Becoming a PA Educator: A Practical Guide for Physician Assistant/Associate Faculty

Becoming a PA Educator: A Practical Guide for Physician Assistant/Associate Faculty

This book is the only one specifically designed to help PA faculty successfully transition from clinician to educator by providing practical, evidence-based, immediately applicable educational concepts, principles, strategies, and skills needed to navigate the daily work of a faculty member in PA education. This text is a practical resource that will provide essential information, concepts, and strategies needed to help you think like an educator, navigate the basic tasks and responsibilities you will encounter as a new faculty member, and become an excellent teacher. Dr. WhiteHorse guides faculty through four major areas. The first begins with discussing the critical concepts needed to successfully transition from clinician to educator, including helping new educators adjust and better understand the academic environment. Next, the essential and fundamental information faculty should know about accreditation, program development, curriculum design, and course design is presented. Third, she presents the building blocks teachers use every day related to course and syllabus development and assessment. In the last area, she focuses on evidenced-based teaching and learning concepts, principles, and practices that support student learning and retention. Real experience examples, suggested resources, and activities help make the concepts and information easily understandable and immediately applicable.