Goals

1. Enhance the visibility and value of the educational mission within and outside the institution
2. Promote innovative curricular design and outcomes evaluation
3. Develop an infrastructure to promote and sustain educational innovation and research.
4. Create /sponsor institutional programs to enhance faculty development and mentoring for educators
5. Advance, augment and celebrate a cadre of skilled teaching faculty
6. Support professional development and career advancement of all faculty whose academic focus is medical education.
7. Serve as an institutional think tank to set strategic directions for our educational mission

Goal One: Enhance the visibility and value of the educational mission within and outside the institution. Sponsor educational events, conferences, and outreach.

• Conduct an educational needs assessment for faculty
• Develop specific events and conferences to meet the recognized needs
• Conduct an internal analysis of educational strengths and expertise that currently exists and create an “internal speakers bureau” to be used by departments for faculty development activities

Goal Two: Promote innovative curricular design and outcomes evaluation

• Create an competitive intramural grant program in innovative curricular design
• Develop a resource for skills in grant writing, program evaluation and measurement of outcomes
• Serve as the bridge to creation of inter-professional curricula

Goal Three: Develop an infrastructure to promote and sustain educational innovation and research

• Support educational research, through both pilot grants and by creating a mentoring environment for faculty members who choose to pursue educational scholarship.
• Develop educational degree and certificate programs to enhance fiscal sustainability

Goal Four: Provide institutional programs to enhance faculty teaching and mentoring skills

• Faculty development on teaching skills, mentoring and educational innovation
• Creating venues for discussion and dissemination of faculty educational activities
• Administer institutional educational grants and recognition programs
  • Develop RFPs for grants based on institutional educational needs
  • Evaluate quality of educational grants submitted through a robust peer review process
  • Provide commonly used background text for grant preparation (pre-award) and administer educational grants
  • Serve as a resource for the institutional promotions and awards committees to evaluate educational achievement of faculty

Goal Five: Advance, augment, and celebrate a cadre of skilled teaching faculty

• Develop and implement teaching workshops
• Create a menu of in-house and electronic options to enhance educational skills
• Support attendance at professional educator meetings
• Development of an “Education Grand Rounds”
• Enhance Dean’s Office faculty development programs with educational focus
• Encourage Departmental faculty development sessions

Goal Six:  Support professional and career advancement of all faculty whose academic focus is education.

• Develop metrics to assess teaching performance and other educational activities and a thorough documentation of educational activities to serve as an educational “portfolio” of current excellence in educational teaching and learning
• Evaluate career-specific promotion pathways, aligning with APT committee, the institutional compensation infrastructure, and incentives to encourage excellence in teaching

Goal Seven: Serve as an institutional think tank to set strategic directions for the educational mission

• Articulate basic educational expectations and Stony Brook’s philosophy of appropriate learning environment to new faculty
• Develop educational performance criteria for evaluation by Departmental Chairs
• Study evolving trends in medical education and set long term plans for the educational mission