Departmental chairsʼ perspectives on faculty development

Perspectives on faculty development: aiming for 6/6 by 2020

Faculty development has a key role to play in individual and organizational development. This perspective on faculty development, which builds on the 2020 Vision of Faculty Development Across the Medical Education Continuum Conference and the First International Conference on Faculty Development in the Health Professions, describes six recommendations that we should consider as the field of fac...

The Impact of Faculty Development on Teacher Self-Efficacy, Skills and Perspectives (Faculty Fellow Report)

Reframing research on faculty development.

Research on faculty development has focused primarily on individual participants and has produced relatively little generalizable knowledge that can guide faculty development programs. In this article, the authors examine how current research on faculty development in medical education can be enriched by research in related fields such as teacher education, quality improvement, continuing medic...

Perspectives on faculty clinical practice: views of occupational therapy curriculum chairpersons and faculty members.

OBJECTIVE This study investigated whether and how faculty clinical practice (FCP) was being implemented in occupational therapy professional education programs. METHOD Chairpersons and faculty members from all accredited entry-level occupational therapy curricula in the United States were asked to complete questionnaires about their involvement in FCP. The chairperson questionnaire consisted ...

Faculty Perspectives On Using Peer Instruction: A National Study

We previously reported on the results of a national web survey of physics faculty about their instructional practices in introductory physics. A subset of 72 survey respondents were interviewed to better characterize how faculty interact with research-based instructional strategies (RBIS), use RBIS, and perceive their institutional contexts. Drawing from 15 interviews with self-reported users o...