Helping Medical School Faculty Realize Their Dreams

Helping medical school faculty realize their dreams: an innovative, collaborative mentoring program.

Junior faculty wishing to achieve successful careers in academic medicine face many challenges. To facilitate faculty in their career development, the authors implemented and evaluated an innovative collaborative, or peer-group, mentoring program at their medical school. Based on Rogerian and adult learning principles, the program incorporated development of skills in key areas for career devel...

Faculty Helping Themselves to Improve Their InstructionalAbilities

FLORES: Helping people to realize sustainable futures..

People usually know how they want their situation to change to secure a better future – but they do not always know how to change their situation. Initiatives intended to secure a better future do not always work as intended, and may have unintended side effects. Computer models can help advocates explore consequences of proposed initiatives, so they can make informed selections of alternatives...

Smoking among Yale medical school faculty.

A 1985 survey of a random sample of faculty at the Yale University School of Medicine investigated smoking prevalence and attitudes. The overall prevalence of cigarette smoking was estimated to be 9.8 percent, much lower than the prevalence in the general population. A higher proportion of women than men were current cigarette smokers. With regard to department affiliation, surgeons were most f...

Accommodating medical school faculty with disabilities.

More than ten years have passed since the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) mandated that all employers provide "reasonable accommodations" for employees with disabilities. This mandate applies to medical schools, but no systematic information is available to assess the accommodations provided to medical school faculty with disabilities. This Issue Brief summarizes anecdotal evidence from s...