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The Department is committed
to teaching at all levels of medical education. The clerkship, residency
program, and postgraduate training programs focus on the learner and draw from
our teachers’ expertise. We track teaching performance of our residents
and faculty and provide feedback periodically to each in a summary. We
have an Excellence in Teaching recognition program for those teachers who
systemically receive high marks from medical students. Good teachers
receive an Excellence in Teaching award and are recognized at the
resident/fellow graduation ceremony. A similar program is used to reward
those who perform well in teaching residents. Resident advancement and faculty
promotion are tied significantly to teaching performance.
Performance based assessment is used throughout
our teaching programs, marked by student demonstration of their acquired
skills at the end of the clerkship, and residents at each of the respective
workshops that occur during resident orientation and throughout the residency
(e.g., circumcision training for 2nd year residents, endoscopic
training for PG-2 to PG-4 residents, surgical skills lab for PG-3 and –4
residents, and the forceps workshops for PG-2 to PG-4 residents), and
evaluation by an attending after each surgical case. Faculty are
handpicked for their teaching skills for the training workshops. |
