TY - JOUR
T1 - Faculty development program
T2 - A guide for medical schools in Arabian Gulf (GCC) countries
AU - Abdulrahman, Khalid A.Bin
AU - Siddiqui, Imran A.
AU - Aldaham, Sami A.
AU - Akram, Sufyan
N1 - doi: 10.3109/0142159X.2012.656748
PY - 2012/4/1
Y1 - 2012/4/1
N2 - The effective faculty development (FD) program is the most essential component for creating successful educational innovation. The purpose of having any FD program is to enable faculty to accomplish their goals, and through accomplishing these goals, the missions of their departments, colleges, and universities would be accomplished. FD programs will need to provide an extensive set of developmentaleducational skills and strategies in order to serve faculty members who come from various disciplines and at different stages of their careers, have different faculty responsibilities, backgrounds, appointments, and bring unique personal circumstances to their work. Although, there are quite a large number of medical schools in Arabian Gulf (GCC) countries, still the FD programs are extremely lacking. To analyze the situation in Gulf medical schools with regards to FD programs, we would emphasize the following needs: (1) FD committees or departments; (2) formal programs in FD for new or junior and for also senior and established faculty members; and (3) funding support has to be devoted to improve the skills of faculty members in academia. This aimed at presenting a proposed FD program to be considered as a tool for qualitative improvement in medical schools of GCC countries.
AB - The effective faculty development (FD) program is the most essential component for creating successful educational innovation. The purpose of having any FD program is to enable faculty to accomplish their goals, and through accomplishing these goals, the missions of their departments, colleges, and universities would be accomplished. FD programs will need to provide an extensive set of developmentaleducational skills and strategies in order to serve faculty members who come from various disciplines and at different stages of their careers, have different faculty responsibilities, backgrounds, appointments, and bring unique personal circumstances to their work. Although, there are quite a large number of medical schools in Arabian Gulf (GCC) countries, still the FD programs are extremely lacking. To analyze the situation in Gulf medical schools with regards to FD programs, we would emphasize the following needs: (1) FD committees or departments; (2) formal programs in FD for new or junior and for also senior and established faculty members; and (3) funding support has to be devoted to improve the skills of faculty members in academia. This aimed at presenting a proposed FD program to be considered as a tool for qualitative improvement in medical schools of GCC countries.
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U2 - 10.3109/0142159X.2012.656748
DO - 10.3109/0142159X.2012.656748
M3 - Article
C2 - 22409194
AN - SCOPUS:84858218209
SN - 0142-159X
VL - 34
SP - 561
EP - 566
JO - Medical Teacher
JF - Medical Teacher
IS - SUP 1
ER -