FFI - Title VII Faculty Development:
Current Results and Future Directions Conference
Held April 21-22, 1998 Chicago


Contact Persons:
Jeff Stearns, MD, Conference Chair
Phone: 815-395-5784l
jstearns@uic.edu

OR

Ardis Davis, MSW, FFI Project Manager
Phone: 425-423-0922
Ardisd7283@aol.com

Through the Faculty Futures Initiative, a conference was held April 21-22, 1998 in Chicago just prior to the 1998 Annual STFM Spring Conference. This conference, Title VII Faculty Development: Currents Results and Future Directions, focused on looking back at models of faculty development funded through Title VII and examining how Title VII funding has helped to shape, fuel and sustain faculty development efforts in family medicine. From this vantage point, the conference then examined directions for the future of family medicine faculty development. Approximately 80 people, including presenters, attended the conference.

The conference was unique in that:

  1. it provided the opportunity for many of those faculty developers funded under Title VII to meet and share perspectives on the history of faculty development and discuss future needs and initiatives; and
  2. it brought together Federal government representatives and many of their grantees (long-time and more recently funded grantees) to examine the benefits of funding and how this has helped to shape the past and lead toward the future.

Opening the conference on the evening of April 21 was a reception with exhibits featuring faculty development models, most of which have been supported for many years by Title VII funding. The following day featured a morning plenary session opening with remarks from the Acting Director, Division of Medicine, Health Resources and Services Administration, providing an historical perspective of family medicine faculty development efforts funded through Title VII followed by a perspective "from the field" and a summary of faculty development models as a framework for discussion. Rounding out the plenary session was a panel discussion with varying perspectives on faculty development including:

  1. the role of Federal government in funding;
  2. role of managed care;
  3. training community-based faculty;
  4. faculty development for research; and
  5. faculty development in relation to the changing roles of department chairs.

Concurrent sessions in the afternoon focused on:

  1. outcome measures and what should be measured;
  2. electronic communication and training opportunities; and
  3. academic faculty.
Conference Proceedings Available
A conference proceedings document has been produced and can be obtained through the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.


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