A decade of faculty development for health professions educators: lessons learned from the Macy Faculty Scholars Program

Mary Haas^#¹, Justin Triemstra^#², Marty Tam³, Katie Neuendorf⁴, Katherine Reckelhoff^{5

6}, Rachel Gottlieb-Smith⁷, Ryan Pedigo⁸, Suzy McTaggart⁹, John Vasquez¹⁰, Edward M Hundert¹¹, Bobbie Berkowitz¹², Holly J Humphrey^{13

14}, Larry D Gruppen¹⁵

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¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
² Department of Pediatrics and Human Development, Corewell Health, Helen DeVos Children's Hospital, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Grand Rapids, MI, USA. justin.triemstra@helendevoschildrens.org.
³ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
⁴ Department of Palliative and Supportive Care, Clevel and Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
⁵ College of Chiropractic, Cleveland University, Kansas City, Overland Park, KS, USA.
⁶ School of Medical & Applied Sciences, Central Queensland University, Brisbane City, QLD, Australia.
⁷ Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
⁸ Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Emergency Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, LA, USA.
⁹ Office of Medical Student Education, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
¹⁰ Arapahoe Community College, Littleton, CO, USA.
¹¹ Medical Education, Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
¹² Columbia University School of Nursing and University of Washington School of Nursing, Seattle, WA, USA.
¹³ Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, New York, NY, USA.
¹⁴ The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
¹⁵ Department of Learning Health Sciences, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

^# Contributed equally.

PMID: 36973722
PMCID: PMC10041479
DOI: 10.1186/s12909-023-04155-x

A decade of faculty development for health professions educators: lessons learned from the Macy Faculty Scholars Program

Mary Haas et al. BMC Med Educ. 2023.

. 2023 Mar 27;23(1):185.

doi: 10.1186/s12909-023-04155-x.

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
² Department of Pediatrics and Human Development, Corewell Health, Helen DeVos Children's Hospital, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Grand Rapids, MI, USA. justin.triemstra@helendevoschildrens.org.
³ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
⁴ Department of Palliative and Supportive Care, Clevel and Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
⁵ College of Chiropractic, Cleveland University, Kansas City, Overland Park, KS, USA.
⁶ School of Medical & Applied Sciences, Central Queensland University, Brisbane City, QLD, Australia.
⁷ Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
⁸ Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Emergency Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, LA, USA.
⁹ Office of Medical Student Education, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
¹⁰ Arapahoe Community College, Littleton, CO, USA.
¹¹ Medical Education, Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
¹² Columbia University School of Nursing and University of Washington School of Nursing, Seattle, WA, USA.
¹³ Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, New York, NY, USA.
¹⁴ The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
¹⁵ Department of Learning Health Sciences, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

^# Contributed equally.

PMID: 36973722
PMCID: PMC10041479
DOI: 10.1186/s12909-023-04155-x

Erratum in

Correction to: A decade of faculty development for health professions educators: lessons learned from the Macy Faculty Scholars Program.
Haas M, Triemstra J, Tam M, Neuendorf K, Reckelhoff K, Gottlieb-Smith R, Pedigo R, McTaggart S, Vasquez J, Hundert EM, Berkowitz B, Humphrey HJ, Gruppen LD. Haas M, et al. BMC Med Educ. 2023 May 1;23(1):289. doi: 10.1186/s12909-023-04256-7. BMC Med Educ. 2023. PMID: 37127599 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

Abstract

Faculty development (FD) programs are critical for providing the knowledge and skills necessary to drive positive change in health professions education, but they take many forms to attain the program goals. The Macy Faculty Scholars Program (MFSP), created by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation (JMJF) in 2010, intends to develop participants as leaders, scholars, teachers, and mentors. After a decade of implementation, an external review committee conducted a program evaluation to determine how well the program met its intended goals and defined options for ongoing improvement.The committee selected Stufflebeam's CIPP (context, input, process, products) framework to guide the program evaluation. Context and input components were derived from the MFSP description and demographic data, respectively. Process and product components were obtained through a mixed-methods approach, utilizing both quantitative and qualitative data obtained from participant survey responses, and curriculum vitae (CV).The evaluation found participants responded favorably to the program and demonstrated an overall increase in academic productivity, most pronounced during the two years of the program. Mentorship, community of practice, and protected time were cited as major strengths. Areas for improvement included: enhancing the diversity of program participants, program leaders and mentors across multiple sociodemographic domains; leveraging technology to strengthen the MFSP community of practice; and improving flexibility of the program.The program evaluation results provide evidence supporting ongoing investment in faculty educators and summarizes key strengths and areas for improvement to inform future FD efforts for both the MFSP and other FD programs.

Keywords: Faculty development; Health professions education; Program evaluation.

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Conflict of interest statement

Bobbie Berkowitz, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, Edward Hundert, MD, and Larry Gruppen, PhD were paid by the Macy Foundation to plan and conduct the evaluation of the MFSP. Holly J. Humphrey, MD, MACP is the President of the Macy Foundation. All other authors report no competing interests.

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