Curricular Affairs Office

Educational Development

Goals

• Support the design, implementation, and revision of an innovative, integrative approach to medical education
• Develop a community of medical educators that foster collegiality, promotes recognition for faculty teaching, and ensures high quality medical education
• Provide opportunities for students to become actively involved in creating and sustaining a quality learning environment

Educational Resources for Faculty

In addition to this document, we would like to direct you to useful information on other online resources:

Problem-Based Learning Links

• Resources for Faculty
• What are other institutions doing?
• Cases
• Listservs
• Bibliographies

Medical Education Assessments
Online Medical Education Journals
General Education Journals
Miscellaneous Educational Links
Edward G. Miner's Digital Library
Tip Sheets for Using Miner's Resources

Problem-Based Learning

Resources for Faculty

• A GUIDE TO PBL CASE CONSTRUCTION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER, Laurence B. Guttmacher, M.D., Director of Faculty Development, Curricular Affairs Office PDF Format
• PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING, Laurence B. Guttmacher, M.D., Director of Faculty Development, Curricular Affairs Office PDF Format
• Center for Instructional Support (CIS) at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
• The Learning Tree (articles written for PBL workshops) at the State University of San Diego
• Group on Educational Affairs (GEA) (Association of American Medical Colleges) 

What are other institutions doing?

• PBL Web Page, Ohio State University Health Sciences Center
• Problem Based Learning, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
• Problem-Based Learning Home Page, Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario
• Case Oriented Problem-Stimulated (COPS) Curriculum, Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine

Cases

• Problem-Based Learning Initiative, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
• MedShare, Sharing Radiology Cases Among Multiple Institutions
  Qualified individuals may obtain PBL problems from the following institutions. Click on the institution names below for a brief description of the problems, conditions of availability, and contact information:

  Problems for Nursing students: Contact Nancy Edwards, University of Ottawa

  Problems for Dental students: Contact Bill Hendricson, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio or D. Christopher Clark, The University of British Columbia

Listservs

• PBLIST, a moderated Internet discussion list on Problem-Based Learning in health care
• CBR-MED, an internet mailing list for discussion of Case-Based reasoning in medicine
• Med-Ed, a listserv for developers and users of medical education software in undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education

Bibliographies

• PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING, Laurence B. Guttmacher, M.D., Director of Faculty Development, Curricular Affairs Office PDF Format
• PBL bibliography maintained by the Medical College of Wisconsin
• This list is part of the PBL Learning Tree, maintained by San Diego State University College of Education
• Lists of journal articles and internet resources maintained by Tufts University. Categories include links for Faculty Development and Library Involvement in PBL

Online Medical Education Journals

• AAMC STAT (Short, Topical, And Timely News from the Association of American Medical Colleges)
• Academic Medicine is published by the Association of American Medical Colleges and focuses on the training of physicians (table of contents and abstracts)
• Academic Psychiatry publishes information on educational issues relating to the field of psychiatry (table of contents and abstracts)
• Medical Education includes articles on all levels of medical education throughout the world, from undergraduate to continuing professional education (table of contents)
• Medical Education Online (MEO): an online journal
• MedWorld, a community service project of the Stanford Medical Student Survival Guide (MSSG) group
• New Physician: published by the American Medical Student Association (table of contents)
• Advances in Health Sciences Education

General Education Journals

• Chronicle of Higher Education is a source of news and information for the academic population. Colloquy, a forum on issues in higher education, and job announcements are free services. Other services are available to anyone who has an individual subscription and who registers at the web site.
• Child Development Abstracts & Bibliography Online Edition (1990 - current) publishes abstracts and book reviews of research literature selected from about 275 journals, technical reports, and books that cover education and the biomedical and behavioral sciences.
• Education Policy Analysis Archives(EPAA) is a peer reviewed journal published at Arizona State University.
• Education Week on the Web
• Journal of Higher Education back issues, 1930-1992, are available on-campus, as well as off-campus if you are connected to the Internet through the University of Rochester's Internet Service Provider.
• Review of Higher Education (1996 - current) is available on-campus, as well as off-campus if you are connected to the Internet through the University of Rochester's Internet Service Provider.
• Contemporary Educational Psychology (full text is available through IDEAL for Miner network account holders).

Miscellaneous Educational Links

• Teachers College Record
• Educational Theory - publishes work in the philosophy of education and other disciplines (table of contents and abstracts).
• UC News Wire - breaking news from the nine University of California campuses and three national labs administered by UC.
• Women in Higher Education - monthly news journal subscribed to by women administrators, staff, and faculty in universities in the US and Canada. Includes job listings.
• American Academy of Pediatrics
• American College of Physicians
• American Medical Women's Association, Inc.
• Miner Library Health Sciences Connections
• NBME - Constructing Written Test Questions for the Basic and Clinical Sciences
• Stanford Faculty Development Program
• AAMC Faculty Development Special Interest Group Information
• AAMC Standardized Patient Special Interest Group Information
• AAMC Basic Science Special Interest Group Information
• Computers in Medical Education