title: Towards organizational development for sustainable high-quality medical teaching.
abstract: Literature shows that faculty development programmes are not organizationally embedded in academic hospitals. This leaves medical teaching a low and informal status. The purpose of this article is to explore how organizational literature can strengthen our understanding of embedding faculty development in organizational development, and to provide a useful example of organizational development with regards to medical teaching and faculty development. Constructing a framework for organizational development from the literature, based on expert brainstorming. This framework is applied to a case study. A framework for organizational development is described. Applied in a context of medical teaching, these organizational insights show the process (and progress) of embedding faculty development in organizational development. Organizational development is a necessary condition for assuring sustainable faculty development for high-quality medical teaching. Organizational policies can only work in an organization that is developing. Recommendations for further development and future research are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department for Evaluation, Quality and Development of Medical Education, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, 306 IWOO, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. r.engbers@iwoo.umcn.nl.
authors.forename: Rik
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Engbers
authors.affiliation: Department of Management & Organization, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Léon I A
authors.initials: LIA
authors.lastname: de Caluwé
authors.affiliation: Department for Evaluation, Quality and Development of Medical Education, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, 306 IWOO, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Paul M J
authors.initials: PMJ
authors.lastname: Stuyt
authors.affiliation: Department for Evaluation, Quality and Development of Medical Education, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, 306 IWOO, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Cornelia R M G
authors.initials: CRMG
authors.lastname: Fluit
authors.affiliation: Department for Evaluation, Quality and Development of Medical Education, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, 306 IWOO, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Sanneke
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bolhuis