The Academy of Medical Educators and the Office of Medical Education encourage the use of the Educator's Portfolio to document educational accomplishment for academic promotion. An Educator's Portfolio is the core of the membership application for the Academy.

• The Office of Medical Education and the Academy co-sponsor an Educator's Portfolio workshop every fall.
  
• Educator's Portfolio "office hours" with Academy liaisons will be scheduled for the benefit of Academy applicants in the 2010 cycle.

Categories of Teaching Accomplishment and Documentation of Achievement in an Educator's Portfolio (templates & examples)

About the Educator's Portfolio

• Traditionally there has been little formal assessment of the educational activities of a candidate for promotion beyond "counting" hours of teaching or letters of recommendation. The standard packet typically provides very little evidence of the content or quality of a teacher's or educator's work. To acknowledge faculty members' contributions to teaching programs, some medical schools have begun to use a "portfolio" to organize and document educational activities - a concept borrowed from artists and architects who have long collected samples of their best work for others to evaluate.
• The Educator's Portfolio, as it has developed in the UCSF School of Medicine, moves beyond "teaching" to include other types of peer reviewed activities in education. It is a structured format that contains five categories of accomplishment: direct teaching; curriculum development; advising and mentorship; educational administration and leadership; and educational scholarship.
• Workshops introduce participants to the Educator's Portfolio, review the documentation required for each category, and discuss how the Educator's Portfolio is related to the promotion system at UCSF. There may also be the opportunity to work in small groups on your own Educator's Portfolio. These workshop are useful for anyone wishing to document his/her teaching and educational activities in the form now preferred by the Vice Dean of Academic Affairs and the Committee on Academic Personnel.

At the conclusion of this workshop participants will be able to:

• Identify the five categories of accomplishment in the Educator's Portfolio
• Document their educational activities
• Understand how to use the Educator's Portfolio in conjunction with the standard promotion package
• Adapt the workshop model for use with other faculty

To host your own Educator's Portfolio Workshop, please contact Christine Khuu at khuuc@medsch.ucsf.edu