Faculty Development Program
Special Programs
Responding to the ongoing needs of clinician and research faculty, the OFA’s Faculty Development Program has developed new programs that aim to customize faculty development and training needs for departments and their faculty.
If your department or program is interested in a program customized to the needs of your faculty, please contact us by email at faculty.development@umassmed.edu. Site logistics for faculty development at affiliated UMass sites is the responsibility of the requesting site. A computer lab is required for all BLS Vista 4 sessions.
Customized Department and Program Faculty Development & Training
I. The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL): Teaching to Publication
This program, in its third year, is intended for faculty who are doing scholarly work related to their teaching and educator roles, and on the path toward educational scholarship related to their teaching. The aim of this program is to support the development of a scholarship of teaching and learning that fosters significant, long-lasting learning for all students; enhances the practice and profession of teaching; and brings to faculty members' work as teachers the recognition and reward afforded to other forms of scholarly work.
The program continues to offer its regularly presented workshops that provide an Overview and Orientation to the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL), as well as frameworks that will help move faculty teaching activities to publications and presentations. This year the program will offer SoTL Special Topic brownbag sessions on the 1st Friday of each month in order to provide important information to facilitate faculty scholarship. These special topics will include presentations on a variety of topics, including IRB, developing questionnaires, authors' rights, scientific writing, effective literature searches. The program will also add Consultation Drop-in Sessions on the 3rd Wednesday of each month. Faculty are welcome to drop in for any amount of time to discuss/receive consultation on their educational research with members of the SoTL team. These sessions will provide important information to facilitate educational scholarship related to teaching.
Click here for PDF of program description.
See the workshop calendar at http://www.umassmed.edu/uploadedFiles/CalendarAt-A-Glance.pdf
Register for sessions at http://www.umassmed.edu/ofa/workshops/listing.cfm?iv=2
Educational scholarship refers to any material, product or resource originally developed to fulfill a specific educational purpose that has been successfully peer-reviewed and is subsequently made public through appropriate dissemination for use by others. The SoTL is the perspective that faculty can approach their teaching as a form of scholarly work. According to Hutching and Shulman (1999), the scholarship of teaching and learning is more than simply teaching well, it leads to particular kinds of outcomes.
By the end of this program, faculty will be able to:
- Use concepts related to teaching and educational scholarship to reflect on and enhance faculty performance and achievement as teachers and medical educators.
- Identify appropriate venues for publishing permanent products of teaching and educational activities.
- Use criteria for assessing educational scholarship to develop and refine the processes and products of faculty teaching and educational activities.
- Assess and prepare educational material for publication submission and peer review.
II. Preparing Your Teaching and Academic Portfolio for Promotion
This customized program will explain what a teaching/academic portfolio is and how it is used in the promotion process. It will bring faculty through the steps of creating a portfolio, including what documents and materials should be included, and will share practical approaches to help faculty capture the complexities of their work. The session will also help participants work through the challenges faced by clinical and basic science faculty members in effectively documenting their teaching in light of the varying settings and conditions under which they teach.
III. Teaching with Medical Simulation Faculty Development Certificate
This certificate program is designed for faculty who are thinking about using medical simulation into their teaching. Participants will have the opportunity to acquire new ideas and skills that will be helpful in designing and using medical simulation in their teaching. This certificate is collaboration between the Office of Faculty Affairs, the UMMS Simulation Center and the Office of Medical Education.
Faculty who have previously taken medical simulation courses or workshops and/or have medical simulation teaching experience may be able to apply those experiences to the requirements for this certificate. To find out if those experiences may be transferred to requirements for this certificate, please complete and submit both forms.
Click here for details and registration information, or go to the ‘Resources’ section of this webpage
See the workshop calendar at http://www.umassmed.edu/uploadedFiles/CalendarAt-A-Glance.pdf
Register for sessions at http://www.umassmed.edu/ofa/workshops/listing.cfm?iv=2
Please e-mail faculty.development@umassmed.edu with questions.
IV. Teaching with Technology Faculty Development Certificate - Process to Practice
This certificate program is designed for faculty who are thinking about enhancing their teaching through the use of technology. Both tracks will highlight how the curriculum design process and teaching practice must work in partnership with a chosen technology. We will also address how the design process and teaching practice can advance by incorporating a technology already in place. Participants will have the opportunity to acquire new ideas and skills that will be helpful in enhancing their course design and teaching. This certificate is a collaboration between the Office of Faculty Affairs, Information Services, and the Lamar Soutter Library.
Click here for details and registration information, or go to the ‘Resources’ section of this webpage
See the workshop calendar at http://www.umassmed.edu/uploadedFiles/CalendarAt-A-Glance.pdf
Register for sessions at http://www.umassmed.edu/ofa/workshops/listing.cfm?iv=2
Innovations in Teaching & Technology
Launched in AY 06-07, this series of brown bag colloquiums provides opportunities for users of BLS Vista 4 and emerging academic technologies to take teaching with technology to a higher level. It is a natural extension of the BLS Vista 4 Best Practices sessions, tool trainings, and desk side training initiatives provided throughout previous academic years. Topics include timely issues pertinent to teaching, course design, and online course administration (e.g., with BLS Vista 4), as well as suggested topics of interest from participants based on their work.
Proposed topics for this year’s community of learners will include virtual microscopy; FERPA; Apreso lecture capture system; advanced use of the audience response system; BLS Vista 4; personalizing PDFs for student learning; and using Wimba Live Classroom to personalize online sessions; Adobe Presenter & Adobe Meeting. The series will continue its format of what’s new in teaching with technology, faculty showcase, tips & tricks and Q & A.
Innovations brown bags take place from 12:30-1:30 on the last Wednesday of each month in S2-321 -- drop in as you have time and pickup and/or share an idea.
Faculty Development Advisory Council
This Council was established by the Director of Faculty Development Programs to work in an advisory capacity to continue to develop and enhance programs that will be of value to faculty across the three schools. During the past several years, the Director has worked in collaboration with a variety of departments, offices and programs across the schools to sponsor and co-sponsor a range of professional development activities. The establishment of this Council is a step toward further formalizing those relationships. The Council has a core of eight members, representing the SOM, GSBS, GSN, undergraduate and graduate medical education, Instructional Technology, the Library, and the Memorial campus, as follows:
1. Susan Pasquale, PhD, MT-BC, NMT
Director, Curriculum and Faculty Development
Offices of Medical Education and Faculty Affairs
2. Lyn Riza, MS
Manager, Instructional Technology, Academic Computing,
Information Services
3. Charles Sagerstrom, PhD
Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
4. Sue Gagliardi, PhD
Professor, Cell Biology and Neurology
5. Anne Larkin, MD
Program Director, Surgery Residency
6. Janet Hale, PhD, APRN-BC, FNP
Professor, Graduate School of Nursing
7. Karen Green, MD
Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Memorial Campus
8. Mary Piorun, MSLS, MBA
Associate Director, Community, Technology, and Global Relations,
Lamar Soutter Library