Faculty development activities

The Office of Medical Education has a dedicated faculty development team available to support all clinical teachers. We offer faculty development opportunities at the system, department and individual level, including the Clinical Teacher Program which aims to empower physician teachers. A wide variety of topics are available to meet learner and program needs.

The mission of Faculty Development at Corewell Health is to assist faculty to flourish as clinicians, educators, scholars and leaders in a stimulating academic and clinical environment. We focus on the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and attitudes essential to provide quality education in an empathetic, respectful, team-oriented, and value-based approach.

• Create opportunities to fulfill ACGME-requirements to earn CME-credit
• Encourage faculty to share best practices, discuss weaknesses, educational challenges and opportunities in relation to medical student and resident and fellow physician education
• Systematically improve the learning environment for our trainees and faculty to ensure patient safety and increase collaboration

Our team is also proud to offer our hybrid Clinical Teacher Program (CTP) and Clinical Teacher Program for Surgeons! The hybrid modality allows participants to maximize their learning and training while being cognizant of their limited time to attend courses in person. The course also includes simulated teaching scenarios to practice the techniques discussed in the course. More information on this course can be found on the Clinical Teacher Program website.

Additionally, we have a menu of options, or we can meet and build development programs. We can facilitate face-to-face, virtual synchronous and asynchronous, or hybrid programming as needed. Our team is also available to review your goal and objectives documents and evaluations to ensure your curriculum is aligned with the ACGME requirements.

The faculty development team is excited to support the education of our graduate medical educators.

• Departmental retreats: Some programs organize annual retreats for their senior residents, fellows, core-faculty or department. Often these retreats are focused on a specific topic or area of concern. We are also able to facilitate teambuilding exercises and activities. A retreat offers the possibility to discuss topics in a more relaxed atmosphere where faculty may be more open to sharing ideas, opinions, feedback and challenges.
• Program-specific presentations: We are happy to develop a program-specific session for your faculty. In collaboration with the program director, the specific needs are discussed and based on this conversation a tailored topic or program is developed. The length of these sessions can vary (between 20 - 90 minutes) depending on the session's goals, the topic and the specific issue that needs to be addressed. We can facilitate face-to-face, virtual synchronous and asynchronous, or hybrid programming as needed
• Snippets: We host a series of short development videos on various topics related to medical education. These are continually updated with new and novel teaching topics. Videos are typically 4-10 minutes long and can be used on an individual level or during department/section meetings. Each video has a discussion guide that the facilitator can use to create an engaging and meaningful discussion with their faculty. You can access these videos on our internal SharePoint page.
• Virtual Faculty Development offerings: The faculty development team hosts internal and external speakers on current teaching trends or issues in medical education. These presentations are hosted in the evening over Teams. Presentations are also recorded so a repository of educational content can be accessed on our internal SharePoint page.
• Individual teaching consultation: Occasionally, faculty have questions that might not be of interest to other colleagues, aspects related to their personal growth, questions about collaboration, about team culture, or dealing with a difficult learner—we would be happy to meet with faculty one-on-one to offer support, guidance and tools to improve in key educational areas.
• Curriculum Development: Our team is available to help with rotation curriculum document support, ACGME Milestone support, and evaluation and assessment consultation.
• Medical Education Scholarship: Through consultation, we offer faculty, fellow and resident physicians’ guidance and opportunities regarding their medical education projects.

Click on each title below to review topics offered by the faculty development team.