The evolution of faculty development in Canada since the 1980s: Coming of age or time for a change?
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Abstract
AIM: To determine the current status of university based faculty development at Canadian Medical Schools. BACKGROUND: The roles and responsibilities of faculty members at Canadian medical schools are changing significantly as a consequence of influences such as the competency dictates outlined in the CanMEDS roles. One result of the changes is an increased need for faculty development to assist faculty members in carrying out their new and expanded roles. METHODS: The changing climate in medical schools, and the enhanced performance expectations of academic faculty, led us to conduct a survey of current faculty development practices in Canadian medical schools to determine what is being done to address the new and expanded expectations of faculty members. We used an on-line survey instrument based on surveys of faculty development conducted in 1987 and 1997. RESULTS: We received responses from faculty development directors at all 17 Canadian medical schools. Among the principal findings are a continued emphasis on faculty members' teaching roles, increased funding of faculty development activities at most schools, and a broadened emphasis on faculty roles other than teaching. Among these are research and scholarship, and management and administrative roles. The survey revealed a mismatch between what faculty development directors consider to be effective development practices and which practices are actually used in their schools. Another notable finding is the absence of credible faculty development impact studies. CONCLUSION: The 2007 survey of faculty development practices in Canadian medical schools indicates that teaching is still the number one priority for faculty members and the main focus of faculty development programs. There are notable efforts to help faculty members deal with their newly identified roles including those outlined in the CanMEDS framework. In looking forward, Canadian faculty development directors should continue their efforts to devise credible program evaluation methods. Furthermore, they should expand their thinking beyond Canada's borders. It is time to aggressively explore and understand the approaches and experiences which have proven successful internationally in the United States and Europe.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".