Pre Conference Workshop 27 - Faculty Development in Veterinary Education                                                                 

Duration: 0915-1630                                                                                                                                                                            

Level of Workshop: Introductory/Intermediate

Facilitator: G.I. Anderson (University of Surrey, UK); A. Silva-Fletcher (LIVE Centre, The Royal Veterinary College, UK); C Bell (Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK); A. Spruijt (Faculty of Health,Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands) 

This workshop for Veterinarians in Education Worldwide will focus on Faculty Development. We will exchange ideas on what training is needed for Veterinary Faculty, on the experiences with different faculty development programs that are used in the diverse veterinary curricula and the difficulties we encounter on this topic as teachers and curriculum developers. Questions we would like to discuss with the participants are: How do we make student-centred learning the primary focus of our teaching methods and assessment? How to optimally use feedback on teaching performance? How to best engage faculty members with online materials and the use of electronic voting systems for formative and summative assessment? How to engage the colleagues who are ‘less enthusiastic’ about teaching and learning? This interactive day will provide a forum for discussion and benchmarking amongst international colleagues.

This workshop is intended for colleagues involved in veterinary education, and forms part of the annual Veterinary Education Worldwide (ViEW) programme, however, colleagues from other disciplines are welcome to attend if they wish.

Venue: SECC

(Includes coffee only, lunch may be purchased from SECC)