This page was created to assist faculty with furthering their skills as educators. For information helpful with the logistics of teaching on campus, see the Virtual Orientation Teaching Resource webpage or Wichita sites.
- Angel
- Clinical Teaching Strategies
This KUMC-Wichita site provides a collection of easy-to-review tips and techniques on community-based teaching as well as hospital-based teaching.
- Computer Training at KUMC
- General Orientation for On-line Students Virtual Classroom
- Guidebook for Clerkship Directors, Co-Authored by Heidi Chumley, MD, Department of Family Medicine, KU SOM
- Instructional Services – for scheduling a classroom, etc.
- Information Resources Department
- eLearning Systems Used at KUMC
This site will inform you about the process and timeline for the switch from Blackboard to the ANGEL Learning System.
- Learning Objectives
- ListServ Are you on the FACAFFS listserv? If not, please go to: http://www.aamc.org/members/facultyaffairs/listserv/start.htm
- MedEd Links
Including KU Resources; On-line Journals; Medical Education Organizations; Medical, Health and Other Related Links
- MEDICAL EDUCATION RETREAT: June 8, 2007 (PDF)
MEDICAL EDUCATION RETREAT: JUNE 13, 2008 ... save the date!
- Medical Libraries:
- Neis Clinical Skills Lab
- Office of Medical Education (OME)
- On-line Course Development
- Policies & Procedures for Faculty & Students
- PowerPoint and Presentation Tips from KUMC Campus (More information is located under Teaching Tips in Elsewhere on the Internet)
- Strategies in Clinical Teaching
- Counseling and Educational Support Center
Individual and group counseling, meditation, programming and more to help students with stress and other mental health issues.
- Teaching and Learning Technologies
- Teaching Portfolios (see additional information under Elsewhere on the Internet)
- Textbooks may be adopted through the KUMC Bookstore. The Bookstore will also obtain desk copies for faculty members.
- Telemedicine & Teleconferencing
- Test Scoring on Campus
- Web-Based Learning at KUMC
The Intro and orientation gives you the opportunity to determine if web-based learning is for you and assists you in determining the skills that you need to successfully participate in online course work.
- Workshops on Campus for Educator's
- Writing Consult Center
- Virtual Classroom
Online courses, supplemental material and study aids for the schools at KUMC
Move to the next Virtual Orientation section:
Getting Acclimated – Your 1st Month on the Job
Getting Ready to Research
Workshops for Researchers
Getting Ahead - Your First Year on the Job
Links to other Professional Development SITE MAPS & Information:
Programs | Workshops, Events & Lunch-time Lectures | Department Chair Resources & Support | Educator's Resources & Support | Research Resources & Support | Postdoctoral Resources & Support | New Faculty Virtual Orientation
- ELSEWHERE ON THE INTERNET for Educators
- Academic Leadership
Leadership educators introduce ideas about leadership and foster leadership qualities in their students. In doing so, they refine the practice of at many levels. The Academy of Leadership connects leadership educators with the latest discussions, leadership scholars and practitioners, and resources for program and curriculum.
- Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), The Outcome Project – Resident Competencies
The Web site of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education defines a set of basic competencies for residents.
- AdjunctSuccess™ Professional Development for Part-time Professors
Featured services are workshops and consultation for comprehensive professional development initiatives, grounded in current research and benchmarked practices, as featured in Teaching College in an Age of Accountability, The Adjunct Professor’s Guide to Success, and Success Strategies for Adjunct Faculty.
- Behavioral Objectives and How to Write Them
Florida State University Faculty Development resource for educators.
- Blogging Links
Links to sites that explain what they are, when to use them, and how to create your own blog.
- Carnegie Foundation – Professional Preparation of Physicians
- Classroom Performance Systems “Clickers”
- Clickers: Videos showing use of clickers
This group of brief videos from Center for Instructional Technologies at the University of Texas shows the teaching aspects of clicker use in the context of Dee Silverthorn's biological sciences course. Videos focus on interactive teaching, learning interactive teaching, learning CPS, effective questions, pitfalls, and benefits to students.
- eInstruction's Classroom Performance System's Training Videos This site offers quick Flash videos for faculty to view to show the technical side of how to use the clicker software to create lessons, create questions, import questions from other databases, create verbal questions on the fly (for more experienced users), add graphics to questions, and project questions engaging TMA (teacher managed assessment.)
- Collaborative Learning
This Web site is produced by the National Institute for Science Education and provides a basic introduction to the collaborative learning process within higher education. It also provides some personal reflections by students and teachers who are involved in classes transitioning from traditional teaching environments to collaborative learning environments.
- Concept Maps -- Concept maps are graphical tools for organizing and representing knowledge. They include concepts, usually enclosed in circles or boxes of some type, and relationships between concepts indicated by a connecting line linking two concepts.
- Copyright Resources on-line
- Courseware Development Tools-- On-line Tutorials
A set of links to online tutorials to help faculty get started working with various common development environments or build digital course materials. Excellent resource for learning Dreamweaver, Flash, Director, Photoshop, Quicktime, MS Office, and PowerPoint.
- Dartmouth’s Biomedical Library of Faculty Development Resources & Links
- Detecting Plagiarism
- Educator's Portfolio
The AAMC-Group on Educational Affairs
sponsored a Consensus Conference on Educational Scholarship
in February 2006 and findings are now available on the AAMC
Website. Included in this document are examples for each
of the major activities that educators are involved in curriculum
development, teacher, advising/mentoring, etc. These inclusions
are framed based on the model emerging from the conference – focusing
on the need to demonstrate excellence (through quantity and
quality data) and engagement with the community of educators.
Check with your department chair and the Office of Faculty
Affairs for specific requirements to which educators in the
University of Kansas School of Medicine must adhere.
- Education Journals in Health Professions (List maintained by Creighton University, SOM)
- End of Life Physician Education Resource Center
The End of Life Physician Education Resource Center (EPERC) is a central repository for educational materials and information on end-of-life care. It can also be used as a source of curriculums for faculty development.
- Evidence Based Medicine
- Evidence Based Medicine Recourses
FSU College of Medicine Informatics site includes links to materials, tutorials, databases, articles and guideline links.
- Resource Center
The New York Academy of Medicine in partnership with the Evidence-based Medicine Committee of the American College of Physicians, New York Chapter received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop an Evidence-based Medicine Resource Center and developed the information on this link. The Web Page contains references, bibliographies, tutorials, glossaries, and on-line databases to guide those embarking on teaching and practicing evidence-based medicine. It offers practice tools to support critical analysis of the literature and MEDLINE searching, as well as links to other sites that help enable evidence-based medical care.
- Expert Preceptor Interactive Curriculum (EPIC) from North Carolina
EPIC consists of 10 learning modules. It presents preceptor-relevant information on teaching students within a clinical environment.
- Faculty Associates
This site includes an extensive list of online resource links for over a hundred relevant teaching and learning topics, workshops and comprehensive online professional development initiatives, grounded in current research and benchmarked practices.
- Giving Feedback
- Glossary of Medical Education Terminology
- Grammar Rules by Blue Book
- Grant Writing - See Writing Resources below
- Learning in Groups
- Learning Objectives resources intended to help instructors write better educational objectives.
- Small Group Teaching
from the NYU Macy Health Initiative on Health Communication, Faculty Development website
- Team Based Learning
This site distinguishes team-based learning from learning in groups. The single biggest problem with team-based learning is using ineffective assignments for teams. Check here to see the difference between teams and groups, a description of this teaching strategy for powerful learning, and guidance for creating and evaluating student team-based assignments.
- Collaborative Learning: Group Work and Study Teams
This chapter from Tools for Teaching by Barbara Gross Davis (1993) gives some strategies and tips for designing, organizing, and evaluating student work done in groups. It also addresses student and faculty concerns about group work.
- See links below on Wikis
- Learning Objectives intended to help instructors write better educational objectives..
- Lecturing Skills
- Literature Search Tips
- Macy Institute
- Microskills: Teaching in the Moment
by Adopted from: Neher JO, Gordon KC, Meyer B and Stevens N. A five-step "Microskills" Model of Clinical Teaching. Journal of the American Board of Family Practice. 5:419-424, 1992.
- Objective and Goal Writing for Learning
Establishing goals and objectives for learning is an important part of designing curricula and these guidelines are offered by Creighton SOM.
- Office of Medical Education (OME) web links.
- Portfolios
- Developing and Promoting Your Portfolio, by Carol Carraccio, M.D., Virginia Keane, M.D., University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Excellent site with forms to help you work through your development stages.
- Problem Based Learning (PBL)
- Presentation Slides
- "Design of Presentation Slides," Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students, ed. by M. Alley, L. Crowley, J. Donnell and C. Moore (Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Tech, 2006), free resource.
- Publications for Teaching & Learning
These online articles and webpages are among the best found by Instructional Support Services, Indiana University, Bloomington. The site also offers a link to Selected Journals on the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
- Public Speaking (PDF)
An outstanding presentation on the skills necessary for public speaking. October 2005, “Dynamic Communication: The Language of Leadership”, Presented by Linda Belans, Director, Health Arts Network at Duke
- Publishing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning FACET 2004 (PDF) Selected Resources
- REFEREE Resident Educators/Faculty Educators: Recommendations for Educational Excellence (REFEREE) is a new program that is being developed by the Committee on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology (CREOG) and the Association of Professors in Gynecology and Obstetrics (APGO). This highly interactive online program is a course on how to provide feedback. It includes virtual situations where the user, who may be a resident, medical student, fellow, or faculty member, reviews interactions and techniques, presented in slice-of-life scenarios. Options are provided for answering questions, giving input, challenging assumptions, and suggesting solutions. REFEREE provides answers or suggestions for improvement to the user, and then moves on to new scenarios for learning as previous ones are mastered.
- Syllabus Design that is Learning-Centered
- Teaching 101
We have labeled this site Teaching 101 because of its extensive yet simple, information, tools, and resources for teaching. This site is part of the Professional Development Department at UC, Santa Barbara. Information includes but is not limited to:
- Teaching Tips
From Florida State University and UC Irvine College of Medicine
- Residents (and others new to teaching) Who Teach – Excellent Resources and Information from Florida State University on Teaching Skills Enhancement; Planning for Teaching; Teaching Strategies; Evaluation Strategies; and Additional Resource Links
- Another Residents (and others) Who Teach site – Outstanding site prepared by UC Irvine with information about learning your own teaching style; video examples of two different styles of teaching; a list of what others are doing at other residency programs.
From Harvard
From University of the Sciences in Philadelphia --
An excellent resource for everything you want to know about teaching.
From Hawaii -- Outstanding faculty development website full of an unlimited amount of topics related to teaching, learning and problems instructors face with suggested solutions. Two links below are examples of categories with specific topic links.
- DO'S AND DON'TS OF INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE
The intent of this [article] is to highlight a few areas where we still find exclusivity or a sense of hierarchy in the use of language to place one group of people below others, creating or perpetuating negative social stereotypes. Given the spirit of inclusively in our culture, some suggestions are provided here to avoid derogatory language.
- TIPS TO IMPROVE INTERACTION AMONG THE GENERATIONS
Traditionalists, Boomers, X’ers and Nexters Values can collide when members of different generations work and learn together. Having a better understanding of others can make the working and learning environment more productive.
From UC Berkley
From U of Washington Center for Instructional Development & Research (CIDR)
An excellent resource for everything you want to know about teaching.
From Stanford University
- Teaching at Stanford: An Introductory Handbook
Stanford is committed to being a great research and teaching university and has prepared this pdf file handbook for Faculty, Academic Staff and Teaching Assistants. It has 7 Chapters and an appendix. Among many topics you’ll find “Seven Ways to Handle Nervousness,” “First Day Guidelines,” numerous check-lists of things to consider for labs, lectures, presentations, discussion groups, equipment etc.
- Test Item-Writing Services
- The NBME provides testing, educational, consultative, and research services to a number of medical specialty boards, societies, and health sciences organizations. Services include development, administration, and analysis of more than 30 examinations for certification, recertification, in-training, self-assessment, or evaluation of special competence. These examinations are administered to more than 50,000 examinees annually.
- "How to Write Better Tests: A Handbook for Improving Test Construction Skills" by Lucy C. Jacobs, Ph.D., on the IU Bloomington Evaluation and Testing Services Web site
- Using a Scholarship of Teaching Model to Enhance Your Teaching
- Webster
- Wikis
- Using Wikis for Collaborative Writing This site introduces the concept of Wikis to teachers who may have heard the name but are unfamiliar with them. Wikis are free, online writing spaces where groups create a public work. If you want to know what a Wiki is, how it works, where to get access to one, how to get started, and how to introduce students to using a Wiki, this site called "For Teachers New to Wikis" should help.
- Uses of Wikis for Teaching and Technology from “Campus Technology” website. This insightful explanation about the essence of wikis and six examples of wiki use in higher education settings shows the potential of this tool for purposes of reflection, demonstration of writing proficiency, collaboration for research, collaboration for learning, and organization of collections of digital media components.
- Writing Resources – On-line
- Yale C/ AIM Style Guide
Probably the single best style guide for the development of well designed web pages and web sites for anyone developing educational web pages.
Links to other Professional Development SITE MAPS & Information:
Programs | JAYDOC’s Lunch & Learn Series | Department Chair Resources & Support | Educator's Resources & Support | Research Resources & Support | Workshops for Researchers | Postdoctoral Resources & Support | New Faculty Virtual Orientation
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