Stanford Medicine Teaching and Mentoring Academy
The Stanford Medicine Teaching and Mentoring Academy is an inclusive, school-wide entity available to all those who teach and mentor our trainees – MD students, PhD students, residents, fellows, postdoctoral scholars and faculty. The Academy is a unique organization that spans the spectrum of education and advances the mission of the School of Medicine at all levels including education, research, and clinical care.
Academy Announcements
Medical & Bioscience Education Seminar Series
Stanford Health Professions Education and Scholarship Program
(Formerly known as Clinical Teaching Seminar Series)
Stanford Health Professions Education and Scholarship Program is a year-long faculty development program in medical education, designed to introduce clinical educators to fundamental concepts in education. The seminars are high-yield, relevant, and interactive, providing practical tips for bedside teaching, curriculum development, and education research. Monthly seminars cover qualitative survey data analysis, quantitative methods for medical education, narrative medicine, teaching methods, feedback, learner assessment and EPA's, and dissemination strategies in medical education. More information available at the seminar website here.
Teaching and Mentoring Academy Programs
Medical & Bioscience Education Seminar Series
The Teaching and Mentoring Academy's Medical & Bioscience Education Seminar Series (formerly the Medical Education Seminar Series) offers monthly seminars during the academic year. Our goal is to provide presentations to the SoM community on topics focused on improving instruction or mentoring, innovating in instructional delivery, or educational scholarship. Seminar dates and topics are available here.
Mentoring Skills Workshop Series
The Mentoring Skills workshops are designed to enhance participants effectiveness in mentoring students. Designed as a three-part series, each session introduces new content while building on the previous session's learnings to support participants' development as mentors. Dates for the current academic year workshops are available here.
Want your event included here? Contact Christine Schirmer (cschirmer@stanford.edu)
Our Mission Statement
The Stanford Medicine Teaching and Mentoring Academy promotes excellence in teaching and mentoring by developing, supporting, and recognizing dedicated educators to ensure world-class training for the next generation of physicians, researchers, and educators.
The Teaching and Mentoring Academy will help us to enhance the excellence of teaching and mentoring across the School of Medicine and recognize the critical contributions made each day by all those involved in the education of our students and trainees.