medical and dental education track
Institute for Professional Development
Background
Curriculum
Products
Institute Planners
The Institute’s Education and Scholarship track is intended to provide junior and mid-level faculty fellows with expertise in innovative, adult-oriented teaching methods. These skills will enable them to effectively train future physicians and dentists for practice in the continually evolving healthcare system of the 21st century.
A cadre of approximately sixty-five faculty planners representing each of the medical and dental schools in New York State, has been meeting over a period of two years to develop the Institute’s Education and Scholarship Track. Based on detailed review of the literature, they have created the Institute’s goals and objectives and defined the curriculum structure.
The curriculum will introduce the core theory, key concepts and principles, and application approaches that apply across disciplines and levels of education and administrative positions.
The curricular modules are:
- Basic Principles of Learning and Expertise; Curriculum Development
- Teaching Methods and Skills
- Creating Performance Evaluations and Assessing Learners
- Mentoring and Career Development
- Educational Leadership and Administration
- Educational Scholarship
The 2010 AMSNY Medical Education Committee Symposium on Competence in the Medical School Curriculum will launch the first session of the Institute.
Fellows will participate in workshops on:
- Curriculum design and development around competencies
- Assessment and evaluation of competencies
- Performance portfolios to demonstrate competencies
Products
Educator portfolios: The Institute fellows will complete an educational portfolio. The portfolio will showcase selected examples of their best work in several domains in order to provide evidence of excellence in educational work. The AMSNY Institute portfolio also includes a section about ongoing work during the Institute sessions. The portfolio is designed to help fellows track their education-related responsibilities and preserve information and materials that can indicate the quality or impact of their teaching activities (e.g., student/peer/self evaluations; process and outcomes of program development; samples of the work). This portfolio may be useful in the process for promotion and tenure at their home school.
Scholarly projects and mentoring: The participants are expected to apply the curricular principles and concepts to a scholarly project of their choosing that is of value to their own institution, and is approved by the school. The fellows must have a sponsor at the home institution and a mentor for the project at their school. Fellows also will work closely with an Institute content mentor and with other fellows in peer mentoring groups. The Institute planners have developed specific guidelines about the mentoring program and project criteria/timelines.
To request more information on the Institute or to apply, please contact Crystal Mainiero at CrystalMainiero@amsny.org.
