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Faculty Development to Promote Role-Modeling and Reflective Practice

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Faculty Development in the Health Professions

Part of the book series: Innovation and Change in Professional Education ((ICPE,volume 11))

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Role-modeling and reflective practice have been recognized as important elements in teaching and learning in the health professions. As our understanding of these separate but related areas grows, we appreciate that, to use them effectively, faculty members need preparation and support. While role modeling occurs naturally, and includes both positive and negative experiences, its effectiveness can be enhanced by helping faculty members increase their awareness of themselves as role models, understand the need to be explicit with learners, and use their influence as models deliberately. Reflection and reflective practice are expected capabilities of competent professionals. Improving faculty members’ ability to be critically reflective about their teaching practices can help to uncover their values and expertise and change and improve their practice. In this chapter, these two important areas will be addressed and the underpinning literature and theory will be summarized. Each will be addressed individually; however, as we explore these aspects, their integral relationship to each other and the implications for faculty development will become apparent.

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Grateful appreciation and thanks are extended to Dr. Anna Macleod for her feedback on an earlier version of this chapter, and to Dr. Yvonne Steinert, both for the invitation to write this chapter, and secondly, for her patience and thoughtful feedback as the ideas were developed.

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    Karen V. Mann BN, M.Sc., Ph.D.

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    Yvonne Steinert

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Mann, K.V. (2014). Faculty Development to Promote Role-Modeling and Reflective Practice. In: Steinert, Y. (eds) Faculty Development in the Health Professions. Innovation and Change in Professional Education, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7612-8_12

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