Education Leadership

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Education Credits

For parity, recognized educational activities within each Education Category are assigned a credit value.

The credit value assigned to specific educational activities is defined by PSOM, rather than by individual teachers, course directors, or departments. Credit reflects time spent in preparation, exam grading/feedback, and evaluation of education-related activities. Educational activities (specifically online educational activities) receiving royalties are not eligible for credit.

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Education Activities

• Lecturing
• Facilitating Seminars & Small Groups
• Lab Rotations/Pre-Thesis Research, Short-Term Research-Related Mentoring and Supervising
• Learner Assessments
• Mentoring, Advising, & Supervising Scholarship
• Curriculum Development
• Educational Leadership & Administration

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Education Activities

Faculty may engage in as many of the categories as they wish, but should pick 1-2 areas to emphasize. Promotion at the Associate level will expect that faculty have high quality engagement in at least 2 areas. Promotion to professor will expect an explicit understanding of the impact of one’s teaching on trainees, programs, courses etc.

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Learner Evaluations

In some cases, your learners may be prompted to evaluate you in one of the following areas: lecturing, facilitating small groups, or clinical teaching. These evaluations can be viewed via the Teaching Evaluation Data system (TED)*. Twice a year, you will be emailed TED results. You can also check your TED results by going through My.Med. You will need your Pennkey.

*Please note: you will not see the evaluations of any teaching event unless you have more than three evaluators.

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Learner Evaluations

For lecturing, facilitating, and clinical teaching that is not caputred and reported via TED, you may choose to use the approved evaluation form.

Penn-Affiliated Learners

Educational effort must be with Penn learner populations.* This includes instruction, assessment, and other educational effort provided to any learner population affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Medicine, CHOP, and any educational programs or activities sponsored by Penn.

Watch Out for the Myths Related to Teaching

• One bad evaluation can tank a career
• PSOM COAP favors some teaching more than others
• Faculty does not need to teach in the first few years
• Promotion dossiers include teaching evaluations that go back to year one on faculty
• I don’t need to keep track of my teaching events
  

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What is Education Impact?

High-quality engagement in educational activities

Interactions with learners that vet meaningful and tangible outcomes

Alignment with the university and PSOM educational mission

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Holistic Review of Impact

Evidence of continuous scholarly productivity

Research consistent with PSOM’s mission with an upward trajectory of achievements over time

Contributions to the development of innovative approaches to diagnosis, treatment or prevention of disease, technology applications, and new models of care

Community engagement is considered when it is closely aligned with the candidate’s academic work

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The Education Portfolio

When proposed for promotion, faculty contribute the following to their Education Portfolio:

• PSOM Education Activities Workbook to document credits earned over the previous 3 years

• Education Impact Statement (1 page) that identifies and describes impact made in most relevant Education Category/ies in order of overall impact. For each category addressed, include a
  
• description of high-quality engagement
  
• brief reflection on how one has incorporated feedback from teaching evaluations to evolve as an educator
  
• description of growth over career in each category identified
  

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The Education Portfolio

The department Education Officer contributes the following to the candidate’s Education Portfolio:

• The Education Officer Report. This report provides an assessment of the overall engagement and Impact. Read more ...
  

• Internal Evaluation Data from the TED system
  

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PSOM Faculty As Educators: Learn More Now

Listen Now to: Thriving at PSOM Podcast Episode 4:

Your Education Portfolio

Hosted By Meryl Cohen, MD, Associate Dean of Faculty Professional Development, Professor of Pediatrics, Member of PSOM COAP

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Help & Support: Improving Effectiveness

• Mentoring Learners
  

• Providing Feedback
  

• Fostering Effective Learning Environments
  

• Clinical Teaching
  

• Lecturing and Presenting
  

• Facilitating Small Groups and Seminars
  

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Help & Support: Office of Academic Affairs Website

med.upenn.edu/oaa/

The OAA website is your home base for all things related to faculty affairs, employment status (such as sabbaticals, and extensions, ...) and faculty professional development.

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Help & Support: School Resources

• PSOM COAP
  

• Vice Deans of Research; Academic Affairs; Education; Professionalism; Strategic Initiatives; Penn Med Professional Services; Global Health; Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity
  

• Research Cores, Research Support Services
  

• Centers and Institutes
  

• FOCUS Office
  

• Program for Advancing Clinician Educators
  

• Launching Assistant Professors (Tenure)
  

• Anna T. Meadows Society (CE)
  

• Richard Society (Tenure)
  

• Biomedical Graduate Groups
  

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Help & Support: Department Resources

Department COAP Chair

Vice Chairs

of Education, Research, Faculty Affairs/Faculty Development, Professionalism

Education Officer

Provides a report for your dossier that describes your educational engagement and impact, and attests compliance in education effort. EOs also might provide feedback and coaching.

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