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Benefits (Tangibles)
- Receive a Clinical Faculty Appointment with the Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Paid $1000 per month per student
- Free access to ACOM library resources, mobile point-of-care tools (Epocrates, DynaMed, etc), and instructions for using these tools
- Faculty development programs provided to enhance teaching skills, medical informatics skills, and knowledge about OMT
- Free CME for participation in faculty development programs
- Signage for your office to let patients know your role as a teacher of medical students
- Student can become helpful in the patient care process
- Becoming part of the ACOM teaching/learning community
- Direct access to Clerkship Chairs, Core Site Directors, and Core Site Coordinators
- Invitations to institutional and departmental events
- Patients can receive more attention
- Recognition of teaching contributions (awards by students, recognition by ACOM administration)
- Students can be a resource for information for conducting literature searches, helping faculty learn about electronic resources, etc.
- Involvement of staff in the excitement of helping educate medical students.
Benefits (Intangibles)
- Continuous opportunity to learn ("to teach is to learn twice")
- Opportunity to teach, mentor, and influence the next generation of physicians
- Opportunity for renewal and refreshment of knowledge base
- Identification with the medical school is a positive impression on patients
- Positive reactions from patients about being seen by a medical student
- Opportunity to interact with physician colleagues around the issues of teaching and learning
Expectations
- Teach 3rd and/or 4th year osteopathic medical students on a regular basis.
- Participate in faculty development programming to increase effectiveness and efficiency of the learning experience for the clinical teacher and the student.
- Faculty development programming will be offered via live workshops, online modules, and webinars.
- Live workshops will be offered regularly at convenient times and convenient locations to accomodate the busy schedules of community clerkship faculty.
- Participation in faculty development programming will be incentivized and it is expected that clerkship clinical faculty will participate in two key workshops (Orientation to the ACOM Education Program and Effective Clinical Teaching Strategies) prior to taking a student.
- Communicate regularly via email with ACOM Clerkship Chairs, Core Site Coordinators and Directors, and Regional Coordinators.
- Educate office staff and allied health professionals in the office relative to educational functions and procedures relative to being an office teaching site. The physician(s), other healthcare providers, and staff should work as a teaching team.
- Conduct an orientation (15 minutes) with students at the beginning of each clerkship in which expectations, learning needs, etc. are discussed. A Learning Contract should be completed.
- Actively teach during the clerkship by providing hands-on learning opportunities and increased responsibilities during the progress of the clerkship.
- Follow the core clerkship rotation curriculum provided by ACOM.
- Provide feedback regularly to the student.
- Provide internet access to the student (if possible).
- Provide a small working space for the student (if possible).
- Conduct a mid-clerkship formative evaluation with each student.
- Conduct an end-of-clerkship summative evaluation with each student within the last 3 days of the clerkship.
- Complete and electronically submit the end-of-clerkship summative evaluation of the student within the last 3 days after the end of the clerkship.
