Office of Faculty Development, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Clin Teach. 2022 Oct;19(5):e13517. doi: 10.1111/tct.13517. Epub 2022 Jul 25.
Requirements for faculty development for clinician-educators continue to increase. The number of faculty with experience delivering faculty development, however, remains limited. To overcome our deficit of faculty developers, we created a train-the-trainer programme. We recognised, however, that our plan would not meet the ultimate goal for our programme: Creating faculty developers to meet the faculty development needs of a large, dispersed system. We report on the creation and nurturing of faculty development community of practice (CoP), which we believe could be a solution for many academic systems struggling to engage busy clinicians, mature the teaching abilities of clinician educators, and meet the needs of their accrediting institutions.
We developed a faculty development CoP with a mission of promoting educational expertise and excellence and ensuring continuous growth of the members of our COP and broader faculty.
A programme evaluation was performed consisting of two elements: The impact on the organisation (workshop and learner related metrics) and the impact on the CoP members (survey). We observed notable outcomes: Delivery of high quality workshops to faculty, attainment of leadership positions, and increases in motivation, networking, skills, confidence, and opportunities available to members.
Innovations to create and sustain structured faculty development programmes for clinician-educators are needed. The development and nurturing of a CoP of faculty developers resulted in benefits both for the organisation and CoP members and may be a solution for large academic systems struggling to meet their faculty development demands.
临床教师的师资发展需求不断增加。然而，具有教学发展经验的教师人数仍然有限。为了克服师资发展人员的不足，我们创建了一个培训师培训计划。然而，我们认识到，我们的计划将无法实现我们计划的最终目标：培养师资发展人员，以满足庞大而分散的系统的师资发展需求。我们报告了一个师资发展实践社区（CoP）的创建和培育，我们相信这可能是许多学术系统的解决方案，这些系统努力使忙碌的临床医生参与进来，培养临床教育者的教学能力，并满足其认证机构的需求。
我们开发了一个师资发展 CoP，其使命是促进教育专业知识和卓越，并确保我们的 CoP 成员和更广泛的教师不断成长。
进行了一项计划评估，包括两个要素：对组织的影响（研讨会和学习者相关指标）和对 CoP 成员的影响（调查）。我们观察到了显著的结果：向教师提供高质量的研讨会，获得领导职位，以及提高成员的积极性、网络、技能、信心和机会。
需要创新方法来为临床教育者创建和维持结构化的师资发展计划。CoP 开发和培育的师资发展人员为组织和 CoP 成员带来了好处，并且可能是那些努力满足其师资发展需求的大型学术系统的解决方案。
