Faculty Vitae is a Web-based publication of the AAMC's Faculty Development and Leadership (FD&L) section. Its features bring resources for professional development to the desktops of faculty in medical schools and teaching hospitals.

Educational Scholarship
Winter 2008 Issue

Feature
Educational Scholarship: How Do We Define and Acknowledge It?
The AAMC's Group on Educational Affairs (GEA) has long recognized that excellence in physician education is driven by faculty members, and that faculty must be recognized and rewarded as educators. In 2006, the GEA hosted a conference to help articulate a set of common standards for selecting, presenting, and evaluating evidence of educational contributions for academic promotion. Read highlights from the conference—what happened, next steps—and access the full report.

Leadership Lesson
The Educator Portfolio: A Tool for Career Development
An educator portfolio (EP) details the scope, quantity, and quality of your teaching activities. Creating and actively managing your EP supports your professional development and advancement. Get answers to frequently asked questions about EPs and download an EP template.

Featuring proximate source work from David M. Irby, PhD, Vice Dean of Medical Education.

Simpson D, Fincher RM, Hafler JP, Irby DM, Richards BF, Rosenfeld GC, Viggiano TR. Advancing Educators and Education: Defining the Components and Evidence of Educational Scholarship. Proceedings from the Association of American Medical Colleges Group on Educational Affairs Consensus Conference on Educational Scholarship, 9-10 February 2006, Charlotte, NC. Washington DC: AAMC 2007.

Simpson D, Fincher RM, Hafler JP, Irby DM, Richards BF, Rosenfeld GC, Viggiano TR. Advancing Educators and Education: Defining the Components and Evidence of Educational Scholarship. Proceedings from the American Association of Medical Colleges Group on Educational Affairs Consensus Conference on Educational Scholarship, 9-10 February 2006, Charlotte, NC. Washington DC: AAMC 2007.