Faculty Development Programs and Offerings

The IFDP is the signature offering of the Office of Faculty Development. It is an annual course that began in 2003 and was offered face-to-face until 2020. Each session of the IFDP is open to the general faculty – any faculty member can attend one or more of the offerings of the IFDP without having to enroll in the IFDP.

Please visit our calendar of events to view upcoming sessions or navigate through the side pane on the left of this webpage.

The IFDP eLearning curriculum consists of four domains:

 

Target Audience

TTUHSC El Paso institutional faculty, staff, community faculty, and any interested health care provider (physicians, nurses, etc.) from affiliated institutions.

CME/NCPD Credits

All of the activities are open via self-enrollment, and many of them will provide CME and NCPD credit.

NOTE:

TTUHSC El Paso Faculty and Staff

Feel free to enroll now with the links provided (use e-raider credentials). If you have issues enrolling, please contact our office ElPasoFacultyDevelopment@ttuhsc.edu

Affiliated institutions health care providers (physicians, nurses, etc.)

External users, before you try enrolling to any of the courses, please contact our office ElPasoFacultyDevelopment@ttuhsc.edu

 

To get the complete details of the program, please view the IFDP Syllabus.

The DFDP was established in 2013 and has become invaluable in helping our institution achieve its faculty development goals. The DFDP provides faculty with the tools to directly implement what they have learned in the IFDP, and serve as role models for others. Candid and creative discussions with department chairs and faculty members about their academic responsibilities promote faculty advancement through a program targeted to the specific needs and service goals of the department while achieving the vision and mission of the institution. The program is delivered on site or online and focuses on clerkship, residency program, and fellowship directors, faculty who participate in teaching, and faculty undergoing promotion and tenure review.

In this program, a multidisciplinary faculty development team takes the time to understand and address an individual faculty member’s academic goals and objectives. The Office of Faculty Development (OFD) leadership engages and mobilizes faculty from different schools, departments, and Centers of Emphasis across campus to improve networking. This type of customized professional development increases faculty research/scholarship productivity and contributes to improved interdisciplinary and interprofessional collaboration at the institutional level.

The LDA is an eight-month development program created for the next generation of TTUHSC El Paso academic leaders and has been developed with educational program directors, department chairs, assistant and associate deans, and managers in mind. The program is designed and managed by the Office of Faculty Development.

The goal of the LDA is to improve individual leadership skills through self-discovery, group discussions, and collaborative networking. The program's innovative online courses, teleconferences and face-to-face sessions, panel discussions and workshops are designed to improve individual management and strategic planning skills, strengthen leadership performance across the university, enhance understanding of institutional culture and teamwork, improve university finance analysis, and establish a pipeline for succession planning. Its topics are most relevant to our institution's mission, vision, values, and strategic goals.

The LDA will begin in August of every odd year and end the following May. Throughout the LDA, and immediately following its completion, participants will have access to asynchronous material in Canvas (online modules, educational videos, book chapters, journal articles, tools, checklists, forum discussions, etc.), designed to reinforce their leadership skills and connect their individual development to the needs of the institution.

LDA is offered every odd year. The most recent syllabus can be seen here, LDA Syllabus.

Target Audience

The next generation of TTUHSC El Paso academic: clerkship and unit directors, department chairs, assistant and associate deans, and office/department/school managers.

CME/NCPD Credits

All of the activities are open via self-enrollment, and many of them will provide CME and NCPD credit.

Course Sessions

Please visit our calendar of events to view upcoming sessions or navigate through the side pane on the left of this webpage.

External users, before you try enrolling to any of the courses, please contact our office ElPasoFacultyDevelopment@ttuhsc.edu

This personalized faculty development program targets senior assistant professors and associate professors. The goals of this program are to increase clinical and scholarly productivity of the midcareer faculty, build collaboration and social support across disciplines and professions, and increase rates of promotion.

To enroll in the Midcareer Faculty Development Program please click on the link found below and complete the Mid-Career Faculty Development and Mentoring Partnership Agreement.

If you are interested in serving as a mentor please complete the Faculty Mentor Application.

The Office of Faculty Development (OFD) hosts the Institutional Faculty Mentoring Program (IFMP), which targets early-career faculty.

The IFMP matches the faculty mentee with one or more internal or external mentors. This program aims to nurture early-career faculty, especially women faculty and those who are underrepresented in academic medicine, in the area of scholarship, including teaching, research, clinical and simulation, and leadership skills. The most appropriate mentors are identified to assist mentees. The mentee and mentor pair will identify one or more goals to be completed during the 24-month program. The majority of previous-faculty mentees successfully achieved or exceeded their stated goals.

The OFD encourages department chairs to nominate new faculty members for participation in the IFMP. To enroll in the IFMP, please click on the link found below and complete the Mentee Partnership Agreement form.

To access the IFMP Mentoring Progress Reports, please select either the Initial Mentoring Progress Report or the Final Mentoring Progress Report.

The OFD offers a range of mentoring opportunities. Asynchronous content can be accessed 24 hours a day by clicking on the link found below:

(Art of Mentoring Link- Part of the Succeeding and Advancing as Faculty Course.)

If you are interested in serving as a mentor, please complete the Faculty Mentor Application and the Faculty Mentoring Interest Inventory.

Need more information on mentoring? Check our Institutional Faculty Mentoring Program Manual.

The WIG was launched in 2016 after the Office of Faculty Development found that some faculty members were struggling due to their lack of scholarly writing skills. The goals of the WIG include enhancing the publication record of our faculty and increasing the collaboration between faculty. An increase in the average number of peer-reviewed publications was observed approximately one year after completion of the first two WIGs. The WIG was originally conducted outside of the IFDP as short sessions convened every two weeks, but it has evolved and is now a part of the annual online IFDP.

 

Through eight informative sessions, the WIG Course offers guidance in drafting a manuscript suitable for submission to a peer-reviewed journal.

In collaboration with the GME Office, the OFD has launched a faculty development program targeting the needs of the GME core faculty, residency program directors, assistant program directors, and GME staff members.

Live GME development virtual sessions/teleconferences

Director: Armando Meza, M.D.

Please visit our calendar of events to view upcoming teleconference events or navigate through the side pane on the left of this webpage.

The Core Faculty Development Programoffers quick access to the GME recorded teleconferences offered through the Office Faculty Development.

This program targets community-based faculty preceptors with the aim of ensuring greater uniformity in the clinical training of our students and residents. El Paso has a large, professionally diverse medical community, and over 140 local physicians are currently members of the volunteer faculty at TTUHSC El Paso. Before community faculty members are assigned to medical student teaching, they are invited to attend a series of presentations that include information about adult learning, useful teaching techniques in a clinical setting, feedback methods, and the institutional forms and materials used for evaluation. Community faculty members are provided with free access to the Teaching Physician website (https://www.teachingphysician.org/).

If you need an account, please contact us at ElPasoFacultyDevelopment@ttuhsc.edu to request one.

 

Click on this link to see our Office of Faculty Development Community Brochure.