clinical empathy ascertains the quality of doctorpatientrelationship and entails beneficial outcomes for bothparties. Role-modeling is a major factor in promoting clinicalempathy skills of medical students. The present study attemptedto explain the importance of role-modeling in clinical empathy ofmedical interns. It was also intended to obtain a better and moreprofound understand...

AIM This paper reviews the demographic, academic and professional profile of Irish dental school faculty members. Faculty duties are explored. METHODS AND MATERIALS Custom-designed questionnaires were distributed to faculty members for self-completion, adopting a 'mixed-method' approach with quantitative and qualitative components. Response rate was 64.60%. RESULTS Demographic profile revea...

Background Faced with one of the lowest physician-to-population ratios in the world, the Government of Tanzania is urging its medical schools to train more physicians. The annual number of medical students admitted across the country rose from 55 in the 1990s to 1,680 approved places for the 2015/16 academic year. These escalating numbers strain existing faculty. Objective To describe the avail...

BACKGROUND Faculty observation of residents and students performing clinical skills is essential for reliable and valid evaluation of trainees. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of a new multifaceted method of faculty development called direct observation of competence training. DESIGN Controlled trial of faculty from 16 internal medicine residency programs using a cluster randomization de...

introduction: one of the main indicators in the scientific development of many countries is their scientific production. in this regard, universities and faculty members, as the most critical factors in research and scientific areas, play the most significant role. methods: the current study attempts to identify the critical factors and obstacles involved in the production of science at kermans...

Sarikaya O, Kalaca S, Yeğen BÇ, Cali S. The impact of a faculty development program: evaluation based on the self-assessment of medical educators from preclinical and clinical disciplines. Adv Physiol Educ 34: 35–40, 2010; doi: 10.1152/advan.00024.2010.—Self-assessment tools have previously been used to assess the impact of a faculty development program on the teaching skills of medical educato...

systemized sabbatical leaves seem as an appropriate mechanism for fostering academic collaboration, improving academic capacities and developing professional capacity of faculty members in higher agricultural education system. this research was done with aim to identify and analysis expected outcomes and impacts of sabbatical leaves for professional development of agricultural faculty members. ...