Background Faculty vitality is the main ingredient to enhance professional education and
competence. Enriching the faculty vitality in key domains of teaching, assessing, research …

Most medical faculty receive little or no training about how to be effective teachers, even
when they assume major educational leadership roles. To identify the competencies …

In a time of change, higher education is in the position of having to adapt to external
conditions created by widespread adoption of popular technologies such as social media …

Research on faculty development has focused primarily on individual participants and has
produced relatively little generalizable knowledge that can guide faculty development …

Faculty development, or staff development as it is often called, has become an increasingly
important component of medical education, and most medical schools now offer formal …

The hidden curriculum (HC) in health professional education comprises the organizational
and institutional contexts and cultural subtexts that shape how and what students learn …

There is an urgent need for health professionals to address the impacts of accelerating
global environmental change. Healthcare faculty therefore have to educate the rising …

Abstract Telepsychiatry (TP; video; synchronous) is effective, well received and a standard
way to practice. Best practices in TP education, but not its desired outcomes, have been …

During clinical placements, the provision of feedback forms an integral part of the learning
process and enriches students' learning experiences. The purpose of feedback is to improve …

Context Learning technologies are ubiquitous in medical schools, implemented in
anticipation of more effective, active and authentic learning and teaching. Such thinking …