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Information for Faculty

Information for Faculty

Clinical Teachers' Community
All of us are somewhere along a professional development pathway in our ability to teach in clinical settings. [more...]

 Faculty Development for Master Clinicians

Formal faculty development programs include a range of activities which impart or renew faculty skills in teaching, research, administration, career planning and decision-making. Focused programs are often necessary for institutions to effect curricular change and the improvements in instructional and evaluative methods obligatory to maintaining educational quality.

  • Orientation to the profession, the institution and its culture
  • Teaching skills – clinical teaching, large and small group teaching, lectures and Socratic method
  • Networking and mentoring
  • Educational leadership and administration
  • Adult learning theory
  • Curriculum design
  • Program evaluation
  • Educational research and scholarship
  • Learner assessment
  • Career advancement