The Family Medicine Curriculum Resource Project:Implications for Faculty Development

摘要

Faculty development implications related to implementing the Family Medicine Curriculum Resource(FMCR) Project provide an opportunity to look at the recommendations of the Society of Teachers ofFamily Medicine's federally funded Faculty Futures Initiative (FFI) and the recent Future of FamilyMedicine (FFM) project. Implications for faculty development include the importance of the clerkshipsetting, originally defined in 1991, with new features added in today's practice environment asoutlined by the FFM and the changing assumptions in approaching faculty development. Previously,faculty development focused on teaching learners to master current knowledge. Now, faculty mustteach learners how to master new competencies throughout their lives; learners need to learn howthey and others learn now. Teaching must focus on how to learn in the future as well as what to learnfor the present. Competence ("what individuals know or are able to do in terms of knowledge, skills,and attitudes") has become the focus of curriculum development efforts over the last few years andmost appropriately serves as the focus of curriculum development in the FMCR Project. Implicationsfor developing teachers and preceptors focus on the skills and circumstances required to teach andevaluate all types (cognitive, metacognitive, and affective) of competence. In the new culture, novelteaching methods will serve as the focus of faculty development in teaching and of educational ("bestpractices") research.