Teaching & Learning Services

Our Teaching and Learning faculty and staff foster excellence in education. We achieve this through service to the learning community by providing expertise and innovation in educator development, assessment, learning technologies, and curriculum design.

The Center’s faculty and staff devote a significant amount of time to one-on-one and small group consulting, to support faculty, fellows, residents, and students. These medical education consultations address issues such as developing curricula, identifying, and tailoring the most appropriate assessment methods, and using technology to enhance teaching. Members of the YSM community also consult with the Center’s faculty and staff about medical education research and scholarship.

The experienced Center faculty and faculty associates are trained in observing teaching and providing direct feedback on their observations. This service is offered to those who teach our students and trainees in response to requests for help to enhance teaching skills, respond to issues encountered in teaching or support to novice faculty educators. The observation is made as the faculty is teaching an actual session. The observer watches the session (either in-person or via recording) and uses the center’s observation form to summarize their observations under literature-based categories of teaching practices. After the watching the teaching, the faculty observer and the teacher meet privately to review the form and debrief feedback.

TOTAL: Teaching Observation Training for Academic Leaders

This is a new two-part workshop series recommended and created especially for all master course and clerkship directors. We certainly welcome faculty educators who lead other aspects of the curriculum to inquire about joining this training program.

Heather Collette, MD, MHS and Uma Phatak, MD, MHS who are both graduates of the MHS-Med Ed Pathway Degree Program are leading TOTAL: Teaching Observation Training for Academic Leaders. This is a new two-part workshop series recommended and created especially for all master course and clerkship directors. We certainly welcome faculty educators who lead other aspects of the curriculum to inquire about joining this training program.

TOTAL consists of two one-hour Zoom workshops (Part 1 and 2) which are focused on creating meaningful dialogue around teaching efficacy based on direct observation by the course and clerkship leaders of their faculty teaching.

These interactive, one-hour workshops are led by Drs. Collette and Phatak who are experts in teaching observation. If interested in joining this training program, email centerformeded@yale.edu and we will respond promptly.