Faculty Development Series Workshops

STFM's Faculty Development Series Workshops are designed to prepare family medicine faculty to function effectively in an academic environment.

The STFM faculty development core curriculum provides participants with a basic set of skills in teaching, research, and administration; facilitates present work performance; advances personal and professional goals; and provides family medicine with a well-qualified leadership pool.

The Faculty Development Series includes entry-level workshops on teaching, research, and administrative skills have been developed to address the needs of community- and medical school-based family medicine educators. These courses are primarily directed at faculty who are neither fellowship candidates nor can attend a sufficient number of STFM or other programs to build these skills systematically. Some include more specialized training on. Each course in the series is based on principles of adult learning. The opening session is didactic with a highly interactive format in which small groups work with core faculty. The conference following the workshop is used as a learning laboratory. Participants attend plenaries, seminars, and sessions of their choice. They practice and expand skills gained in the course. Participants gather with their instructors twice during the conference to share and review their work.

Newly added workshops include topic-specific workshops such as Cultural Proficiency and Educational Scholarship .