Faculty Member Review and Feedback Using a Sign-Out Checklist

Checklist-styled daily sign-out rounds improve hospital throughput in a major trauma center.

The checklist concept has received much attention as a result of its ability to improve patient care by minimizing complications. We hypothesized daily sign-out rounds using a checklist, by improving team communication and consistency of clinical care, could lead to expedited throughput for patients at a major trauma center. A retrospective study examined patients admitted to a mature trauma ce...

Nursing Students’ Perception of Ethical and Professional Characteristics of an Ideal Faculty Member: A Qualitative Study

Introduction: One of the factors affecting in promoting educational quality is the properties of the faculty members. As consumers, students are stakeholders of educational products of the faculty. Since receiving feedback from customers is one of the substantial steps for promoting service quality, it is necessary to perform a deep examination of the issue to explicate new dimensions of an ide...

Academic Morphing: Teaching Assistant to Faculty Member

This paper discusses the process by which graduate teaching assistants (TAs), participating in a longitudinal study, used their graduate TA experience to successfully survive the transition from being a teaching assistant to becoming a faculty member. A theoretical framework is presented that describes how individual characteristics of the TAs worked together with disciplinary, institutional, a...

Faculty Instructional Development: A Systematic Review

Introduction: The university, as an idea and an institution in the world, is considered the pinnacle of cultural, economic, political and social development. One of the most important issues related to universities is quality promotion and continuous quality assurance with regard to changes in different fields. One of the world-wide programs related to quality promotion of universities and high...

challenges of measuring a faculty member activity in medical schools