MCG’s Teaching Development Seminar Series, formerly known as the Teaching Scholars Fellowship, is designed to provide a select group of Augusta University health professions faculty and staff with a guided training experience that broadens their professional identity in education; equips them with new skills, abilities, and knowledge; and prepares them to make scholarly and educational contributions that will enhance or improve health professions education at the Medical College of Georgia and beyond. Access the application here.
MCG’s Teaching Development Seminar Series is designed to advance teachers’ and educators’ understanding of learning principles and teaching approaches supported in the education literature (KNOW), their effectiveness in implementing these principles and approaches (DO), and disseminating them with learners, colleagues and leaders within their own departments and programs (SHOW). The program has a strong medical education emphasis, but individuals from other health professions will readily relate to session content. Similarly, MCG faculty with teaching responsibilities have been the primary target audience, but house staff and staff with significant teaching or education roles have benefited greatly from the program.
MCG’s Teaching Development Seminar Series curriculum encompasses a variety of clinical and classroom teaching topics that are common to health sciences education and adopts a blended seminar discussion and practice lab format. In line with the goals of the program, each session involves participants discussing their teaching assumptions and practices, reflecting on how their perspectives and experiences align with or differ from the educational literature and their peers in the program, implementing and experiencing various teaching approaches in simulated situations, and finally considering how to incorporate into other teaching settings. The 2020 course syllabus including session topics can be viewed here.
If more interested in developing your health sciences educational research knowledge and skills, consider applying for the EII's Education Research Development Program.
The next cohort of MCG’s Teaching Development Seminar Series will begin in February 2022. Applications will be due in the Fall of 2021.
Applicants negotiate with their department to have release time to attend weekly training sessions and to develop a project. The department financially supports this release time.
Priority for fellowship is given to MCG faculty applicants. However, the best cohorts for the program have included participants from a variety of backgrounds, including faculty from various health sciences colleges and coordinators from various clerkships. Faculty from Summerville campus who have an interest in health sciences-related education would be a welcome addition to the group.
Call for application: August 15
Applications due: September 15
Notifications: October
Start fellowship: First week in February
Contact Ralph Gillies or 706-721-8982 for additional details about MCG's Teaching Development Seminar Series.
Individuals interested in participating in MCG's Teaching Development Seminar Series are asked to complete the application found here and submit by September 15, 2022. Acceptance is based applicants interests and responsibilities within health professions education and the availability of learner slots within the program.
Christa Root Martin, MD
Keith Anderson, BA
Anterpreet Dua, MBBS
Alexis Ennis, MSMI
Wanda Jirau-Rosaly, MD
Gail Kouame, MLIS
Kathryn McLeod, MD
Folami Powell, PHD
Cynthea Wilson, DNP
Mary Gregory, MD
Wanda Jirau-Rosaly, MD
Beth LaClair, PHD
Frances Purcell, PhD
Debra Beazley, PHD, PT, MBA
Amy Judson, BA
Anthony Payne, PhD
Pamela Tipler, DO
Amanda Zabala-Cliett, BA
Alexa Hryniuk, PhD
Pamela Tipler, DO
David Williams, MD
Jennifer Allen, MD
Chelsea Carson, MD
Monica Chana, DMD
Gaston Kapuku, MD, PhD
Dayna Seymore, BA
Huda Tawfik, PhD
Mary Lee Gregory, MD, PhD
Amber McCall, PhD
Jake Turrentine, MD
Lori Bolgla, PT, PHD, MACC, ATC
Nita Maihle, PhD
Dale Peeples, MD
Peter Shipman, MLIS
Tanna Boyer, DO, MS
Alexis Rossi, MA, MED
Michael Russell, PhD
