Tag: educational methods
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Educator Well-Being Initiative
GOAL: Enhancing the Well-Being of Veterinary and Biomedical Educators A short introduction to the RTA and the Educator Well-Being Initiative.
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An Inter-Institutional Collaboration to “Make Teaching Matter”: The Teaching Academy of the Consortium of West Region Colleges of Veterinary Medicine
Best Practices Veterinary medical education is a relatively small community with limited numbers of institutions, people, and resources widely dispersed geographically. The problems faced, however, are large—and not very different from the problems faced by (human) medical education. As part of an effort to share resources and build a community of practice around common issues,…
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Inter-Institutional Collaboration for the Development of a Local Peer Observation Process to Enhance Teaching
Best Practices Local peer observation of teaching is considered an important mechanism for instructors to improve the quality and effectiveness of their teaching, but there is an absence of uniformity to establish a best practice for this process in veterinary curricula. The Regional Teaching Academy (RTA) of the Consortium of Western Colleges of Veterinary Medicine…