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Exploring Faculty Developers' Experiences to Inform Our Understanding of Competence in Faculty Development
Lindsay Baker1, Karen Leslie, Danny Panisko
1L. Baker is assistant professor, Department of Psychiatry, scientist, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, and lead educator-researcher, Centre for Faculty Development, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. K. Leslie is director, Centre for Faculty Development, and professor, Department of Pediatrics, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. D. Panisko is undergraduate medical education director, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A. Walsh is professor, Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. A. Wong is professor, Department of Anesthesia, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. B. Stubbs is program director, Professional Development Program, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. M. Mylopoulos is associate professor and scientist, Wilson Centre and Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Faculty developers
Area of Science:
- Medical Education
- Faculty Development
- Higher Education
Background:
- Faculty development is crucial in medical education, yet research often neglects the experiences of faculty developers.
- Understanding the faculty developer role is essential for effective faculty development programs.
Purpose of the Study:
- To empirically understand faculty developer competence.
- To explore the actions, experiences, and perceptions of faculty developers in their facilitator role.
Main Methods:
- Constructivist grounded theory approach.
- Observations and interviews with 31 faculty developers across two institutions (2013-2014).
- Constant comparison for theme identification.
Main Results:
- Confirmed the importance of faculty developer knowledge, skills, and contextual factors.
- Identified three novel processes: negotiating, constructing, and attuning.
- These processes integrate the developer, context, and evolving competence.
Conclusions:
- Faculty developer competence is a situated construct, not static.
- Developers actively interact with their environment to optimize performance.
- Training should focus on adaptive, situated knowledge use for faculty developers.
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