Workshop F

Engaging your Faculty in Faculty Development: A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down! 

Sonia Ananthakrishnan and Craig Noronha MD

Medicine, Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Virtual – Zoom Link TBD

Faculty development is essential for personal and professional growth. Multiple scoping reviews have highlighted the ever-expanding roles of educators and in turn the growth of faculty development offerings, yet it is a daunting task to initiate and implement a faculty development program. Faculty development focuses on improving skills, knowledge, and attitudes in a variety of domains including leadership, teaching, scholarship, educational development, and personal development. Despite these benefits, many educational leaders find it challenging to engage their faculty in participating in faculty development. For educational leaders, faculty development is an integral tool in skills development for peers educators and can also provide avenue for networking and community building.

This interactive workshop will focus on supporting educators in designing an educator specific faculty development program. Strategies to engage in faculty development will be reviewed, including institutional culture, appreciation, reimbursement, and utilization and accessibility. Workshop attendees will brainstorm on strategies to overcome barriers to successful faculty development. A portion of the workshop will focus on crowd-sourcing challenges and solutions related to engagement of faculty members in the setting of burnout, increased productivity pressures, and accreditation issues. Participants will also engage in discussions of how to utilize the skills of educators across the institution to help fill in gaps.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of the Workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Define the utility of faculty development to support your educational goals
  • Identify the barriers specific to your faculty development goals
  • Create strategies to implement and enhance a faculty development curriculum at your home institutions