
I'm Deirdre Bonnycastle and I provide teaching development for the University of Saskatchewan, College of Medicine. I am the author of the Medical Education Wiki and the Medical Education Blog under that initiative. I also, as a personal project, edit the Active Learning Blog Carnival, a monthly journal about how teachers at every level are actively involving their students in learning.
I am very interested in this topic because although we are one of the first colleges in Canada that have mandated minimal teaching training as a requirement for tenure, we are finding it difficult to encourage department heads to plan training release time for new faculty. We also run into issues around the scholarship of teaching not being seen as valid research for promotion purposes in colleges other than Education.
We recently started a mandatory two-day teaching program for all medical residents (our grad students) that has been getting very good reviews from participants.