Faculty Development for Clerkship Directors 15 Points in 30 Minutes

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Faculty Developmentfor Clerkship Directors- 15
Points in 30 Minutes

• Glenn C. Hamilton, MD, MSM
• CORD, March 5, 2008

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Perspective on Faculty Development

• 1. Understand its breadth
• See attachment
• A dynamic evolution of skills over career

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• 2. Apply adult learning principles
• Active learning
• Immediate practice and performance feedback
• Transfer into real world

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• 3. The perfect faculty member is the collective
  talent of all the faculty
• Recognize differing abilities and aptitudes
• Understand individual and mutual goals
• Mutual Collegial support avoid isolation even
  if Chair promotes it

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• 4. Incorporate into daily activity
• Maintain awareness update and redefine
• Link to values of school promotion planning
• Integrate into job description, including
  Clerkship Director

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• 5. If its not happening get out!
• Your Chair has responsibility
• There should be vision, resources, motivation on
  your behalf
• If it has not happened in 2-3 years, it never
  will with the leadership in place

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B. Your Role in the Department

• 6. Dont do this alone
• Set up for academic frustration and burn-out
• Have incorporated into Baseline of Faculty
  Activity
• Example assigned monthly role for each faculty

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• 7. Dont do this alone II
• Beyond assignment, you must created investment
• Collective curriculum design
• Seek additional student contact opportunities for
  peers
• Incorporate faculty development into your student
  offering

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• 8. Affability, Availability
• Making yourself invaluable (see 2/29 talk)
• Understand enlightened self-interest

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• 9. Preach the Principles This is not
• about selling
• Acute Care Decision-Making, Procedural Skills,
  Undifferentiated Illness
• Look far beyond the clerkship
• See Russi and Hamilton, McLaughlin Papers AEM,
  Oct, 2005

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• 10. Planning for Repetition through
• Curriculum Design, Organization and
  Structure
• Content, GO, Implementation, Evaluation,
  Feedback
• Real or Simulated Competency Assessment
• Plan attach over entire four (4) years pressure
  and opportunism

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C. Looking out for 1

• 11. Enlightened Self-Interest
• (worth repeating)
• Share inside the institution
• Share outside the institution

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• 12. Establish the Basic Skill Set
• Clinical
• Educational
• Administartive

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• 13. Simulation, but Modulate
• High fidelity simulation is the current loadstone
• It remains one of many educational tools
• Publish in the Portal

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• 14. Find Your Niche, and Share
• Your Findings
• Pick one or more points on the learning continuum
  to study
• learning preferences, psychometrics of EM
• bedside science, remediation

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• 15. Plan for change Its all about
• honing ones craft
• You dont have to do this forever, but you can!
• Advance your training. courses outside EM,
  Masters and beyond.
• Build your library and understanding of the
  literature

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• Sharing a career surrounded by energized
  twenty-somethings will keep you vital and
  productive. In return, youll help set the
  course for a successful career in medicine for
  each student you educate.