Senior Faculty Career Attitudes: Implications for Faculty Development

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...

Sustainability, Succession, and the Senior Faculty.

Faculty attitudes about interprofessional education

BACKGROUND Interprofessional education (IPE) is an important component to training health care professionals. Research is limited in exploring the attitudes that faculty hold regarding IPE and what barriers they perceive to participating in IPE. The purpose of this study was to identify faculty attitudes about IPE and to identify barriers to participating in campus-wide IPE activities. METHOD...

Career fit and burnout among academic faculty.

BACKGROUND Extensive literature documents personal distress among physicians and a decrease in their satisfaction with the practice of medicine over recent years. We hypothesized that physicians who spent more of their time in the aspect of work that they found most meaningful would have a lower risk of burnout. METHODS Faculty physicians in the Department of Internal Medicine at a large acad...

Faculty development for underrepresented minority dental faculty and residents.

This report describes the implementation and evaluation of the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center Dental Faculty Development Program (DFDP) for fifteen participants: five advanced dental education faculty members and ten residents. The 100-hour DFDP, designed in the longitudinal immersion model for faculty development, was conducted in four phases at the Bronx-Lebanon Department of Dentistry in the ...