Teaching and Mentoring Academy

  • Group:  Stanford Medicine faculty of all ranks and lines
  • Affiliation: Teaching and Mentoring Academy
  • How to join: Become a member or subscribe to our listserv
  • Logistics: Workshops, Monthly Seminars, and Grant Funding
  • Details: Facilitating the skills development of our faculty educators and mentors is a core part of the Academy’s mission, and we strive to deliver several programs that will accomplish this. These include training programs in teaching skills and mentoring skills, educational scholarship, and instructional peer observation.

Education Day Conference – Once a year conference focused on skills and scholarship for effective teaching and mentoring.

Innovation Grants Program – Grant funding to support projects aimed at innovation and improvement in teaching, learning, and mentoring. Request for proposals published annually in the Spring.

Mastering Medical Teaching Cohort - The Mastering Medical Teaching Cohort is a community of educators who work together through the online course, Mastering Medical Teaching. You will be able to establish a positive learning environment to reach a broad range of learners, in different settings, on different subject topics.

SHaPES – A yearlong faculty development program made up of monthly seminars designed to introduce clinical educators to fundamental concepts in education.

TMA Office Hours - One-on-one sessions for faculty, residents, post-docs, and students working on education innovation and research projects and seeking guidance on project planning, implementation, evaluation, or dissemination.