Faculty Development Train the Trainer

Summary

The Faculty Development Train the Trainer course is designed to improve the facilitation skills of your faculty development champions, addressing their specific needs to enhance educational outcomes. Led by Mayo Clinic experts, the course includes a pre-brief, co-facilitation, and post-brief structure. It provides the faculty at your institution with advanced education techniques and proven best practices. The course aims to optimize faculty development sessions and foster a robust community of medical educators committed to continuous improvement and collaboration.

Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Utilize hands-on practice and expert guidance to effectively lead and engage in faculty development sessions.
• Apply the latest education science methodologies to optimize the design and delivery of faculty development programs, ensuring high-quality educational experiences.
• Build and maintain a supportive network of faculty development champions, fostering a thriving medical educator community within their institution.

Participants are encouraged to serve as ongoing faculty development champions, ensuring continuity in developing the institution's medical educator community with the support of Mayo Clinic resources.

Access to this course is available from the date of purchase until it expires on 10/31/2027.

Course Format

The course is designed to equip faculty development champions at your institutions with best practices for facilitating faculty development sessions. The course is centered around the Mayo Clinic SIX Pack Facilitator Bundle, tailored to the specific needs of your institution. Participants will gain valuable insights into fostering a strong medical educator community through practical, hands-on experience.

* Please note that additional registration is required to purchase ($1,000) the SIX Pack Facilitator Bundle. Registration information for the bundle will be shared once the Faculty Development Train the Trainer registration is complete. Descriptions of available SIX Pack Facilitator Bundles can be found below.

Structure

Pre-brief session

Mayo Clinic faculty will meet with the designated co-facilitator from your institution to develop a facilitation plan. The focus of this session is the Mayo Clinic SIX Pack that your institution has chosen, ensuring that it is well integrated into the facilitation strategy for the upcoming session.

Co-facilitation session

A Mayo Clinic faculty member will co-facilitate a faculty development session alongside the institution's faculty development champion. The session will utilize the selected SIX Pack facilitator bundle, providing participants with practical experience in applying key facilitation techniques.

Post-brief session

Following the co-facilitation, Mayo Clinic faculty will engage in a debrief session with the co-facilitator to review the outcomes, discuss areas for improvement, and strategize on how to further enhance future sessions using the SIX Pack materials.

Scheduling and Participation

A Mayo Clinic program manager will reach out to help schedule the three sessions of the Faculty Development Train the Trainer course and provide registration information for the SIX Pack Facilitator Bundle. Your faculty development champion will participante in all three sessions and will co-facilitate a faculty development session alongside a Mayo Clinic expert. To maximize the impact of this session, it is recommended that as many faculty members as possible participate. Due to clinical commitments, it may take up to three months to finalize the scheduling.

Technical Requirements

• Computer with internet access

Available SIX Pack Facilitator Bundles

Upstander Training in Medical Education SIX Pack

The Upstander Training in Medical Education SIX Pack provides faculty development resources focused on equipping educators and healthcare professionals with the knowledge and tools to respond effectively to discrimination, harassment, or hate speech. This resource offers actionable steps to become an Upstander, fostering an inclusive and supportive environment.

Active Learning for Individual and Small Groups SIX Pack

The Active Learning for Individuals and Small Groups SIX Pack provides faculty development resources focused on applying active learning techniques in smaller educational settings. This resource helps educators engage learners individually or in small groups, enhancing their ability to move from memorization to higher-level cognitive skills like application and analysis.

Active Learning for Large Groups SIX Pack

The Active Learning for Large Groups SIX Pack offers faculty development resources focused on overcoming the challenges and leveraging the successes of teaching large groups. This resource provides practical strategies to incorporate active learning techniques in large group settings, moving learners from memorization to advanced application and analysis.

Curriculum Mapping 101 SIX Pack

The Curriculum Mapping 101 SIX Pack emphasizes the importance of designing curriculum maps that start with the end goals in mind, enabling educators to clearly identify what learners should know, do, and how they should act after a learning experience.

Shaking Up Lectures SIX Pack

The Shaking Up Lectures SIX Pack provides faculty development resources that offer a fresh approach to lecturing by breaking content into manageable chunks. This technique enhances student engagement and retention by incorporating reflection and pauses throughout the lecture.

Active Learning - Digital Classroom SIX Pack

The Active Learning in the Digital Classroom SIX Pack provides faculty development resources that focus on integrating active learning strategies with digital technologies. This resource offers practical examples and tools to enhance learner engagement and cognitive skills in online educational environments.

Overview of Active Learning SIX Pack

The Active Learning SIX Pack provides faculty development resources focused on engaging students as active participants in their learning process. This resource offers practical techniques to enhance lesson delivery and foster higher-order thinking by moving beyond memorization to application and analysis.

Science of Learning - Retrieval Practice SIX Pack

The Retrieval Practice SIX Pack explores the key learning strategy of learner recall, offering practical insights into how this technique can be applied to enhance learning and retention. This faculty development resource provides evidence-based approaches for integrating retrieval practice into educational settings.

Science of Learning - Elaboration and Reflection SIX Pack

The Elaboration and Reflection SIX Pack provides faculty development resources that explore two critical learning strategies within the Science of Learning: elaborative investigation and reflective practice. This resource offers practical techniques to enhance performance, retention, and application in educational settings.

Science Of Learning – Interleaving and Spaced Practice SIX Pack

Interleaving and Spaced Practice are evidence-based learning strategies that improve retention and performance. This resource offers practical techniques and next steps for integrating these approaches in educational settings.

Overview of The Science of Learning SIX Pack

The Science of Learning SIX Pack provides faculty development resources that explore the value of interdisciplinary approaches to understanding how learning occurs. This bundle covers key theories, methods, and the impact of the Science of Learning on teaching, offering practical strategies to enhance educational effectiveness.

AI in the Clinical Setting SIX Pack

The Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Practice SIX Pack provides faculty development resources that introduce foundational AI concepts, terminology, and critical questions surrounding its use in healthcare. This resource helps educators and clinicians navigate the evolving role of AI while addressing its potential impact on health disparities and bias.

Unconscious Bias SIX Pack

The Unconscious Bias in Medical Education SIX Pack provides faculty development resources focused on recognizing and addressing unconscious biases in healthcare and educational environments. This resource offers practical strategies for creating a more inclusive learning environment by mitigating the impact of biases.

Formative Feedback in Real Time SIX Pack

The Formative Feedback in Real Time SIX Pack provides faculty development resources that emphasize the crucial role of feedback in guiding learners to improve their clinical skills, decision-making, and patient interactions. This resource offers evidence-based strategies for delivering constructive feedback to enhance both teaching and learning environments.

How to Solicit Feedback and Maximize Outcomes SIX Pack

The How to Solicit Feedback and Maximize Outcomes SIX Pack provides faculty development resources focused on delivering feedback that is descriptive, actionable, timely, and supportive. This resource equips educators with proven techniques to enhance the quality and impact of their feedback, encouraging learner self-assessment and growth.

Learner Centered Verbal Feedback SIX Pack

The Learner Centered Verbal Feedback SIX Pack provides faculty development resources designed to enhance the delivery of verbal feedback in medical education. This resource equips educators with proven strategies to initiate feedback conversations, provide impactful guidance, and foster learner self-assessment and improvement.

Introduction to Asking Effective Questions SIX Pack

The Introduction to Asking Effective Questions SIX Pack provides faculty development resources that explore the fundamentals of question types and their application in educational settings. It covers open- and closed-ended questions, conceptual and procedural question types, and offers guidance on framing questions effectively to foster learning.

Immediate Feedback in MedEd - Formative Assessment When You Need it Most SIX Pack

The Immediate Feedback in MedEd - Formative Assessment When You Need it Most SIX Pack provides faculty development resources focused on effective strategies for assessing competence and delivering meaningful feedback in medical education. It offers practical tools for setting clear expectations, establishing assessment standards, and guiding learners in improving their skills and knowledge.

Beefing Up Evaluations SIX Pack

The Beefing Up Evaluations SIX Pack provides faculty development aimed at enhancing the quality of written feedback in medical education. This resource helps educators compose clear, detailed, and actionable evaluations that guide learners' progression toward competency.

What's in a Hand Off? Teaching Safe, Effective Transitions of Care SIX Pack

The What's in a Hand Off? Teaching Safe, Effective Transitions of Care SIX Pack equips faculty with essential tools to teach and evaluate effective communication during care transitions. This resource provides the latest evidence-based practices to help reduce preventable medical errors and ensure well-coordinated interprofessional teamwork across shifts.

Creating a Positive Learning Environment SIX Pack

This SIX Pack focuses on fostering a supportive, inclusive, and learner-centered environment essential for high-quality education. It emphasizes creating a safe, respectful, and cooperative space where learners can be continuously challenged and assessed, ensuring their experiences lead to improved patient care outcomes.

The Faculty Development Train the Trainer course is specifically designed for faculty development champions who are dedicated to enhancing their facilitation skills and educational impact within their institutions. This course is ideal for medical educators, faculty development leaders, and academic professionals who are passionate about applying advanced education science methodologies and best practices. Whether you are an experienced facilitator looking to refine your skills or a new faculty member eager to develop your leadership in faculty development, this course provides the tools and support needed to drive continuous improvement and collaboration in medical education.

Different Mayo Clinic faculty experts will be selected to participate based on the specific topic of the SIX Pack chosen for the session. Each expert is carefully matched to the content to ensure their expertise aligns with the subject matter, providing participants with deep insights and practical knowledge relevant to the chosen focus area.

Heather Billings, PhD Senior Associate Consultant, Director of The Office of Faculty Development and Co-Director of the Academy of Educational Excellence Dr. Heather Billings oversees faculty development programming, provides consultation, and creates resources and activities to support faculty and health professions educators across the enterprise. Dr. Billings is a faculty member within the Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, chairs the Faculty Development Steering Committee and is the Graduate Medical Education section leader for the regional Central Group of Educational Affairs executive committee. Dr. Billings led the creation of the Academy of Educational Excellence and is continuing to build faculty development programs, such as the Fundamentals in Medical Education program. Dr. Billing’s research projects include innovative curriculum designs, faculty development dissemination strategies, mentorship development and multidisciplinary team science models.