Caputo Laura, Armendariz Julia, Boggan Joel, Charles M Katherine, Huang Lily, Iddawela Dinithi, Johnson Cynthia, Anderson Melver L
Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, North Carolina.
Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.
Fed Pract. 2023 Feb;40(2):50-55. doi: 10.12788/fp.0348. Epub 2023 Feb 16.
The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is the largest educator of health professions trainees in the country, but the roles and responsibilities of the modern clinician educator are increasingly challenging and complex. Most VA academic hospitalists with access to professional and faculty development receive it through academic affiliates. Many VA hospitalists lack this option, and teaching within the VA is unique given its specific health system, clinical environments, and patient population.
Teaching the Teacher is a facilitation-based educational series for inpatient hospitalists at VA medical centers that is tailored to self-reported needs and provides faculty development through the lens of VA medicine. The transition from in-person to synchronous virtual programming allowed for wider dissemination of the program, and to date, 10 VA hospitalist sections across the country have participated in the series.
VA clinicians want and deserve dedicated training to optimize their confidence and skills in their roles as health professions educators. Teaching the Teacher is a pilot faculty development program that has met success based on its goal of meeting the specific needs of VA clinician educators in hospital medicine. It has the potential to serve as a model for clinical educator onboarding and to allow for the rapid spread of best teaching practices among clinical educators.
美国退伍军人事务部（VA）是美国最大的卫生专业学员教育机构，但现代临床教师的角色和职责正变得越来越具有挑战性和复杂性。大多数能够获得专业和教师发展机会的VA学术住院医师通过学术附属机构获得此类机会。许多VA住院医师没有这种选择，而且鉴于VA特定的卫生系统、临床环境和患者群体，在VA内部进行教学具有独特性。
“教师培训”是一项为VA医疗中心的住院医师提供的基于促进的教育系列课程，该课程根据自我报告的需求进行量身定制，并从VA医学的角度提供教师发展培训。从面对面教学到同步虚拟教学的转变使该项目得以更广泛地传播，迄今为止，全国10个VA住院医师部门已参与了该系列课程。
VA临床医生希望并理应接受专门培训，以增强他们作为卫生专业教育工作者角色的信心和技能。“教师培训”是一个试点教师发展项目，基于满足VA医院医学临床教师的特定需求这一目标取得了成功。它有潜力成为临床教师入职培训的典范，并使最佳教学实践在临床教师中迅速传播。
