Professional Development
The professional development team is committed to meeting the needs of our medical educators and faculty across the college of medicine and our clinical partners. We have cultivated a series of sessions targeted to those who teach our medical students and one for those who mainly teach residents and fellows. We encourage faculty members to attend one of our Pro Tips Monthly professional development sessions or to contact our office if you would like a one-on-one consultation.
Resources
Searching for a particular session? Need a set of slides to use in a training session with your faculty? Take a look at our collection of professional development resources, available on our public learning platform.
Professional Development Consultation Service
Sometimes, faculty members prefer one-on-one assistance with a member of our professional development team. We offer a consultation service to assist faculty members in their roles as teachers, mentors, or scholars.
Pro Tips Monthly Professional Development Topics
Every quarter, the professional development team facilitates live sessions, through our Pro Tips Monthly series, on a range of topics for both UME and GME educators. Check out our current offerings on the link below.
Resources for Resident, Fellow, and Faculty Preceptors
Are you a resident, fellow, or faculty member who precepts our medical students? Looking for resources or an update on some of our policies? Please see our most recent precepting guides at the link below.
Upcoming Events
Please check back soon for updates on professional development events.
Sessions for both UME and GME educators
Faculty as Mentors
- Writing Letters of Recommendation
- Effective Mentoring
- Teaching Professionalism
- Clinical Supervision and Mentorship
- Best Practices for Specialty Advising
- Helping Learners Develop Short- and Long-Term Goals
Faculty as Scholars
- Doing Research as a Clinical Educator: Cultivating a Scholarship Mindset
- Presenting and Publishing Your Work
- Peer Reviewing: Knowing the Criteria Helps you Publish
- Step-by-Step: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- The Research Question and Hypothesis
- Developing Your Research Plan and Writing the Abstract
Sessions for UME educators
Faculty as Teachers
Instructional Methods
- Setting the Stage: Orienting the Learner
- Clinical Teaching: Teaching Adults & Teaching Logistics/Techniques
- Preparing and Delivering Clinical Didactics Sessions
- Balancing Supervision with Independence
- Teaching in the Clinical Environment
- Optimizing the Learning Environment: Best Practices
Student Assessment
- Effective Feedback
- Assessing Learners: The Basics
- The Struggling Learner: Developing a Plan for Remediation
- Competency-Based Assessment
- Assessment for Learning: How Assessment Can Drive Outcomes
Program Evaluation
- Using QI Principles to Guide Program Evaluation
- Program Evaluation: The Basics
- Creating Program Evaluation Questions that Make a Difference
- Using Data to Drive Program Evaluation
Curriculum Design and Development
- Curriculum Design: An Overview
- The Ins and Outs of Learning Objectives
- Initial Steps of Curriculum Design: From Needs Assessment to Determining Content to Writing Goals
- Later Steps of Curriculum Design: From Selecting Teaching Methods to Implementation to Evaluation
- Monitoring Your Curriculum: How Do You Know It’s Working?
Discipline Content/Content Curation
- Fostering Cultural Competency and Humility
- Supporting Student Well-Being and Resilience
- Content Curation: How Much is Too Much, Too Little, Just Right?
- Begin with the End in Mind: Preparing Students for Residency
Sessions for GME educators
Category 1: Educators and Evaluators
- Enhancing Clinical Teaching Skills in the Outpatient Environment
- Cultivating Trainee Clinical Reasoning Skills
- Enhancing Clinical Teaching Skills in the Inpatient Environment
- Developing an Effective Plan for Learner Assessment: Formative and Summative (Intro)
- Preparing and Delivering Clinical Didactic Sessions (Intro, Intermediate…)
- Providing Effective Feedback
Category 2: Quality Improvement, Eliminating Health Inequities, and Patient Safety
- Introduction to Quality Improvement Methodologies
- Social Determinants of Health and Their Impact on Patient Care
- Patient Safety: Using Root Cause Analysis to Prevent Errors
- Cost-effectiveness in Patient Care
- Cultural Humility in Clinical Practice and Teaching
- Team-Based Approaches to Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
Category 3: Fostering Well-Being
- Professionalism and Well-Being: Strategies for Faculty and Residents
- Building Resilience in a High-Stress Healthcare Environment
- The Different Dimensions of Well-Being: Fostering Wholeness in Residency Programs
- Mindfulness and Stress Management for Medical Educators
- Creating a Positive Learning Environment: Addressing and Preventing Mistreatment
- Work-Life Integration Strategies for Medical Faculty
Category 4: Patient Care Based on Practice-Based Learning and Improvement Efforts
- Incorporating Evidence-Based Medicine into Clinical Practice
- Integrating Simulation into Clinical Training
- Leveraging Technology for Improved Patient Care
- Medical Billing