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Volume 16 (3)
Volume 16, Issue 3, Summer 1996
J Contin Educ Health Prof 1996; 16(3):181-190
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Faculty Development in Medical Education, with Implications for Continuing Medical Education
John A. Ullian, PhD
Frank T. Stritter, PhD
A b s t r a c t
This review of faculty development (FD) in medical education calls attention to the
challenges facing both FD and continuing medical education (CME) in the hope that the two
fields can work together to better meet those challenges. FD and CME have, for the most part,
developed independently of each other, despite having much in common. The two fields can
be expected to have still more in common as more nonacademic physicians (particularly those
in primary care) answer the increasing call to teach medical students in ambulatory settings,
and as more academic physicians spend increasingly more time in (and bring in more income
from) clinical practice. The authors’ knowledge and experience lie in FD, and we invite readers
with CME backgrounds to interpret what we say about FD in light of their knowledge and
experience. We believe that the current challenges to FD and the recommendations we make
are also relevant to CME, and that FD and CME professionals can both increase their impact
by working more closely together to develop better strategies for designing, implementing,
and evaluating our programs. We begin by defining FD in medical education and discuss the
domains (or academic roles) commonly addressed and the educational formats commonly
used in FD programs. We cite references to the literature on a variety of programs. We conclude
this section with two sets of recommendations for FD from the literature. In the next
section, we begin to look at the next challenges for FD, given the current environment in which
academic medicine finds itself. We raise questions and make recommendations toward meeting
the new challenges for FD and CME.
Keywords: Continuing medical education; faculty development; faculty development programs; medical education; teaching improvement
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