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Starting a Faculty Development Program

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Faculty Development in the Health Professions

Part of the book series: Innovation and Change in Professional Education ((ICPE,volume 11))

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This chapter will outline an approach for starting a faculty development program, whether it is initiating a single hospital department-based program addressing a focused faculty development issue, building a program in a hospital, specialty society or college, or starting a program that is faculty-wide, national or international. Guided by change theory and other theoretical approaches and related models, we will describe the steps and processes required to create a faculty development program. Core start-up issues, such as forming a planning committee, conducting an environmental scan and needs assessment, describing the purpose, goals and objectives of the program, and establishing a curriculum, will be explored in detail, as will delivery methods, evaluation strategies, and ways to build a program of scholarship, ensure sustainability, secure infrastructure funding and staffing, and market the program.

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I would like to thank Ms. Jacquelyn Waller-Vintar and Ms. Stevie Howell for their excellent editorial assistance.

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    Ivan Silver MD, M.Ed., FRCP(C)

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Silver, I. (2014). Starting a Faculty Development Program. In: Steinert, Y. (eds) Faculty Development in the Health Professions. Innovation and Change in Professional Education, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7612-8_16

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