Developing a programmatic approach to faculty development and scholarship using the ASPIRE criteria: AMEE Guide No. 165

Abstract

Faculty Development (FD) has become essential in shaping design, delivery and quality assurance of health professions education. The growth of FD worldwide has led to a heightened expectation for quality and organizational integrity in the delivery of FD programmes. To address this, AMEE, An International Association for Health Professions Education, developed quality standards for FD through the development of the AMEE ASPIRE to Excellence criteria. This guide uses the ASPIRE criteria as a framework for health professions educators who wish to establish or expand approaches to FD delivery and scholarship within their institutions.

Keywords:

• Education
• health professions
• education
• professional/organization and administration
• faculty/organization and administration
• health personnel/education
• staff development
• programme development

Ethics statement

This paper did not involve the use of human or animal subjects, and as such, ethics approval was not required.

Authors’ contributions

All authors contributed equally to the development of this guide.

Disclosure statement

All authors were members of the Aspire Faculty Development panel at the time of writing.

Data availability statement

As no data was collected for this study, there are no datasets available for public access.

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The author(s) reported there is no funding associated with the work featured in this article.

Notes on contributors

Stijntje W. Dijk

Stijntje W. Dijk, MD, MSc Health Economics, Policy and Law, MSc Health Sciences, is a PhD Candidate at the Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Her main academic focus is optimizing decision-making in medicine, research, and medical education.

Ardi Findyartini

Ardi Findyartini, MD, PhD, Professor in Medical Education and the Head of the Medical Education Center- Indonesia Medical Education and Research Institute (IMERI), Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia.

Peter Cantillon

Peter Cantillon, MB BCh BAO, MSc, MHPE, MRCGP, PhD, is a Head of the Discipline of General Practice at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and President of the Irish Network of Healthcare Educators.

Francois Cilliers

Francois Cilliers, MBChB, BSc, MPhil, PhD, is Professor of Health Sciences Education in the Academic Development Programme, Centre for Higher Education Development and Department of Health Sciences Education, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.

Ugo Caramori

Ugo Caramori, MD, MSc, AFAMEE, PhD candidate in Medical Education, is an assistant professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of Campinas, Brazil.

Patricia O’Sullivan

Patricia O’Sullivan, EdD, is a Professor in the Department of Medicine and Surgery and Director of Research in Medical Education in the Center for Faculty Educators at the University of California, San Francisco.

Karen M. Leslie

Karen M. Leslie, MD, is a staff paediatrician in the Division of Adolescent Medicine at The Hospital for Sick Children, and a Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto, in Toronto, Canada. Her main academic focus in education is in the area of Faculty Development and in particular, career development and mentorship.