18: Faculty Development in Student Learning Communities: Exploring the Vitality of Mid-Career Faculty Participants

Faculty Learning Communities

1 Jean Layne, Texas A&M University, Faculty Learning Communities, Center for Teaching Excellence, 4246 TAMU, Blocker 232/234, College Station, TX 77843-4246, [email protected]. 2 Jeff Froyd, Texas A&M University, Dwight Look College of Engineering, Zachry Engineering Center, 3128 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-3128, [email protected]. 3 Jim Morgan, Texas A&M University, Department of Civil Engi...

Student-Faculty Partnership for Deeper Learning

New challenges and paradigms for mid-career faculty in academic medical centers: key strategies for success for mid-career medical school faculty.

S uccess, like beauty, is difficult to define, but one knows it when one sees it. A reasonable definition is the achievement of satisfaction and happiness in one’s profession, which then defers the definition to that of happiness and satisfaction. These will be dependent on the extent and directions of one’s passion, the pursuit of which promotes satisfying productivity. Physicians who choose t...

Perceptions of skill development of participants in three national career development programs for women faculty in academic medicine.

PURPOSE The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and Drexel University College of Medicine have designed and implemented national career development programs (CDPs) to help women faculty acquire and strengthen skills needed for success in academic medicine. The authors hypothesized that skills women acquired in CDPs would vary by career stage and program attended. METHOD In 2011, t...

The Jahnigen scholars program: a model for faculty career development.

Over the next several decades, there will be unprecedented growth in the number of older adults in the United States. Such growth will require increasing numbers of medical providers with sufficient training in and commitment to geriatrics to meet the healthcare needs of a growing number of seniors, many of whom will be frail and disabled. The April 2008 Institute of Medicine report ‘‘Retooling...