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plead with their faculty to institute new distance education programs every academic year. Faculty are bombarded with prophecies about the glorious future confronting distance education programs. New bureaucracies have sprung up of computer technicians offering to assist in preparing these programs. If distance education has such a promising future, why the faculty hesitation? One explanation c...

Tomislav Badel1, Kata Rošin-Grget2, Ladislav Krapac3, Miljenko Marotti4 Zavod za stomatološku protetiku Stomatološki fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu 10000 Zagreb, Gundulićeva 5 Katedra za farmakologiju Stomatološki fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu 10000 Zagreb, Šalata 11 Poliklinika za reumatske bolesti, fi zikalnu medicinu i rehabilitaciju “Dr. Drago Čop” 10000 Zagreb, Mihanovićeva 3 Klinički zav...

OBJECTIVES The study's objective was to describe faculty development skills needed for residency redesign in 14 family medicine residencies associated with the Preparing the Personal Physician for Practice (P4) project. METHODS We used self-administered surveys to assess ratings of existing faculty development efforts and resident attitudes about faculty teaching between 2007 and 2011. Teleph...

OBJECTIVE To establish an evidence-informed faculty development program. DESIGN Survey derived from a needs-assessment tool. SETTING Department of Academic Family Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan, which is geographically dispersed across the province. PARTICIPANTS Full-time faculty members in the Department of Academic Family Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. MAIN OU...

background: faculty development programs have received considerable investment of resources from medical institutions, though the effect and output of them has been infrequently studied. this study was design to measure the effect of the mashhad university of medical sciences’ faculty development workshops. methods: three faculty development workshops on educational research were conducted to i...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Academic nephrology faces increasing challenges in faculty hiring and development. However, it is unknown how these pressures have affected the number and demographics of academic nephrologists. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS Using the Association of American Medical Colleges Faculty Roster database, changes were analyzed in MD nephrology, as well as o...

aim: the comprehensive evaluation program of the health system in higher education is a strategic plan in line with the goals of health reform program. the planning levels are based on 12 general policies. as professors of medical universities have an important role in public health promotion, this study aimed to identify the outcomes of faculty development at medical universities in the northe...

A growing number of countries are embracing graduate training in the specialty of Family Medicine as a core component of global health systems reform. One significant challenge for new programs is to adequately prepare for educational excellence and leadership. Promising residents are often encouraged to remain in their program as faculty, but may not have had the benefit of specific training i...