Abstract
This article was migrated. The article was not marked as recommended. This is a personal view from a Family Medicine faculty development director on how she became interested in medical education, specifically faculty development, and became a leader in this field. The article describes how she determined that there were issues with accessing professional development events among the department faculty, and her attempt to improve access using innovative strategies and creative faculty development programming. Collaboration with a medical education research colleague to evaluate the resulting faculty development programme is described as key to determining if access to faculty development education is improved, and if the education provided is valuable to the department faculty members.
Highlights
This is a personal view from a Family Medicine faculty development director on how she became interested in medical education, faculty development, and became a leader in this field
As I (Dr Koppula) progressed along my own journey through medical education, I appreciated the knowledge and skills I acquired from teachers who taught me along the way
This was the first time I heard about faculty development as a concept and wondered how busy physicians such as my preceptors were able to access this kind of medical education
Summary
This is a personal view from a Family Medicine faculty development director on how she became interested in medical education, faculty development, and became a leader in this field. As I was learning in these formal settings, I became aware that my teachers engaged in education too, known as faculty development, in order to acquire the skills required to teach undergraduate and postgraduate learners most effectively. In part because of this work examining experiences of teachers, I became a faculty member at the University of Alberta, Department of Family Medicine, as faculty development director, a position supporting the department’s teachers.
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