BACKGROUND Medical education increasingly relies on small-group learning. Small group learning provides more active learning, better retention, higher satisfaction, and facilitates development of problem-solving and team-working abilities. However, less is known about student experience and preference for different small groups teaching models. We evaluated group educational dynamics and group ...

As a part of the 2000-01 American Dental Education Association (ADEA) Leadership Institute, the Leadership Institute Fellows conducted a faculty development workshop for department chairpersons and program directors during the 2001 ADEA Annual Session. A central premise of the workshop was that successful chairpersons and program directors are both effective leaders and effective managers and t...

I received my B.A. degree in mathematics and physical education form Drury College in 1961 and my M.S. degree in physical education from Florida State University in December 1962. I took a temporary faculty position at Valparaiso University in 1963 while a faculty member was on a leave of absence. My teaching assignment was physical activity classes (e.g., team sports and swimming). In 1964 I j...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to analyze bibliometric data from ISI, National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funding data, and faculty size information for Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) member schools during 1997 to 2007 to assess research productivity and impact. METHODS This study gathered and synthesized 10 metrics for almost all AAMC medical schools(n=123): (1) t...

Each school of the univru:sity picked representatives for a 10 member faculty advisory committee to the trustee search ·committee. This method of forming the faculty advisory committee is more democratic than simply placing the senate faculty members on the committee, Percival Perry, dean of the summer session .and professor of history, Perry said. replaced associate professor of biology Ron Di...

OBJECTIVE To compare the quantity of manuscripts published in journals by departments of pharmacy practice at schools and colleges of pharmacy in the United States for the years 2001-2003. METHODS We utilized the Web of Science bibliographic database to identify publication citations for the years 2001 to 2003 which were then evaluated in a number of different ways. Faculty were identified vi...

The authors report the development of a new metric for distributing university funds to support faculty efforts in education in the department of internal medicine at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. In 2003, a committee defined the educational value unit (EVU), which describes and measures the specific types of educational work done by faculty members, such as core education, clini...