SCS Links - General

General

http://www.uchsc.edu/CIS/

Center for Instructional Support, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, helping educators in all the health professions enhance their instructional, leadership/management, and research skills, with additional resources that can help them with career development.

http://www.sgim.org

Society of General Internal Medicine site, “Portal & Pathway to Professional Effectiveness & Satisfaction.” Of special interest are Professional Development, Interest Groups, and Links to organizations that have similar or complimentary missions and values, and useful resources to members.

http://www.ambpeds.org/nutsandbolts/

Ambulatory Pediatrics Association Conference Proceedings, Models that Work: the Nuts and Bolts of Faculty Development in General Internal Medicine, Family Medicine and General Pediatrics, a HRSA and APA-sponsored conference, January 1998.

http://stfm.org/pdfs/GFDRL.pdf

Second edition, April 2002 monograph prepared by the STFM Group on Faculty Development. PDF file format contains lists of print resources and web sites related to teaching, resources for developing educational skills, mentoring, writing, research/statistics, time management/priorities, administrative, management, negotiation skills, organizational leadership and change.

http://www.surgicaleducation.com/

The Association for Surgical Education offers a number of services and resources for members and non members, including a downloadable Manual of Surgical Education, developed by the ADE Curriculum Committee and members. You will find this handbook helpful whether you are just starting your tenure as a clerkship/program director or have been in the position for some time. If you are just starting, the handbook contains important information, essentially, all you wanted to know but were afraid to ask. This information will help you assess and if necessary, modify your clerkship. The handbook also contains information for your own professional development. If you have been in the job awhile, use the handbook to generate ideas for improving your clerkship or training program. Faculty members who aren’t clerkship/program directors will also find this handbook useful in their professional development as surgical educators. Also available, the "Manual on Preparing Surgical Case Reports for Presentation or Publication”, by W. Paine, Mercy Health System, 2003. The 28-page manual helps surgeons write a case report. It covers general goals, common types and basic format of a case report. It also includes specific information on each section of a case report and a sub-section on common problems. There is a list of references as well as four appendices that provide additional assistance in case report development.

Also link to the grant opportunities (up to $100,000) through CESERT, the Center for Excellence in Surgical Education, Research and Training. Four funding priorities are Innovations in Teaching in a Changing Educational Environment (develop and test new, more effective ways of teaching learners at all levels); Performance Evaluation and Assessment (develop and test new ways to determine how well learners at all levels have learned the required information and skills and can perform the required tasks); Undergraduate, Graduate and Faculty Development (develop and test ways to more effectively disseminate educational research findings so as to keep both faculty and curricula current);Curriculum and Educational Administration Management (develop and test new ways to provide administrators the resources and skills necessary to maintain accountability in a managed care environment). Two ongoing cycles (deadling dates) for proposal consideration and funding.