Developing a National Framework of Teaching Expectations: March 2-22, 2009

For all my negativism, I am actually thankful that because accreditation criticized the teaching techniques used in my College of Medicine, the Faculty Council passed a requirement two years ago that all faculty take a two-day medical teaching course and demonstrate attendance in at least one teaching course a year. Our problem is: failure to enforce the requirement and failure to give new hires time to take the two-day course. (Hear my head banging against the wall)

We have found the strongest motivation to attend medical teaching sessions come from external licensing bodies who require XX continuous professional development credits. Our sessions are seen as an easy way to access these credits but it costs my department ten's of thousand dollars and massive amounts of time to have our courses accepted by the licensing body.