Faculty Development

 

Version	1
Executive Sponsor	Executive Dean
Consultation Process	Board of Regents
Date of creation	Feb 2024
Next review	Feb 2027

Introduction and Purpose

This Faculty Development document provides a structured framework to support personal and professional development, ensuring that all faculty members have the resources and opportunities needed to perform at a high level in their roles and develop as academics.

This document outlines key areas of faculty development, each of which is reviewed as part of the annual appraisal process:

Personal Development Plan (PDP)

All faculty members – Reviewed at annual appraisal

Ongoing CPD

All faculty members – Reviewed at annual appraisal

Academic Output Goals

All academic faculty members – Reviewed at annual appraisal

Developing as an Educator Goal

All academic faculty members – Reviewed at annual appraisal

Personal Development Plan

This will present targets for the forthcoming year for this employee. These will focus on

Teaching and also Academic and Research. A PDP template can be utilised for this part of the appraisal.

Ongoing CPD

Ongoing CPD covering clinical and non-clinical areas of practice will be reviewed at the annual appraisal. There is no minimum requirement here, but ongoing engagement across clinical and non-clinical areas of practice would be expected. Clinical CPD would ideally cover the same scope as the topics taught for the College.

Academic Output Goals

These can be utilised as a PDP goal for staff. Academic Output Goals (AOGs) aim to improve the quality of education provision across all faculties and educational programs within the College. They are applicable to teaching faculty across undergraduate and postgraduate programs. They are a guide for best practice within the College, rather than a strict protocol of requirements. It would be expected that staff could use these are targets to strive for during their time with the College.

AOGs

Academic Output.

Engage with ongoing academia in the form of research dissemination or sharing best practices related to healthcare or education.

Aim to achieve one of the following; each of which gains a period of future leeway

Podcast or media coverage related to CoROM 1 year

Poster or Conference Presentation 2 year

Publication: not peer-reviewed

(Editorial, Letter, Comment etc)

2 years

Peer reviewed publication (Research etc) 3 years

Developing as an Educator Goals

These can be used as PDP goals for staff of different levels of experience.

DEG 1

Professional Recognition.

Gain an Advance HE qualification (e.g. AFHEA, FHEA etc) or similar professional recognition as an educationalist (e.g. beyond being a course instructor).

This is a suitable goal to be achieved within 3 years of commencing employment as CoROM faculty.

DEG 2

Formal Qualification.

Gain a formal qualification in education.

Ideally this will be in the form of a Postgraduate qualification in healthcare or medical education (e.g. MedEd, PGCHE).

This is a suitable goal to be achieved within 6 years of commencing employment as CoROM faculty.

DEG 3

Academic and research output focussed on Teaching and Learning.

This will feed into the Academic Output Goals above.