Shan Abbas, MD
Medical Director for Faculty Development
Faculty Development Activities
The Office of Medical Education has a dedicated faculty development team available to support all clinical teachers. We offer faculty development opportunities at the system, department, and individual levels, including the Clinical Teacher Program which aims to empower physician teachers. A wide variety of topics are available to meet learner and program needs.
Mission, vision, and goals
The mission of Faculty Development at Corewell Health is to assist faculty to flourish as clinicians, educators, scholars, and leaders in a stimulating academic and clinical environment. We focus on the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and attitudes essential to providing quality education in an empathetic, respectful, team-oriented, and value-based approach.
The mission of Faculty Development at Corewell Health is to assist faculty to flourish as clinicians, educators, scholars, and leaders in a stimulating academic and clinical environment. We focus on the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and attitudes essential to providing quality education in an empathetic, respectful, team-oriented, and value-based approach.
Our team
Spencer Gillis
Director, Medical Education Operations
Cassandra Kearney, PhD, MA
Faculty Development Specialist
Paige Parmelee-Ketner
Institutional Coordinator
Lynn Shackelford, MED
Faculty Development Specialist
Shan Abbas, MD
Medical Director for Faculty Development
Spencer Gillis
Director, Medical Education Operations
Cassandra Kearney, PhD, MA
Faculty Development Specialist
Paige Parmelee-Ketner
Institutional Coordinator
Lynn Shackelford, MED
Faculty Development Specialist
Shan Abbas, MD
Medical Director for Faculty Development
Spencer Gillis
Director, Medical Education Operations
Cassandra Kearney, PhD, MA
Faculty Development Specialist
Paige Parmelee-Ketner
Institutional Coordinator
Lynn Shackelford, MED
Faculty Development Specialist
Shan Abbas, MD
Medical Director for Faculty Development
Spencer Gillis
Director, Medical Education Operations
Cassandra Kearney, PhD, MA
Faculty Development Specialist
Paige Parmelee-Ketner
Institutional Coordinator
Lynn Shackelford, MED
Faculty Development Specialist
Services we offer
The faculty development team is excited to support the education of our graduate medical educators.
Departmental retreats
Some programs organize annual retreats for their senior residents, fellows, core-faculty or department. Often these retreats are focused on a specific topic or area of concern. We are also able to facilitate teambuilding exercises and activities. A retreat offers the possibility to discuss topics in a more relaxed atmosphere where faculty may be more open to sharing ideas, opinions, feedback and challenges.
Program-specific presentations
We are happy to develop a program-specific session for your faculty. In collaboration with the program director, the specific needs are discussed and based on this conversation a tailored topic or program is developed. The length of these sessions can vary (between 20 - 90 minutes) depending on the session's goals, the topic and the specific issue that needs to be addressed. We can facilitate face-to-face, virtual synchronous and asynchronous, or hybrid programming as needed
Snippets
We host a series of short development videos on various topics related to medical education. These are continually updated with new and novel teaching topics. Videos are typically 4-10 minutes long and can be used on an individual level or during department/section meetings. Each video has a discussion guide that the facilitator can use to create an engaging and meaningful discussion with their faculty. You can access these videos on our internal SharePoint page.
Virtual Faculty Development offerings
The faculty development team hosts internal and external speakers on current teaching trends or issues in medical education. These presentations are hosted in the evening over Teams. Presentations are also recorded so a repository of educational content can be accessed on our internal SharePoint page.
Individual teaching consultation
Occasionally, faculty have questions that might not be of interest to other colleagues, aspects related to their personal growth, questions about collaboration, about team culture, or dealing with a difficult learner—we would be happy to meet with faculty one-on-one to offer support, guidance and tools to improve in key educational areas.
Curriculum Development
Our team is available to help with rotation curriculum document support, ACGME Milestone support, and evaluation and assessment consultation.
Medical Education Scholarship
Through consultation, we offer faculty, fellow and resident physicians’ guidance and opportunities regarding their medical education projects.
Topics of interest
Expand titles below to review topics offered by the faculty development team.
Best practices for clinical educators
Techniques for observation, assessment & feedback
Supporting difficulties in learners and education
Classroom teaching techniques
General teaching techniques
Collaborating on teams and teambuilding topics
Teaching & technology
Fellow and resident curriculum
Medical education scholarship
Faculty development request
To request faculty development for your program, please follow the link.