Cooke Molly, Irby David M, Debas Haile T
Academy of Medical Educators, UCSF School of Medicine, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-0563, USA.
Acad Med. 2003 Jul;78(7):666-72. doi: 10.1097/00001888-200307000-00003.
The Academy of Medical Educators at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), was established in 2000 to (1) foster excellence in teaching, (2) support teachers of medicine, and (3) promote curricular innovation. A membership organization, it recognizes five categories of educational activity: direct teaching, curriculum development and assessment of learner performance, advising and mentoring, educational administration and leadership, and educational research. Excellent medical student teaching and outstanding accomplishment in one or more areas of educational activity qualify a teacher for membership. Candidates prepare a portfolio that is reviewed internally and by national experts in medical education. Currently 37 faculty members, 3% of the entire school of medicine faculty, belong to the academy. The academy's innovations funding program disburses one-year grants to support curricular development and comparisons of pedagogical approaches; through this mechanism, the academy has funded 20 projects at a total cost of $442,300. Three fourths of expended funds support faculty release time. Faculty development efforts include promotion of the use of an educator's portfolio and the establishment of a mentoring program for junior faculty members built around observation of teaching. The Academy of Medical Educators vigorously supports expanded scholarship in education; the academy-sponsored Education Day is an opportunity for educators to present their work locally. Recipients of innovations-funding program grants are expected to present their work in an appropriate national forum and are assisted in doing this through quarterly scholarship clinics. The Academy of Medical Educators has been well received at UCSF and is enhancing the status of medical education and teachers.
加利福尼亚大学旧金山分校（UCSF）医学教育者学会成立于2000年，旨在：（1）促进卓越教学；（2）支持医学教师；（3）推动课程创新。作为一个会员组织，它认可五类教育活动：直接教学、课程开发及学习者表现评估、咨询与指导、教育管理与领导以及教育研究。在医学学生教学方面表现出色且在一个或多个教育活动领域取得杰出成就的教师有资格成为会员。候选人需准备一份材料，由内部及医学教育领域的国家专家进行评审。目前，37名教员（占医学院全体教员的3%）属于该学会。该学会的创新资助项目发放为期一年的资助，以支持课程开发及教学方法比较；通过这一机制，该学会已资助了20个项目，总成本为442,300美元。四分之三的支出资金用于支持教员的教学释放时间。教员发展工作包括推广使用教育者材料，并围绕教学观察为初级教员建立一个指导项目。医学教育者学会大力支持扩大教育领域的学术研究；该学会主办的教育日为教育工作者提供了在当地展示其工作的机会。创新资助项目的获得者预计要在一个合适的全国性论坛上展示其工作，并通过季度学术研讨会得到协助。医学教育者学会在UCSF受到了广泛欢迎，正在提升医学教育和教师的地位。
