Purpose To collect baseline data and describe how medical schools handle faculty affairs
and faculty development responsibilities. Method In January 2000, the authors surveyed …

Purpose To determine how US MD-granting medical schools manage, fund, and evaluate
faculty affairs/development functions and to determine the evolution of these offices between …

The authors present recent data on changes under way in and the current status of faculty
appointment and tenure policies in US medical schools. The data are drawn from a survey …

Purpose Drawing on the decade of experience of Boston University Medical Campus'
Faculty Development Office, this paper reports strategies used to launch and continually …

Faculty and professional development programs at academic medical centers (AMCs) help
to develop effective teachers, supervisors, researchers, mentors, and leaders [1]. While …

Purpose To describe the five faculty series for medical school faculty in the University of
California (UC) system, their criteria for advancement, associated challenges, and the …

Background Medical schools have used faculty development programs as an essential
means to improve the instruction of faculty members. Thus far, however, participating in such …

Background: Faculty development is crucial to the success of medical education programs.
Relatively few independent academic medical centers, despite their burgeoning role in …

For the past several decades, financial uncertainty, changes in health care delivery and
reimbursement, and changing workforce needs have prompted medical schools to …

Editor's Note: This month, the journal features a group of articles that examine the state of
the art in faculty development. Nancy S. Searle, EdD, George E. Thibault, MD, and Stephen …