Faculty Resource Page

Quick Links

Calendars & Schedules:

Med 2010 project

WebVista (WebCT) and Moodle access: myU Portal

Workshops for faculty / medical educators to enhance teaching and learning
- brought to you by Medical Educator Development and Scholarship (MEDS)

Opportunities

Opportunity for Medical Education Scholarship

MedEdPORTAL is a Web-based tool that promotes collaboration across disciplines and institutions by facilitating the exchange of peer-reviewed educational materials, knowledge, and solutions. By extending the AAMC Group on Educational Affairs (GEA's) CACHE (Competencies Across the Continuum of Health Education) framework, MedEdPORTAL will serve as a central repository of high quality educational materials such as PowerPoint presentations, assessment materials, virtual patient cases, and faculty development materials.

Advisors

Advisor Guide/Handbook

Fundamentals of Clinical Program Advising

Log-on to Confirm Advisees

Evaluations

Evaluate your students and view your own performance evaluations.

Links to CoursEval and E*value

Reference

Curriculum Overview (4-year)

Competencies Required for Graduation

Intellectual Property Information (DMC)

Course Information: Year 1-2 Courses Year 3-4 Clerkships

Educational Program Objectives

FERPA: Student Privacy (PDF)
(Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act)
Protect the confidentiality of student educational records in your posession.

Finance: Medical School Finance Page
Important up-to-date finance information, highlights of any policy changes, and key links.

HIPAA: Patient Privacy
(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)
Privacy and Security of Health-Related Information.

Supporting Student Veterans

Homepages: Year 1 Year 2 Years 3 & 4

Libraries: Biomedical Library University of Minnesota Library

Maps: Campus Maps

Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Task Force:

Final Report (HTML)
Final Report (PDF)

WebCT: Course Management WebCT Log-In

Teaching Online

MedEdPORTAL (AAMC)
Free publishing venue and dissemination portal to support educators and learners as they create and use on-line teaching materials, assessment tools and faculty development resources.

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
Find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials. Share advice and expertise about education with expert colleagues. Be recognized for your contributions to quality education.

Learning

Faculty / Medical Educator Workshops
Workshops and short courses featuring presentations by leaders in medical education, and offering opportunities for skill-building and sharing of ideas among faculty who teach medical students. All workshops are free and held on the University of Minnesota's East Bank Campus. Provided by the Medical School Office of Education.

Resident Educator Development (RED)
An important part of residents’ job is that of educator. Residents teach medical students, patients, and each other. In order to be effective teachers, residents need to be equipped with teaching skills—important skills that may not have been covered in their own medical school training. Sponsored by the University of Minnesota Medical School Graduate Medical Education (GME) Office and the Medical School Office of Education.

Continuing Medical Education
Serving the educational needs of physicians and lifelong students of medicine through its annual series of programs taught by faculty in various disciplines in the Medical School and by guest faculty from around the world. Instructional methods include lectures, workshops, laboratories, live cases, panels, seminars, and individual instruction. The emphasis is on high-quality education and practical, up-to-date content.

Biomedical Library Classes
Topics include MEDLINE, PubMed, Evidence Based Health Care, basic database searching, information resources, and web/software technology.

Digital Media Center
The DMC staff collaborates with collegiate and other central support units to promote the effective use of educational technologies at the University of Minnesota and to support faculty members who use these technologies to improve teaching and learning.

AHC Learning Commons
The AHC Learning Commons is a friendly and informal place for faculty to learn about and develop new ways of teaching – especially those supported by information technologies. For students and residents, it's a place to practice new ways of learning – such as clinical decision-making, problem-based learning, and evidence-based practice – and to use information acquisition skills and technologies

The Teaching Professor - Monthly Newsletter
The Teaching Professor is a forum for discussion of the best strategies supported by the latest research for effective teaching in the college classroom. From tips for class discussion to mentoring fellow faculty, The Teaching Professor stretches from the theoretical to the highly specific. Typical topics include assessment and evaluation, engagement of student interest, faculty time management, and the learner-centered classroom.
(NOTE: Due to restrictions on the site license, this resource can only be accessed from University computers - Purchased for our University community by the Center for Teaching and Learning Services)

Center for Teaching and Learning Services
Partners with colleges, departments, and individuals to improve student learning. Encourages and assists with initiatives that foster environments in which diverse teachers and learners can excel.

WebCT:
WebCT Vista Faculty Learning Materials
WebCT Course Management
Take a 1-4 hour Class

MyU Portal information

Medical Educators' Book Group: Best Read Med Ed

Services

UM Center for Teaching and Learning Services

One-Stop (Faculty Services)

E-mail access via the web

UofM Libraries

UofM Bookstores
Health Sciences Bookstore, Coffman Union
Serving the course and reference needs of the Medical School, School of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, Mortuary Science, School of Dentistry, and School of Public Health. TheHealth Sciences Bookstore also offers school, office andcomputer supplies, and UofM clothing and gifts.

Interprofessional Education and Resource Center
A center to provide state-of-the-art facilities and educational development services for assessing and improving health sciences students' clinical skills in an interdisciplinary setting.

AHC Office of Education
The AHC Office of Education collaborates with AHC faculty and members of the Minnesota community to introduce innovations in health care education.

simPORTAL (Simulation PeriOperative Resource for Training and Learning)
The primary simulation training “portal” for the procedurally-oriented departments within the Medical School. It arranges for space, equipment, technical and logistical support for educational activities involving technical skills and team training via simulation. It also supplies research and evaluation capacity to support innovation in simulation equipment, tools, and processes as well as training curricula.

Faculty Technology Resource Center
(Digital Media Center, DMC)
Promotes the innovative use of learning technologies at the University of Minnesota and supports faculty who aredeveloping multimedia (including Internet) teaching and learningprojects. The center is partner in the nonprofit New MediaCenters program that helps institutions of higher education around the world enhance teaching and learning through the use of new media. In addition to the DMC instructional multimedia consultants, the DMC is staffed and supported by the University Libraries and ADCS.
          Services
          Teach with Technology
          Develop Learning Materials
          Consultations
          Student WebCore Service
          Video Production Services
          Faculty Toolkit (software)