Education/Teaching

Lynn Cleary, MD
Professor of Medicine,
Senior Associate Dean for Education

Mission

To create a culture of quality education, wherein good teaching is valued and rewarded, and Medical College faculty are motivated to enjoy their participation in teaching and to improve their teaching skills.

Goals

To identify faculty needs and to provide the resources and support required for excellent teaching at state-of-the-art levels.

To promote educational activities among the faculty aimed at improving teaching skills.

To create an Academy of Medical Educators (consisting of faculty members identified as talented teachers) as an organizational structure to carry out these goals in a self-sustaining manner.

To help guide the College of Medicine toward closer alignment of resources and rewards with excellence and innovation in carrying out the teaching mission.

Also assisting in the educational mission are:

Sara Jo Grethlein, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education

Philip G Holtzapple, MD
Professor of Medicine, Associate Dean for
Continuing Medical Education

David Turner, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Assistant Dean for Curriculum

Howard Weinberger, MD
Professor of Pediatrics,
Chair, Educational Policies Committee Subcommittee on Faculty Development,
Chair, College of Medicine Faculty Appointments and Promotions Committee

TEACHING DAY FOR TEACHERS

Dr. Weinberger has developed an annual series of seminars on faculty development (primarily in the fields of teaching and education and touching as well on research and promotion/tenure issues), as well a successful annual.

Schedules and powerpoints for this year's presentations:

Dates for Seminars text
Expanding Our Medical Student Class: Why Do It? How To Do It? David R. Smith, MD
Building and Stoking a "Fire in the Belly for Research" text, Kenneth Barker, MD
Mentoring for Research: Part II text Richard Cross, PhD
Presentation text, Joseph Domachowske, PhD
Stundent_Evaluations text
Dishonesty Workshop text Margaret Maimone, Steven Blatt and Dennis Stelzner

Other resources which may assisit you in your teaching role:

Grants for Innovation in Medical Education text

Educational Communications - Ed Comm's services include the support of student computing, video conferencing, PC training, photography, audio-visual services, medical illustration, graphic design, multimedia production, video technologies, and audio-visual systems. 464-xxxx

MedEdPORTAL is a new publishing venue through which faculty may disseminate their educational works. It was designed to promote collaboration and educational scholarship by facilitating the exchange of peer reviewed teaching resources such as tutorials, cases, lab manuals, assessment instruments, faculty development materials, etc.

SUNY Training Center (SUNY TC) - is a component of Advanced Learning and Information Services in the office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. The SUNY TC is a special-purpose, system-wide organization within SUNY that promotes the use of leading-edge educational technologies throughout the State University.

The Center makes training and professional development available on a diverse list of multi-media systems and hundreds of software programs. More so, it acts as a catalyst for the development of educational technologies on individual campuses.