The Stanford Faculty Development Center for Medical Teachers has two major objectives.

• To disseminate teaching improvement courses to medical faculty nationally and internationally through our facilitator-training programs in Clinical Teaching and Basic Science Teaching.
  
  SFDC graduates are available to conduct workshops for other institutions and organizations. Large groups of participants can be accommodated by using a number of trained facilitators to work with small, break-out groups. Please contact us for further information.




• To provide teaching improvement support to medical teachers at Stanford University School of Medicine in undergraduate, graduate and continuing medical education through workshops and consultation.

Each year six medical faculty are selected to attend the 1-month SFDC Clinical Teaching facilitator-training course. The training provides participants with background knowledge and seminar leadership skills required to deliver a series of seven 2-hour seminars to their colleagues and to residents. Extensive opportunities to practice teaching skills are provided. More »

The SFDC's teaching improvement curriculum has been modified for an audience of basic science teachers. Modifications include new video vignettes and role-play scenarios.Previously trained Clinical Teaching facilitators return to the SFDC for a 5-day course that prepares them to teach this revised curriculum. More »

The SFDC provides teaching improvement workshops and consultations to basic science and clinical faculty, medical residents, and teaching assistants at Stanford University School of Medicine.
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