Discusses how the University of Minnesota's medical school used an evidence-based, collaborative approach (involving a faculty survey) to assess and improve faculty vitality, particularly in the area of research productivity. (EV)

The Division of Medicine of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services identified 194 essential nonclinical skills and developed four model medical faculty development curricula exemplifying appropriate ways to conduct faculty development for different types of faculty members. Forty-one recommendations for future faculty development…

Two faculty development programs designed to train medical school faculty members for family medicine educational programs produced participants going to different academic settings and becoming involved in quite different activities, especially in the area of scholarly work. Factors affecting differential scholarship and their implications for…

This article notes that recent changes in medical schools, due to funding trends and decreased demand for specialist services, have prompted dramatic changes in roles and rewards of faculty. Strategies for managing the changes are outlined for four areas: promotion and tenure, moving toward collective thinking, refining institutional mission and…