introduction: since lectures’ experiences can help university managers in improving educational situation, this study was carried out to determine faculty lecturers’ attitudes towards the educational situation at kermanshah university of medical sciences. materials and methods: this study is a descriptive–analytical one. a two-part questionnaire was employed for data collection. the first part ...

This chapter presents the leadership journeys of five faculty who participated in SAGE 2YC: Faculty as Change Agents project. These stories illustrate influence project on their and work mid-level administrative or grassroots leaders. Key to was explicit inclusion development professional (PD). Learning about organizational frames approaches, experience participants designing leading own worksh...

Introduction: Faculty development (FD) is defined broadly as the range of activities that institutions use to assist faculty in their roles and fields including teaching, research administration. And now expected be more effective creative teaching methods. Objectives: To determine needs assessment for development. Study Design: Cross sectional study. Place duration study: Wah Medical College, ...

PURPOSE Faculty development (FD) is essential to prepare faculty members to become effective teachers to meet the challenges in medical education. Despite the growth of FD programmes, most evaluations were often conducted using short questionnaires to assess participants' satisfaction immediately after they attended a programme. Consequently, there were calls for more rigorous evaluations based...

background and purpose: studies have shown the advantages of e-cme programs. developing case-based e-cme activities, one of the popular formats of e-cme programs, is difficult and time consuming. in this article we describe our experience of performing instructional system design for creating case-based e-cme contents.  methods: we performed a five-step instructional system design (i.e. system ...

., life long learning is increasingly acknowledged to be a characteristic of professionalism. new information is being generated with increasing rapidity and educators must be able to cope with it. to study the effects of educational workshops hold by edc of tums on the participant faculty. methods. the subjects of this cross-sectional descriptive study were 375 faculty members of tums and the ...

INTRODUCTION In recent decades, the major criteria for development in countries were defined mostly by research position. The first step in organizing the research subject in societies is gaining a correct perception of abilities, available facilities, and finding the strengths and weaknesses of research programs. This research was conducted to determine the constraining factors of research amo...

PROBLEM Clinical reasoning is a necessary skill for medical students to acquire in the course of their education, and there is evidence that they can start this process at the undergraduate level. However, physician educators who are experts in their given fields may have difficulty conveying their complex thought processes to students. Providing faculty development that equips educators with t...