Supervising the supervisors: a case-based group forum for faculty development.
OBJECTIVE
Faculty development has increasingly become a focus in medical education. Many models are employed around the United States. The authors present a group model process developed to train new educators to teach our medical students.


METHODS
The authors met monthly with a diverse faculty over the past 4 years and interacted in a nonhierarchal manner. The authors reviewed the literature, supervised one another, and developed a participatory method of solving educational and administrative problems.


RESULTS
What emerged was a "case-based," collaborative group format to develop an educational philosophy, address challenging supervisory problems, develop tangible educational materials and "products," and promote academic careers.


CONCLUSIONS
The authors propose this model for faculty development.
Joy
Javed Ahmed
JA
Temple University, School of Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, TUH-Episcopal Campus, Philadelphia, PA 19125, USA. rlamdan@temple.edu
Garbely
Joseph Michael
JM
Shack
Jonathan Gershon
JG
Kurien
Mary
M
Lamdan
Ruth M
RM
D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005178:Faculty; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*