Tag: leadership
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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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An Inter-Institutional External Peer-Review Process to Evaluate Educators at Schools of Veterinary Medicine
Institutional Policy Despite its fundamental importance, the educational mission of most schools of veterinary medicine receives far less recognition and support than the missions of research and discovery. This disparity is evident in promotion and tenure processes. Despite the frequent assertion that education is every college’s core mission, there is a broad consensus that faculty…