SMJ articles in the category "faculty development"

Original Article

Perspectives of Academic VA Clinician Educators: A Qualitative Analysis from a Single Facility

Objective: As part of a quality improvement initiative focused on medical educator faculty development, we sought to explore the perspectives of clinician-educators based at a large urban Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) who navigate the workplace communities of both their VAMC and academic medical center (AMC). Methods: Informed by the…

Posted in: faculty development 8 veterans 8

Original Article

Reimagining Medical Educator Development: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of KinetiC3, A Longitudinal, Character-Integrated Teaching Academy

Objectives: Medical educators often navigate professional isolation, identity dissonance, and limited institutional support, despite strong motivation for growth. KinetiC3 is a year-long cohort-based educator enrichment program that integrates character education with pedagogical development, informed by theories of transformative learning, self-determination, and social identity. Methods: We conducted a mixed-methods evaluation of…

Posted in: faculty development 8 medical education 78 program evaluation 3

Original Article

Evaluating Graduate Medical Education Meetings Using a Modified Nominal Group Technique

Objectives: Despite the critical oversight role that the graduate medical education committee (GMEC) plays in Graduate Medical Education (GME), there has been little examination and assessment of the most effective way to conduct GMEC meetings to establish best practices and optimize efficacy. Using the modified nominal group technique (mNGT), an…

Posted in: evaluation 3 faculty development 8 graduate medical education 29

Original Article

Development and Implementation of a Hospitalist Faculty Development Program in a University- and Community-Based Multihospital System

Objectives: Robust faculty development (FD) is an emerging area of focus within hospital medicine, a relatively new specialty with limited mentorship infrastructure to find and develop a professional niche. There are few descriptions in the literature of establishing and evaluating an FD program with strategies to evaluate success, invite collaboration,…

Posted in: academic medicine 7 faculty development 8 hospital medicine 15 hospitalist 6 Professional Development 4

Original Article

OPEN: Retaining Faculty from Underrepresented Groups in Academic Medicine: Results from a Needs Assessment

Objectives: Academic medical centers can improve the quality of care and address health inequities by recruiting and retaining faculty from underrepresented in medicine (URiM) groups; however, the retention of URiM faculty is a barrier to reaching equity-related goals because URiM faculty are less likely to remain in academia and be…

Posted in: academic medicine 7 faculty development 8

Original Article

OPEN: An Approach to Faculty Development for Underrepresented Minorities in Medicine

Objectives: The diversity of the US physician workforce lags significantly behind the population, and the disparities in academic medicine are even greater, with underrepresented in medicine (URM) physicians accounting for only 6.8% of all US medical school faculty. We describe a “for URM by URM” pilot approach to faculty development…

Posted in: faculty development 8 family medicine 11

Original Article

A Robust Faculty Development Program for Medical Educators: A Decade of Experience

Objectives: Faculty development programs (FDPs) foster learning communities and enhance professional identity formation for medical educators. Competency-based frameworks for faculty development drive skill development across clinical practice, teaching, and scholarship domains. The aims of this study are to outline the context, content, and evolution of a novel FDP; map the…

Posted in: faculty development 8

Original Article

Innovations in Faculty Development: Study of a Research Assistance Unit Designed to Assist Clinician-Educators with Research

Objectives: At a mid-sized community medical school, research was not traditionally strong. Faculty members cited lack of infrastructure support as a significant research barrier. In response, the regional dean developed and funded a research assistance unit (RAU) in 2006 to provide administrative and statistical support to junior faculty beginning their…

Posted in: clinical research 3 faculty development 8 medical faculty 2 scholarship 5
SMA Menu