Connecting Faculty Development with Student Success: A Needs Assessment

• In Event: EDHP - Connecting Experience and Student Learning

Short Description

Declining enrollment in higher education has increased the focus on student retention as a means for maintaining financial viability. Retention requires an increase in student learning and teaching is a key to increased learning, but at this medical sciences institution, faculty are skilled clinicians with little training in teaching. This presentation showcases a needs assessment conducted to identify deficiencies in pedagogy for developing faculty training and will interest colleagues working in similar faculty development fields.

Authors

• Contributor: Haihong Helen Hu, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

• Contributor: Marybeth Norcross, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences