Collaboration between academic institutions towards faculty development for educators

While faculty development encourages and rewards excellence in teaching, faculty in Sub-Saharan Africa have access to few in-country and affordable faculty development programs (Burdick et al., 2007). [...]describing successful efforts will provide guidance to others considering similar efforts. [...]UCSF sponsored two post-doctoral fellows from UCSF to help address the teaching crisis in biochemistry. The participants were highly satisfied with the workshops and enthusiastically suggested topics for future workshop sessions: preparing lessons and teaching materials; teaching methods for clinicians; identifying relevant media for enhancing educational materials and assessment; and strengthening lecture and course evaluation.