Current status of faculty development in under graduate medical education of Bangladesh

Abstract

This descriptive cross sectional study was carried out to determine the current status of faculty development in undergraduate medical education of Bangladesh. This study was carried out in eight (four Government and four Non-Government) medical colleges in Bangladesh over a period from July 2015 to June 2016.The present study had a semi-structured self-administered questionnaire for individual teacher. Total 181 teachers responded to the questionnaire. 56% of teachers said that faculty development activities were regularly conducted. About duration of faculty development activity 74% of teachers said it was 1-3 days duration. 42% of the teachers said faculty development activity conducted once in a week and 39% said occasional conduction of faculty development activity in their institute About the type of faculty development activity clinical meeting was commonest (65%), related to medical education (48%) and related to research (53%). About the topics of medical education related activities were teaching methodology (46%), assessment (32%). Research related activities were journal club (91%) and research methodology (67%). Faculty development activity was conducted through teachers association (53%) and medical education unit (50%).In conclusion some parts of FD activity are present in most of the colleges like clinical meeting, few medical education related session, and research related activity. For upgrading of medical education faculty development programme should be conducted regularly, monitoring of present programme and development of qualified resource person should be ensured. advocating the reform of medical education to meet the In many ways, faculty development is a planned program to changing needs of the current and future society at both prepare institutions and faculty members for their academic global and regional levels. A reorientation of medical roles, including teaching, research, administration, writing education movement started in the early 1980s in 2 and career management .To help faculty members fulfill Bangladesh. The Centre for Medical Education (CME) was set up at Dhaka in 1983 by an UNDP-funded project in the country. One of the main objectives of the CME is to train medical teachers on basic principle of teaching methodology and assessment as a part of faculty 5 development programme .Centre for Medical Education, Dhaka has been conducting workshops, seminar and conference to train up medical teachers and allied health professionals on very important issues related to our medical and dental curriculum since its establishment (1993 Necessary description had given to show the findings provider has changed in present time. Now the academic Written permission was taken from the principal of the roles and responsibility expanded to learning facilitator, respective medical colleges prior to data collection. resource material producer, curriculum and course planner, Participation by the respondent in the study were totally student assessor, mentor and program evaluator. This is ...