Dear TMA community,
We are pleased to share our Annual Report for the past academic year 2023-24, as well as a report on longitudinal outcomes of our Innovation Grants program. It is always instructive to review a body of work in sum. In sitting down to put together this report, we realized that since our inception in 2016, the Teaching and Mentoring Academy staff has tripled in size (from 1 full time staff person to 3), expanded our scope from overseeing 6 core programs to 10, and increased support for external programs from 1 program to 4 (external programs for which we offer administrative but little or no financial support). We have grown quite a bit in 8 years, always with an eye toward providing training, resources, and guidance that offer direct and meaningful benefit to the many individuals and teams engaged in education here in the School of Medicine.
Looking specifically at the last Academic Year, it was exciting to note from evaluation data that participants believe our programs add value to their work, and we hope you will enjoy reading about our different efforts and their outcomes. Likewise, the findings reported in our Innovation Grants Longitudinal Review (2016-2023) were heartening: grant recipients overwhelmingly reported that their awards enhanced their sense of job satisfaction, belonging in the institution, and well-being, while simultaneously creating durable impacts in education and patient care.
Our two greatest strengths as an Academy are first, our community—each of you who show up and contribute your talents, ideas, and time—and second, our ability to remain flexible to meet the ever-evolving needs of this community. We are grateful to each of you to being part of the Teaching and Mentoring Academy and look forward to our continued work together.
Sincerely,
Julie Baker
Professor, Genetics
TMA Faculty Co-Director
Lars Osterberg
Professor, Medicine—PCPH
TMA Faculty Co-Director
Christine Schirmer
TMA Director